I came home yesterday after I dropped Caroline off at school and spent the next few hours procrastinating. I knew what I had to do, but I wanted to live in denial just a little while longer.
So the first thing I did was let the dogs drag me around the neighborhood for about two miles while I tried to maintain some sort of dignity by pretending that I always run at a dead sprint down the street with my arms flailing wildly and screaming at my dogs to STOP! SLOW DOWN! I AM GOING TO SELL YOU TO THE NEXT PERSON WE PASS!
When the exercise portion of my morning was over, I decided to iron some clothes.
That’s right. I said iron.
I am the same person who got out the ironing board about three months ago causing Caroline to come up to me and ask, “Oh Mama! What is that?”
Oh honey, that’s just the devil in the form of a collapsible board covered in an ugly floral print.
I needed to iron because I purchased a few new shirts for P this week. He’s decided he’s a big fan of the short-sleeve button down shirt because he gets too hot in knit polo-type shirts. And if I had to sit next to him in a Mexican restaurant one more time and listen to him talk about how his knit shirt was SO HOT that he was going to have to take another shower by the time we got home, then one of us wouldn’t have survived.
So I bought him a few shirts to ensure that he wouldn’t spontaneously combust from the heat caused by his Gap knit polos.
I think he looks really good in the color blue so I looked for a blue shirt and found a great one on sale at Macy’s. As soon as I pulled it out of the bag to show him he said, “That looks just like my other blue short-sleeved shirt.”
“No it doesn’t. It’s TOTALLY DIFFERENT. They couldn’t be MORE DIFFERENT.”
“Okay. Whatever.”
Later that night, Caroline and I were watching T.V. and he came in to try on the shirts to make sure they fit. When he pulled the blue one out of the bag, Caroline said, “DADDY! THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE YOUR OTHER SHIRT!”
I think it was a set up.
Here are the shirts.
Clearly they could not be more different.
He felt the need to wash the new shirts immediately because that is what he does. He washes brand new, perfectly pressed clothes.
I do not understand this. Why would you wash an article of clothing that is brand new?
Truth be told if I had caught him in time I never would have let him put those shirts in the washer. I would have done what I’ve always done which is hang them up in his closet and pretend like I had taken them to the cleaners. He never would have known the difference.
But since I was too late and they were already clean, I felt the need to go ahead and just iron them. Because that is the kind of wife I am.
Plus, I knew I needed to iron a few of Caroline’s dresses because the last time I made her iron them she didn’t really get the wrinkles out. It’s like her heart wasn’t in it.
But at the core of my ironing frenzy, however, was my need to put off the inevitable.
I had to take an online defensive driving course.
Oh the horror.
I’ve put it off for months but it could wait no longer. Unless I wanted a warrant issued for my arrest.
So I spent four hours of my life, four hours I will never get back, trying to finish a defensive driving course before it was time to pick up Caroline from school.
The last time I took defensive driving I remember watching a piece of classic cinema entitled “Blood Runs Red on the Highway”. It was the feel good movie of the year. Yesterday I learned that it has been traded in for an even more upbeat version (if that’s possible) called “DEAD IN FIVE SECONDS”.
The Department of Transportation really has no sense of humor. Nor do they seem to realize that a film called “DEAD IN FIVE SECONDS” shouldn’t last for twenty minutes and fifty-eight seconds. It’s just bad marketing.
I’m sad to report that as of this moment I still haven’t finished my course. I have to complete two more exciting units on ROAD SIGNS and WHAT TO DO IF A HUGE ELK JUMPS IN FRONT OF YOUR VEHICLE.
I just can’t bear to finish right now.
So I’m off to iron another one of P’s new shirts. It’s a nice yellow linen shirt that I bought to go with a pair of his plaid shorts. Although he just informed me that he “muffin-topped those shorts” about three years ago.
This is why I love him.
In spite of the fact that he thinks knit polo shirts are too hot.
Mandy says:
We, too have several of these blue shirts. If they want variety, maybe they should do the shopping. Nevermind. I did not just say that. That is how my husband ended up with 17 pairs of the exact same cargo shorts.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:52 am
suburbancorrespondent says:
Ironing? What is this….ironing…of which you speak?
May 15th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Staci at Writing and Living says:
Linen? Oh, you brave woman.
But, at least linen wrinkles so easily that you can pretend that it was crisply pressed when you left the house and it just got wrinkled by your seat belt. At least that’s what I do.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Tonggu Momma says:
I had to take that defensive driving course, too. And “Dead in Five Seconds” lasted about 25 minutes too long. And it couldn’t have been more depressing. It certainly makes an impression, though, doesn’t it?
May 15th, 2008 at 6:49 am
P's sis says:
Sadly, I know why P washes all of his new clothes…It is because that is what our mother did. I also wash all of our new things before we wear any of them. Therefore, I do a lot of extra ironing!! Thank you, mother.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Susan says:
Be warned about the online Texas Defensive Driving course. Are the questions about the good, thoughtful advice you received when watching the little snippets? They are NOT. They want to know the color of tie the man was wearing in the court scene of the driver convicted of DWI. So don’t worry about the actual laws and such as you watch the videos…write down the color of the clothes, where the people are going and all that jazz.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Sister Honey Bunch says:
I don’t iron. I throw the shirt back in the dryer for a little fluffing.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Ashley says:
Arrow (I think it’s at Kohls?) makes wrinkle free short sleeve button-down shirt that really does stay wrinkle-free, which means the iron stays hidden away.
My husband’s wardrobe consists of the same t-shirt in multiple colors, the same knit polo in multiple colors (he has lots of colors of these…I found them for 4.50 at Macys last July and stocked up), every color of the Arrow wrinkle-free short sleeve shirt, 2 pairs of jeans that are identical (buy one get one free at Kohls), and about six of the same pair of Dockers khakis. And when I ask why, the response is, “I don’t know, that just what my mom always bought.” So at nearly a year into our marriage, I still have to call my mother-in-law to ask what brand it was he prefers in whatever.
I did mix it up and buy a different brand of boxer shorts recently. It caused quite a commotion.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Mrs. Who says:
I live by two rules.
1. If it has to be ironed, I don’t want it.
2. If it won’t go in the dishwasher, I don’t want it.
Keeps my life pretty simple, really.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:39 am
A&EMom says:
Damp towel + warm dryer = Ironing!!!
And this from a girl who’s mom actually ENJOYS ironing!? Yep, she’s from space.
My husband lived in Germany for a while where it’s a balmy 60 degrees right now. He was running around in a t-shirt and shorts while I shivered.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Carrie says:
Because I sometimes have lapses in judgement, I have been known to purchase clothing that requires ironing from time to time. Inevitably, at some point early in its life, it will be donated in a frenzy of purging-all-things-requiring-ironing. This usually happens after I’ve had to iron an article of clothing for a special occasion or something. Seriously, I have MANY times purged my closet of items requiring an iron. I am glad to know it isn’t just me that feels this way about that chore!
May 15th, 2008 at 7:55 am
angela says:
Yesterday, I asked my husband to read your post. I thought it was cute and he was sitting right next to me. He took the computer away from me and read the entire page. All day long he brought up things from your blog. It was like he knew you. He would say, yeah Big Mama was funny when she wrote…
You might have a new closet Big Mama reader.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Emily says:
We have the same dilema with men’s shirts…We have the same blue windowpane shirt…I love that men’s clothing is so simple, but it’s pretty boring too. “Do I go with the Big plaid print or the tiny plaid print? Big stripes or little stripes?”
May 15th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Brickhouse says:
So I took the online course about 4 years ago. I have to take alot of continuing education online, so I figured it was the way to go. Clearly, I was wrong. In my CE online courses, you can print the material, and scan through it while you take the tests. (Well, maybe not the ethics portion of the CE.) Defensive driving is NOT that way, to my dismay. It was on this timer thing that wouldn’t let me click “next” until IT thought that I had spent a sufficient amount of time reviewing the page. I don’t read ANYTHING word for word (except maybe your blog.) I am all about page-skimming!
It was absolute torture. Next time I am definitely headed to Ryan’s for the course served with an all-you-can-eat dessert bar!
May 15th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Linda says:
I have until July 15th to complete an online defensive driving course. Going through my mind: “Hurry up and do it. Don’t wait until July. For once in your life don’t wait until the last minute!” So far, it isn’t working.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Holly Smith says:
Back in the day when I had to take three defensive driving courses in one year, we met at the “Western Sizzler.” At least we had someone to bring us coffee. But the film was on the big screen on the wall…Larger than life, Blood runs red on the Highway.
BTW, I haven’t gotten a ticket since that time in 1990. That year of three Saturdays lost to DD, did me in.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Shelley says:
Girl, you should have done the defensive driving at a comedy club, I’m sure they have it down there, you’re in a big city. Although it’s not how I would have preferred to spend half of my day, I laughed ’til I cried. Check into it next time. Not to imply there will be a next time…
And ironing? My iron comes in a bottle called Downy Wrinkle Release. Good stuff. And it smells good too. Try it, it rocks.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Tamara says:
My husband can’t stand to wear something “new from the store”. Everything has to be washed before he can wear it! Me? I like to buy new things just so I can enjoy the professional pressing job!
May 15th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Kim says:
Completely and totally different. What were they thinking?
May 15th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Melanie says:
The last time I took a class, I had just gotten two tickets very close together and the class was required.
I was put into that category of “Either you take this class or go to jail.”
So I took the class.
When I got there, the teacher asked if there was anyone there who HAD to take the class or else lose their license so he could sign their paperwork.
I was the only one to raise my hand and everyone else in the class all looked at me like I was a drunk and a criminal.
Fun.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Beth_C says:
I too, never, ever wash new clothes. I’m sure others are disgusted by this but when I bring something home from the store, that’s the best it will ever look so I figure I might as well wear it that way!
May 15th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Liz says:
I like ironing, so I can’t really feel your pain there.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:54 am
chrissy says:
My husband and I both have to take Defensive Driving in the next month or two. Maybe I should try the comedy club route mentioned above. What a pitiful date night.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Nelson's Mama says:
Go Beth!!!
I wear something new unwashed AS LONG AS POSSIBLE! It’s never the same! It never hangs the same, the body goes out of the fabric, you can never get it pressed back (I don’t mind ironing MY things) into the same shape.
I hate ironing my husband’s stuff - there’s like three times more fabric!!
May 15th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Mel says:
I laughed at your comment about Caroline asking what an ironing board was. My four year old asked me the same thing a couple of months ago. I, of course, got it out for a craft project.
My husband’s aunt is notorious for giving him a blue polo shirt for his birthday and for Christmas. His birthday is in the summer, so it will be short-sleeved and the Christmas one will be long-sleeved. Before he opens the present, I put it to my forehead and say, “Blue polo shirt” just like Johnny Carson used to do. That man has every shade of blue imagined.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Becoming Me says:
Too funny. I once went on this frenzy of washing clothing every single day so that we never had clothing in our hampers…yes, I am thankful for anti-OCD meds..anyway, while I was doing this I noticed that The Professor was wearing the same shirt about 3 times a week…only he wasn’t aware of this…
May 15th, 2008 at 9:08 am
mombo says:
Ah…Blood Runs Red On The Highway…I remember it well. The woman wedged up in the wheel well of the car. Good times.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Amy Beth @ Ministry So Fabulous! says:
Dudette, I am totally bringing you ALL my clothes to iron when I come in August.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:20 am
tricia says:
Downy Wrinkle Reducer is amazing - no more ironing for me!
May 15th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Colleen says:
Oh, the blue shirts! My husband has very few colors that he likes (he says it’s because so many colors don’t “go” with his red hair), so there are many shades of blue and similarly striped and solid colored polo shirts in the closet.(and a couple shades of green are tolerable) Since he seems to be alergic to shopping, I try to change it up once in a while - therefore the 2 year old unworn yellow polo (which does look good on him cuz he did try it on ONCE). A girl’s gotta try!
May 15th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Shalee says:
Are you for hire? Because I’ve got some dresses and shirts that need ironing despite the fact that they’re supposed to be wrinkle-free. I should totally be a tester for that claim. They would get a real testing from me and my clothes-keeping skilz.
I’m a hang-em-up kind of gal too. I don’t see the need to put more work into something that I bought so that I wouldn’t have to iron something else anyway.
I have a feeling that I’m missing out on some entertainment here in KS. We never get good movies like that… we have to read the book!
May 15th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Superchikk says:
I knew there were many reasons to miss Texas, and one of them is Defensive Driving. You can take it online there. Not here. Noooooo. I am going to have to give up an ENTIRE FREAKING SATURDAY and go sit in a class. A CLASS!
Well, it’s either that, or go to court and tell the judge why I didn’t deserve the ticket I got (which I totally did), lose sadly, then pay court fees, the fine, and watch my insurance go up.
I guess I’ll just take the stinking class.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Amanda says:
He muffin topped his shorts? That is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Christine says:
Oh, the ironing. I love the ironing. Seriously. I iron every day. It’s alomost a sickness. I used to iron napkins for my mom at Christmas and Easter when I was 4 or 5. A little kid can’t screw up a pice of square fabric right? I was a smart kid - I knew iron=HOT=OUUCCHHH!!!! So we were good. She put the board up to my little height and everything. There was nothing so rewarding to little me as watching that piece of sad wrinkly fabric get all flat and smooth with a nice spray of starch and burst of steam. I was hooked. I used to walk up and down the halls of my college dorm soliciting that one or two pieces of clothing you haven’t worn in months b/c you don’t wanna iron it. That was MY procrastination on a Tuesday night. I didn’t even charge! Party girl - that was me! I just added Faultless spray starch and Magic Sizing to my grocery list because they’re both almost out. And don’t get me started on Mrs. Meyer’s Ironing Spray!
Hopefully, “Blood Runs Red on the Highway” was made sometime after 1954. I can remember watching those movies in drivers ed a la 1987 watching the DeSotos and Edsels wreck on the highway, skinny ties and crinolines flying everywhere with Rod Serling narrating. I believe it was called Red Highway. Kinda tough to get kids to take it seriously when the movie is so old and cheesy it’s humorous! Good luck with the last 2 hours!
May 15th, 2008 at 10:11 am
hstull says:
If it were me, I would be Minnie Pearl and wear all of my new clothes out of the store with the tags on them. My husband also has to have his clothes washed because he has ’sensitive’ skin and he doesnt’ want to be ‘irritated’. I end up washing/ironing new clothes. Such the good wife-look who ends up irritated now.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:17 am
katy (aka funny girl) says:
Can you really have too many blue button-down short-sleeve shirts anyway? My hubs has at least 4.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Jennsational says:
I hate ironing as much as I hate washing dishes. Ugh. You should check out JCPenny’s. They have these great polos, but it’s not the usual heavy knit material. It’s a lighter, almost t-shirt like material - but with a collar and a front pocket so they look nice - and my hubby loves them. He gets hot easily too - he doesn’t even wear long sleeves in the winter. Thought it might be a helpful tip and definitely cut down on that ironing thing.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:43 am
MamaMia says:
OK, I don’t remember how I got here, but I made note of your address a few days ago because every time I read your blog, it cracks me up!! You are so funny!
And one more thing to note…you know a lot of people or a lot of people have discovered how much fun it is to read your blog because the other day you had 58 comments!! I don’t think I even get 5 comments on my blog.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Sharon says:
Hey, let me save you some time on the rest of the defensive driving course — if it’s like what I sat through for driver’s ed, they all die once they get behind the wheel. Hope I didn’t blow the suspenseful ending for you!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Kelly says:
Scott thinks we should wash all new clothes first too. That ruins them. They never look better than the first time you wear them fresh from the store.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Krista says:
Well, I hate to say it, but I ALWAYS wash my clothing before I wear it… I can’t stand the thought of wearing something that multiple people have tried on and done who knows what to! Of course it probably doesn’t help that I shop at Ross and while their clothes are cheap, so is the store because the floors are gross and you’re always finding clothing on the floor… ew!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Annie says:
My husband washes brand new clothes. I am glad he is not alone.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Kimberly says:
My preferred method of ironing involves my best friend, Downy Wrinkle Release, and about 10 minutes in the dryer on the cool down part of the cycle. Works like a charm, unless the wrinkles are extra-deep because I left the clothes sitting in the dryer for 2 or 3 dsys (which almost never happens, of course). If the wrinkle situation is hopeless, it goes back into the hamper to be re-washed.
I’m with ya on the shirts too– yes, they are different! One has a logo and the other doesn’t. So obvious.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
amy says:
My husband is a TX state trooper. Tonight I plan on informing him that if he and his buddies should never give anyone named “Big Mama” a ticket… so you may want to throw out “Big Mama” next time you get pulled over. Who knows… it my work.
And, oh. I understand P’s wash before wear thing. Once we went to a “semi” water-park and afterwards went out to eat. Our clothes we soaked so we stopped by the Dollar Store and bought new t-shirts. My tween cousin came out w/ a whole new outfit… and new panties… that had been on a hanger… in the Dollar store. I’m pretty sure that’s a nasty.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
amy says:
I should really check my spelling. sorry.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Sheila Gregoire says:
When my daughter was 4 we visited my aunt. She was ironing.
My daughter looked at her in amazement and said, “What are you doing?”. She had never seen an iron before.
It was very embarrassing.
Visit To Love, Honor and Vacuum today!
May 15th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Erica says:
My husband always sweats in Mexican restaurants. It could be the salsa!
May 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Xandra says:
LOL! My husband was in the Navy and his motto is “New gear is dirty gear”. I never wash new clothes because they are, you know, new.
Xandra
May 15th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Chelsea says:
I do believe there’s a special crown in heaven for wives who iron their hubby’s shirts. I won’t be receiving that crown, but my cleaners will.
I ALWAYS wash clothes before wearing them. The amount of chemicals and nastiness that is put into fabrics at the manufacturing plants is just staggering. I wouldn’t want any of those carcinogens next to my skin. Plus I want to smell like Downy all the time. It’s my signature scent.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Stick O'Dynamite says:
Big Mama - only four hours? My online defensive driving course earlier this year was EIGHT looooong hours. The most informative tidbit I took away was the knowledge that if the hood of my car ever flies up while driving (which I didn’t think was even possible), that I should stick my head out the window in order to continue driving. I was only driving ten miles over the speed limit when I got the ticket, and that fun fact of info is what my $39.95 got me.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Nelson's Mama says:
My best friends from high school and I laugh about clothes that we bought from two expensive boutiques in our hometown. We loved we the clothes from those stores smelled!!!
We could only afford to buy a thing or two at a time, maybe a pair of jeans or a sweater and we would try to preserve the smell of the THE PLACE or THE CHERRY BRANCH as long as we could!
May 15th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Linda at 2nd cup says:
At least your husband likes shirts. Mine wants to go around topless all the time.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
kelli says:
While living in Oregon, we learned the deer there take a defensive hoofing course entitled “How to Jump OVER a Car, Live, but still cause over %5,000 in damage to the unsuspecting Honda owner” course.
Oh yes ma’am, and we met the valedictorian of THAT class.
Sigh.
In John’s defense, he passed the “How To Hit an Entire HERD of deer at 2am, in the pitch black, at 60 mph” course with flying colors.
Our insurance company loved us.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Kelly @ Love Well says:
You know it’s bad if you considered ironing a positive alternative.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
jean says:
I realize this will shock many people, but I LOVE to iron. I will iron anything and everything. Look at those wrinkles with just a few quick moves wa-la a perfectly pressed shirt. It’s like therapy.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Lisa says:
My husband will also ruin a perfectly new, pressed and clean shirt by making me wash it first. Why? After 14 years, I still do not understand. But, this is the man I love, so I must sacrifice. Right?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Poltzie says:
Why does everyone act like the muffin top look is bad. I love the top of the muffin, it’s the best part!
May 15th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Lari says:
My hubby has many shirts in various shades of blue and yet that’s the color he always picks up first when we’re shopping. My test of a good button down shirt is if it can be “ironed” in the dryer. If it can’t I hide it. Not much ironing going on here either.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Sileena says:
I don’t usually read all of your comments. You get alot. But I did read P’s sis and that is sooo funny. The things our mothers teach us that have absolutely no rhyme or reason…maybe that should be a post? Hmmm…anyways, I kinda’ sorta’ tagged you if you want to do it.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Cheri (the Mom Lady) says:
At 79 cents per shirt at my local laundry, I figure the cost is FAR cheaper then the resulting psychiatric care and/or marriage counseling that would be the result of ME ironing shirts! It’s thankfully to the point where he thinks (rightly so!) that the cleaners starch them MUCH better than I do.
One area I truly am happy to be outshown (outshon? outshined??) in!!
Viva le cleaners!!
May 15th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Cheri (the Mom Lady) says:
Oh, and not to trivialize the horrid practice of washing new clothing before wearing, my son does it because he has sensitive skin and needs to get all the chemicals and sizing out of the fabric or he’ll be in a rash all over. Very inconvenient of him.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Makeshift Mama says:
My husband washes all his new clothes, too. I don’t get it. They will never fit or look better than that first time back from the store, and he wants to ruin it. Me? I try to make new clothes last through several wearings, if possible, to preserve that perfect drape.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Courtney says:
Brooks Brother and LL Bean make the BEST wrinkle resistant shirts. They are worth their weight in Gold. I can’t praise these enough!!!
May 15th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Happy Mommy says:
I hate to iron! And the shirts are totally different!
May 15th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
angela says:
After reading some comments, I have to say that wearing new clothes used to be totally fine with me UNTIL I married my husband. He reminded me that lots of people could have tried on those clothes and left all sorts of dirty things on them. Thinking about that I have become more aware of those dirty things and wash everything before I wear them.
I mean think about it, someone tired on that bathing suit and not everyone reads the labels. Also have you ever seen deodorant marks on a shirt, GROSS! Can you imagine what else could be on those clothes. Bugs, germs, hair. Yeah, I wash everything before I wear it.
On another note:
I love Downey Wrinkle release, it truly is magic in a spray bottle.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Linda says:
I wash all my clothes because I worked in retail and if you saw some of those folks try on your new top before you did….well, lets just say you may not have bought it to begin with!
May 15th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Jamie @ ohbecareful! says:
Um, didn’t you see that episode of ‘House, M.D.’ — the one where a guy has some strange unexplained symptoms that threaten his very existence, and a bunch of TV doctors rush to find the cause for his unexplained illness so that they can tap their magic TV doctor wands and make him better, and the cause turns out to be the dye in a pair of BRAND NEW UNWASHED JEANS? No?
Well, I wash brand new clothes anyway. Even if highly credible television “doctors” are wrong about that kind of thing ever being dangerous, you never know who may have tried them on before you did. Eww.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Faerylandmom says:
Believe it or not, there is a reason to wash new duds.
Sizing. It’s a chemical that gets sprayed on during manufacturing that helps it hold its shape during shipping.
Big “ewwww” for me.
And…don’t bother with wrinkle release sprays…water in a spray bottle (for knits), the steam from your shower, or a quick tumble in the dryer are cheaper, and work just as effectively.
Now that I’ve bossed you around thoroughly, may I say that I LOVE reading your blog? You are a blessing.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Daniel Semsen says:
I LOVE IT!
Nice blog…I’m totally subscribing. And it was GREAT to meet you in person last weekend in Nashville.
Go SNL!!!
May 15th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
stacy says:
A friend once told me that she never irons anything until it is time to wear it since the Lord might come back soon. She didn’t want to waste time ironing things that she would be wearing.
May 16th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Miscellaneous From Missy says:
My husband does the exact same thing. He washes brand new clothing. WHY?
May 16th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Amy Jo says:
I never washed brand new clothes until I watched an episode of House. As in Dr. House, where every patient comes within a breath of dying. Two of his patients were dying of the same exact horrifically absurd symptoms. The only thing that linked the two young men was that they had bought black market jeans and DIDN’T WASH THEM! Not that I buy clothing on the black market, but just in case I now wash all clothing that ends up in my house or on my body.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Janelle says:
P is really funny! He has a lot of good one liners.
My husband does the same thing, he must wash all of his new clothes before wearing them. This is so strange to me. I could not feel more opposite about it.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:41 pm