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Tired of asking your mom for help around the house? Let us help you out.
BY AMANDA PALM
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L eaving the comfort and safety of home for col
lege can be a scary experience, especially when
you realize Mom is no longer around to cook
and clean for you. As the laundry piles up into heaps,
your refrigerator screams to be filled with food and
the layer of dirt on your floor begins to look like
brown carpet, you are struck with the realization that
you have no domestic skills.
That is what happens when you spend the first 18
years of your life being taken care of and waited on.
You do not need to worry or to call Mom to beg her
to come cook and clean for you. There is still plenty
of time to learn the keys to domesticity.
Most college students do not have a washer and
dryer and therefore are forced to use a laundromat.
Then the confusion begins.
Counting quarters, choosing a detergent, deciding
whether to use fabric softener, debating whether to
use dryer sheets for added freshness, choosing which
colors should be washed together, determining what
clothes should be left out of the dryer — the list goes
on and on. It could easily drive a person to drinking.
No wonder somebody began building laundromats
with bars in them.
Crystal Pitts, a Scrub Pub employee, said she is
convinced males are more particular about their
laundry than females because many have never done
their own laundry before.
“They ask us what kind of soap they should use,
if they can use bleach — all sorts of questions,” she
said. “1 had one guy come in here and strip down to
his boxers and wash everything he had on. And of
course, if a red sock happens to fall into a load of
white underwear and turn everything pink, it’s nev
er the guy’s fault. Something has to be wrong with
the washing machine.”
Pitts said some males who come to the Scrub Pub
have female employees inspect their clothes after
they are washed.
“Sometimes, the guys would go home to change,”
she said, “and come back to make sure they looked
OK before going out on a date.”
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As yummy as Chef Boyardee and Ramen noodles
are, you are in college now. It is time to expand those
taste buds beyond meals you can buy for less than a
dollar. Say goodbye to frozen dinners, macaroni and
cheese and anything with the word “helper” in it and
say “howdy” to some good home cooking.
Keep it simple, and you will be amazed at the meals
you can create. And if you get really good at cooking,
a dinner quickly can turn into a great way to
schmooze the opposite sex.
Tonni Hinojosa, a chef at the Plaza Cafe at the
Hilton Hotel in College Station, has a few meal sug
gestions for college students.
“Grilled chicken is really easy to do, and so is bar
becuing,” he said. “You can throw meat on the grill,
and you have a good meal.”
Hinojosa said cooking can be fun, and it is a great
way to attract the opposite sex.
“I got off work late one night and didn’t want to go
home to change, so I went out in my chef uniform,”
he said. “Girls were falling all over it. They would say
things like ‘Oh, you’re a chef?’ and ‘Will you come
over and cook me dinner?’ It was crazy. Women def
initely like guys who can cook.”
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Not only is Mom no longer around to clean your
room for you, but neither of your parents are around
to lock you in your room until you clean it. So as tests
and projects roll by, the dishes, clothes, garbage and
dust pile up before your eyes. Luckily, you are at an
age where you can still get away with being a slob,
but even slobs have their limits. When algae begins
to grow in your bathtub and dust clouds float up from
the carpet each time you take a step, it is time to break
out some elbow grease and get to cleaning.
Jarrod Smith, a freshman kinesiology major, is not
the average college man. He does not let dust collect
on the furniture, and he hates to let dishes pile up in
the sink.
“I am pretty neat, and I clean once a week,” he
said. “I don’t like things to be dirty. When I clean, I
vacuum, dust, everything. Dirty dishes are my biggest
peeve, so we run the dishwasher a lot.”
Like many college students. Smith grew up with his
mom cleaning up after him and making his bed for
him every day.
“It’s hard to get up and make my own bed,” he said.
“Coming to college means there is more responsibility
to get used to. I have to be in a good mood to clean.”
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Yard work is yet another aspect of domestic life.
This does not mean mowing the lawn or chopping
down trees, although those things are important. It
means having a garden, growing some vegetables and
maybe even some sweet-smelling flowers. At first it
sounds strange, even crazy, but getting in touch with
nature and bringing out the green thumb in you is not
as weird as it seems.
Kevin Tait, a 23-year-old from San Francisco, Calif.,
said he is skeptical about the idea of gardening.
“I’ll get out and mow the lawn any day,” he said.
“But I don’t think I’m going to start planting fruits or
flowers any time soon. That’s just goofy.”
After thinking about planting a flower garden, Tait
said, he came up with an idea.
“If you were able to grow flowers like roses and
stuff girls liked, then you could use those to give your
girlfriend,” he said. “You wouldn’t have to spend a
fortune on a dozen roses every time you did some
thing wrong. So maybe having a rose bush in the
backyard isn’t such a goofy idea.”
Deep down, somewhere inside you, Martha Stew
art or Julia Child may be screaming to get out. Your
green thumb may be desperate for action. It just may
take a while to get past all the built-up dirt, grime and
dust to find them.
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