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Way of keeping up the laundry
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As a single person, I don’t normally wash my clothes. I mean I can but I don’t wash them simply because I can accumulate at least two IKEA bags of smelly clothes and underwear for the whole month before sending them to the laundry shop. Do you know that I have at least thirty pairs of underwears? If you think that’s too much, you bet, I change my underwears like two times a day. Such a SICKO you might think.
I am not a laundry lover. I have been living on my own and not contributed to any sort of job at home after my Yaya left Hong Kong two years ago. Yes, life is like a roll of a tissuepaper. Now, I realize that having your clothes cleaned and folded by somebody makes you feel like a new person whenever you wish to put that shirt on. And guess what? — folding those t-shirts on top of socks, on top of a few pairs of underwear and then a few more pairs of socks and t-shirts on top of that really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. But I can never do that either.
Our clothes are meant to “serve” us not the other way around, right? Well, I don’t and can’t wash them because I can’t afford to buy a mini-washing machine. The fact that my tiny bathroom is only useful for shower and potty winkies, there’s no room for a washing machine except that if I wash my clothes in the sink, it won’t smell like teen-spirit. Much that I’d thought of buying a disposable underwear, it might save everything else but then again think about having green environment.
My way of keeping up with the laundry is to send them over to the laundry shop. I had no choice but to save my time and effort. Ang hirap kayang mag-laba anoh? Besides, even if I am against to the idea of sending my dirty clothes to the valet service, I have apparently become suspicious that my clothing will never be properly washed. Many people don’t realized that laundry shop uses some sort of the most powerful cleansers, bleaches, and fabric softeners to have it washed quickly but in the end it will not give the brightest, whitest and fluffiest results. It still - although, the smell is good, looks dirty.
Only If I can get rid of the excess. Throw or give away the not so flattering shirts or anything remotely stained, too small, or nothing to match with it. But it’s the most hardest part of getting-rid-off. My problem with myself is, if I’d get really bored with any clothes that I’d wear over a month, I put them away and buy something new. And I don’t wear things over even if they are not dirty — except for the jeans.
Would you believed, when I picked up my 2 IKEA laundry bags today, I found out that there were 2 black underwear that probably belongs to some sexy but stained and dirty woman. How did that happen? Do they actually wash customer’s clothing altogether, then put them in a bag without sorting it out first? KAW CHOO WAH!
What shall I do? Should I need a big vacuum cleaner to sucked those undies off or return it back to the laundry shop?
Isn’t that silly? Now I got this stinking thinking!
lucky you got new added items.. sometime ago i lost a pair of socks, a hankie and a sweater.
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Well I don’t mind getting a pair of branded jeans on my laundry but not a stained underwear from somebody else, yaikkks!
I would return them just to make a point, otherwise they wouldn’t know that they’ve made a careless error, and here ’some sexy but stained and dirty woman’ is probably looking for her undies. Lol.
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I am certain that the wearer was pissed at the laundry shop and prolly asked for a refund, hahaha. So I am not returning them.
yikes, underwear pa! i think those undies got stuck and was washed again with your clothings. i have a friend who brings her own softener and her own laundry soap for the laundry shop to use, you might want to do that, too
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Oh that, we don’t have it here Kenks. Laundry service is a good business in HK really. I think most locals here hates doing household, so they say, ‘if you got the money, why not others do the work for you’?
nadalaw ulit po … natawa naman ako sa entry mo. dati nagpapala laundry din ako, pero may isang beses nakita ko yung tshirt ko may stain ng fabric conditioner. mukhang binuhos ng diretso sa tshirt ko. di na ako ulit ng palaba. ako na lang.
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Wind, isabay mo na rin yung sa akin. Handwash? No-way. Tapos na ako sa college life, hehehehe.
yuck, just throw them out. baka may sakit pa yung may ari niyan! eew.