[PEP]

Originally Posted by teengeekgrrl

My mom hasn't gone off the deep end and I don't have to pay for my own food or anything, but she has been (mostly) making me do my own laundry since I was about twelve or thirteen.

I loathe it, honestly... generally I wait till I'm wearing my last pair of clean underwear before I put in another load.

But I do it, lol, and I'm okay at it.

Never EVER forget to put detergent in it, because then your clothes will reek and you'll have to do it all over again. *says that from experience*

Next time you go to the store, see if you can buy either a box of disposable color catchers or one color catcher rag good for thirty washes (preferable but hard to find). If you do that, then you shouldn't have to worry about colors much... wth that I can wash red shirts with blue jeans and green shirts and blue shirts and I don't have problems.

But always wash white things separately with just whites (and maybe a pair of khakis), no mater what color catcher you have. And never wash new blue jeans with any color that's not close to blue.

And you have to fill up the machine with water first? That's weird. You shouldn't have to do that... next time watch your mom somehow to see how she accomplishes that... or something. I've never had to fill up the machine with water before, so I can't help you much on that front.

Wash socks and underwear in hot water when you can. It's not a necessity, especially if you're washing them with other things, but the hot water does a better job of killing germs and whatnot and makes them cleaner.

Read the label on something before you toss it in, and if it says machine wash cold gentle cycle dry flat... then machine wash cold gentle cycle dry flat. Don't try to toss something delicate in with a load of blue jeans and then dry it... doesn't work that way.

You'll learn from experience more than anything.

Good luck to you.

thanks!!!!

about the water pouring... i think its because the tube that fills it up i broken or something adn always leaks cause i remember my mom having trouble with it so thats why i think she fills it manually...

[BanditFlyer]

Originally Posted by Rockn

Don't know where you grew up, but I was doing chores like this when I was 13. Just shows how spoiled most teenagers are now days. My kids (7 and 9) help out around the house. Maybe your mom finally got tired of your lazy butt!

Originally Posted by PCG342

By the age of seven I was mowing the lawn. Pretty sure I could wash my clothes at 10. Cooking - I mean really cooking, not just throwing some frozen crap in the oven/microwave - by 13.
You can handle a washing machine.

After some posts like these, you guys KNOW I'm going to post the Four Yorkshiremen!

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You're right there, Obadiah.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
A cup o' cold tea.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Without milk or sugar.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Or tea.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In a cracked cup, an' all.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, 'e was right.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, 'e was.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Cardboard box?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
ALL:
They won't!

For those of you who'd rather see it than read it:

my mom has gone of the edge.... JUST because i play games she decided to make me fully support myself all alone... well except for money and stuff....

i gotta buy my own food, for one thing..... im MOSTLY okay with that...
but i also gotta wash my own clothes... and thats new.... i chekced on a website or two and i get the point with the lights and darks and all that... my problem is with the washing machine that we have... it's an avanti washing machine and its pretty simple but i still dont get a thing or two..

it has these little lights with this written next to them:

i would not say that she has gone of the edge.

she is working hard so that you can play games most of the day and lead a carefree life.

washing clothes is very likely the easiest and only one of many things she does for you.

you have to get used to independence because your mother and father will not be there for you forever.

when the time comes you will be all alone.....and if you dont have the skills you will not survive.

it is better that you learn all you can learn to be ready when that time comes.

playing games is a waste of valuable time.

time that could be used on learning new things.

time is something we dont have.

[PCG342]

Yeah, what he said, only without the double-spacing!

[PEP]

eesh..... give me a break im a lazy guy...

well iwashed my socks and underwear and a pair of boxers and it was successful .. yay

well iwashed my socks and underwear and a pair of boxers and it was successful .. yay

one small step for a parrent...one giant leap for a teenager..

a journey begins with a step....and in time you will take another.

good work.

[lexmarks567]

Originally Posted by PEP

eesh..... give me a break im a lazy guy...

and thats why shes off the deep end

[PCG342]

[teengeekgrrl]

Originally Posted by PEP

thanks!!!!

about the water pouring... i think its because the tube that fills it up i broken or something adn always leaks cause i remember my mom having trouble with it so thats why i think she fills it manually...

You're quite welcome.

Hmm. Duct tape? I dunno. But if you can wash em, that's all that really matters.

Congrats on your first load

[lighthouse]

I couldn't believe just how primatively equipped my flat was really - considering when it was built and the demands that late 20th/early 21st century life makes on us (no shower facility either)............although when I was having megastress trying to maintain a career in the early 90s the friendly offer of the use of either by anyone was rather absent. Mmmm!

[Bush Lady]

Originally Posted by ODIN 0ERO

i would not say that she has gone of the edge.

she is working hard so that you can play games most of the day and lead a carefree life.

washing clothes is very likely the easiest and only one of many things she does for you.

you have to get used to independence because your mother and father will not be there for you forever.

when the time comes you will be all alone.....and if you dont have the skills you will not survive.

it is better that you learn all you can learn to be ready when that time comes.

playing games is a waste of valuable time.

time that could be used on learning new things.

time is something we dont have.

I just thought of something that, I thought I would like to mention. My Uncles were in their 40's and they still didn't know that pasta had to be put in boiling water. My grandmother was living there until she died. They just got used to, that she was cooking.

But she immigrated to this country late in life.

My uncles were in their 20's when they came to Canada with their parents.

Pep, just make sure you don't put your pasta in cold water.

Pep, just make sure you don't put your pasta in cold water.

it does not hurt to give a cooking advice.

[PEP]

Originally Posted by ODIN 0ERO

it does not hurt to give a cooking advice.

lol thanks ill keep that in mind. New cooking thread??? naaaaa

lol thanks ill keep that in mind. New cooking thread??? naaaaa

that is actualy a good idea ......"cooking for dummies"

[Bush Lady]

Originally Posted by ODIN 0ERO

that is actualy a good idea ......"cooking for dummies"

Yea... and Put in a poll asking "Have you ever put your pasta in cold water."