A tale of two laundry hampers.

I have a tendency to make bold statements. For a conservative town like Dalhart, I am pretty outspoken and liberal. Maybe it's because I grew up in a big city where it takes a lot to raise eyebrows. Who knows. However, out of all of the bold, liberal statements I have made, there is one particular statement that brings more looks of shock and disbelief than almost all other combined.

I do not do my husband's laundry.

There it is for the world to see. We each do our own laundry at our leisure. If I want to wash a load a day, I do it. If Daniel wants to wait three weeks in between loads, more power to him. I never expected this fact to pit friend against friend and neighbor against neighbor.

Now this might be an exaggeration, but people get very upset when I tell them this fact. I look at it this way, my clothes are clean and generally germ free, even if they have been worn. Daniel's clothes are gross, smelly and since he has to go out to feedlots every once in a while, there is a chance that there is cow poop on them. No. Thank. You.

So, until a couple weeks ago we each had our own laundry basket. This would have been fine, but we remodeled our bathroom a year and half ago and both of our laundry baskets were, well, ugly and didn't match. Plus, Daniel would fill his basket and then have a mountain of dirty clothes next to it and I was over it.

Our old laundry baskets

So I've decided to take one step towards compromise. No, I'm still not doing Daniel's laundry, but we are sharing a laundry basket. Our clothes are intermingling, cohabiting, etc. Our bathroom looks much cleaner, but it still pains me to know that my Joe's jeans could possibly be exposed to bovine feces.

Much cuter!

We have to sort our clothes frequently since Daniel refuses to wear a pair of jeans more than once and he takes up a good 80% of the available space. But, I am sure people will be pleased to know that I am one step closer to sucking it up and doing his laundry. Honestly, I will probably never do his laundry, but we can pretend to apease the conservatives.