My biggest laundry pet peeve: inside out clothes placed in the hamper.  Really?  Does it take that much effort to place your dirty clothes in the hamper in the same state that you would like to see them magically reappear in your dresser drawer?

The laundry item that never ceases to amaze me: underwear still in their pants.  Really?  How does this happen?  Do my children actually jump out of their pants and underwear at the same time?  How is this even possible?  Superhuman vertical jumping abilities is my guess.

Laundry early warning sign: layering down below.  As I extracted the underwear from another pair of pants, I saw something that amazed me.  Double layered underwear.  This was new.  This was innovative.  What really amazed me about this was the child.  You see, they were my son Ben’s clothing.  My 6-year-old son who refuses to say goodbye to summer.  The same child who has bravely worn shorts well into November.  In Minnesota.  Well, this child appears to have been warming up by wearing two pairs of underwear at once.  Even more, they were in long pants.  Oh dear, this truly is a warning sign.  A sign that cold weather is upon us (or else he was trying to self-treat hypothermia).  A sign that double ply underwear is now a clothing option worth considering (at least among the first grade crowd).