As I mentioned before, my mom has been here several days each week for the past month cleaning and organizing and overall kicking our butts in gear to get ready for these babes. Part of mom's cleaning efforts included washing every linen in the entire house. Now I'll be 100% honest. I'm not the best house keeper. I'm relatively ok at surface cleaning but if you took a finger to my base boards you'd come up with a lot of dust.
That being said, my blinds, window sills, curtains and the corners of every room were absolutely disgusting! We have two dogs and I use them as an excuse to live with dust. The truth is I haven't washed any of the curtains in our house since I bought them five years ago... Let's just say my mother is a saint. She cleaned every blind, window, window sill, baseboard, floor, door, wall, etc. in my entire house.
We have curtains in almost every room so there was a lot of laundry to be done. And don't even get me started on all the baby clothes that needed washed. We organized everything by size and then washed and organized by size into the dresser and closet hanging organizer. My sister sent a bunch of my niece's clothes to me so I have all of those clothes in addition to all the new clothes people have gotten me as gifts. Mom washed everything that was newborn to 3-6 months. Everything older than that is in bins in the guest room closet with all the diapers and wipes. And then there's all the swaddlers and sleepers and blankets and bath robes and hooded towels and crib sheets and mattress pads and changing table linens... you get the picture.
She must have done 20 loads of laundry in 3 days. Our dryer has never been the greatest but it has gotten the job done until recently. It went from taking an hour to dry a load of clothes to taking 1.5-2 hours per load. At some point in the 20 loads over 3 days it just gave up on life and quit heating. Do you know how long it takes a load of baby clothes to dry when cold air is swirling around inside instead of hot? No? Me neither because after 2.5 hours the clothes were still wet and there was another load in the washer and my mom said "That's it, we're going to a laundromat." She drug my poor husband to a 24 hour laundromat in Lebanon at 10:00 on a Saturday night.
Alex hadn't exactly planned on buying a dryer right now. We had just purchased the big items left on the registry - car seats and a double stroller being the biggest items. Even with gift cards and cash from friends/family we still spent several hundred out of pocket. He wasn't excited about spending several hundred more on a new dryer. I let it go for a week. I only did one load of necessities and after 2 hours most things were dry enough to just hang dry without getting wrinkles in everything. There were some sales going on at Lowe's and on Thursday he found a zero bells and whistles dryer on sale for less than $500. It was delivered yesterday morning. I did 5 loads of laundry yesterday and it was glorious. I accidentally left the dryer on the low setting when I dried our whites because it needed to be on low for some of the baby stuff I had washed previously and when I went downstairs after an hour all our clothes were dry!
Let me reiterate. Our clothes were dry after only an hour on the lowest setting! Never have I ever been so excited about an appliance.
That being said, my blinds, window sills, curtains and the corners of every room were absolutely disgusting! We have two dogs and I use them as an excuse to live with dust. The truth is I haven't washed any of the curtains in our house since I bought them five years ago... Let's just say my mother is a saint. She cleaned every blind, window, window sill, baseboard, floor, door, wall, etc. in my entire house.
We have curtains in almost every room so there was a lot of laundry to be done. And don't even get me started on all the baby clothes that needed washed. We organized everything by size and then washed and organized by size into the dresser and closet hanging organizer. My sister sent a bunch of my niece's clothes to me so I have all of those clothes in addition to all the new clothes people have gotten me as gifts. Mom washed everything that was newborn to 3-6 months. Everything older than that is in bins in the guest room closet with all the diapers and wipes. And then there's all the swaddlers and sleepers and blankets and bath robes and hooded towels and crib sheets and mattress pads and changing table linens... you get the picture.
She must have done 20 loads of laundry in 3 days. Our dryer has never been the greatest but it has gotten the job done until recently. It went from taking an hour to dry a load of clothes to taking 1.5-2 hours per load. At some point in the 20 loads over 3 days it just gave up on life and quit heating. Do you know how long it takes a load of baby clothes to dry when cold air is swirling around inside instead of hot? No? Me neither because after 2.5 hours the clothes were still wet and there was another load in the washer and my mom said "That's it, we're going to a laundromat." She drug my poor husband to a 24 hour laundromat in Lebanon at 10:00 on a Saturday night.
Alex hadn't exactly planned on buying a dryer right now. We had just purchased the big items left on the registry - car seats and a double stroller being the biggest items. Even with gift cards and cash from friends/family we still spent several hundred out of pocket. He wasn't excited about spending several hundred more on a new dryer. I let it go for a week. I only did one load of necessities and after 2 hours most things were dry enough to just hang dry without getting wrinkles in everything. There were some sales going on at Lowe's and on Thursday he found a zero bells and whistles dryer on sale for less than $500. It was delivered yesterday morning. I did 5 loads of laundry yesterday and it was glorious. I accidentally left the dryer on the low setting when I dried our whites because it needed to be on low for some of the baby stuff I had washed previously and when I went downstairs after an hour all our clothes were dry!
Let me reiterate. Our clothes were dry after only an hour on the lowest setting! Never have I ever been so excited about an appliance.
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