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Angie4b1g

Angie4b1g

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How do you handle it? Do you keep on top of it every day, or does it pile up until you have mountains? Do you fold right away or do you have clean baskets waiting to be folded?

I'm pretty good about staying on top of it. I don't have to do it EVERY day, since we have the big ole washer and dryer, but every couple days or so I do a couple loads. I wash ours separate from the kids, so I do ours about every 4 days, and theirs in between.

And I ALWAYS fold or hang it right out of the dryer. Can not handle it getting all wrinkled in baskets. *SHUDDER*
 
it seems to pile up quickly around here, so even when i try to stay on top of it, it gets away from me.
when I do the laundry, i tend to hang it or fold it right away. when hubby does the laundry, it gets piled into baskets to sit and wrinkle for a small eternity. lovely.
 
We once watched a show of the Duggers? or some family with lots of kids, and they were sorting socks? My kids (only 7 here), said, "Mom, they need your system!"
hahah
Monday-my boys, 8&6 year old
Tuesday-the teen boys
Wed-my 4 year old and hubs and mine
Thurs-the twin girls
Friday-towels and a miscellaneous load
Saturday&Sunday it stays empty unless I am doing curtains or big blankets
Each day they do their own, from separate, load and put away! Once done, their sheets go in. Clean clothes, clean sheets and happy mom!
Laundry goes in first thing in AM and is done before anyone goes anywhere in the afternoon. Motivation!
The key is to have 10 pair socks, and underwear. The each have 8 pants or shorts and 12 shirts. We cull anything more, because they really only wear 7 over and over. Except the girls, Lord help me!
 
At this point, it's me and 19 year old son, so jeans, tshirts, socks and underwear. I'm able to sort into 3 loads a week (small ones) and I do them on Saturday and Sunday intermixed with sheets and towels. It's amazing how much less laundry I do now then when I had 4 people in the house.
 
Anne, my son has always had more clothes than my daughter. Up until the past year or so, I was the one one buying for him so he got stuff whenever I liked it. She on the other hand has been way too influenced by tv organization shows and fashion ones (lol) and keeps her wardrobe lean and mean. If she buys something new, something old has to go. I'm amazed when I visit her that she didn't pick up my clotheshorse gene.
 
We have a laundry chute so the pile goes magically away into the basement. Out of sight, out of mind. :) I am able to sort piles and leave them on the floor in the laundry area and I try to get caught up on the laundry on the weekends when we're home. If it doesn't happen on the weekend, I try to tackle it on Mondays, but if our week is busy, it just waits until the next weekend. I try to fold as things are dry, but the reality is, that doesn't always happen. I've been know to put a handful of wrinkled items back in the dryer for a 15 minute fluff and then hang them up.
 
John does most of it, bless him! But we stay on top of it and don't let it pile up
 
I do mine and hubs laundry every 3 or 4 days. Trey is 15 and is responsible for doing his own. I fold it all right out of the dryer, but put it all away at once when it's all done.
 
In theory I like the idea of doing a load a day to keep on top of it, but usually I get in laundry moods and will do 3 or 4 loads in one day until I'm almost caught up, and then I'll get busy with other stuff and a suddenly few days will go by and I'll have mountains again. I always fold stuff right away when I take it out of the dryer, but sometimes that last load has been sitting in the dryer a few days before I get to it.

We don't have a real laundry room (machines are in a small pass-through room coming in from the garage), so the piles sit on the floor in the master bathroom. I sort my stuff as I take it off. The kids drag their hampers in and sort their laundry themselves, unless I haven't paid attention and find I need to do it while they're at school. DH doesn't have a clue on sorting and never used his hamper (which was a whole foot from where he gets undressed), so we gave it to DD. His stuff lives in a pile on the floor by his side of the bed or hangs on the bedpost, so I usually grab it all and sort it while the kids are sorting theirs.
 
AnneofAlamo said:
We once watched a show of the Duggers? or some family with lots of kids, and they were sorting socks? My kids (only 7 here), said, "Mom, they need your system!"
hahah
Monday-my boys, 8&6 year old
Tuesday-the teen boys
Wed-my 4 year old and hubs and mine
Thurs-the twin girls
Friday-towels and a miscellaneous load
Saturday&Sunday it stays empty unless I am doing curtains or big blankets
Each day they do their own, from separate, load and put away! Once done, their sheets go in. Clean clothes, clean sheets and happy mom!
Laundry goes in first thing in AM and is done before anyone goes anywhere in the afternoon. Motivation!
The key is to have 10 pair socks, and underwear. The each have 8 pants or shorts and 12 shirts. We cull anything more, because they really only wear 7 over and over. Except the girls, Lord help me!
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You bring up an interesting point - I only do your laundry if you are under the age of 12, or married to me. So, my 3 oldest all do their own. ;)

Also, re: socks - I buy them 15 pair of the exact same ones so I'm not spending my life pairing them up. When they need new ones, I throw out all of the old ones and replace them with 15 matching new pair. This simplified my life beyond belief.

My daughter, of course, has all the colorful different ones but a) she does her own laundry and b) doesn't care if they match.
 
KimJ said:
DH doesn't have a clue on sorting and never used his hamper (which was a whole foot from where he gets undressed), so we gave it to DD. His stuff lives in a pile on the floor by his side of the bed or hangs on the bedpost, so I usually grab it all and sort it while the kids are sorting theirs.
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My husband ALWAYS throws his stuff on the floor right next to the basket. Like literally right next to it. I'm always like WTF
 
daily, and I don't let it pile up. Probably b/c my laundry closet is in my hallway and there's no where to leave it even if I wanted to let it pile up ;)
 
I am not a fan of laundry probably b/c I end up doing it every other day. DH has a closet full of clothes that he refuses to wear or part with. During the week he wears company shirts and on the weekend rotates between 5 faves. It's crazy! On most days I try and get the laundry right out of the dryer and put it away, but it doesn't always happen. I have been known to toss in a damp wash cloth to freshen up a wrinkled load. :blush
 
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This is Hubs' self-imposed household chore. His preferred 'method' is to wait until the weekend, do 4-5 loads, and then leave them draped over the dryer and/or other pieces of furniture for a few days (or until he does laundry again).

Sigh.

I started a couple loads last night. We'll see if he did anything with them this morning after I went to work, but before he did. Otherwise, he has class tonight & tomorrow night, so I will get the rest done then.

If only I could get him to do the dishes, which I loathe, we'd really be in business...
 
its just me and hubby, so i do laundry around every other week. But occasionally I will do a load if I want a certain item to wear.
 
Angie4b1g said:
I don't think my husband knows where I keep the washer.
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He knows where it is, cause he had to stack the beasts upon each other...but I know he can start the dryer, cause I do NOT iron. The washer...he is totally and willingly clueless to the hows it works
 
I do it all over two days - usually Fri and Sat. I fold it all in one sitting, usually late at night while watching the latest Project Runway episode.
 
yep, my hubby does a fair share of the laundry around here too. like i said, though, he just washes and dries it. he sort of skips the fold and put away bits. kind of sets my OCD off like nothing else really. :giggle

and yes, definitely, the kids do their own stuff - they sort the dirty clothes into hampers by color when they take them off. we have a light, dark, white, delicate, and towels/blankets hamper. then, the kids sort all the clean clothes into baskets by who the clothes belong to. all shirts them get hung up, and each basket is divvied out to its rightful owner to be folded and put away.
 
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