Do you ever have moments where you wonder where your head was? I have these moments more often than I'd like to admit and today I was not-so-lucky to have another "moment". I was doing laundry.....normally, when I do laundry, I do my whites, then darks, then towels. Today, though, I did my towels first because I was in desperate need. Most of my towels are white so I threw in a little bleach to make them sparkly white.
A few hours later, I was changing the laundry and proceeded to put my darks in the washer. Then, I poured in the detergent...or so I thought! I looked and my stomach sank when I realized I had just poured in a liberal amount of bleach onto all my darks! My jeans. My sweaters. My dress pants. My shirts. Two weeks worth of darks had been stuffed in that washer and I had just poured bleach all over them! I frantically began to pull out what I could, trying to salvage what items I could, seperating obviously ruined items from the others. I rinsed and squeezed and blubbered my way through a very unpleasant experience!
I'm sad to tell you, that several t-shirts are ruined along with two new sweaters, a pair of dress pants, some pajama pants and sweat pants. The verdict is still out on 5 pairs of jeans (2 of those are new!)and 2 nice shirts. Uggghh...how frustrating!
Where was my head during this "laundry catastrophe"? I have no idea but now I know...laundry is NOT a mindless task!
I've learned my lesson...no more bleach allowed in this house because I apparently am not responsible enough to use it! Maybe someday when I grow up! ;-)
5 comments:
Oh, Kelly!! Don't worry... I've thrown an entire capful of liquid detergent in the dryer, convinced it was a dryer sheet!! If something has just a few spots on it, try using a black permanent marker to "color in" the spots... usually does the trick, although you might have to do it each time you wash it... :-)
Based on the damage, I think I'd have dip my clothes in a bucket of permanent marker! Haha...oh well, I can't change it so why fret over it! Into the trash it all goes!
I know how disappointing that is. So sorry it happened to you! About a year ago I was carrying a load of my dress clothes and my husband's work clothes over to the laundromat as well as a bleach bottle. Somehow the bleach bottle leaked -- ruining a lot of essential clothes!
It could be worse. I still blush about the time I was doing someone's laundry for them and somehow bleached white spots on their very expensive purple towels. Oww, I never wanted to see those people again.
I guess I shouldn't be allowed to have bleach, either.
Yikes! That would make me cry...
You know, the 80s styles are coming back in. Maybe the spotty-bleached look would be a fashion statement. :o) You could just claim to be a super cool, fashion-monger.
Haha...thanks for the compliment, Brooke, but I don't think I'll ever qualify as a "fashion-monger"...bleach or not!!
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