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EXCITING LAUNDRY NEWS
Jan. 27th, 2019 10:48 amOur new dryer--a gift from Alex's family, who are great--has finally been hooked all the way up! (Took longer than it should have because I didn't notice the box for the vent hose said 'clamps not included' so we had to go to the store again to get hose clamps.) I have dried two loads of laundry so far! There's another one in the dryer right now! I have so much clean underwear, this is amazing!
Our old electric dryer was broken, but our last house came with a dryer, so we were using that instead. And then we moved here and there isn't actually a 220v plug for an electric dryer (because the wiring in this house is a horrorshow, presumably), so even getting it fixed wouldn't have helped. So we just soldiered along hanging things on a drying rack, or hanging them from a rope outside, but it's been really rainy and humid and obviously that doesn't work for anything bulky even when it's not the dead of winter, and I am just SO EXCITED ABOUT LAUNDRY. It has been like, over a year and a half since I had the ability to reliably do laundry, and it was so much more dispiriting than I ever would have guessed. It's just... really depressing to not have more than one or two outfits worth of clean clothes available. I really like clothes and it's important to me to be able to dress in things that make me happy, so it was also making me feel terrible to not be able to wear any of the pretty things I own because they were all sitting in mountains of trash bags of dirty clothes because our drying rack is tiny and useless for basically anything but underwear and socks.
I can hear the laundry running through the wall and it's great.
(Koschei does not appreciate my laundry-doing. Every time I go out into the carport to go into the laundry room--it's not directly connected to the house, it's very annoying--he stands in front of the door and wails until I come back inside. I am very touched that he loves me so much. Even if he does keep tripping me when I come back in.)
Our old electric dryer was broken, but our last house came with a dryer, so we were using that instead. And then we moved here and there isn't actually a 220v plug for an electric dryer (because the wiring in this house is a horrorshow, presumably), so even getting it fixed wouldn't have helped. So we just soldiered along hanging things on a drying rack, or hanging them from a rope outside, but it's been really rainy and humid and obviously that doesn't work for anything bulky even when it's not the dead of winter, and I am just SO EXCITED ABOUT LAUNDRY. It has been like, over a year and a half since I had the ability to reliably do laundry, and it was so much more dispiriting than I ever would have guessed. It's just... really depressing to not have more than one or two outfits worth of clean clothes available. I really like clothes and it's important to me to be able to dress in things that make me happy, so it was also making me feel terrible to not be able to wear any of the pretty things I own because they were all sitting in mountains of trash bags of dirty clothes because our drying rack is tiny and useless for basically anything but underwear and socks.
I can hear the laundry running through the wall and it's great.
(Koschei does not appreciate my laundry-doing. Every time I go out into the carport to go into the laundry room--it's not directly connected to the house, it's very annoying--he stands in front of the door and wails until I come back inside. I am very touched that he loves me so much. Even if he does keep tripping me when I come back in.)
