Is this an innocent-looking clothes hamper? It is not!
One of the joys of returning from a road trip is the dirty laundry that returns home with you. Every trip, I put my husband on notice that I will be doing the laundry the very day after we return. All of the laundry. Every bit of it. So that at the end of the day, I have the satisfaction of fresh clean clothes, an empty hamper and lovely memories of our trip. And after every trip, when the deed is done, my husband immediately throws a soiled piece of clothing into the newly emptied hamper. I mean, he hasn't been home long enough to get anything dirty so it had to be a shirt or pair of pants left over from his suitcase. I submit to you this is the reason that wives and mothers lose it.
Don't talk to me about serving others (joyfully). Don't talk to me about job security (mine). Don't recite verses about the Proverbs 31 woman. Tell me how I can get my husband to keep his dirty clothes to himself at least 24 hours after I have emptied the hamper.
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