Friday, June 26, 2009

Quirks

Matt tells me I have issues. I do, but doesn't everyone have their own little quirks? I like to have a few certain things my way in my house. Some people label that OCD. Why can't we call it CHS - clean housekeeper syndrome or something? Anyway, I will not rattle off my list of particulars - thank goodness. But I do want to share something a little weird. I am a little interested in numbers, but more importantly how long things last in my house.

When I get our electric bill, I look at how many kilowatt hours of electricity I use and divide it by 30 days because I like to know that number - how many kilowatt hours we use in a day and how much $$ we spend a day on electricity. (last bill about $1.52/day) The gas bill already comes with that number for me - how much gas we use in an average day. I know in my mind how much money per day our house costs us to live in - our house payment (every 2 weeks) divided by 14 days.

It isn't that I am majorly pinching pennies, I just like to know what that per day number is. That is one of my quirks, not necessarily CHS, but a definite quirk.

So here is one I did for the past few months:
I wanted to know how many loads of laundry I do. Plain and simple. I was interested in that number. So when I opened a new package of fabric softener dryer sheets on January 19th, I wrote that date on the box with a sharpie. I use a sheet in every single batch of laundry I do, so I know that it is an accurate number. Well, on June 13th I finished off the box. 120 dryer sheets and 145 days. Interesting . . . I do 120 batches of laundry in about 5 months. Or just to make it fun, .823 loads of laundry everyday. Not sure how that could happen, but that is the number I wanted.

6 comments:

Tori said...

I don't know if you should disclose this quirk to the world! I thought that I had strange quirks, but I think that this takes the cake. But, still love ya anyway....

Talbots said...

Quirky, yes, but we still love you and I am sure that Matt does too!

Unknown said...

Quirky!!! Wellllllll I sure don't want to know how many loads of laundry I have don. We love ya rachel.. I read your blog not just to see what you are up to but to listen to Josh Turner...

mom said...

Ok,,,,, SOOOOOOOOOO, no more teasing me about my crazy quirks,, cause now I have ammuntion to tease back. HOT DANG!!!

Jenny said...

You are wrong with your numbers! I believe I did two loads of laundry at your house and I often put in two dryer sheets per load, then again, sometimes I only put in 1/2 of a dryer sheet! I will never tell what I did! HEE HEE

Anonymous said...

thanks a lot smarty britches Jen, where are you anyway!

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