Ambience

Ambience is a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person or thing (Webster, 2011). To me the result of completing the task of laundry creates an ambience. It is the good feeling and moods of people that having clean laundry creates that encourages me, among other things, to do the laundry in the first place. The nature of doing laundry itself is that of labour. It is a job or a task that must be done. We need clean clothes therefore someone has to wash them. The folding and sorting of washing is not so essential, however there is a need created in that it makes it easier to find things and keeps everything neat and tidy. Labour "seeks not to add to life, but merely to sustain it - from which it follows that labor is endless. Once done, it is always  undone. Indeed,  labor can be said to be activity  that is done in order to be undone (Green, 1968)".

There is not a lot of feeling created around doing the laundry but rather the finished product of having clean laundry is more important. The task is done for a purpose – that the family have clean clothes and then can go about their lives appropriately. The feelings and emotions created by clean clothes are not normally noticed. The time that it is noticed is when the laundry is not done. This can create arguments and bad feeling, when someone doesn’t have the correct clothes to wear that day, or someone has run out of clean socks. It creates bad feeling amongst everyone involved.