freakin fabric softener

So I brought some laundry all the way to Texas during Thanksgiving because I was out of laundry detergent. Dad offered to buy me some detergent when we went to good ole' United Supermarket, but I told him I didn't wanna weigh down my luggage and I'd get some in Tennessee.

On the way to the airport, generous Grandmommy gave me money to buy some laundry detergent when I got back to Nashville.

The very night I landed in Nash, I went to Target..this is a decent trip from my house, but I have a hard time buying toiletries and such at a grocery store, and I don't like Walmart..I choose to believe the rumors that Walmart does not practice fairly.

I get to Target, find my beloved lavender scent, and get home.

A few days pass..I go down to do my laundry, which I seriously, seriously hate. Like, I think doing laundry is my least favorite activity in all the world. It's made so much worse at my new house because in order to do laundry, you have to carry your clothes outside, down a flight of stairs, across a short path, down another flight of stairs..and then (while trying to balance your clothes) you have to unlock the door to the scary creepy haunted basement of my 100 year old house.

So I convince myself to get my clothes together, grab my new bottle of detergent, brave the cold outdoors and the many steps, and make it down to the laundry area. I start to pour my detergent, when I realize the color and consistency are whack.

"fabric softener"..I see it in the bottom corner of the bottle. It's so, so small.

Shoot. That's why this "detergent" was so dern inexpensive.

I decide to live in some clean but unattractive clothes for a few days..until I'm at Kroger, and begrudgingly decide to buy some detergent there. I find the cheapest brand that has a lavender scent..I hadn't even heard of or seen the brand before..but I went for it.

That night, I make the terrible trip down to the laundry room once more..almost falling half way down the first flight of stairs (which would mean instant death), and dropping numerous socks along the way.

But I made it. This time I don't even start pouring from the bottle. I pick it up, and realize..fabric softener. I did it again. I make a mental note to update my facebook status about my stupidity and serious frustration.

Christmas came very soon after, and I was able to wash more clothes in Texas.

So I get back to Tennessee and leave a few days later for the HCC ski trip. On the ride back from West Virginia I made a mental note to go straight to the store for some laundry detergent..I was carrying back some serious ski trip stank. I had a number of other things I needed to pick up, such as ingredients for a gooey butter cake to bring to the incredible family that funded the ski trip for me. Because of my very poor financial situation, I realized I had no choice but to hit up..Walmart.

So I leave the Harpeth parking lot..(immediately beginning to miss my HCC family)..and go to Walmart. I was there for almost an hour, and I'm on my way out, when I realized..oh my word, I forgot laundry detergent. So I go back..proud of my good memory that kicked in. I go for the good stuff. I had waited this long, and I was going to treat myself to All brand..they have this "relax" scent that I really like.

I pick it up, then on the way to check out, I see some detergent on sale..and it was a scent I still liked: white lavender and sandalwood, and it was a GIANT bottle! I decided to put back my beloved All detergent, and hit up the sale.

I was gonna do laundry Sunday night..but it was just cold and rainy, I couldn't do it. I got up early Monday morning to do it. Carry down my laundry. Pour out the.. fabric softener.

Third time.

For the rest of my life I will double, triple, quadruple check when I'm buying detergent. I will also never intentionally buy fabric softener, ever. Besides, I did the math, and I have enough softener to last me well into 2011.