Dirty Laundry Essay

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Dirty Laundry Analysis Essay For most of my life I knew this ritual by its more common name, "washday," as my grandmother called it. She always made sure that the first stage—the sorting—was done early in the morning before any of us was awake and that a load or two was well drenched in the process of making it clean again. So it is really important that the clothes-challenged pay careful attention if you really want to know the way to do your laundry. I always find that since the sorting stage of laundry requires the most attention, you should pick a time when your mind is at its peak. For me this is late in the evening. Any other time and I risk sorting an article of clothing into the wrong pile, which means certain failure somewhere else through the process. Aside from your attention, the laundry demands that you are alert and quick to catch any mistake you might make. Once you are in an area that has plenty of floor space it is time to get the laundry sorted into specific piles. My grandmother taught me that sorting the laundry breaks down into four categories: a pile of whites, coloreds, towels, and jeans. Everyone is going to have different piles, but the basic ones do include the pile of whites, which consists largely of various articles of underwear—including, but not limited to socks, tee-shirts, jockey shorts, panties, bras, and kitchen washcloths and dish towels. Next look for all the bath towels, hand towels, and washcloths (that are not white) and place them in a separate group. Any jeans (light or dark colored it doesn’t matter) and any jean-like material clothes get their own pile as well. However, if you have a pair that has not been preshrunk, you will have to wash them all by themselves because the dyes will bleed all over the other clothes. But here is where my grandmother and I differ in our sorting. The remaining clothes are generally

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