I would really like to think of myself as an Earth conscious “green” person…but apparently I am not.
I recently purchased a cute top to wear to a few BlogHer parties I was invited to thanks to Aracely Worley. The top was cute, a light peach color with lace sleeves (that’s about as fashionable as I can make any top sound-sorry I’m just not much of a fashionista). This top was my new favorite…that is-until I went to wash it.
Picture this, I’m standing in the laundry room (aka the hallway from the garage to the house that the builders decided to shove washer/dryer hookups in) where I’m really taking great care of my expensive cotton t-shirts and 50 pairs of mom jeans. When there like a fake lottery ticket I found out that my new favorite light peach color top with lace sleeves was “hand wash only” HAND WASH. ONLY.
To say it lightly, I was kind of shocked.
I stood there in my hallway laundry room kind of like flabbergasted and dumbfounded. I was thinking that I would never wear my new favorite light peach shirt with the lace sleeves again.
“Hand wash?” I thought. “Really? Who does that? Isn’t hand washing for pioneer times women who churn their own butter and pluck their own chickens?”
I was mad at Old Navy for even creating such a ridiculous light peach colored top with lace sleeves that had a need for such medieval washing methods.
I wanted to throw that damn light peach colored top out in the trash. Dispose of it on the pronto.
Then I realized (after several minutes) that hand washing clothes must be like hand washing dishes.
Reading that sentence back makes me sound like such a dumb blonde, but I assure you-I was dead serious.
Hand washing shouldn’t be that big of a deal. It’s probably even a better method of getting clothes clean. But in my ‘Disposable Me’ mindset I was ready to toss that light peach top out in the trash-chosing time convenience over Earth consciousness.
But, just to be brutally honest-my once favorite new light peach top with the lace sleeves is still in the cupboard waiting to be hand washed. 😉
Lmao! I’d just toss it in a mesh bag and roll the laundry dice of fate.
LOL! That was a nice top too! I would just take my chances and throw it in the wash because this mom doesnt hand wash NADA!
I hand wash clothes once a year, usually at the beginning of winter when I wonder where those beautiful wool sweaters are. Oh, they’re at the bottom of the “to be washed” pile.
i just put my hand wash stuff in the “delicates” cycle of the washing machine, and hang them dry. The pain, though, is that you usually have to iron them because hanging them dry creates lots of wrinkles.