You may think I’m insane… but right now… the simple pleasure of doing my own laundry in my own washing machine is pure bliss! The ritual of putting it up to dry and then taking them down after a few hours to stack in a pile to go to the press wallah tomorrow morning is such a joy!!

The clothing quandry of working professionally away from home in hotels includes:

• Don’t bother to do laundry. If traveling only a few days, imminently do-able. If not… (Most trips now 21 days)
  

  Happy clean clothes drying in the balcony

• Selectively attempt to hand wash and dry in the hotel room (Works for the ahem! ‘unmentionables’ but not everything)
• Live in the same clothes repeatedly (Nope – can’t do!)
• Pack a massive bag and lug around enough clothes to last the entire trip (Generally, if I can’t carry it on the plane myself, don’t to take it!)
• Do send clothes for laundry and live with the consequences

None of these options are ideal. With all my trips back n forth between Mumbai and Jakarta, I’ve tried a modified approach: (more…)