If you could choose to never do one of the following again, which would it be:

laundry or dishes?

Laundry.

DISHES.

I might feel differently about that if we owned a dishwasher, but we don't. I have to go down to the creek to beat the dishes against the rocks, and let me tell you, it ain't easy to keep the china in one piece.

Dishes.

It is now raining on the drive home and mac has taken over the iPod. The rain has cooled this off, so now the bus is cold. I don't think I can manage sleeping on the bus, but reading or knitting feels like too much effort.

laundry, because I have a dishwasher in my apartment, but not a washer and dryer. My answer would be different if I had the washer and dryer in the apartment.

Steph is me. Washing, but if I had a dishwasher, it might be different.

I don't mind the washing or the drying of laundry. It's the folding and putting away of laundry that gets me everytime.

I have both, but my dryer is a high-efficiency that is a constant aggravation. Plus putting away the clean dishes is way less of a chore than dealing with the clean laundry.

Right now the landscape of my bedroom is a basket of clean clothes, a basket of dirty clothes, and a pile of clothes that should probably go in one or the other of those baskets. Those baskets have been there for at least a couple of weeks.

I will have a w/d in my kitchen--on the same floor as the living space. I can do laundry all day, every day. I'll miss line-dried sheets, but not having to trek downstairs and out to the unheated, uncooled porch to wash clothes, and then schlep them to the 'mat to dry them, or just schlep it all to the 'mat in the first place? Kitchen W/D is a piece of cake.

We have a dishwasher, too, but won't use it. We've pared down our kitchenware to a basic set of dishes, glasses, and pans. We've perfected the dance of wash and reuse preparing a meal, and most of the time the dishes are done, except for place settings and serving pieces, before we sit to eat. It seems such a shame to sully the clean, clear counters and sink with such a paltry few things after the meal that cleanup is second nature.

Vacuuming, however? Windows? Tub scrubbing? I'll surrender any of those quickly and with an exultant heart.

I hate dealing with dirty things, like taking out the trash or sweeping or dishes. Laundry doesn't really involve dirt.