The Shared Laundry

Difficulty	★★★☆☆ (3 of 5)
Equipment required	A washer. A dryer. Two functioning concepts of “darks.”
Recommended for	Cohabiting couples. The newly cohabiting. Anyone whose mother now visits less.

Practitioner’s note

The Shared Laundry was first documented in the sociology literature in 1967 and only later catalogued by this Society. It is performed weekly in most variants and biweekly under the *Forgotten in the Washer* sub-tradition. Its defining feature is the moment, often wordless, in which one practitioner concedes that yes, fine, those go in cold.

Common mistakes

Mixing reds.
Discussing it in front of guests.
Owning a dryer that does not, technically, dry.

The Society does not endorse any of the foregoing. The Society is, in fact, fictitious. See the notice.