Getting home from holiday - what is the first thing you do?

[RosieLeaLovesTea]

We just got home from holiday this morning at 9.30am. Once I get in I have to get the first load of washing on as soon as I can. I start the washing machine. Even before showering etc. my first load is done and in the dryer. What is the first thing you do?

Open the windows and make a brew!

Cuddle pets, washing on, cup of tea

Open all the windows. I hate the stale smell in the house. (we live in a damp, c17th thatched cottage).

And then sort out all the post. Then unpack.

Wade through the mountain of advertising flyers on the mat to see if there's any actual post.

Make a massive fuss of the dogs.

Have a cup of tea.

Read any post.

Have something to eat if we're hungry.

Chill out.

DH normally wants to put the washing on straight away and if we arrived home at 9.30am, he probably would while I made the bacon sandwiches.

Cup of tea and a shower. Then I tackle the washing.

Put kettle on

If coming home from abroad, I put the passports away in their usual place.

Put the heating on!

Depends what time we get home!
if it’s after 6/7pm then I unpack and then put cases away and carry on as normal, if it’s morning then washing gets put on and then I sort out everything, any time after bedtime, then everything gets left until the morning and I have a shower and go to bed

Let the cats out, then put washing on, hoover up the cat litter that has inevitably been kicked around the place,then shower. The cats don't go out if I'm away as they're arseholes timid of strangers, who won't come back for anyone else 😂 so they're always desperate to go outside, they also hold a grudge and will ignore me until they feel I have been punished enough for leaving them with that strange woman(my mother).

Fall over in a heap?

Put the kettle on

Flush all the toilets !

Well we had been travelling for 24 hrs. We left at 5pm on Thursday and it’s an 8 hr time difference ahead and a nigh flight but we gained the gift of time. Then 2 a drive from Heathrow. But I love getting the washing on🥳

Cry

Wash my hands, walk in the garden to see my plants, then open windows and put washing on

Run the kitchen tap for a bit, put the kettle on, open windows.

Same as you op ..laundry as soon as I walk through the door. After the last holiday, I had eight loads of holiday washing!

Laundry for me too! Our dirties are always in separate bags so it's easy to pull out, sort and bung in the machine. And then a cup of tea usually.

Cup of tea and a huge fuss of the cats. My last holiday had a washing machine in the apartment so I did all my washing before I came home which was quite honestly life changing and I'm never going anywhere without a washer from now on!

I don't bother with holidays anymore.
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Laundry here too. We bag up washing by colour so just pull out a bag and stick it on.

Washing seems to be the number one task and understandable but why do I get the feeling that it's almost always the women who does this. Would I be wrong to think the woman does all the packing too before going on holiday? Assuming there's a male partner or husband on the scene 🫤

I used to do this but now we either do the washing before we leave holiday and arrive home with it all clean, or I do two loads before we leave for holiday and leave it to dry so it's all ready when we come back. Depends where we go. Went to Spain a couple of weeks ago so obviously we won't be wearing the clothes we wore there again for another 6-8 months! So having lots of clean laundry to come back to was good.