Husband “Helps” With Chore (i.e., Makes More Difficult)
Oh, I just realized I accidentally lied. I have said numerous times that my husband literally doesn’t do one household chore. Actually, there is one chore-related type thing he does–he puts his clothes into the laundry basket rather than on the floor, on the bed, or in other places as I have heard that many men do.
See, this is one advantage to having a husband who wears the same outfit up to 10 or more days in a row–clothes on the body don’t go in the floor! YES, he actually does wear the same thing every day, and he has a good job in the movie industry and for some reason, this doesn’t bother anyone.
I’ve learned to see this as kind of a plus, since it saves me so much time that I don’t have to spend doing laundry, not to mention the money we don’t have to shell out on laundry detergent! So what’s the problem? The only problem is what he does to the laundry before it goes into the hamper. Namely his SOCKS. He insists on putting one inside another so that it forms a ball at the top of the socks like so:
Can you guess what happens when you put this into a washer, then into a dryer? Well, I’ll tell you what doesn’t happen. It doesn’t get clean, and it also doesn’t get dry. Obviously, I do sift through the basket to find them before doing laundry. But they just blend in with other stuff. No matter how many times I explain the problem and ask him to STOP DOING THIS, he refuses to stop. Pent up anger? Rebellion? I have no explanation why. (Any therapists out there who know? I won’t be able to come in, but if you can tell me why my husband refuses to stop doing things that are not difficult to stop doing, though stopping them would really help me a lot, I would pay to have you email that info to me. Thanks.)
I am including a photo of the sock ball for you here. One final very odd detail about this sockball: these are MY socks which he wore, and proceeded to shamelessly make into a sockball, which he then threw into the laundry. I wear a size 6 shoe. Do you see how stretched out these socks are? When my husband runs out of clean socks (due to sock balls), he sees no problem in resorting to MY socks.
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did his mother spend years training him to do this in some sort of plan to not lose socks? If so, he probably only actually started doing it when you came along, and his mom is still peeved about him never doing it.
My mom used to tell me I was her WITNESS that when my brothers’ future wives complained of whatever chores they didn’t do, or did badly. One of my purposes in life is to inform my sisters’ in law that my brothers were indeed taught to (fill in the blank) and could not honestly say they didn’t know how to do something in an attempt to weasel out.
As it turns out, my brothers’ are all kind of neat and nit-picky about household chores, at least compared to me.