Hi everyone.
It's Alejandra.
And I am sitting here in my living room next to a giant pile of laundry that needs to be
folded and for some reason, like the one chore that I really don't like to do.
Like there are some few chores that I don't like to do but the one that I kind of like
dread and I tend to put up a mental block around doing is folding the laundry.
And I know I'm not the only person that doesn't really enjoy folding the laundry.
I know I've met tons of people and a lot of people don't like to do it.
But it's like it comes out of the dryer and then I feel like, "Oh, I need to set aside
like an hour's worth of time to fold the laundry and put it away, which is like completely
not true, right?
Like folding laundry does not take an hour.
So what I'm going to do today is I am going to set a timer and just see how long it really
does take me to fold the laundry.
So next time I have or next time I'm feeling like I have that mental block that's like,
"Alejandra, you don't have an hour to fold the laundry so you need to like do it tomorrow
or do it the next day."
I can just watch this video and remember that it probably only takes me like 10 or 15 minutes.
So the load of laundry next to me is just like a regular load between Ed and I.
We don't have kids so we don't have a bigger pile or whatever so just two people and it's
all the darks.
It's not the whites but it's still a good amount of clothes.
So I'm going to zoom out here and you can see.
Can you see the pile over here?
I can't get up and move the camera because then everything is going to shift or whatever.
OK.
So I'm going to fold this laundry and I am going to set the timer and I'm going to make
a guess that it's probably going to take me about 12 minutes to fold the load of laundry.
I could be wrong.
It could be over.
It could be under.
But we will see.
So, I am going to - can you see that?
It's on zero.
I'm going to hit play.
OK.
I'm going to go.
Let me zoom out so you can see what I'm doing.
Look, we're at five minutes and I'm almost done.
This doesn't long at all.
I don't know like what I was thinking.
I'm done folding.
OK.
So that took six minutes - so like six and a half minutes.
That is not bad at all.
I think - what did I said?
I said 12 minutes.
It did not take 12 minutes.
It took half the time.
So, oh my gosh!
Folding laundry takes six minutes folding one load of laundry that was like a full load
of laundry.
It was all of our darks for the week.
So it's probably going to take like another maybe three minutes to put all the stuff away,
by the time I put Ed's stuff away in his closet and then my stuff away in my closet.
But really, that's under ten minutes to fold a whole load of laundry and put it away.
That's not that much time.
So next time I do a laundry and start to get that mental block of like, "Oh my gosh!
Folding laundry takes so long."
I'm going to watch this video or I'm going to remember that it only takes me six and
a half minutes to fold a normal size load of laundry that I do on a weekly basis.
Like I was literally folding at a normal speed, I wasn't folding like super fast to try and
beat the timer.
It was just a normal speed.
If you have the same mental block inside of your head around folding laundry or doing
any other chore around the house, maybe you think it takes you a long time, set a timer
next time you're going to do that chore like folding laundry or vacuuming, dusting, or
whatever it is and see how long it really takes you.
A lot of times, we think things are going to take us a lot longer inside of our head.
And so we prepare for it.
We think about it.
We dread doing it.
And if we just actually just did the chore, it would take like half the amount of time
or a quarter of the amount of time because as you can see here, I thought this was going
to take me 12 minutes and it took 6 and a half minutes.
So that's just one example.
So I hope the video was helpful.
And I will see you guys soon.
Bye!