What is it with males and laundry hampers?
We have them in each bedroom (two in the room my sons share). Large white open laundry hampers (very cheap from Ikea should you be wondering).
So, they are not hard to find. They are not shy, retiring, animals whom you have to stalk with infinite patience or can observe only if you lurk, quietly and disguised, beside a known watering hole. They are not apt to move nor do they camouflage themselves cunningly.
In fact, they are extremely easy to find. They are the tall white open (no lids) empty containers surrounded by a foot-deep circular pile of dirty clothes and well-worn underwear.
It's not only my sons who cannot fathom how to put clothes into a hamper, either.
My husband - in almost every respect a prince among men - lobs clothes at the hamper (wicker with a lid) and will even drape items casually on top of the basket. Put dirty clothes into the hamper? Not a chance!
What to do? I have a couple of (fantasies) ideas. Perhaps I could gather up the clothes (using tongs, if necessary) and stuff them into my sons' pillows? Or dump all the electronics and the guitars into the hampers (might as well use them for something)? Or heavily spray some very floral fragrances around the room to "cover up" the smell?
Or I could have a meltdown - and they'd listen. Once.
My brother does the same thing! I think there has to be some defect in men's brains that doesn't allow them to simply put dirty clothes into a hamper. I can't stand dirty clothes on my room's floor. I just don't understand how they can live like that.
ReplyDeleteYeah men do seem to have a problem with that. Though your ideas on putting the dirty cloths in the pillows was extremely funny.Though I'm not big on using a hamper, I DO get them into the landry room and on the dirty pile. Anyway, wonderful and amusing post and maybe if you follow through with some of those ideas, your sons may finally get the piont.
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