I posted before about our household laundry. A year or so after he retired my husband took on this task. This was because 'he was unable to see what needed doing' and 'I just needed to tell him what household jobs needed to be done.' So the solution was for him to take responsibility for particular tasks.
Unfortunately this meant having to listen to him talking a very great deal to me for days and nights at a time about the weather and how he might or might not do the washing and he might have to take it in or not peg it out. And then he'd drape thick towels over the cold radiators. After the boredom of this reduced me to screaming point I bought a tumble dryer. Things have been slightly better since then.
I had also discussed with him that his tendency to just take the stuff off the top of a full laundry hamper means that some garments, which may be needed/wanted, get left for ages. He nodded in the way which means he doesn't really think it's that important.
Sadly my husband has a new obsession at the moment and this has meant a deterioration in his ability to do the washing. We also recently bought new beds - so we have twin singles rather than a double. We currently don't have that many fitted cotton sheets for singles. At the moment it's just two on the beds and a spare two. The newest pair of fitted sheets are still rather shiny and starchy so - until the starch has worn off - I find I can only sleep well on the older softer two sheets in this warm weather.
Over the summer I am particularly busy juggling two different freelance jobs both of which are proving quite demanding. My husband has some social groups which are continuing to meet over the summer but can essentially just please himself.
Anyway over 2 weeks ago I changed one soft sheet from my bed, put it in the basket and put the spare soft one on. (My husband knows that we're currently short of single sheets and that I find the softer pair more comfortable)
I keep waiting for the old soft sheet to go through the laundry but my husband is very preoccupied so I keep reminding him to put washing on. And my daughter has come home and puts a lot of extra stuff in the hamper.
Two days back thinking the soft sheet on my bed is really in need of a change, I look on the shelf where we store the clean bedding. The spare isn't there. It's still in the laundry hamper, which is filling up. I ask him to put a load of laundry on.
Last night I think, 'Finally I can change my bedding.'
Only to find it's still at the bottom of the laundry hamper. My husband has been scooping everything off the top of the pile which means for weeks he's been leaving my only spare sheet unwashed.
I went and pointed this out to him. His replies were
a) 'Sacrifices have to be made'. (This means he can't wash everything that's in the hamper. Some stuff has to be left.) and b) I 'should have told him' that I particularly wanted the only spare sheet washed.
Would this make you feel fed up?