Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

[Gingernaut]

Ridiculous boast, but my laundry bin is empty

The only things that will eventually need washing in the near future are the clothes that I'm wearing and the newly put out tea towel

Check your privilege. Read the room. Some of us have items at the bottom of washing baskets that predate the invention of the automatic washing machine.

I’m 100% being honest and this is the truth…..my laundry basket is empty quite often…as in all the washing done, dried and put away……by the husband!!! He does the washing and there is an empty basket once a week at least- family of four with two kids and a dog.

Did I win….i won didn’t I?

Ooh, this was me yesterday! Then imagine my confusion when it was full again this morning. 😡 Bloody DD1 hiding her washing in her room!

Mine gets empty quite often. It just doesn't stay that way for long!

I don’t understand!

I am a total slattern in a family of four, but still have an empty laundry basket every other day when I do the laundry. Surely that is normal?!

I had a few bits lurking in the bottom that were dry cleaning only so they got sent to be cleaned ironed and returned, and on hangers too so they just needed to be put back in the wardrobe. I wonder if I could just send everything we own on a permanent cycle to the dry cleaners. Socks and pants included. Imagine the tiny hangers 😂

See your username, I bloody love that book!

It’s the best isn’t it! I bought it in 1995 and have read it so many times since.

I met a traveller from an urban land
Who said: Two tumble dryers, vast and grey,
Stand in the utility room, a doleful band
Of machines where clothes go to whirl away.

And on the washing instructions, these words appear:
“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
For endless heaps of clothes, beyond repair,
Testify to tasks that never disappear.

Around, the baskets brim with endless loads,
Each cycle conquered, yet new ones arise,
In ceaseless toil, this chore forever bodes
A Sisyphean task under mundane skies.

Love that!! Did you just make it up?

Ah no. I just asked Chat GPT to mess about with Ozymandias on the theme of never-ending laundry 😁

Witchcraft

Pride goeth before a fall, OP!!

Just kidding - I'm just jealous. I have been known to list things on Vinted if they've been hanging around too long and I clearly cba to either put them away or wear them.

I still have my son's old PE kit in the bottom of the washing basket.

He left that school after his GCSEs last year, so I reckon it's now been in there for more than 12 months.

It hadn't been worn since the last time I washed it, so isn't smelly or anything, but I know if I wash it, then I'll have to photograph it and put it on the local FB page to get rid of it, and I can't be arsed.

I know, I know...

Very slick!

That's it. We deserve a bank holiday

This is awesomely good.

And as for you, Gingernaut, you are a champion.

Hubris, sheer hubris.

You do know that the gods are always listening?

The bottom of my laundry basket contains a fabric ragdoll from my childhood (slightly torn), a shawl last worn at a funeral in 2014 and a ukulele case…

I’ve read it over and over too! Did you hear the Radio 4 adaptation of it? That’s what first introduced me to it, and I still read it in that voice.

’Answer comes there none’. Brilliant!

Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
wish you were here with my pile to sort

There will be a rogue sock somewhere, mark my words.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

What is this 'ironing basket' of which you speak? I am unfamiliar with such a phrase

It’s the place where washed duvet covers languish, until I summon the motivation to iron them.

Hmmm. Still not quite following.

Duvet covers languish in a stack until it is time to fulfill their Fabric Duty and be put over duvets.

Irons are for Hama beads and decals, right?