SassyBlonde

There are very few things that I pine over heavily in life. Most of the time they happen to be shoes, but every once in a while I find something that truly makes my heart go pitty-pat for reasons other than accessorizing. Case in point: this LG combination washer and dryer.

Let me say this first-- I absolutely love the house we live in. It's not ours, but it supplies almost everything we need with only one major exception: it has no laundry hookups, and since we rent, none will be forthcoming. Considering that the median home price in our neighborhood is $550K, we won't be remedying the situation by moving down the block any time soon. Nor could we really move anywhere else nearby and still keep the business we have-- we'd have to completely rebuild our teaching business and D's job (and maybe mine soon) is a fifteen-minute drive from here.

For the past five years that's left us with only one option: the laundromat, and we all know what happens when I go there. So I've been trying to figure out more cost-effective and less frustrating ways of getting this stuff done, with kind of mixed results. I ordered one of these gadgets from Laundry Alternative and so far it's not so bad: it'll basically dry a load of laundry-- a real load, not one of those oversize ones you can do in a big washer-- enough so hanging it up for an hour or two gets it completely dry, even jeans. I've been looking forward to using the little washer contraption that goes with it, if it would ever get here (apparently it takes two weeks longer to get one of those... weird.) That's all well and good, but what I really want is one of these, because fluffy towels don't grow on trees, or rather, laundry lines.

Now, this isn't just an empty waah, boo-hoo, I don't wanna go to the laundromat question: D and I spend about $130 a month at the laundromat between our clothes and the household linens and towels, and we're trying to cut back on the spending since we're basically busted flat at the moment. And well, laundry really isn't an optional kind of thing, so we're trying to figure out how to make all this work without spending loads of cash in the process. And I'm not gonna lie, doing this stuff at home would be a whole lot more palatable than getting propositioned or harassed every time I go out to do it. Ah well, for now it's washerwoman, me. Maybe I can save some pennies and figure something out after the holidays, barring any unfortunate feline vet emergencies.

*That sign up there completely cracks me up. You can get it here.