tHe uNDutChaBLes
Sunday, June 25th, 2006
the dutch being stingy always find ways to save. i tried to internalize this so i do the laundry during the weekend - now that is highly dutch!!! and today i’ve exhausted myself with 3 washloads and ironed a hill of clothing. but, *pointer waving* i did the incredibly undutch! : i ironed sooo many clothes - mine, the girls, and 15 pieces of hubby’s overhemden met korte en lange mouwen (short and long sleeved shirts). could you believe?? the most that i’ve done were 4-6 pieces only, but tonight while watching the football match between NL’s oranje and portugal, temporarily turning the sitting room to a laundry space, i obliviously kept ironing and ironing, maybe because i was sooo engrossed and jittery since our players lost, ach! but back to my homechore thingy, no dutch woman or let’s say "dutched woman" will ever do this. and those pinays with dutch spouses could vow that the men in their lives could certainly iron their own clothes, do their own laundry, hoover the floor, empty the bins, prepare their own meals. i don’t know what prodded me to go extra mile tonight. what i know is that since we got married, VA, my hubby hasn’t bought his own clothes or shoes by himself. it’s either i am with him, or i buy his garments myself even in his absence. so far i haven’t failed getting him the right size… from footwear, bottomwear and topwear. i just want him to look swell. and he doesn’t mind me minding him, lol! that is another undutch thingy. lucky him hé? nyahahaha!!!
these shirts are still moist from laundry, yet i would rather iron them while a bit wet than let them fully dry because it would be more difficult to flatten the creased material. i will have to allow them to dry and take them out from the laundry hangers, hang them in hubby’s closet to join the rest of these shirts (guess he has at least a dozen clean ones inside) and voila…. he has enough to wear to work, soil them, and throw them to the laundry bin to be picked up, washed and ironed again… by me. ohhh, how mundane!!!!
