The mother load

Dear Blog - I promised you I would get to the topic of laundry, so here goes: I started out this experiment knowing that my workout gear was probably going to present the biggest challenge as I don't have a full two weeks worth at my disposal. So, I decided that I could live again pretty much the way one does at Army Basic Training.

When I was in boot camp, every soldier was issued two Army tees, two pairs of shorts and one full set of sweats. Back then, these items were cotton. We exercised every day, sometimes twice a day.

So, we had time to do laundry every other day, right? Dream on. On the contrary, we had time to laundry maybe once a week. So, that meant that for at least five days out of the week, we were putting on dirty, smelly gym clothes that were never designed to wick away moisture like most exercise gear does today.

Assuming that, at a minimum, I would need to wear my running gear twice, as long as I didn't sweat too much during my outdoor workouts, I starting out saving exercise clothing. But, then I didn't exercise as much as anticipated. And, when I did exercise, it ended up being in smelly gear. And for what? Nothing. The good news is that I don't have as much laundry to do as I would have. Gotta see the bright side, if there is a bright side to that, right?