Confessions of a Horrible Homemaker

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I’m a pretty good mother, despite my constant complaints of how crazy it is mothering two insane hooligans.  What?!!  It. Is. Chaos. But still – I put everything I have into it and then some.  Which is why, when people say, “How are you?” I usually say, “Tired.”

But the rest of the crap involved in being a homemaker?  I SUCK at it.

I’m horrible at cleaning the house.  Also, I don’t give a crap.

Laundry is a whole other thing altogether.  I do it – only because if I don’t, I won’t be able to get the kids out of the house because they won’t have anything to wear and they must go out of the house.  But still, I just throw everything into a general dark or light wash.  I never use bleach or even fabric softener and I never ever ever never ever not ever iron anything.  In fact, I don’t know how to iron in that way that you never learn how to do something because you don’t want to ever be asked to do it.

Confession:  I rewash things all the time simply because I forgot to take them out of the dryer in time for them to be acceptably non wrinkled so they have to go through the whole process again just to be forgotten again.  And worse, I actually threw away a dress in college because once I washed it, it was too wrinkled to wear again without a thorough ironing.

So you can imagine my excitement when I discovered new Downy Wrinkle Releaser Plus.  First I had to overcome some skepticism.  I looked at the bottle, my heart leapt a little then I thought – uh-uh, no way that actually works.  I mentioned it to Gabe (he does the ironing around here because I don’t know how – remember?) and he actually rhapsodized about it.

Before we were married, he was in a rock and roll band and apparently, every member of the band kept a bottle on hand at all times.  After all, they didn’t even have time to wash their clothes between wearings being out on the road all the time so they certainly weren’t gonna iron them.  And this product has the surprising benefit of also removing odors.  So yeah.  They rewore their clothes all the time after soaking them in sweat the night before.  Makes sense that they kept the #wonderbottle around.

But anyway. So I got some.  We came back from vacation exhausted, I pulled my favorite dress out of the suitcase about 10 minutes before I needed to wear it somewhere and it was soooo wrinkled.

Just a few shots of Downy Wrinkle Release and BAM!

I remembered the Downy Wrinkle Releaser, grabbed it, shot it at the wrinkles (apparently it’s now a finer mist than it used to be which means broader coverage and faster drying time), smoothed it, tugged at the wrinkles and OMG.  It actually works.  Seriously, look at the before and after pic.  And that was with MINIMAL effort because … well, I’m me. A terrible homemaker … in a wrinkle-free dress.

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This post is sponsored by Downy Wrinkle Releaser but my thoughts and opinions are always my own.