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Re: Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook

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Post by throwaway5465 »

cinntaile wrote: post #18
throwaway5465 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A wash per day. In it, a couple of t-shirts, a shirt, a hoodie, a pair of trousers, socks, underwear. At max. It really shouldn't take more than a handful of seconds to give a good flap and put any one of these on a hangar. Likewise folding. A couple of seconds. Shirts don't need folding, they stay n the hangar. I'm struggling to think why it would take longer. Are you new to clothes?

Who has time to do laundry once a day. That sounds crazy if you don't have small kids.

The washing machine does. Either this conversation has come full circle or HN, circus of productivity hacks, is exceptionally ineffective at doing laundry.

Does it not smell and fester when left for days?

Re: Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook

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Post by ferguess_k »

You don't have to do it already. You can hire people to clean your room every week or even every day if you have the $$$.

You can also buy food so that you don't have to cook.

I'd definitely live in the office if given the chance -- i.e. my wife divorces me and company allows.

Re: Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook

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Post by xp84 »

ferguess_k wrote: post #23

You don't have to do it already. You can hire people to clean your room every week or even every day if you have the $$$. You can also buy food so that you don't have to cook. I'd definitely live in the office if given the chance -- i.e. my wife divorces me and company allows.

This reminds me of a guy who once did that at my office. He was going through some kind of trouble with his wife and would sometimes sleep on a couple of bean bags in our small office (office was maybe like 20x25, with two main rooms). I feel like I stayed at the office super late sometimes, but I don’t think I ever slept there.

Re: Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook

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Post by xp84 »

throwaway5465 wrote: post #21
cinntaile wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who has time to do laundry once a day. That sounds crazy if you don't have small kids.

The washing machine does. Either this conversation has come full circle or HN, circus of productivity hacks, is exceptionally ineffective at doing laundry. Does it not smell and fester when left for days?

Are you being serious? My unwashed laundry only smells when you press your nose to it. In the hamper it’s fine for the 1-7 days it generally waits.

Although this thread has hit on an interesting method of distributing folding into daily tiny sessions - especially for the childfree, who produce just a single dirty outfit per day after all.

The method would be that you don’t own any clothes that wrinkle, and wash a load of laundry each week, then you hang up your towel, and just sit the clean basket by the dresser, and each morning before you get dressed, you also fold and put away (or wear) “n” items where “n” is the average number of items you wear each day. At the end of the week you should have an essentially empty “clean” basket and a new dirty basket. If you were very disciplined about this you could just have the basics in rotation at all times, meaning you only own like 8 pairs of underpants, 16 socks, etc. and those simply come out of the clean basket straight onto your body.

Re: Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook

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Post by xp84 »

cheeseomlit wrote: post #14
tim-tday wrote: post #13

You don’t want that. Because it would mean 5 rich dudes own all physical work. What happens to the rest of us when that happens? What economic system can we create that makes sense? (The current one does not make sense in that scenario. Game it out for five minutes like a chess game if you don’t believe me). We urgently need an answer to that question before it happens. The Elon suggestion is so laughable as to be un…

Those 5 billionaire guys do want this- The french revolution probably wouldnt have happened the way it did if they had to deal with an army of terminator robots

But those guys aren’t cartoon villains. Supposing that they did just that, unleashing an army of Terminators to counter a revolution, and wiped out or imprisoned most of humanity. Uhh, what’s the game plan then? Having all the so-called “money” means very little if you obliterate the whole world’s economic system. Even having all the gold or all the chip fabs means very little when there’s no market for any of those things besides your security robot factories.

I think the billionaire class are deeply invested in the world continuing to exist in a reasonable state as opposed to a post-apocalyptic hellscape, and surely they must know this.

Re: Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook

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Post by ferguess_k »

xp84 wrote: post #24
ferguess_k wrote: post #23

You don't have to do it already. You can hire people to clean your room every week or even every day if you have the $$$. You can also buy food so that you don't have to cook. I'd definitely live in the office if given the chance -- i.e. my wife divorces me and company allows.

This reminds me of a guy who once did that at my office. He was going through some kind of trouble with his wife and would sometimes sleep on a couple of bean bags in our small office (office was maybe like 20x25, with two main rooms). I feel like I stayed at the office super late sometimes, but I don’t think I ever slept there.

Yeah. I have realized that everything I bought is eventually a liability. Especially single home houses -- anyone who doesn't enjoy DIY (which I hate with a passion) should never buy one of them.

Re: Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook

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Post by xp84 »

ferguess_k wrote: post #28
xp84 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of a guy who once did that at my office. He was going through some kind of trouble with his wife and would sometimes sleep on a couple of bean bags in our small office (office was maybe like 20x25, with two main rooms). I feel like I stayed at the office super late sometimes, but I don’t think I ever slept there.

Yeah. I have realized that everything I bought is eventually a liability. Especially single home houses -- anyone who doesn't enjoy DIY (which I hate with a passion) should never buy one of them.

The funny part is I love DIY stuff - but family obligations leave me less than zero time to complete any of those projects :(

Re: Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook

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Post by ferguess_k »

xp84 wrote: post #29
ferguess_k wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. I have realized that everything I bought is eventually a liability. Especially single home houses -- anyone who doesn't enjoy DIY (which I hate with a passion) should never buy one of them.

The funny part is I love DIY stuff - but family obligations leave me less than zero time to complete any of those projects :(

I hope you get more time, when kids move out I guess.
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