Cue the horns, y’all. For the first time in the history of this blog, I have decided to actually write about the item for which Lulu’s Laundry gets a gazillion smattering of hits a month. Yes, people, I am talking about laundry. Lulu’s Laundry. And egads, does she have tons of it.
In fact, I have so many tons of it, that I got really disturbed this weekend and went on a tirade of mammoth proportions, which left GR and Gus crying in the corner of the laundry room sucking their thumbs and sniffing dryer sheets in hopes of going to a happy place far, far away in the land of White Lilac or Lemon Verbena. Fat chance, guys. Ain’t happenin’.
Wait a minute—I said corner of the laundry room like it’s an actual room with a corner. It’s more like a broom closet. Or a hovel. It’s difficult to get the full dimensional feeling of this room in a picture, but I will try. This, people, is Lulu’s Laundry Room:
Sigh. This picture was taken from just outside the door opening into the laundy room. Notice that there is no space to the left of the dryer. And there is no space to the right of the washing machine, nor do I have built-in cabinets. Also notice that Lulu does not own any fancy-pants, ultra-capacity, front-loading machines in Metallic Silver. Or Glacier Blue. Lulu believes in the very basics of washing and drying, and therefore, could not afford refused to pay more than $600 for the set.
That’s not to say that Lulu would not wet her pants over a well-organized laundry room like this…
Or one like this where I could snack on Cheetos at the island/bar and do laundry at the same time…
Or relax in a quaint, little room like this…
Or revel in a completely adorable one with a window and a light fixture and wicker baskets like this…
Or one that allows me to watch soaps on the television (get it, soaps? Har.) at the same time…
Or one that is so overwhelming wonderful that I would spend my entire life in the room and possibly open a business in which people that are cursed with laundry hovels could bring their laundry to me, and I would do it for free an incredibly small fee…
I can dream, right? Oh well, I can only hope that the beating that I gave GR and Gus affected them enough to try and keep the laundry room organized and clean. And if they don’t, then I’m locking the laundry room door, and instead of washing their clothes, they’ll be forced to douse them in the sweet smell of Febreze and hope for the best.
And speaking of Febreze (ah-hum), I am giving away a full-size bottle of Febreze® Fabric Refresher in Lavender Vanilla & Comfort scent and a very adorable tote bag…
This is the new and improved Febreze® Fabric Refresher, which
- eliminates odors on fabrics and in the air.
- offers a new, fine mist spray for even applications.
- offers a new pump design that reduces leaking, nozzle sticking, and that “quacking” sound.
- provides longer-lasting freshness – up two days of freshening power!
To learn more about the new Febreze Fabric Refresher products, visit the Febreze Web site.
To win the sweet smelling give-away, simply leave me a comment before midnight, September 26! I’ll announce a winner on Monday.
In the meantime, happy laundering!
is before midnight, September 26 your time or my time?
My laundry room is down in the part of our unfinished basement. At least YOU have a corner. Mine is tucked under the stairs - kinda.
Can Canadians enter this contest? Or is this one of those anti-Canadian contests that discriminates against denizens of the land above the 49th parallel? You know, like your Presidential Election.
Lulu, you should SEE my laundry room. If my ass weren’t tightly wedged into this recliner I’d go snap a photo, but instead I’ll just paint a word picture. It’s in the basement and is adjacent to the deep dark dank cubby of storage/doom. Cement floor. Unfinished ceiling revealing mysterious pipes and wires and spiders. Old cedar walls which I can not afford to replace, but have managed to slightly beautify with some robin’s egg blue. Zero storage.
And btw, I love Lemon Verbena. I don’t know what it is: but it smells divine. Sadly like almost all Tide products: makes me itchy. Alas: I’ve no problems with Febreze. Bring it on!
You had me at that first dream pic, honey. I think I peed my pants when I saw the very last one. My heavens, woman…don’t get me all excited like this just before I go to bed. Mai Ling will think it’s all him and his hunky dorkiness doing it.
By the way, PICKMEPICKMEPICKMEPICKME!!!!!!!
Yeah, that never works, does it?
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I wish I had any laundry room. One of the downfalls of apartment living is having to haul your laundry off!
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I will let you have the laundry room in your dreams. I want the kitchen of choice in mine. You won’t use the laundry room, and I certainly won’t use the kitchen.
Ahhh to dream.
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Since Big H does 99.9% of our laundry, I figured I should put her name in the hat. I’m sure she’d die for one of the laundry rooms shown. We can’t even step into our ‘broom closet’ of a laundry room. It’s more of nook. Just open the door and there you are!
better than my corner in my musty basement..
I too would love a rocking laundry room…
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Phoo beat me to the punch…I abhor laundry! I can wash…but once the dryer is done, forget about folding. This post hit home in that I need to do a couple of loads today before the big Wisconsin trip…but in order to do this, I need to fold 2 loads and some towels! And yes, since I don’t have a room per se, just a closet….the laundry is taking over the upstairs hallway! Aieeeee!
Definitely put me in for the Fabreze…the fewer loads I have to do, the better. My God, what on earth will I do when I have kids?!
Do your remember what my mom’s laundry room looked like? It was truly a room. I would die to have a laundry room that big and do you remember the wall paper on the wall? It said “I HATE LAUNDRY ROOMS”.
I would take any of those laundry rooms! Yours might be just a little bigger than mine, not sure. It’s just a small walk-through space from the garage into the house. I have no room to do anything in there because I have several hampers and one of those clothes hanging things in there. I’d love to have a bigger laundry room! ~sigh~
Oh well in my book you have a laundry room…I have a basement with a washer and dryer. My set is a catch-all for everything as it sits right near the door to the garage. I would l-o-v-e to have my own laundry room with cabinets and drawers …..sob.
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Dear Lulu,
Miss Margarita has a real good memory about my laundry room that I had (even the wallpaper that I picked out that said “I HATE LAUNDRY ROOMS” (and truthfully I always have due to the dreaded laundry that you must do).
So, for making my laundry chores a little more pleasant, please pick me for the “free’ Febreze Fabric Refreshner & the cute little bag.
LOVE AND HUGS AS ALWAYS
(P.S…. If you don’t pick me as the “winner”, I thinks it would be great to pick my sweet daughter, Miss Margarita. for her vivid memory of my laundry room’s “I HATE LAUNDRY ROOMS” Wallpaper.
I can’t decide which of the pics is my fave. Pic 2 with the island bar..I just die.
I’d even go for your laundry room because compared to mine, it’s a dream. Mine is in a small room with bare concrete floors, pipes hanging from the ceiling & absolutely zero storage place. The joke is we have the best machines ever but absolutely no style.
Adore the tote!
I totally like the idea of having a washer in the kitchen! I may have to consider that one . . .
BTW, I reviewed Febreze, too, and loved it!
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Are those laundry rooms for REAL?! Mine, I believe, is smaller than yours, and houses my collection of “To be White Elephanted” gifts. I HATE my laundry room.
But I love Lav-Vanilla Febreeze, and am in the market for a new tote bag (yes). Sign me right up!
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Do I understand that some people have actual ROOMS in which to do their laundry? Rooms, with computers and counters and stuff?
Do you mean that everyone doesn’t waddle down to their dank basements to change out laundry loads and haul up the clean stuff to fold on the coffee table? People don’t do that?
Is it just me? Oh, Lord, Lord! It IS just me, isn’t it! Tell me the truth. I can handle it. It’s just me, right?
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My laundry room is in my kitchen which is very convenient, I must admit. However, I’d be way too happy to take one of the laundry rooms you have pictured here! Heck I might even like doing laundry more then. Well, no. Probably not. But I am honest enough to admit I’m lucky I don’t have to trek down to the bowels of the basement and avoid spiders.
Febreeze is one of the greatest things ever created!
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