Have you done your fall transition yet? I'm in the middle of mine...
You know...the time when last week it was OK, you are a cool mom, you're still letting your kids wear shorts to school. This week you are the neglectful mother who doesn't care what her kids wear as long as they get out of her house in the morning and leave her in peace. You know the ones whom the police and CPS are keeping a special watch on (ahem). It's the time when I rotate out my kids clothes. Cold weather clothes... warm weather clothes... cold weather... warm weather... cold... warm... cold... twice every year I am amazed how many clothes my kids have. Whyyyyy? is my pathetic battle cry.
Plus, they keep growing. The brats. So I'm pulling out the handmedowns for Alex, he had 2 big bags just for him that needed to be tried on and washed. The other kids all get lumped into one bag, as I aptly name the Too Big Bag (...I know I'm so precise. But they don't really get many handmedowns anymore, so I just need someplace to put awesome deals I find while stalking the clearance sections of Target).
Last year, in a tissy-fit that was monumental in proportions, because I found spiderwebs and dust in my plastic bins in spite of the lids !!!! (sorry, it still gets to me) I bought those vacuum sealed bags they sale on tv, only I bought mine at Aldi's. Apparently there was an overstocking somewhere. Anyone need the medium sized bags? Seriously they are the size maybe of a sleeping bag. Not much storing going on there.
Finally, thinks I, I will put clean clothes in and clean clothes will come out.
Alas.
Well, in the plastic vacuum sealed bag defense they did keep the bugs and dust out. And we had a leak from upstairs and they kept the water out.
They just smell...ewww.
But still I likes these. No bugs.
This could be the lilac scented Downey I was using at the time though. I can't remember when I stopped using it. But I stopped sometime last year when the school called me and told me one of the boys teachers was highly sensitive to smell and the boys were smelling...mildewy. I could not understand it. I smell their clothes before they wore them. I sniffed them out as they left the house. And yet when they came home at the end of the day...ewww. Downy lilac + little boy sweat = mildewyness smell, apparently. I don't likes thems.
So I'll tell you how the Spring transition goes. I think I'm going to put a dryer sheet in there to maybe keep the fresh washed smell.
I think I've done at least 20 loads of laundry since Monday. 1/2 of that is regular laundry. 1/2 of that is transitioning laundry. and 1/2 of that is a bunch of blankets and sheets (from that leak, remember I mentioned that vaguely above?). I know that's too many halves. But seriously that is how much laundry I have.
Since I was pulling out all those vacuum sealed bags of mounds of laundry, I decided this was an ideal time to reorganize my laundry room/storage room. Ugghh...I thought I cleaned all that up! Yeah, apparently back in there in the corner where that leak was and a bunch of sheets and blankets were there soaking it all up. And marinating in it...
On the plus side I think I managed to save most of them, I am tossing the ones that were on the bottom though.
And I did manage to figure out just what in the world is that smell.
But if you don't hear from me for a while, the laundry did it.
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