Perhaps laundry skills are quick to go for many of us because doing laundry isn't repeated daily. I've just returned from the laundry building in my apartment complex after startling myself with my own behavior. I was so surprised to see that the place was occupied by several mentally disabled people who live in the complex (accompanied by their caregiver) that after I put all my quarters in the machine I realized that I had put my unwashed laundry into the dryer! I gracefully relocated my laundry to a washer while one of mentally disabled women made use of my quarters that were neatly lined up in the dryer's slots. I was glad that she didn't realize that the situation was strange.

When I was in college, people thought I was weird because I would stay in the laundry room while my clothes went through the cycle. Maybe that was a good idea after all (since I would have been freaked out by something like this)

David, thanks for the article, ah the challenges of a common area laundry room, take me way back in time. Believe me over the past few years I have had befuddled moments where things just didn't make sense. I know with aging our brains slow down and it takes us longer to figure things out.

I read with interest about putting together a cabinet. My sig other and I put together a cabinet "some assembly required" which was a challenge, more so to him as he never has figured out over the years how to even open a tool box, never had learned how to fix things around the house, and has no memory issues except for normal age decline moments. So in my book, what you were doing through seemed quite normal :)

I was beginning to think I was losing it myself until I realised that the real problem in our home was from theft. A person who we had employed for years was the guilty party. It took me a long time just to even come to terms that it even could be a possibility that this person that we trusted for so long could do this but now things were so obvious. Why didn't I see it earlier? My mind is at ease.....at least for now when I see things that aren't right because I know that that was obviously put out of place to cover things up. Wow! What en eye opener for us.