Dirty Laundry is Dirty

I need to make a point today. I need you to listen and know this. Your dirty laundry is dirty, and you must act accordingly.

Do you know how many germs are multiplying and dividing and filthicating within your piles of dirty laundry? I don’t have the statistics handy, but I am confident that the answer is scads and scads.

I see what lands in the laundry basket and I’m fearful of it. Remnants and vestiges of events better left in the past lay lurking, waiting, and poised to replicate themselves, if given an opportunity. We must not let this happen.

You see, I’m fighting a battle at my house. My husband, who knows not what he does, regularly digs through the dirty laundry basket in search of a wayward belt or leftover money. He roots around and throws everything out on the floor as he looks. That is just plain offensive. Then he loads it all back in the basket and carries on about his day as if he isn’t now harboring disease.

This leaves me to follow his trail armed with a can of disinfectant spray. I spray the floor where the laundry fell, the light switches, door handles, anything at all he might possibly have had contact with.

Until the next day….wash, rinse, repeat.