So by your standards kids in Washington DC must be some of the most amazing students on earth.

Well for one my mom is one to run washes at the end of the day and pick it up the next morning. And given I can forget things in 4 minutes a reminder doesn't hurt.

I do ALL my own laundry, and there have been a few occasions where I've accidentally thrown a shirt in the dryer that I didn't want to. I don't have enough "line dry only" items to make a whole separate load for them, so sometimes it's just a matter of bad memory. I can see where this trick would be useful (though I…