Terry wrote recently that folding laundry takes forever now that they have a baby because it’s filled with much smaller things, so more stuff ends up in the same basket. I think there are two other factors at work here. The first is that we’ve been doing laundry much more often than we used to. We end up running a load every other day. We used to do laundry about once a week. Doing laundry more often makes it feel like you’re folding laundry all the time.
The bigger factor is that the laundry is filled with burp cloths. Considering that we use one or two burp cloths per feeding (depending on if the one under their chin gets too wet to put on our shoulders when burping), and we feed six times a day, and there are two of them, we end up with about eighteen burp cloths used per day. With laundry every other day, there are thirty or forty burp cloths to fold. That takes a long time. The baby clothes themselves don’t take that long to fold. In a typical load, we have maybe four to six outfits.
yes… laundry… well, i used a lot of viva paper towels (i actually cut them in half first). it has to be viva. also, i don’t remember washing that much b/c lucas hardly spit up. but i just fold them in half b/c i’m gg to use them soon again.