<p>and so did the 24 year old son! Seems to me if one is in medical school and living in their own home with a washer and dryer, the clothes brought home could be clean. I have always done the kids laundry as I do not work and I prefer to do everyone’s together, but it would have been nice for the hamper to have been empty when he drove up. Maybe in his defense, I can understand; he did have exams this week and has been at the library a good bit. Of course his washer is literally 4 feet from his bedroom door; how hard could it be to throw a load in when he got up in the morning and put it in the dryer when he got home?</p>
<p>Oh well, I do love having him home so I guess I will deal with it. He is looking forward to 2 weeks off and no studying.</p>
<p>My kids are WELCOME to bring their laundry home. They know where the washer, dryer and all the cleaning soaps are. They can bring it here…but if they expect maid service, they’ve come to the wrong place. This is a “do it yourself” laundry.</p>
<p>Mine arrived home with laundry and her 6 month old kitten. Her kitten and my cat spend a lot if time hissing and swatting at each other. They really got on my nerves this morning and I opened my sleeping D’s door and threw kitten in with her. The kitten is a real people kitten - I think she thinks she is a dog. Maybe that is why she is so mean to our cat, who is ginormous compared to her.</p>
<p>We have dirty laundry also. Not a problem - self service as at thumper’s house.</p>
<p>It is funny reading this as my grad school D arrived home last night and just put her laundry in a few minutes ago. She is RARELY in her apartment except too few hours per night to sleep. So, I guess I get it. And if she brings it here, she does it or I help a little. It is more the convenience factor than her waiting for me to do it. She’s perfectly willing to do it but didn’t have time at school.</p>
<p>I’ll go even one further. When I went to pick up D2 from school just over a week ago, I had a couple of days to spare between her concert I came to see, and when her finals were over. I volunteered to do her laundry so she wouldn’t have to bring home a bunch of dirty clothes. I ended up taking it to a laundromat close to campus so I could do it all at once - it was SIX full loads. Three of them were sweaters/delicates, etc. that she doesn’t put in the dryer, so I then took it all back to my hotel (also brought her drying rack with me), hung it all around the room (maybe a third of it fit on the drying rack), turned up the heat, and headed out for a few hours. She said part of the reason she’d let it all pile up is that she didn’t have the room in her dorm room to dry all this stuff after she washed it. (Of course, I told her if she’d do it once a week, she wouldn’t have so much stuff to put on the drying rack!) It was all dry the next morning when I checked out of the hotel.</p>
<p>OK… even worse - I noticed that some of her sweaters were looking awfully fuzzy, so I went to Target and bought a fuzz remover, and spent at least an hour going through some of those sweaters and de-fuzzing them. </p>
<p>However, now that finals are over, and she’s home with not much to do, you won’t catch me touching her laundry. She has no excuses. Her only responsibility is to keep her bedroom door shut so we don’t have to look at the mess.</p>
<p>Kid flew home with very few clothes in his only ‘luggage’, his carry-on backpack, maybe three t-shirts a few pairs of shorts and underwear, plus what he was wearing. He has been washing his laundry here every other day as it’s all the clothing he has here. Everything he left behind last August went to local charity -his choice, not mine.</p>
<p>My daughter has me well-trained; she brings home dirty laundry and tells me she’ll start doing it “after she decompresses from finals.” I, however, can’t stand the thought of all that laundry just sitting around, so I invariable have it done before her “decompression” period is finished. She then tells me, “I would have done it if you had been more patient” (which I’m sure is true), so the clean laundry is somehow my “fault.” How did she train me so well?</p>
<p>S came home with one extra pair of jeans plus his good pants that have to be dry cleaned and what he was wearing. Knew he had enough old T-shirts and underwear to get by here, although the only pants left at home are either too small or shorts. </p>
<p>At Thanksgiving, he didn’t want to check a bag, so he wore two pairs of long pants home and back! I’m not sure how he could bend to sit.</p>
<p>Son came home on Thursday late, late, late as a surprise for me!!! Just a small overnight bag and HUGE hamper full of laundry. Took me two days to get through it. I don’t mind do the laundry…it’s the maid service I hate.</p>
<p>I don’t mind doing the dirty laundry–also asked son to bring home as much as he could that was dirty as I did not think that damp towels needed to sit in a hamper for 3 weeks, either! I just hope that one day when I am old and can no longer do my laundry, he will return the favor. I look at it as give and take right now. Hopefully, when I am elderly he will remember laundry give and take!</p>
<p>S came home yesterday for break. All laundry (both clean and dirty) were mixed together, but he seemed to know which was which. I ended up washing it all as he tends to wear things more than once before he claims they are dirty. I am sure I will repeat the process before he goes back. Anything on the floor of his room I will consider dirty which will be everything.</p>
<p>Transported son and two of his friends yesterday- all three had dirty laundry to bring home. At Thanksgiving son surprised me by doing his immediately, now whenever he gets around to it- it’s his problem, not mine as long as I can walk in the laundry room.</p>
<p>S came home with 1/2 and 1/2. He told me that the whites were dirty and the darks were clean! I don’t mind doing his laundry- he does it at school and usually comes home with clean clothes. It was cute - he had it all sorted in his suitcase: dirty whites on the bottom and clean darks on top. I washed the whites and counted 22 pairs of socks!</p>
<p>I haven’t done my kids laundry since they were in late elementary school. Crikey… how hard is it to do? They put in clothes, put in soap, close door, push knob in. Throw in dryer when finished, then take upstairs and cram in drawers or leave in basket or throw on floor. :eek: You guys are way nicer than I am!</p>