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- NG
- Washington, D.C. Metro, United States
- Married, 40ish mom of two (or three, or four, depending on how you keep score) who stepped through the lookinglass and now finds herself living in curiouser and curiouser lands of Marriage, Motherhood, and the Washington, D.C. Metro Area.
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June 7, 2007 5:02 PM
hi, first time visitor and commenter here and i just wanted to say, THAT IS SO TRUE. that picture very well could've been taken at my place. i just don't get why my bf can't just put it in the hamper, as opposed to a few inches away. ugh!
June 7, 2007 5:39 PM
Amen, Sister.
June 7, 2007 9:20 PM
The clothes on the floor are things I'm going to wear again. Besides, I thought we agreed you wouldn't air our dirty laundry on your blog...
June 8, 2007 7:01 AM
They have these inventions now called "drawers" and "hangers" which are wonderful for things you plan to re-wear at some unknown point in the future. Personally, I think the fact that you yourself just referred to them as "dirty laundry" proves my point.
June 8, 2007 10:26 AM
There is a clear hierarchy of where the clothes go before they make it into the hamper. Anything on the floor can be re-worn, but isn't clean enough to be put back in a drawer or on a hanger. Once it makes it to the hamper, it's gone till laundry time. It's pretty simple.
June 8, 2007 11:50 AM
I hate to get involved in someone else's argument, but putting stuff on hangers implies that they are clean.
The clothes on the floor are in the transitional state known as "OK to wear, but could use a washing if the subject comes up."
It simply shows that men can see beyond the black and white of clean/dirty into the world of gray.
June 8, 2007 12:02 PM
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to side with KoH on this one. You need to understand that there are degrees of "dirty". Something that I've barely worn and can be worn again another day does not belong in the laundry, but because it has already been worn, does not belong in the drawer either. Therefore, the floor is the PERFECT place for items such as these. It makes perfect sense.
June 8, 2007 12:50 PM
When I find my husband's clothes on the floor, they are most likely dirty. However, since we also keep our clean-but-not-folded clothes on the floor I do not know with 100% certainty. I don't want to waste time and resources washing them just to be safe. If I can't tell by looking, I just put them back in the closet when I put away all the clean clothes.
Same method with towels. Sorry, honey, but you've been wearing dirty clothes for 7 years now.
June 8, 2007 12:53 PM
Well clearly they are clean. Because only a completely inconsiderate husband would make his PREGNANT wife pick up his dirty clothes off the floor.
Actually, either way you lose, KoH because now you have just created a tripping hazard and endangered your unborn child. Way to go, jackass.
June 8, 2007 12:54 PM
I thought everyone knew that if they are semi-clean and to be worn again, they should be draped over the hamper or another item of furniture. Floor = dirty.
June 8, 2007 12:56 PM
As a woman who used to live with KoH, I have to weigh in.
NG is right.
(She's the pregnant one. So that means she's right about EVERYTHING, KoH. Duh.)
June 8, 2007 1:04 PM
Come on NG - clearly he's just leaving it there to catch your amniotic fluid when your water breaks. How nice of him!
June 8, 2007 1:10 PM
What? it's near the hamper. Besides, we all know who is going to have to lug the hamper to the loundry or washing machine. What's a little laundry on the floor compared to running the car on really low tires or not telling me about the damned check engine light for two days! Two days! You're lucky it was just a tune-up.
also, all men have clothes planning: he fully intended to ear those shorts on saturday while out in the yard. if they get buried in the hamper, he'll just use clean clothes to do dirty work.
June 8, 2007 1:19 PM
Next time, just think of Ghostbusters II:
Peter Venkman, responding to being told his clothes were put in a hamper by Dana Barrett: "I have a hamper? Next time ask me first, okay. I have more than two grades of laundry. There're lots of subtle levels between clean and dirty."
June 8, 2007 1:29 PM
Clothes on the floor but close to hamper? Men like to practice their jumpshots on anything - crumpled paper to the waste basket, apple core to the trash bin, clothes to the hamper.
They're dirty.
June 8, 2007 1:45 PM
Methinks SOME people might be projecting just a little bit much onto a blog. My check engine light is not the one that's on.
June 8, 2007 1:46 PM
KoH is right. Non-men can't understand the hierarchy of dirty clothes for pretty much the same three reasons they don't understand, well, whatever they've decided to argue about: it is easier, it saves time, it makes complete logical sense.
June 8, 2007 1:46 PM
First, amniotic fluid? Yikes. We'll have none of that.
Second, what the picture does not show is the cedar chest at the end of the bed where NG's "still-can-be-worn clothes" are piled 2 feet deep.
Third, this may be the first time scott has ever agreed with me, so I may have to rethink my position.
Forth, I don't think you'd have gotten more responses if you had posted your politcal views. I love it!
June 8, 2007 1:53 PM
Koh, you are only proving me right when you say, "what the picture does not show is the cedar chest at the end of the bed where NG's "still-can-be-worn clothes" are piled 2 feet deep."
Let's repeat this one more time:
"If they are semi-clean and to be worn again, they should be draped over the hamper or another item of furniture. Floor = dirty. "
Clearly the wife gets that and you do not.
June 8, 2007 1:54 PM
And this comment: "What? it's near the hamper. Besides, we all know who is going to have to lug the hamper to the loundry or washing machine" has clearly been left by an unmarried man. In my house, the women is always the one lugging the hamper, no matter how pregnant she is! I have a feeling it's the same way in their house.
June 8, 2007 1:56 PM
The best thing about amniotic fluid? It's the gift that keeps on giving.
Doesn't stop flowing until the baby comes out. Just ask my ob who had it squirted all over her during a cervical check, 5 hours after I went into labor.
Leave out more clothes, koh. That's not even close to enough for the mess you could have on your hands.
June 8, 2007 2:39 PM
I do this. My boyfriend hates it. But then he's the one who does the laundry.
June 8, 2007 2:40 PM
There are three tiers of clothes:
Clothes that are clean, as in clean out of the dryer clean. These go on things like hangers and/or dresser drawers.
Clothes that are dirty, as in need to be washed dirty. These go in hampers. Guys with hampers, have to at least be metrosexual.
Clothes that are neither clean nor dirty go on the floor. They are in limbo-- not clean enough to put with clean clothes, but also not dirty enough to put with dirty clothes. On the floor, they are either alternately available to:
a) be washed with the next load of laundry
b) sniff tested and possibly worn again if you're running out of clean clothes.
Thank you,
a guy
June 8, 2007 3:54 PM
This is your mom. I'm with ya' girl. And now we know what the major argument in a marriage is and it ain't money.
Happy days. I love it!!! And so does my whole office.
June 8, 2007 6:41 PM
Move your trashcan right next to the hamper. Problems solved.
June 8, 2007 11:01 PM
I'm just upset to see you are not wearing me nonstop anymore. (Or maybe you ARE and that's why I don't see the shirt in this picture?)
June 10, 2007 12:57 AM
Please, commenters, get REALLY PISSED about a whimsical post.
June 11, 2007 3:25 PM
See, I think that is where women get confused....you see the world in black and white, clean and dirty. My interpretation of the illustration is that your man is not yet committed to calling those items dirty...he might want to run to the mailbox, the garage, or chase the ice cream truck down the street...clearly you do not need freshly pressed Dockers for such a task.