I win!

My husband is not the tidiest man in the world. I have been working (rather unsuccessfully) to correct some of his messy habits. I have been doing his laundry for the last 6 years or so and I've been saying the same things to him over and over again.

1. That if he doesn't get dirty laundry into the clothes basket I will not wash it.
And 2. If he doesn't put away his clean laundry before the next time I do laundry (which gives him a whole week) that I will not wash his dirty clothes.

I admit that it was often empty threats. I'd end up fishing out dirty socks and blue jeans from under the bed and often I'd end up putting away his laundry because I got sick of looking at it piled on his dresser.

But you know what? I'm working full time and I'm taking a full course load and right now he's only going to school half-time and he's laid off for the winter. He has way more time than I do and he has plenty of opportunity to put away his own friggen laundry. So I told him that if he didn't get his laundry put away he would have to do it himself. He thought I was bluffing. After three weeks he realized I wasn't kidding, so he put his clean clothes away. (Which wasn't much considering he just started wearing the clean stuff which was piled on his dresser.) He thought that since he put everything away I would wash what was now three weeks worth of laundry. I told him there was no way I was going to punish myself for his failure to follow the laundry fairy's rules. I told him his wife was on strike.

So guess what happened? He ran out of clean socks and underwear this week. :) He had to do his own laundry this weekend and I realized how much time I save myself every weekend by only doing mine and Lilly's laundry. I was actually able to clean both bathrooms! He's a grown ass man who is home all day 3 days a week and half the day the other two days. I think that from now on he should do his own laundry. Wifey's had enough.