Houston Pucas: Stinkin' Laundry

Stinkin' Laundry

I climbed up my stairs to the third floor the other day and smelled an overwhelming moldy smell. Not being able to identify the culprit, I assumed it must be coming

from outside since the windows were open.

The next day I went to put my clothes away and smelled the same stench although it was a little more faint. Realizing that the stench was actually coming from my clothes, I laughed and laughed.

I had forgotten to hang my clothes and left them in the washer overnight.

After putting that load in to rewash, I had to email my super fun book club friends.

Before our move, we had read a book by Glennon Melton called Carry on Warrior.

Here is an excerpt from her book that had me giggling.

"Recently as I was walking up and down the grocery aisles, I noticed a distinct, mildewed, putrid odor in the air. I looked around for the responsible party, until I discovered that she was me, I stank. When I got home, Craig came out of the house to help me with the groceries and I said, "Honey, smell me. I stink." Craig sniffed my shirt and said without surprise, "Yes, you do." And I said, "Well, what IS that? It's disgusting." And Craig said the following: "It's mildew. All our clothes smell like that. We always stink.".........What? Well why didn't you tell me, husband? I was scared to tell you. You get sensitive about....housekeeping stuff." Oh. So .....you'd rather reek all day at work allow Chase to be the stinky kid in class than risk me getting mad. Yes. Yes, I would. Definitely."

While my family would certainly not hesitate to tell me if our laundry was stinky, I still enjoyed remembering her funny book. Anyway, it prompted me to record the details of daily laundry in NL.

This is our drying area in the little loft on our top floor between the boys' rooms.

Our laundry machines share the boys' bathroom.

I was quite pleased when John had told me at the renting of our home that the realtor reported to him that these Mieles were some of the best and biggest laundry machines in the country.

Unlike the automatic draining dryers we are accustomed to in the states, this Miele dryer has a manual reservoir that collects the water, and I dump it into the shower between each load.

Oh, and let's not forget the lint screen which was hiding from me for a few weeks. I couldn't figure out why the dryer kept shutting down after about 3 minutes acting like the cycle was over.

The manual written in Dutch wasn't a whole lot of help to me.

But, just before I called the maintenance man, I decided to look around for a reason.......voila!

An extra lint screen that we didn't know was there. So, after emptying it, no more problems!

Ok, so let's talk about capacity. Is everything bigger in Texas?? Well, maybe it's true. I have an oversized washer at home and it gives us the joy of only one laundry day each week.

We do four loads, but we can knock them all out in a day. This one on the other hand is just a little bit bigger than my hand, so we get to do laundry every day here instead.