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Supah Laundrying Woman!
August 30th, 2010 • 27 Comments | Leave a Comment »
She tackles tall mounds of laundry with minimal bitching. She headlocks smelly shirts infused with teenage-boy armpit funk. She even hangs the clothes out to dry.
Supah Laundrying Woman has got it goin’ on.
According to About.com, an average 150 pound person will burn 136 calories per hour doing light laundry – that’s simply folding, hanging, and transferring clothes to and from the washer and dryer. This does NOT include dragging the damn laundry from the top floor down to the basement (I need a laundry shoot), carrying heavy-azz loads outside to hang on the line (I need a conveyor belt for transport), and other laundry-associated tasks like putting clean sheets on the beds (I need a maid). So any extra effort, and you’re definitely deflating more fat cells per hour.
I did some hardcore laundrying for 3-hours yesterday. There was sweat droplets and body soreness and rapid heart rates from the upstairs-downstairs foot action because nobody offered to help me. Supah Laundrying Woman endorses the high octane maneuver of eradicating dirty laundry as a functional form of fitness. If you are hindered from your workout because your laundry needs attention, do not fret. It totally counts as exercise.
Important Note: If you aren’t feeling Supah or just don’t wanna be, read How to Install a Laundry Shoot to help minimize your physical activity and increase bloat. Because cutting into your walls to throw dirty underwear down the hole is the easy answer to streamlining household chores. (so why do I wish I had one?)
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Jessica @ How Sweet August 30th, 2010 at 20:13
Can this laundrying woman come do my laundry??
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Trish @IamSucceeding August 30th, 2010 at 20:55
Yeah…mine too!! Piles and piles always coming out of the weekend!!
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Eunice August 30th, 2010 at 21:07
Doing laundry is the worst!! Especially when you have a burly man who can fill a laundry basket with stanky, no fawnky, clothes in 2 days tops. Ugh, so much laundry. Sooo many socks. Ok, I’m done complaining.
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Josie Reply:
August 30th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
man-funk from the laundry is the worst.
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skippymom August 30th, 2010 at 22:39
They hit 11 years old in my house and they are doing their own. A couple of rules [sorting colors, water temp and folding techiques] and wa-la they can do it on their own. I appreciate the calorie burning aspects of doing laundry – but I prefer to burn mine another way. Let the kids do their own [except baby of course.
] I got out of my own laundry a few years back. I guess I am lucky like that. ha.
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Josie Reply:
August 30th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
I hear ya on kids doing their own laundry. We do that, too. But sometimes my son’s clothes are so funky, I need to intervene. Now I’m trying to get them to hang their clothes on the line before summer gets over. Back when I was a kid, I had to clothesline it always (even though we had a dryer). In winter, there was a line in the basement. I always had to hang, so it’s no big deal to me. And it saves cash, too.
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skippymom Reply:
August 31st, 2010 at 6:01 am
@Josie, Heehee I get the funky – and no I do not miss my boys’ clothes. lol But oh how I love clotheslines and the smell of the clothes after they come off. MMMM – We aren’t supposed to have one here [stupid HOA] but we cheat and rig up a couple of lines on our back deck and hang towels, blankets and sheets up because you are so right it does save money. Btw – who makes your stunning hats? Such talent
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brea Reply:
August 31st, 2010 at 6:16 am
the Good Lord same some people incredible intellect, others He gave lightening foot speed. But me? He gave me stunning hat-making ability. I am the luckiest of all?
Josie Reply:
August 31st, 2010 at 6:17 am
crap! I am NOT “Brea”. That’s my kid. Grrrr.
Reinaldo August 30th, 2010 at 22:39
I guess I’ll be throwing my funky workout clothes your way then. You can send them to me after you take care of them. Of course, I’ll be doing this only thinking about YOUR fitness and health.
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Erin August 30th, 2010 at 22:50
Wow Supah Laundrying Woman you got some guns on you!
Neither shirt, nor socks, nor pants can run when Supah Laundrying Woman gets it done!
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Marisa August 31st, 2010 at 3:12
I love SUPAH laundrying woman! Hey, that’s about the only exercise I ever get. Well that and doing our mountain of dirty dishes (that’s gotta count too, right) and chasing our two cats all over the house (also gotta count).
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Erica August 31st, 2010 at 6:33
Sometimes I feel like superwoman when I’m flying through my household to dos! It is just such a relief to have them done! Ugh…I’m on travel right now and am dreading the laundry I’m coming home to (and I don’t even have kids yet!)
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Miz August 31st, 2010 at 6:56
I laugh that I say NO MO KIDS and this is one of the reasons.
how we, a family of exercising three, make so much laundry is beyond me.
you are my heroine.
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South Beach Steve August 31st, 2010 at 7:52
It really is amazing how much old fashioned household work does for the daily calorie burn. Just think, if I would put up my riding lawnmower and buy a push mower I could burn significantly more calories.
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kelsey@snackingsquirrel.com August 31st, 2010 at 7:56
laundry is a workout, it really does count. and one more time that i hear a guy say “oh, so u did nothing today, well i was out working” i will slap them because doing a full days loads of dirty laundry is more than their mind and bodies are capable of handeling. all the power to us <3
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Kylie @ A Hungry Spoon August 31st, 2010 at 8:25
Love the picture! I can’t imagine the workout one gets from doing laundry for an entire family–sometimes it feels exhausting just doing it for two people
Keep rockin’ Supah Laundrying Woman!
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Emergefit August 31st, 2010 at 8:43
“high octane maneuver of eradicating dirty laundry as a functional form of fitness.” The best line I will read all week. Tasty!
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Molly Nitka August 31st, 2010 at 13:34
Hey! Just found your blog and its super cool!! I also added you on tweeter, so get at me
Thanks for checking mine out, its always fun to meet new blogger’s cuz I’m still a noob.
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Josie Reply:
August 31st, 2010 at 1:43 pm
hey, Fluffy! I’ll tweet at ya right now. There’s some fantastic people in our community. You’ll be a pro at it in no time.
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Jody - Fit at 52 August 31st, 2010 at 15:30
Just 2 people in this house & I do more laundry than I can count.. it multiplies like flies & I don’t even have that many clothes!
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merri August 31st, 2010 at 19:50
My mother was bad at doing laundry..she never had time and it piled up, and she shrunk my favorite sweater on one of the few times we had a working dryer. My aunt bleach stained all our stuff. So at a young age, I took over the entire house’s laundry, so we always had clean, unruined clothes. For a long time we had no dryer and I really enjoyed hanging the clothes out on the line in the summer. In the winter on the other hand, esp when the basement had no heat, hanging cold dripping clothes is no fun..or when they end up freezing instead of drying lol. (ooh and washing grossies cloth diapers isnt that great either). That reminds me though, I have a HUGE pile of laundry at my apartment now that is begging to be washed and dryered.
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Lance August 31st, 2010 at 21:04
Hey there Supah Laundrying Woman,
Why does that crown look vaguely familiar???? Have you been eating weird concoctions of food between loads of laundry? (hint: YUM!!!)
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FatFighterTV August 31st, 2010 at 23:52
You dry your clothes outside for real? That is so cool! What do you do in the winter?
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Josie Reply:
September 1st, 2010 at 10:40 am
Well, we have a brand spanking new dryer, but I try to not use it much while the weather is nice and warm. I hang out sheets, towels, husbands tee shirts, jeans, things like that. Everything else goes in the dryer. Haven’t forced kids to hang dry yet. I should, though.
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Karen September 1st, 2010 at 9:03
Well maybe I should not hate doing laundry as much as I do! And I clearly need to stop letting my husband carry the basket back upstairs for me.
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Juliet September 2nd, 2010 at 0:08
Supah Supah laundry woman!!!
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