Doing laundry is one of my least favorite activities. Today I managed to perfect the Sunday morning laundry routine. What was once two hours lost time has been streamlined into an hour and twenty minutes, with only about 25 minutes spent doing laundry related activities. Here’s my morning process:

1. Grab laundry bag, quarters, and detergent. Elapsed time: 2 minutes.
2. Before leaving for laundry facility, put tea kettle on medium heat. Elapsed time: less than 1 minute.
3. Walk to laundry facility, stop to watch one goofy looking kid insist on dribbling a basketball on a court covered in four inches of snow, finish walk to laundry facility, load laundry, add detergent, add quarters, set alarm clock for approx. 21 minutes (wash cycle minus 1 minute travel), walk home. Elapsed time: 11 minutes.
4. Make cup of tea, spill said tea all over hands, scream as flesh burns, recover, sit at desk, wake up, catch up on the internet. Elapsed time: approx. 20 minutes.
5. Alarm goes off, walk to laundry facility (avoiding laundry facility worker who three weeks ago told you all about his several cats, his girlfriend who he met at a Star Trek convention, and his three most favorite types of detergents [side note: fascinating]), move now wet laundry to dryers, insert quarters, set alarm for 34 minutes, walk home. Elapsed time: 5 minutes.
6. Brush teeth, wonder why there is always exactly one ant climbing on roommate’s mouthwash bottle every day, determine that ant on mouthwash may be some sort of strange roommate joke, wash ant down sink, shower, dress. Elapsed time: approx. 30 minutes.
7. Alarm goes off, walk to laundry facility, collect laundry, walk home, dump laundry on bed for folding. Elapsed time: 7 minutes.
8. Done. Try to dupe roommates into folding laundry for you, finally give up, fold. Elapsed time: approx. rest of day.

And that’s it. Total time spent doing actual laundry related tasks: about 25 minutes. Now you know my secret.

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