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The Stages of Doing Laundry

The real life struggle of being responsible in college.

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The Stages of Doing Laundry
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I find that college students lead very busy lives. Often times, when we get any free moments, we really want to spend them doing a whole lot of nothing. Sometimes, we have other responsibilities, like cleaning our rooms or washing our clothes that simply must be done. I go through stages of doing my laundry. I know I can't be the only one.

  1. It is day one. You have your life together and your clothes are clean and organized in your closet. You feel like you're ready to take on the world because your outfit options are endless. Life is full of possibility.
  2. You have worn every single pair of jeans you own at least once, except for that pair your really hate that you only pull out when you have absolutely no other options. Your favorite pair has been worn at least three times, if not more. You're just praying that no one has noticed yet.
  3. You've run out of socks and every other bare necessity. That favorite pair of jeans is even starting to gross you out and you can't possibly stuff a single thing else in your laundry basket if it's not already overflowing.
  4. You decide you can't do it anymore and you need to get your life together. You find time time to wash your clothes, so you haul all of your stuff down to the laundry room and all of the washers are taken. You should've seen this coming since everyone else also decided to wait until they had nothing left.
  5. You check every once in a while to see if a washer opens up and finally there is one single washer open. You start stuffing your clothes in only to realize that you literally cannot fit all of the dirty clothes into one machine.
  6. You reluctantly wait around until you can use two washers and as soon as two open up, you have to leave the room and will not have time to move them over in a timely fashion. To avoid fear of someone stealing your clothes or throwing them on the floor, you wait even longer.
  7. Then the moment finally arrives when there are washing machines open, and you have the time to wait on all of it. You throw your clothes in and wait until you can finish them.
  8. When the dryer is finished, you just throw your clothes on your bed and wait until the clothes eventually are going to need to be ironed in the future, but after you hang them up, all is right in the world and you are ready to conquer college.
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