I really don't like putting away the laundry.
I don't mind gathering it. I don't mind sorting it. I don't even mind washing it. In fact, I rather enjoy washing it and pulling it out of the dryer. I adore the warm, fluffeh, and clean smelling stuff. It's the folding, sorting, hanging up, and actual putting away that I don't like.

This means that I have a tendency to pile up the clean laundry on my bed then find other things to do as a way of avoiding putting it all away.....all the while hoping either my kids will put it away or a fairy will magically appear and deal with the problem.

For at least 4 years, my kids and I had empty closets and dressers while using my bed as a storage device. That left me stuck sleeping with the kids.

So what was my solution to end the procrastination and make it possible to sleep in my own bed again? Did I actually start putting the laundry away? Fuck no. I bought a new bed to motivate myself. I now store all the laundry on a bench and in various baskets. And on our far longer than necessary sofa. And on my favorite chair. I've even started keeping it in boxes.

I've been sleeping in my own bed for 3 months now. I'm so proud of my progress.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 19 Nov 2008, 1:22, 7 replies)

I do this too
Only mine gets moved from the bed to my chair when I need to sleep and back again when I wake up. Why this hatred of putting clothes away? Is it contagious?!
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Wed 19 Nov 2008, 7:55, closed)

Teh fear
of the closet monster. It's ingrained into all of our psyches.
(The Apeface Cherub is not a cunty-uber-cunt, Wed 19 Nov 2008, 8:32, closed)

I do this
In the summer, clean laundry comes off the washing line and gets tipped on the sofa. If lucky, it then gets transferred upstairs to my bed "to get folded later". I invariably end up sleeping under a pile of clothes and picking items out of the pile to wear.

The problem isn't so bad at this time of year, as clean laundry gets left on radiators and often picked out to wear from there.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 19 Nov 2008, 9:49, closed)

Ooooo.....on the radiator is a great idea.
It is lovely to put on already warm clothes.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 19 Nov 2008, 16:42, closed)

I'm exactly the same
I have discovered a cure though.

1. Meet a nice man that hates hoovering
2. Do hoovering and he puts the laundry away
3. Be happy!
(Jugular, Wed 19 Nov 2008, 17:21, closed)

Obstructions
I haven't put any clothes away since I put the computer I was meant to be fixing for my dad in front of the wardrobe until I was ready to get to work on it.

That was about a month ago, the computer's not been touched, so I can't get into the wardrobe, everything is on a cycle between me, the dirty pile, the washing machine and the clean pile.
(DrBurkstrom, Wed 19 Nov 2008, 18:36, closed)

I am like this too
but there is one thing worse than putting clothes away













IRONING!
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 2:19, closed)