Three Trash Bags of Clean Laundry - November 08, 2026

Yesterday I spent three hours folding laundry. Three hours. October got away from me, the dryer makes a horrific sound, and somewhere in all of this I remembered how much I love hanging clothes outside.

Also, I’m getting ready for My Kaigi on Saturday, November 14. And if you wanna come hang out and learn about Captivate (aff), I’m doing free Office Hours on Wednesday, November 11, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern.

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Yesterday I spent about three hours folding laundry. Folding laundry. Three hours. Because we had about three trash bags full of clean laundry. And you would think that one could get through that easier, as in there’s always time to be doing things like this. But I gotta tell you, the month of October was incredibly jam-packed.

It all actually started before my in-laws came to visit, which was amazing. It was such a great visit. And before they come, of course, you have to straighten things out and everything. I needed to get the kids to do their laundry, and I didn’t have enough time to be staying at home because we had other things going on before the grandparents came.

And so there were a lot of clean clothes that weren’t folded, for both of the kids and for me, if I’m honest. And they just stayed in piles in different parts of my room and in the living room also, because… anyway, whatever.

All that to say that there were weeks of having the kids just come in and look at the laundry baskets and throw clothes everywhere, and the clothes never really got folded. And it just kept escalating and escalating and escalating.

This week I finally got them to organize their existing clothes, the ones that are put away, and let go of things that they’re no longer going to wear so that I could get some of that stuff out. And once that was done, the oldest one did fold the majority of her clothes and put those away. And then I still had three trash bags full of the youngest one’s clothes and my clothes that I needed to get through, and I needed to organize her stuff. And oh my gosh, it literally became just a lot.

And the reason that things take so long also is because we don’t have a dryer. We don’t have a dryer. We actually, we physically have a dryer, which was replaced by the landlord fairly recently. But it turns out that it wasn’t the best dryer, and something wonky started to go with it. Now every time you put the dryer on, it starts to make a very high-pitched sound that is just a horrific experience. So we don’t put that on.

So the way we do it is we wash the laundry and then we hang it outside, which is something that I really love to do. I love the hanging. I love the hanging outside. I love going outside and hanging the clothes. There’s something… I don’t know. I really enjoy it.

Mind you, in the summertime it’s fine. In the summertime it’s not a problem. Once it starts to be a little bit on the winter side, you have to look at the weather and go, “Okay, this is a good day to hang clothes outside. This is not a good day to hang clothes outside.”

We’ve been able to make it through, I think, one winter. And winters haven’t been so wintry that we can’t still do that. So that adds a level of not being able to do laundry and all of the things.

So anyway, that is what I did yesterday. Not very exciting. But I think that I’m gonna, I think I’m gonna be able to push through this last bit of laundry today, because this week is going to be a lot for me. The whole week I’m gonna prepare for my planning experience next Saturday, My Kaigi.

I already have the majority of the content for that, but I do have some ideas I wanna test out. And I have to test an app that I have that I really wanna work with. And first I have to find the app, so that’s part of my to-do list.

And then do a lot of tech checks, do a lot of updating of things that I wanna say and whatnot when we move through the planning experience. I have to kinda do a little bit of work as it pertains to that, and that’s going to be taking up the majority of my week in addition to the day job, right? So this would be like the night job or the afternoon job.

And I’m also doing Office Hours on Wednesday. I love to do Office Hours. Love to do Office Hours. They are the best, and I can’t wait to do those. That’s this upcoming Wednesday, and those are free, in case anybody wants to come and hang out and just learn about Captivate (aff) and using the tools and all the things.

So, oh my gosh. Well, that is my catch-up for today because I gotta get going with the laundry.

And by the way, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but for those of you who are following the show in your podcast app of choice, I try to put artwork that aligns with what the episodes are like, or something in there. So there’s gonna be a picture of the hanging clothes this time so you see what I’m talking about, and I hope you enjoy it.

Also, if you wanna touch base with me, email me, Elsie at… no, no, no, that’s wrong. hello@elsieescobar.com. Or you can speak to me over at SpeakPipe.

Shout-out, Cheryl. Thank you so much for your email to me. I still have to respond to the email, but it really made me feel very seen. I very much appreciate that.

I hope you have a good day, everybody.

Links mentioned

• My Kaigi, Saturday, November 14, 2026
• Free Captivate Office Hours, Wednesday, November 11, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern
• Captivate (aff)
• Email me at hello@elsieescobar.com
• Leave me a voicemail on SpeakPipe

Recording notes

Recorded on my iPhone 13 mini. Post-production in Auphonic.