Learn from the Error of My Ways- Confessions
January 7th, 2010 | 
Author: As much as I love reading and writing about homemaking stuff. And even doing much of it. There are quite a few things I’m just not into and so these ares suffer. Here are the ones I can remember…
1. Washing dishes with the water on full tilt. I know this is sooo bad. It stems from my childhood. My lovely mother only gave my sister and I one chore and that was to wash the dishes each night. How we ever got away with so little I’ll never know. I’m trying to make it up to her now. When we washed we would run the water the whole time. Once we were staying with my grandmother and we were washing the dishes after dinner. She lost it when she saw our “method”. I’ve been much better in my old age but I noticed lately I’m back to that bad old habit. I try to reign it in often. Something about that rushing hot water running over my hands is so soothing.
2. Folding laundry. I detest this and so we often have laundry baskets full of laundry in various bedrooms. Occasionally my husband will have pity on me a pull out his military background to whip the piles into shape. I even bought the
flipfold which makes the laundry neater but doesn’t make me do it more often.
3. Washing up the dishes at night. I’m much better at this now but when we first got married we would leave a whole sink full of dinner dishes (cooking and eating) over night and not do them until we got home from work the next night. Ooooh! My coworkers were aghast when I confessed. I don’t do this anymore simply because with my being home we are cooking more and there more mouths eating and my goodness it would be hideous! But you still may find a stray dish or two come morning.
Well okay there is probably a lot more because nobody is perfect.
Just felt like sharing.
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Thanks for such interesting reading on your Blog Kemi!
As usual you hit the nail on the head.
When we first married 22 years ago, same story…too busy to clear up the dishes. Then when the children came along, I felt I had to try and develop some sort of a routine. I hated getting up to the sight of an untidy kitchen.
Our eldest daughter Miriam is 19, and she helps a lot with the chores. About 12 years ago, we invested in a dishwasher which also halved our water bill and proved to be more economical . A huge load gets washed thoroughly each day, and I love waking up to a clean kitchen.
Folding laundry? Well with a family of four children, now that’s a different story…!!!!
This is a bit extreme I guess but, our house burned down last year, and we lost everything that mattered to us. We didn’t have any pictures of our things, no receipts, no record of what we had. The insurance company made it very difficult for us to get our things replaced.
We wanted to be sure that our things were safe if something like that ever happened again and I recently found a web site that helps keep track of that kind of stuff.
I wanted to share it with other families in case this happened to them. It’s called e-pact, http://www.e-pact.net and we use it to keep track of all our stuff now. Just hope this is a helpful tip.