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Why Nea Loves Labor-Saving Devices:

As soon as I get my butt off the Internet, the following will be happening at once:
- the crockpot will continue simmering my caramelized onion and dried fruit compote
- the washing machine will do the load of lights
- the dryer will finish my sheets
- the roomba will vacuum the main hallways and my bathroom

and all while I iron while listening to last week's Staggering Stories. The only fly in the ointment is that I have to do my own damn ironing, but the fact that everything else is going to toddle along without more than distant supervision is a lovely thing.



It's also kind of impressive what I'm willing to do/program/supervise rather than finish stripping the bathroom wallpaper, isn't it?

Date: 2010-07-10 07:19 pm (UTC)
ext_3965: (10 Geek)
From: [identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com
Ah, is the House Elf on holiday? Or did it win its freedom?

(I usually joke that my ironing refuses to do itself, and the House Elf is absent...)

Date: 2010-07-10 09:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I think the house elf swiped some clothes and ran. I totally want me a house elf...

Date: 2010-07-11 05:17 am (UTC)
ext_3965: (SJS: Not Past Her Sell-by Date)
From: [identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com
Oh me too! I hate doing ironing and washing up most!

Date: 2010-07-10 09:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] padawanpooh.livejournal.com
Wow! It's so easy to take technology for granted but when you list it like that we have lives that are *so much easier* than our parents' generation...

Date: 2010-07-11 01:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
Yeah - kinda nice, that!

Date: 2010-07-11 12:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redpanda13.livejournal.com
You do ironing...?

Date: 2010-07-11 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
Only when I absolutely have to. The downside of all natural business clothing in the summer - cotton and linen.

Date: 2010-07-11 02:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redpanda13.livejournal.com
You know me, I tend cats as a job, and they couldn't give a toss what I wear so long as I can open a can. On the other hand, when I'm told to wear "Business attire" to an event, I doubt those folks want me turning up in what I wear to work.

I gave up on one clothing catalog because half the stuff in it said "Hand wash" or "Dry clean", which I read as "Turn the page."

Date: 2010-07-11 05:20 am (UTC)
ext_3965: (1 Question - Why)
From: [identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com
I work in the dry cleaning business, and I ranted a fair bit about the stupidity/absurdity of dry-clean-only clothes when I first started working there.

I've given up ranting now, but I *so* don't see the sense or the point.

Date: 2010-07-11 11:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I don't do anything Dry Clean except two coats. Other than that, it's a nuisance.

The other thing I hate, in catalogs and stores, is clothing made of natural fabrics which is then advertised as "fully lined." Always in polyester. Because it's SO SMART to take a light, breathing fabric and put a layer of plastic between you and it!

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