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A perfect day to soak up our South Florida weather

A perfect day to soak up our South Florida weather!

Get outside! Maybe enjoy a family picnic, if it’s just in your backyard with a pizza! 🍕

What are your plans for this gorgeous day?
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Laundry is a privilege. . I hate doing laundry. It

Laundry is a privilege.
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I hate doing laundry. It is my least favorite household chore, and I procrastinate doing it as much as possible.
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I have resolved, however, to stop complaining and to start appreciating what a privilege of my socio-economic status laundry actually is. No more complaining about laundry!
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If you've always had a laundry machine at home, or even a machine (pay or not) in your building, the true challenges of laundry may never have occurred to you. However, for many people who don't have a washer or dryer in their building or home, laundry costs a lot more than just money.
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Say the laundromat is 20 minutes (or more) from your house by car. That's at least 40 extra minutes of your time just to get there and back, assuming you have a car. Add more time if you have to walk or take public transport. Then, you probably aren't doing laundry multiple times/week like you might if you had a washer or dryer in your home/building, so you have saved laundry up for a week? 2 weeks? More? So, when you do go to the laundromat, you may have 5+ loads of laundry. Hopefully, you can run multiple machines simultaneously, and save time, but if not, add another 1-2 hours per round of laundry.
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Then, depending on where you live, you may not feel comfortable leaving your laundry unattended. So you have to wait there, which means you aren't getting other things (errands, homework, work, etc,) done. Even if you do feel comfortable leaving, you may not want to/be able to waste the gas going home, or if you didn't drive, it may not make sense to go home given the amount of time it took to get there.
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So, while those with laundry in-home/building may be able to throw in a load of laundry and forget it for however long while they do other things etc., the simple act of going to a laundromat every time you need clean clothes can mean 5, 6, 7+ hours of your time when you can't get anything else done.
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All this does not account for the actual monetary cost of the machines, laundry detergent, gas, bus tickets, cab fare, etc.
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Laundry is a privilege and I vow to respect it as such from now on. Even if I don't enjoy it.
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Written by Greta D'Agostino
@vtmom

@citymomcollective

@citymomcollective

Breakfast Time! 🍳 Do your little ones like to

Breakfast Time! 🍳

Do your little ones like to help in the kitchen?

Tell us, what’s their FAVORITE thing to make? ⬇️
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