No Launder Necessary

The movement to launder less.

I seem long to have been part of a no wash movement of which I was not even aware.

It aligns with my environmental leanings, my financial budgetary leanings, my temporal budgetary leanings - addresses multiple facets of my current life that could use better balance.

But well before I could think for myself and develop any leanings on anything significant, redonning clothes in succession was how I grew up and what I did from my earliest childhood, before I learned shame from peer pressure and heard whisperings at school noticing my sartorial patterns (afterward, I just learned to hide repeat clothing uses by rotating intervening outfits). I rather suspect many from developing countries, even developed countries where fuel and power are less subsidized, have similar lifestyle habits. It just makes sense.

Today, my tool of choice that facilitates this practice is the garment steamer - steam out wrinkles with the added bonus of killing germs, in the process assuaging my lingering COVID germophobia. It just feels like a nice steam makes worn clothes a little more sanitary for hanging up inside the house after sitting on public surfaces, and ready for another outing. Apparently this is not an original thought - Koreans widely use stylers for this, it seems.

One day, my old clothes will all wear out and my entire new wardrobe will be of natural fabrics. For the time being, I re-wear until it seems time to wash.

Nice to have my choices and habits affirmed by journalistic investigative data and to be ahead of the curve on trends and movements, even if only privately (well, other than publicly here on this blog - but no one reads this other than me, and I do only to edit or occasionally revisit what was going on in my life, so this might as well be private).

Speaking of journalism, I read quite a few items that speak to the themes of this blog - most often environmental issues or time management, both of which tie into my yearning for the ever elusive balance as I make my way through this earthly life. I email them to myself meaning to use them as prompts or support for new content, which has led to a stockpile of material. With this post, I hope to begin more regularly to work through those saved articles and fill the gaps in posting to this blog - pull those articles out from the closet for use in public, so to speak (see how I tied into the no-wash article there? wink, wink); the plan is to create posts that thematically feature all of that material that  shapes and inspires or reflects my thinking, teeing them up in advance for publication on days when otherwise there would be no post at all. They'll be tagged with "interesting reads," and likely be jam packed with links to articles (so I can chip away at my email inbox and delete while I add to the number of posts - win-win!). And if my actual present day life inspires or warrants an original new post, then the tee'd up posts can just be superseded and rolled over for another day.