Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Laundry Blues (and whites, and colors…)
My hot new H&M dress is now officially a tiny “tight” shirt! Mom, why didn’t you teach me how to do laundry the proper way? i.e. not the “boy” way of chucking everything in the washer with a dash of Tide.
Now I’ve always been known as the infamous “laundry-ruiner” in all my past incarnations as a domestic goddess-in-the-making; anything from tattered thongs (sorry sis – I now know those delicate pieces of string you call “underwear” need to be placed ever so delicately into a whatchamacallit–oh garment bag),… to turning my Ex’s beloved messenger bag from army green to grisley gray (who knew Oxy-clean actually cleaned out the color too? WTF!)
I thought I was doing great by actually seperating colors today – washing all the pinks, plums, and reds together (minus the Oxy clean). But alas, I was distracted by brooding Emo – turned hottie called Adam Lambert on American Idol tonight…I was so captivated I totally missed the “reading the garment label” step – that clearly said (in 15 languages) – “Do not put in dryer.” Clothing manufacturers really ought to make clothes comes bigger care-instruction labels—and with lots of color! like warnings in GIANT RED letters! Or sensor tags (like those anti-theft tags) that let off a screech if you try to put them in the dryer! I suppose that might be hard to fit on a tiny thong….ok..ok…I get it….I have to get into the habit of reading those damn labels!
So, dear friends, and fashion-lovers, it’s with great sadness in my heart that I bid farewell to my precious plum colored piece of couture (I wish). A memorial service will be held for “shorty” before it is laid to rest with all of the other dearly departed dresses (shirts, pants, once-white-now-tie-dyed-bikinis) in my garment graveyard. Donations (for extra-strong prescription glasses) and bottles of color-safe detergents will be accepted in lieu of flowers.
Until next time, this is Domestic-goddess-in-the-making signing off…
xoxo
DGITM
