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laundry and taxes - jean land

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Back in college you would pick up free condoms from laundry rooms. You’d pay eight dollars to wash and dry your clothes in moldy Speed Queen machines in dorm basements. It costs about the same to wash your clothes in a NYC laundromat. You’d wait around the laundromat, watch your clothes, stare at the ceiling, put your dried clothes in a metal cart, and carry it home. In all the marriages I’ve seen growing up, the woman has yelled at the man about something laundry-related. I thought that was the fault of the relationship, until I started having arguments with college girlfriends over doing laundry, in the laundry rooms where we were supposed to be picking up condoms. Other than that meme likening doing laundry to Sisyphus pushing his boulder, there is nothing in the history of Western consciousness that really helps us deal with laundry. The doing or non-doing of laundry can ruin someone’s weekend, make parents yell at the kids they love, or slowly make a perfectly loving couple resent

laundry and taxes - jean land In another life, I think I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you Back in college you would pick up free condoms from laundry rooms. You’d pay eight dollars to wash and dry your clothes in moldy Speed Queen machines in dorm basements. It costs about the same to wash your clothes in a NYC laundromat. You’d wait around the laundromat, watch your clothes, stare at the ceiling, put your dried clothes in a metal cart, and carry it home . In all the marriages I’ve seen growing up, the woman has yelled at the man about something laundry-related. I

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