I am one step closer to fully embracing what it means to live in the 20th century. No longer will I have to drag my clothing down to the side of a stream bed and roll up my pants and wade out into the frigid water to beat my clothing against the rocks to get them clean. Nor will I have to pack up a trunk load of clothing and make the crosstown trek to the laundromat to plug quarter after quarter into the machines and then haul it all home again to fold, sort and put away.
Alright, I'll be honest there really hasn't been much of any folding sorting etc. Everything has just been coming home in the laundry basket and I've been living out of the laundry basket. If you have seen my closets you'll know that a couple of laundry baskets basically hold way more clothing than even the double closets in my room. This is definetly on the list of things to address at some point in the future. But up until this point since I had to make a weekly pilgrimage to either the stream bank or the the laundromat it didn't really seem to matter a whole lot that the clothes didn't have a more permanent place to live in between their weekly travel adventures. I like to think of it as sort of a nomadic existence for my wardrobe.
As with all things though, every era must come to an end. While my clothing has been treated to weekly (alright not always exactly weekly) trips to exotic and foreign locales, they are getting of an age when settling down into a routine that involves less travel has become appealing. As we transition from our wild mis-spent youth into settling into early and middle age so too does our wardrobe need to settle down and embrace the stability of knowing that a short trip to the basement will soon be as fulfilling and refreshing as the wild adventures of the past.
Now all I need to do is figure out if the odd socks that don't match up coming out of the dryer are the offspring of wild youthful sock exuberance while on travel, or the result of the passing of an honored and respected member of the sock community. Only time will tell.