Kibbutz Laundry: A missing clothes appeal.

The volunteer house doesn't have a washing machine so we all use the kibbutz laundry

service. Basically you put a number, each house has different number ours is 258, on all your clothes before you hand them over so when you go to collect it you don't pick up someone else's clothes and no one picks up yours. Sounds simple huh?

Not when there are 18 people in your house. That's a lot of clothes. Especially when In addition to everyone's personal collection of clothes we also have 'public clothes' jeans, t shirts, shorts etc. For wearing to work or when your own clothes go missing..but we'll get to that in a second. They all say 258 on the label or collar.

I guess you should also know that I have very short legs, to the point that petite trousers aren't even short enough. I buy new jeans and have to cut a 4 inches off (not the petite ones the standard length) before sowing a new hem on them. So you'd have to be equally short to want to steal them, right?

Okay, here we go:

Me wearing said jeans
 before the disappearance

Dear clothes monster, fellow volunteers, laundry ladies or whom ever else might have some info on these missing items. I write this in desperation. I doubt anything will come of it but what the heck it's worth a try.

I am very much missing a pair of jeans and some jogging pants that I sent to the laundry a fair while ago. I am pretty sure I put the 258 number on them so they would come back to the volunteer house but I haven't seen them in over a month. I packed light coming hereand as much as I can kit myself out for work with public clothes that never really fit, having a nice comfy (second) pair of Jeans and some comfy jogging pants to chill in would be nice.

I have been patient cos sometimes people's clothes get mixed in with the public clothes and you see someone else in the house wearing your stuff but no such luck.

I am aware there is like a ' lost and found' section at the laundry where all the stuff without a number ends up and have already rummaged through it in search of my belongings. Thus I am about to give up on the idea of ever seeing my clothes again.

Please get in contact if you have any information on their where about.

If they suddenly appeared on my doorstep after this post, that would make me very happy but I realise that is unlikely so dear trousers I hope you are being treated well where ever you have ended up.