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[neadods]

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?

Comments

[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...)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I think the house elf swiped some clothes and ran. I totally want me a house elf...

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Oh me too! I hate doing ironing and washing up most!

[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...

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Yeah - kinda nice, that!

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

You do ironing...?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Only when I absolutely have to. The downside of all natural business clothing in the summer - cotton and linen.

[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."

[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.

[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!