{"id":713,"date":"2009-11-29T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T22:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2010-01-01T22:53:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T03:53:15","slug":"a-cautionary-tale-of-laundry-miscalculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/a-cautionary-tale-of-laundry-miscalculation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cautionary Tale of Laundry Miscalculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day before I leave, and is also laundry day.<\/p>\n<p>I have planned my departure in minute detail for about a month. I thought I had a brilliant plan.  Here it is:<\/p>\n<p>1. Pick which clothes are going on the road<br \/>\n2. Stop wearing those clothes as much as possible<br \/>\n3. Neatly pile clothes on couch<br \/>\n4. Wear other clothes that are not going on the road<br \/>\n5. On the day before departure, wash all dirty clothes, the few that are going on the road can then be packed, the rest are nice and clean to be put away<br \/>\n6. Profit<\/p>\n<p>I realized today that this plan is TERRIBLE!<\/p>\n<p>There are two essential flaws:<\/p>\n<p>1. Some of my clothes that are going on the road (nicer shirts, silk underwear) can&#8217;t or shouldn&#8217;t be put in the dryer.  Washing them 18 hours before departure doesn&#8217;t leave them much time to dry.<\/p>\n<p>2. Why am I paying $3 and going up and down 5 flights of stairs all day?  I have done this ass-backwards.  All this week I should have been <i>wearing<\/i> the clothes that are going on the road, then packing the dirty ones in the expansive dirty laundry compartment of my <a href=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/another-bag-review-ricardo-beverly-hills-essentials-30-rolling-duffle\/\">suitcase<\/a>, and then doing them <i>for free<\/i> in the <i>laundry room<\/i> adjacent to my bedroom in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>I am a damn fool, that&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day before I leave, and is also laundry day. I have planned my departure in minute detail for about a month. I thought I had a brilliant plan. Here it is: 1. Pick which clothes are going on the road 2. Stop wearing those clothes as much as possible 3. Neatly pile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,6],"tags":[45,46,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}