Laundry in Korea

Before we came to Korea, I thought, "Hmmm....wouldn't it be lovely to lead a slow paced life...you know like...make EVERYTHING from scratch, hanging up the laundry to dry, walking everywhere..." Until I got here, and actually have to do all of those things (or HAD to, for the most part). Since we got our car, we don't ride our bike (we only have one) to the commissary (uphill both ways) with our bike trailor, fill it up with groceries, make our children walk all the way back home, and make who knows how many trips up the elevator to unload it.

The laundry thing is still the issue. We don't have a dryer in our apartment, and they don't have a laundry mat anywhere in our building or anywhere in Korea (unless we wanted to take it on base), so, when in Korea, do as the Koreans. We hang our laundry to dry. We have learned much from this concept, such as, if you need or want to wear something to church, you should wash it three days before so it has enough time to dry completley and on days that it is humid, you need at least four days. And....if you spill something on it, either you wear it anyways, or you find something else. The girls are also learning to help hang the laundry. Here are some pictures of our laundry situation.

Emmalee was given the task of hanging up the socks.I never knew she was so good at tying knots.