I’ve tried to approach laundry day in several ways; the responsible way: doing your laundry once a week, booking a new time (since we don’t have a washer in our apartment we use the big laundry cabin (?) located in our house) when your done, booking it a week in advance. This leads to you not having so much laundry to wash every time you do, which is good, but it leads to something bad. There is also the wash-when-you-need-to way: you monitor your pile of dirty clothes and when it reaches a certain level, indicating you need to do your laundry in a couple of days, you go down to the laundry cabin (?) and book a laundry time a couple of days ahead. Then there is the panic laundry, the “I must do my laundry” scream always induced by you using your last pair of underwear. This leads to you running down to the laundry cabin (?) trying to book a laundry time which of coarse you can’t since the damn cabin (?) is booked full for a couple of days ahead.
Method three, panic laundry, is crap but the other two is also crap since they lead to method three.
The responsible way: You are swayed into a sense of false security. You think your on top of it all. One week passes, everything is nice, one month, still nice, and then it happens. You get hubris thinking “last week the amount of laundry I had to to was laughably small, I don’t have to do it this week” and then it happens; you shift your routine and in an instant you’re out of it. Not knowing how it happened one morning you wake up, take a shower and as you reach for a clean pair of boxers you find that there isn’t any. PANIC-LAUNDRY!
Wash-when-you need-to: The brake down of which works similarly to the brake down of the responsible way. You look inside your laundry bag, it’s not full, “I don’t have to do my laundry for at least a week”, then one more day, than another, then in checking the bag again, not believing your eyes at the amount of crap, hoping, crossing fingers for at least one clean pair of underwear, opening the drawer… PANIC-LAUNDRY!
Now I have now solution to this problem. But you might try to get a boy- or girlfriend and then get out of laundry sync with him or her. That way you both won’t run out of underwear at the same time, avoiding panic-laundry… this will lead to a kind of semi-panic-laundry type situation but that is better than going commando* in a pair of raw selvage jeans a cold west coast winter day.
Laundry cabin (?):
* Having no underwear on.
