Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Mid-Century Mom Folds Some Clothes!!!

Sorry that I didn't get this post up this weekend. I was a bit busy with my other blogs, and since most of you read those, I knew you wouldn't be that desperate!!! ;)

This has to be sort of a quick post, I am rushing off to a party with some of my husband's office mates, so I can't go on and on like I like to!!!


Last week's task was for me to get very nicely dressed up and fold the laundry. Nothing terribly exciting, but definitely a need in our house...Mr. Dina gets very irritated if I use the laundry racks too long (we do very little dryer drying in this household, so in some weird way we were mid-century modern even before we started this little project of mine).

The image above is from Getty Images. It was sort of a pain to find this one...who would have thunk it???


You all saw me in this outfit already...I wore it here in this post over at My Superfluities. I had alluded to this post then, but am only now getting around to it. Bad me!

Don't I just look so happy folding these pants? My goal was to not look at this chore as a chore, but more as a way of keeping everything in my household just so and right. I am (normally, not just as mid-century mom) very particular about my clothing (shocker, right?), so this task is something I do on a regular basis and NO ONE is allowed to do it for me. But I wanted to elevate this chore to something else...a sort of gemutlichkeit (in German it means a coziness within the house) task. I wanted to do this job because this task enlivens me...and it almost worked.


Here I am folding a top. I am always folding my tops just like they do in the stores. J. Crew should hire me, if only to fold, fold, fold. I look at the sales assistants on the floor using that board thing and think, "amateurs." ;)


There's the smile (just like the lady in the photo from Getty Images).

Final Thoughts: I didn't quite reach zen-like highs doing the folding, but I was amazed at how quickly the job went once I sat down and just "folded." I had no distractions (outside of Mr. Dina and the camera for the first ten minutes). For twenty-five minutes, I folded clothing.

The only thing that made this task difficult was the couch I was sitting on...it is kind of cushy, and I felt like I was sinking into the cushions. Also, the dress and fishnet stockings combo was a little itchy, so I felt uncomfortable.

Ease of being a mid-century mom: 4 out of 5 (5 is the easiest to be a mid-century mom).

Okay, I am off to party (I should get that outfit up tonight over at My Superfluities). :)

6 comments:

  1. I am also an expert folder! I always look at the girls using a folding board and completely lose respect for them. You see, I live in a resort area and happened to work in a t-shirt shop during my college years. I get so much satisfaction from folding loads of laundry and seeing the lovely and perfect stacks piled up on the bed. Ahhh, bliss!

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  2. Great post! I love how you look so happy folding those clothes. And, yes, JCrew should hire you to give their sales people a lesson on folding clothes!!!

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  3. oh, we should get you a folding board like they show on those infomercials! ha ha ha. I hate folding and ironing, so I would be a bad midcentury mom!
    I can't stop thinking about your cute Boden dress. They have the best prints.

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  4. (1) check you out looking all sassy in those fishnets!!

    (2) would love to see the full dina tutorial on clothes folding...on at least 1 of these blogs. :)

    You look great!! I love the idea of making a cozy home - definitely puts "housekeeping" in a whole new light.

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  5. I LOVE folding shirts too!! Of course, I also love facing cans... I always say my dream job would be stocking grocery store shelves, and facing cans... I'm sick! LOL

    Blessings,
    LMM

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