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Posted in Adults on Oct 26, 2022

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Dirty Jeans

Submitted to Contest #31

“Mom, there's a stain on my jeans because Dana dropped pizza on my leg at the mall. They're my favorite jeans and I want to wear them to school tomorrow so could you wash them tonight”? At sixteen years old you would think she could learn to wash a pair of pants instead of giving me another chore on top of the five other chores I have to do before bed. It's my fault I suppose, for not teaching her to be more responsible. The truth is, it's usually just easier to do it myself than to end up in an argument that can't be won. Her older brother ...

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The Wash House

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2020The auctioneer licked his lips. Down to the last two bidders. He stood to make a killing on the commission- just a little more spruiking should do the trick.“Ladies and gentleman, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to secure a piece of local history.”A murmur of excitement rippled through the crowd.“This property was owned and occupied by one family for almost 100 years. It has been lovingly cared for and is a time capsule of life as it used to be.”He waited for the gravitas of his speech to sink in to the assembled throng. People ...

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Sometimes You Just Have To Let Go....

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All I could do was shake my head and decide if I should laugh or cry. It had been a long crazy day and this just seemed to top it all off. You wouldn’t think laundry would be this exciting, but it was. It was an ordinary day, my laundry day. I usually enjoy a nice quiet house cleaning day. However today was slightly different. My teenage daughter was home from school and in an odd mood to help. Now in her defence I usually handle the family laundry and all the house cleaning duties, they can do it, but I just like my way better. Some woul...

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Laundry Day

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Pulling a shirt from the laundry basket, Jessie placed it into the washing machine. Looking at each piece, she loaded several plaid shirts. Letting her fingers caress the flannel, she remembered the first meeting between her and her husband.She had been working as a cashier in a grocery store. The two of them had accomplished a wide variety of projects, if you could call it that. They had owned and operated a Dairy Farm where they raised three children. The one thing that kept them going was the love that they had for each other and thei...

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Searching for the Perfect Pop Chip - A Story of Doing and Failing to Do my Laundry

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Every washing machine I have ever used since moving away from home (the first time, that happy hopeful freshman year of college, before the subsequent fallings-apart and starting-overs) has disappointed me. More than they should, perhaps. Even the washing machine that my parents bought that first fall, to replace the one we had for twenty years, our longest-lasting household appliance, did not measure up.I remember visiting on the weekends, walking back inside our house after being away for what felt like a lifetime but could not have been m...

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Laundry Day

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It’s Tuesday—laundry day. Molly drags herself out of bed, long brown hair cascading down to hide her haggard face. Every week is the same. Get up, dig through piles of sweaty, dirty clothing, and fold the heaping piles of lavender smelling laundry the washer produces. Molly hates lavender. She can still remember the first time Susan thrust the plant into her arms, beaming from ear to ear.“It looks like little fairies pasted flowers on top of each other!” She had exclaimed joyfully as the scent filled Molly’s nose.Back then the smell was calm...

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Guitar Strings

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He was your typical creepy musician living off the beaten path. No less, women loved to gain his attention as he was still a musician. Talented, charming, with tattoos... they loved when he showered them with attention. Gargoyles guarding his hundred year old house on the hill looked down to see who would be next to visit him. He rarely came out before noon and was up all hours of the night...This particular night was their laundry night. He had gotten so angry with that hazel eyed woman who frustrated his senses and stirred his desires des...

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It's More Than Laundry

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It’s not just laundry. It is a heck of a lot more. And I just screwed it up. I hate doing laundry, there’s a fact for you. An honest, non-debatable fact. It takes time, long enough to feel hopeless by spending it just sat on your phone scrolling, and scrolling, and scrolling. And then scrolling some more. But it was too short a time to actually successfully achieve something of a high quality whilst contending with three-minute interruption thoughts of: OHMIGAWD, how am I doing? Is the laundry finished yet? I’m running out of time! AGGHRR! T...

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Laleh and Laundry

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The raindrops hit the kitchen windows like bullets, frightening Laleh every time they did. But again, it wasn't the weather's fault. No. Laleh should have known better than to do her laundry at two am on a Friday night.Wishing she was deaf, she pressed her lips hard enough to draw blood. The pastel yellow basket full of dirty clothes lay in front of her, watching her with bleak eyes, waiting and waiting. The plethora of different coloured fabric mocked silently, whispering softly how Laleh simply didn't have the determination to do laundry w...

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The Endless Cycle

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THE ENDLESS CYCLEJordan MadereThe soft, clunkety drone of the washing machines mulling their whites and colors, and the dryers rhythmically tumbled their sheets and pants and towels all filled the crowded laundromat, cleverly named The Endless Cycle. It was an ambiance that Jennifer hadn’t yet learned to enjoy the comforts of. Instead, she found herself wrapped up in her own thoughts... She’d been doing laundry for hours and was now burdened with memories and broken promises as the fabric of her social life seemed to be overturned. She ...

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Windows lit from the inside

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There was a new girl here today, at the student house next door. The house next to mine hadn't always been a student accommodation house. The middle aged owner had converted it a few years after the small branch of a famous university had opened up in our town. It was easy money. Though, or maybe as a by product of that, he hadn't done any big renovations and thus the boarding house was really just a regular house converted slightly for student use. The rooms were small and old and the insulation was shitty. I know this because my house, nex...

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I Learned my Lesson

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I never understood the point of having to learn how to do laundry, we had laundromats for that and my grandmother always did it for me. I don't get why granny decided today of all days that she was going to teach me how to do laundry. My granny got her big blue basket and told me to put all of my dirty clothes in the basket. I did what she asked, she then took all of the clothes out of the basket and put them back in the dirty bin. I stood there looking at my granny like she had gone crazy. "When I said put the clothes in the basket I meant ...

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The Beautiful Mundane

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The sun was shining outside the kitchen window as I held a large head of organic lettuce in my hands. It was June. I didn’t feel like dealing with the lettuce, but my husband and I had paid for a local farm share that summer, and there was always such bounty, which meant near-constant processing of vegetables if they weren’t to spoil. I had control over so very little; I didn’t want the excellent, super-perishable lettuce to go to waste.I stood over our double-basined stainless-steel sink holding the gleaming green ball, ripping off leaves, ...

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The Laundry ... I'll Worry About That Tomorrow

Submitted to Contest #31

Ring… ring… ring … “Hello,” I said with a happy lilt.“Hi there Mindy, Amo here. Are you ready for the auction?”For once I did something right; I did my laundry three days ago. My favorite jeans, my dark blue skinny jeans, are clean and pressed. I settled on a skin tight black body suit with a ballerina neckline and long sleeves. My D.K. Gold jacket will add some pizzazz. It’s comfortable and a perfect frame for my turquoise necklace. It’s cream colored with squares of gray and black and tan. It’s old, but it’s a clas...

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Empty Pockets

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A stack of coins. “Seriously.” Last week it was a black comb, the week before it was a leaky pen, and before that, a scrunched packet of broccoli seeds. The fact that he dumped his washing in the pile without checking his pockets demonstrated a lack of care to her. She remembered that as a child she would have been in so much trouble with her mother for leaving things in her pockets. “Oh well, finders, keepers.” Coins left in pockets belonged to her now. Heaven knows he gave her little enough pocket money to buy the essentials. She closed th...

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