![]() And I’ve always put socks/underwear in with the towels…. But I do like to wash towels separately from other clothes for the lintiness factor. I don’t worry about separating darks/colors per se. I don’t like doing laundry, so I keep it as simple as possible. Only 3 days a week are spent on laundry at all and putting away is streamlined. (tablecloth, kitchen rags, etc.) are another day for getting into “folding large items” mode. I do my daughters’ clothes another day and it all ends up back in the same dresser (they share a room). When they all have hangers, I pick up the entire stack of shirts and hang them up. Then I put a hanger in the top one and fold the hanger down and continue putting a hanger in the next. My trick for hanging shirts is to lay them all in a stack on the bed. Then, when a load is done, I know I need to fold or hang all of it, and it goes pretty quickly. So when it’s the day for parents’ laundry, I sort folded clothes (pants, socks, undies) separately from hanging clothes (shirts, mostly). Due to living in a foreign country, I can only use cold water and line dry, so the clothes take it pretty well. Laundry is one thing I’m pretty simple with. Using this system for us means laundry is no longer a huge burden in our household and thankfully no longer an all day chore.ĭo you have a laundry system that works for you or is laundry an ongoing hassle in your house? Towels and sheets each get their own loads as well, as needed. I typically don’t buy high maintenance clothing especially things that need to be ironed. Usually those are so few and far between though that it’s so not a big deal. Sweet! Occasionally my daughter will have a dress to be washed or some other delicate and we do hold those out and wash them in a separate load. So not only have I gotten rid of the sorting process but, with the big kids at least, the folding process as well. I must say, sorting clothes is highly overrated □Įach kid usually has one full load of laundry a week and the beauty of this system is that it makes it very easy to teach and have them do their own laundry. As in I no longer spend any time trying to figure out whose socks are whose. I’ve eliminated the entire sorting process all together. Although note of caution wash new red items and denim separately the first time. ![]() I’ve yet to wreck a piece of clothing doing it this way. I just add about a 1/2 cup of vinegar to each load to help set the colors and prevent the colors from running. I thought for sure the colors would run but they didn’t. Gasp! No sorting laundry!!Ĭan you even believe it? I certainly couldn’t. In other words, I throw their whole basket of laundry into one load WITHOUT separating the whites and colors. Each child still has a laundry basket in their room but rather than do everyone’s laundry all at once, I do one child’s load at a time. Now with the wisdom I gleaned from my friend Beth, I can honestly say my new laundry method has changed my life. Finding a big chunk of time like that to devote to this task was tough. It took forever and I was constantly putting it off because I always felt like the laundry had to get done all at once so everyone would have a full basket to return to their rooms. Then when it was all washed I’d start the sorting process all over again as I sorted each child’s clothing back into their individual baskets. Each of my kids has a hamper in their bedrooms and on laundry day they’d each bring their basket downstairs and I would start the chore of sorting the piles of laundry into whites and darks. In order to get the full picture though of how much time and frustration this particular system saves me, let me walk you through how I use to do laundry. During the presentation the lovely speaker, Beth, discussed her laundry system and it was one of those moments where I thought, now gosh why didn’t I think of that. A few years ago I had an a-ha moment during an organizing workshop at a blog conference I was attending.
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