retard laundry

RETARD LAUNDRY

When it comes to the fine arts of home economics, I am a bit of a moron.  I keep reinventing the wheel, poorly.  I mean, I still can’t cook for crap and I’ve had plenty of practice.  I can see why most guys stick with barbequing or are one dish wonders.  Perhaps it is the difference in how the genders have their brains wired.  I might not have an enemy trying to breach the hut walls, but I’m still focused on enemy threats ( all this mental masturbation for the Apocalypse is just a form of anticipating how the enemy-everyone not of the tribe-will attack ).  I have little mental energy to devote to domestic tasks.  They are important, as anyone who doesn’t have a competent Old Lady and must attempt to perform them knows.  But they are not guys bailiwick.  So, anyway, here I was trying to wash a wool garment and I realized I’ve been doing it all wrong and I was a moron.  And, yes, I understand this is an obvious mistake I shouldn’t have been making, but when you are re-inventing the wheel, NOTHING is obvious.  It also highlights how overly depended we have become on machines we don’t bother to understand ( do slave owners care how the “machines” are feeling, what makes them tick? ).  I had been wasting massive amounts of water and energy by doing this wrong, and in the future those two things will be in short supply.

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I hand wash wool.  I used to send them to the cleaners but since I moved to Elko I have too many garments too long through the year to spend that kind of money.  I had an issue with the cats sleeping/playing/scratching the sweaters, but by climbing up to the open attic at work I found an out of the way spot to lay them out to dry ( also, at the time, it saved my limited water supply by cleaning them at work ).  So, I’d take a five gallon bucket with cold water and Woolite soap ( any soap for “cold water delicates, hand washed” will do ), soak them for a time, occasionally agitating them by hand, then drain the water.  I put the sweater back in the bucket and ran water over it, several times,  to get the soap out.  Finally, I’d hand wring it out.  Well, being a dumbass, I didn’t realize that if I took the soaked garment and immediately wrung it out ( with the mop bucket attachment ), THEN started running water through it to remove the soap, I’d have a lot less soap to remove.  Rather than re-rinsing it three or four times, I’d only have to do it once.  Obvious, right?  Yet for years I had been doing it the hard way.  Rinse, wring, rinse, wring, over and over.  No; wring, rinse, wring.  Simple.  So simple I couldn’t see it.  I bring this up, most of my readers being guys, and most readers never having hand washed/manually washed.  Don’t hate on me.

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