Joseph………..
Shabbos is over. The adult children have gone out for the evening and the grandchildren spending the President’s Day weekend have been put to bed.
I have just put the Shabbos table linen in the wash. They will be dried folded and put away before I go to bed tonight.
My mother Z”L spent her adult life as a teacher and principal, When each of us reached 8 years old she taught us how to do laundry (and cook) and from then on we did our own. I do my wash, Mrs. CTLawyer does hers, and our children do their own when they happen to be here (only two single ones left and both are away at school).
I do the towels and table linens. The one extravagance is that we take bed linens to a local laundry that charges by the pound to launder and iron them. That costs us about $15 per week. Well worth it in my opinion.
BTW>>>we do not have a maid. We have a cleaning woman who comes in one morning per week for 4 hours, then she eats a lunch prepared for her and goes next door for two hours to clean my Mother in law’s home.
Neither my wife or I are above running a vacuum, sweeping a floor, changing a bed, taking out trash, etc.
Most of the time only my wife and I are in residence, so it’s not hard to keep up with the house and laundry.