
Today friends, let me paint you some pictures with my words. Imagine summer as kinderlech (children): bathing suits, swimming pools, hopping through creeks, jumping in puddles. Sleep-overs, scooter rides, hiking, and biking. Ice creamy treats, baking and make your own pizzas. Slides, swings, and sunshine (the scorn that is sunscreen). Dirt, mud, and coils of chlorine tangled pony-tails. Board games, LOL doll surprises, and dance routines. Hula hoops, watermelon, movie nights and popcorn all at the sofa, vey iz mir (woe is me). Being a kid in the summer is magical.
Now, let’s look at this very same season as Muters (Moms): The kinder, they are joyful and giddy from playtime with friends, family, each other. They get hungry, hangry and eat every edible morsel in the pantry and fridge didn’t I just food shop?. They are oysgematert (drop-dead tired) from days packed with fun and frolic and yes, some fighting and varfing (tantrums). Some nights, they even ask to go to bed! Pools, beaches, showers, hair… Towels, oy, they are everywhere. And, they have so many wardrobe changes each and every effing day daily, they would give Cher in concert a run for her money… The grob vesh (dirty laundry) piles high daily. This, not so magical.

Enter the brand new, very expensive, broken, cockamamie (ridiculous) washing machine. Broken not once, not twice, but three times since its inaugural installation in January yes, of this same year, and yes, if you would like to, please see the irony of that other inaugural installation event. It broke again on the 3rd of this month. Today, if you’re counting and you better believe I am counting marks day 15. Customer service mishaps, lost parts orders, summer vacations, and dirty laundry from floor to ceiling.

Now, in the big scheme of things, nisht geferlich (not really so terrible, we are alive, poo-poo). Worse things can do and will happen. The Mrs., she has already taken some 80+ pounds of laundry to the laundromat I chose food shopping.

So now, I offer you this picture: I am fully clothed, save for a belt and sneakers. I walk into our shower. There is a small lump of laundry littering the floor near the bench. I turn on cool water and grab the bar of Fels-Naptha Laundry Soap. I wash my jeans while wearing them. This is the emmes truth (I swear its true). I peel them off for some interior suds-ing, give a good rinse, then squeeze, spin cycle style. Next, my T-shirt. Suds on and scrub. Take it off, rinse, and scrunch. Undergarments follow – you get the idea. I am finally in my birthday suit (no need to picture that — this is not on of those stories). I tend to the lump of things already on the floor… then finally, I can clean me. Please know, this dramatically increases my hygienic routine. I used to sing in the shower, now I feel like Ma, from Little House on the Prairie. As I load the dryer with my freshly cleaned items, I give the evil eye to the washer. Feh! (expression of physical and emotional disgust).

Allegedly, the fix-it-people are coming tomorrow – between 8:54 am and 11:54 am who gives times like these? — emmes truth. I think I will do another load in the morning, again…
Yiddish Proverb:
If you have nothing to lose, you can try everything. Aoyb ir hot gornisht tsu farlirn ir kenen prubirn alts.
So, how’s by you?
Laundry, shmaundry… A bei gezunt (As long as you’re healthy).
Ah, the adults do it all, fix the machines, scrub the clothes … so the kiddies can play … and no thanks from them for that/!Who said it was fair in this world, Lisa? #BlogCrush
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Yeah!!!! #blogcrush
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Oh boy; I really hope they are able to fix the washer for good. I am so sick of buy appliances and large household items only to have them fall to crap within minutes and days… Best of luck to you!.. and honestly I think it’s kind of genius to clean your clothes in the shower and then throw them in the dryer. #BlogCrush
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Girls gotta do what a girls gotta do! Ty 😚💕 #blogcrush
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Oh no! I had to laugh at you showering and washing your clothes! I would hate to not have a washing machine, hoping you get it fixed/replaced soon #blogcrush
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Thank you Tracey! Just to sing again! #blogcrush xo 😚
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By me it’s good, thanks, but I every so often I forget where I am (Cornwall) and when I run into a friend I ask, “How’s by you?” and get a baffled look. It happened again just last weekend, so I had to do the whole explanation of what the hell I was talking about.
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That is awesome. So I Gabe you a taste of here, and one day, I’ll see Cornwall. Thanks so much!
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I’ll look forward to you seeing this place. It’s gorgeous.
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Oh gosh what an ordeal, y out have the patience of a saint. Ironic the time that the washing machine goes is in the summer hols X
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I know! Alanis Morrisette can add a lyric! 😂 x
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Ha ha! Had to be done fab read as always Thank you for linking to #Thatfridaylinky please come back next week
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Glad you enjoyed it, Nige! I’ll be back. #thatfridaylinky x
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That’s the sort of thing I’ve done when travelling but luckily never at home! #KCACOLS
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Argh! Traveling makes sense. Living, not so much! #kcacols 😚
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Greetings from #GlobalBlogging. Check out our new pooch, Lisa! https://wp.me/p6FNlB-1tm
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I love your new pooch! 🐕
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Creative problem solving, my friend!
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Thanks, Michele! We gotta get it done!
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Oh appliances breaking is the bane of our lives. Getting them fixed in time for holiday guests to make use of them is impossible. We always end up just having to buy new again. Hope yours gets sorted. #DreamTeam
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We are actually okay now, and I feel rather bored while showering! Hah! Thank you! 🙃😘
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Oh dear! I know the feeling. I’ve had to soak and wash clothes a few months ago and it wasn’t pleasant. However, that’s what many people still do in India, so I always give thanks for the conveniences we have.
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Yes, I am very grateful, and feel down right luxury now while I shower. No hidden agenda! 😉😘
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Hahaha! Hada hearty laught specially when I was reading the washing the jeans and t-shirt part.
Summers are fun for the kids and near nightmare for the mothers. But these the the best days when memories are created.
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So glad I could make you laugh! Thank you for saying. 😉😘
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A fab read!
#TriumphantTales
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Thank you, David! That makes me happy! ☺️
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I think I am now relieved I only have one!! Thanks for sharing with #TriumphantTales, do come back next week!
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Will do, Jaki! Thanks for hosting. 😘💕
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LOL @ you showering and washing your clothes! To have my washing machine die on me will be the death of me!
You are so fun, Lisa. Always a joy reading your posts!
#FabFridayPost
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Thank you, Veronica! That makes me very happy 😊 #fabfridaypost xo
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Oh this made me laugh-your writing style of course which I love not the circumstances. I had baskets of laundry which piled up from our move but I’m nearly there on it. Oh to be a kid in summer again x
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I’m glad I had you laughing! You deserve that after all you have been through. Yes, oh to be a kid, or my dog! 🤗😊🙃😘
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I think i cried when our washing machine broke down, i so hope yours is finally repaired and soon #stayclassymama
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It works! Yeah! At least for now. Back to regular showers again ☺️😚 #stayclassymama xo
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Ahhh, the summer holidays is the worst time for the washing machine to break!! Can’t say I ever washed me clothes while wearing them, fingers crossed that you get the washer fixed soon xx #BlogCrush
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Thanks Wendy! We are back together and working, for now… #blogcrush xo
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I really love that proverb. As for the washing machine – that would drive me nuts. We were without one for a week and I was walking to the laundromat daily – quite a pleasant 30 mins reading time while I washed and dried tbh….#Stayclassymama
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Oh dear I really hope they fix your washing machine. I am lost without mine. Even with the water restrictions here in Cape Town – I do a little bit of hand washing but it kills me. Luckily we have a water tank that catches rain water and my hubster has now converted the hose pipe to pull the water from there into our washing machine. Good luck – these are real household problems and we don’t realise how depended we are on certain things #globalblogging
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I see you understand! Way to go, reusing water from the rain! I love that! #globalblogging ☺️😊😘
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Oh! I know! It is never ending! I remembered when I moved to our new rented home and the washing machine broke. Then Evelyn was a newborn and I was using cloth nappies. Man the smell of unwashed pile just broke me into tears! Luckily it was fix a few days later.
Thank you very much for linking up with us on #FabFridayPost xx
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Thank you, Su! 😊☺️😘
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Ohhhhh noooooo!!!!! Lisa…. this is like a nightmare to me. No washing machine?! We would drown in the washing pile. I like your quick thinking, giving it a scrub in the shower. Thankfully ours hasn’t done this. Did you manage to get it fixed in the end? Thanks for joining us for the #dreamteam xxx
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All fixed and the shower feels luxurious again! Phew! ☺️🤗
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I can’t imagine not having a washing machine – that is very tough! I applaud your brilliance in using your shower time to rectify the laundry issue. #GlobalBlogging
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Now, I just shower! It was fixed! 🤗🤗🤗
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I love this post. Such visual and accurate descriptions of summer from both sides, and the picture of you in the shower studding your clothes – I was worried you were building up to reaching for a towel and they were all damp and dirty! I hope the washing machine is fixed soon. Summer is almost over and school routine will seem a blessing, for the first day at least! #stayclassymama
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We now have a fixed washer! Thank goodness 😅. Thank you for your lovely comments! #stayclassymama 😘
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What a nightmare, it’s horrible when appliances you rely on break down. I didn’t have a washing machine for years and had to rely on a mixture of hand washing and taking clothes to the laundry. But the dirty washing piled up. Luckily I do have a washing machine now, it’s such a necessity. Thanks for linking up again with #kcacols
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Ruth, we are back in Biz for now! Thankfully 😅 xo
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What? They need to come and fix your machine right away – I wouldn’t survive without mine, three kids provide me in eternal washing. #KCACOLS
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All fixed, for now… May it only stay that way! #kcacols
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Broken 3 times in 8 months! How awful but love your strategy to get clean clothes! There is so much washing…every single day… Thanks for linking up with #stayclassymama
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Thank you! It was that, or buy more! Not doable! What a mess it was. Thankfully, we are working again! 😘💕 #stayclassymama xo
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Haha, I loved this post, and the fact that you refused to be defeated! Washing machines are crafty. A few months ago we brought our one day old baby back from hospital and two days later the washer just gave up. It’s like it just knew! #kcacols
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How we rely on our modern comforts! I’d be lost without my washing machine. It’s done me well so far…
#KCACOLS
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Thankfully, we are up and running again! 😊☺️😘 #kcacols
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Oh you crack me up! I thought I was resourceful! LOL #KCACOLS
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A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do! 😑🙃☺️ #kcacols xo
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A lovely post again, Lisa! You’re a great artist when it comes to painting with words. I hope your washing machine is working again now, it doesn’t sound much fun being a washer woman… xoxo #KCACOLS
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Thank you! It is fixed, thankfully. The little things I life really make a difference! 😘 #kcacols
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Oh what a nightmare! It’s times like these that we realise just how much we take for granted! I hope you managed to get your washer fixed #blogcrush
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Fixed, and dont you know its leaking now! Argh 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ #blogcrush xo
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Customer service ain’t what it used to be😘. I do love you’re initiative and multitasking.
Our laundrette is at the back of the local pub so hubby is quite happy if there’s a need to use it!
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That is hysterical! 😂😂😂❤️
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M’wah! xoxo
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