When is something too dirty/smelly to wash? I emptied the laundry basket out onto the floor and this horrendous odor assaulted my being...foul smelling fumes filled the room in a matter of seconds - so much so that I had to open the window and even then it hung in the air...the can of Lysol did little to remove the offending stench...never, in all my years of living with the mister have I ever smelled anything like this...With rubber-gloved hands, I dug through the laundry...and there it was...his favorite work shirt...the shirt he wore last weekend when he was cleaning the windows - yes, he does windows, one of the three reasons I keep him around...I had to throw the thing out - it's malodorous presence was making me sick! (What you can't see in the picture below is his shirt - which is tucked into his back waistband - thereby collecting his sweat as it dripped down his back.) How could I, in good conscience, put that thing in with any of my "delicacies?" And washing it by itself was out of the question...after all, as of 8:00 AM Wednesday morning, I had decided to "go green," so wasting wash water on his filthy shirt would have meant all of my initial efforts towards greendom were for naught! (More on going green later.) I put the offending shirt in a plastic bag and took it straight to the trash - which was picked up on Thursday - I'm sure the gases emanating from the local landfill have increased considerably...today is Saturday...yard-work day...it's just a matter of minutes before the mister goes in search for his favorite shrt...pray for me. 
"When we're helping we're happy so we'll sing as we go...for we love to help mother for we all love her so." Children's Nursery Song
