underwear

Scene 1:

I’m sitting on the toilet, it’s 5:00 AM. No lights, trying not to disturb anyone who is sleeping.

I fart.**

The dog comes running in from the other half of the house, acting like she hasn’t seen me in months and OH MY GOD HERE YOU ARE!

Scene 2:

Sitting at breakfast, and the oldest comes running in with underwear over his head and face, yelling “this is an armed robbery, hands up!”

“Uh, why aren’t your hands up?”

“Because you have underwear on your head.”

Scene 3:

My youngest boy loves to belt out “You’re a grand old flag” at the top of his lungs while getting dressed. And you thought they don’t teach them anything useful in school.

** note: the fart was the foghorn kind, not the bog of eternal stench kind. Not that the dog would care.

Charlie and Tide
Originally uploaded by silly old bear.

Okay, here tis, and to save some of my more casual readers (the one’s looking for Emma Watson’s phone number, among other things) I’ve put lots of notes with the Flickr pictures.

Here’s the deal: I was put in touch with the good folks at Charlie’s Soap. They offered to send me a sample if I would give them some feedback (they didn’t know I was going to write a blog post or whateva). So I guess this is my disclaimer: I didn’t actually pay for the laundry soap I used.

But I will be super clear: I’m ordering more of this stuff. I love it.

You can read at their web site about all the great properties of their soap (they drew me in with the news that it cleans poop. This is always an issue at our place). I’ll just tell you what I think.

Laundry soap is awesome. 1st, you don’t use much (you aren’t just washing a ton down the drain). Second, the clothes really do get cleaner than they get with Tide (I haven’t used anything but Tide in nearly 20 years so I can’t compare to other soaps, sorry). Cost is actually a little less; the big jug of Tide is $17.00 here locally and does nearly 100 loads; the little bag of Charlie’s Soap is $12.00 and does 80 loads. That’s right, you don’t need much of this stuff.

(I’m thinking about when we go on vacation, with three kids under eight there is always laundry to do, even on a short trip, it’s easier to pack a few teaspoons of powder than take a bottle of liquid, for me at least)

Charlie makes a liquid version, too, but I haven’t tried that. But the powder dissolves completely, I haven’t found any on our clothes, after nearly 30 loads of all types of laundry - bedding, clothes, underwear, towels, stuffed animals.

The first load or two, the towels seems a touch ’scratchy.’ Still very usable, but it wasn’t a good sign. I added a rinse cycle (our washer has a cycle to help with fabric softener, I guess) and everything was great. Towels, shirts, and underwear, especially, are cleaner and softer then they have been before. My work pants (think dockers, but cheaper) are super soft. Grass stains, spagettio’s, milk - it all comes out.

Short version - I like the stuff, and I’ll be buying more. In another entry I’ll talk about the liquid soap they also sent me (you can see it in one of the pictures) but I have to get off the computer for now, so it’ll have to wait.

If you’ve tried this soap and like it or not, lemme know. If you have any questions, well, that’s why I’m here.

This ends today’s laundroblogging.

Always wear clean underwear in public, especially when working under your vehicle. From the Northwest Florida Daily News comes this story of a Crestview couple who drove their car to Walmart, only to have their car break down in the parking lot. The man told his wife to carry on with the shopping while he fixed the car in the lot.

The wife returned later to see a small group of people near the car. On closer inspection, she saw a pair of male legs protruding from under the chassis. Although the man was in shorts, his lack of underpants turned private parts into glaringly public ones.

Unable to stand the embarrassment, she dutifully stepped forward, quickly put her hand UP his shorts, and tucked everything back into place. On regaining her feet, she looked across the hood and found herself staring at her husband who was standing idly by.

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