Chapter 10 8. Cut chores such as laundry in half

Rove.Mr. Keyes pointed out in his excellent book "The Lock of Time" that there are many hypothetical ways to save time, because we do not save the time we want.The design of washing machine and drying machine in one is the best example. Several survey reports have examined the time women spent on general household chores fifty years ago compared with the time women spend on household chores today.It turned out to be a very interesting phenomenon: Even though there are fully automatic washing machines and dryers in our lives to reduce the time people spend on washing and drying clothes, we actually spend as much time as our grandmothers on Some even spend more time on chores like laundry.Why?Because our workload has increased.

In times past, for example, a grandfather would put on a clean shirt on Monday, wear it carefully until the end of the week, and then wait until the time for grandmother to do the laundry before throwing the shirt in the laundry basket inside.Nowadays, we often wear two or three shirts a day without thinking, one for sports, one for work, and one for casual wear.Then, as soon as we took it off, it went straight into the laundry basket. For the use of towels and cotton products, it is the same in ancient and modern times.Today, people use towels without any care, and each person uses two to three towels every day.After all, it's just a little more burden on the machine. For us, this is an easy task, isn't it?

If you are hiring someone to help with the laundry, although water, detergent, gas, electricity and some fees are used, excluding the cost of supervising the other party, you don't need to spend too much time, but it is the same thing.If you are doing these things yourself, you are bound to spend more time each week in the laundry room, which is another matter. If you do do your own laundry, then you better sit down and take a good hard look at how you use your clothes and other laundry.Having an easy-to-reach goal can help you slash everyone's average weekly load of laundry.As long as you can do this for a while, it will be easier to further reduce your laundry load to once every two weeks.Especially when you clean out the closet (the second method), it is more effective.Also, most dark clothes don't need to be washed as often.Try to make your clothes last as long as possible, and teach your kids to do the same.Each person is assigned a towel and bath towel, which are changed once a week.

Who says we have to change our sheets every week?Our moms do it because they've been taught that.But with many housewives having to work outside the home, with the exception of a few working from home, the situation is very different now.Here, what I want to tell you is that it is possible to change the sheets only once in two weeks or more.You can try it out and see for yourself whether it works or not.But, just can't tell my mother.