Friday Confession: Laundry

I have this thing when I do laundry. I pour the laundry detergent and fabric softener. After selecting the cycle and start washing I HAVE TO clean the plastic cup you use to pour the detergent. I mean, I HAVE TO. I cannot let the cup there with detergent residue. It's a compulsion and I realize it's silly, but still.

When the time comes to fold and hang clothes, I have the hangers issue. We have maybe 3 types of hangers: plastic, wooden and those cheap crappy metal ones (the ones they give you when you take clothes to the dry cleaners). So I have this "rule". I cannot use a wooden one for certain types of clothes, like t-shirts. I use them for pants, blouses, dress shirts. So obviously I spend more time doing laundry than I need to simply because I make so many rules and "have to's" that it actually becomes a task where I need to think instead of it being automatic.

Winning the Laundry Lottery

There is an unwritten rule, at least that I know of, which states that the person who does the laundry get to keep whatever is found in it. Sometimes it turns out to be paper (shredded of course), candy wrapper, pens (with all its ink stains). But sometimes the reward is monetary: some coins, or even better BILLS!!!
Yesterday I got a very nice reward: $26.00... Honey, I guess next time you'll consider doing the laundry? Or shall I think of this as my payment for taking care of it myself?