Comments on: Avoiding the Laundry Pileup

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:57:07 +0000

We have 8 children — LOTS of laundry! We make our laundry more managable by having fewer clothes for each person. We also cut down on expense by having four sorters: Dark Hots, White Hots, Dark Colds, and White Colds. Then we aren’t using extra hot water to wash T-shirts and dresses and things in hot water. Only “germy” things get washed in hot water (i.e. NOT the bath towel just used to dry a clean body!)

By: Wenche Sterling

Wenche Sterling — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:30:49 +0000

My first time visiting. I do laundry twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays. The three compartments laundry organizer is great – I used it all the time. I do however many loads it takes ont hose two days, dump it all on my bed and have one of the kids help me sort into piles, one for my daughter, one for the boys (they wear the same size), one for my husdand and i, and one for towels and such. The child helps fold ( a little), and puts away most all of it. It works great for us. I’d hate to have to do laundry every day, so this works well. (it probably amounts to 3-5 loads on each of those two days)

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:54:41 +0000

Is it too late to post? I love reading all of these ideas. I have learned a lot from my friend who has six children. She keeps the kids’ clothes in dressers in the basement (laundry room) until they are old enough to manage on their own. That way she folds and puts away, but doesn’t have to haul it to all of the bedrooms upstairs. She assigns a bin to each kid, puts clean, folded clothes in it. When kids get home from school, one of their chores is to put away their clothes and return the bin.

One thing I love that my husband suggested is to put odd socks in the appropriate persons drawer. What? No odd sock box?? It seemed unnatural, but indeed it works sooo well. I’ve asked that our kids put their socks together as they take them off, that way, no odd socks–This often fails. When we do find odd socks, they get dumped into the drawer with all of the matches, where there may be a match. Or maybe, they will match it up with a non-match on a desperate day. Either way, no mess of odd socks.

I also have some rules to keep me from going crazy. I don’t check pockets. (Unless it is obvious, just between you and me.) And I don’t turn things right side out. The way they send it down is the way it gets returned. If one leg is stuck wrong side out, that’s the way I fold it up. I have four kids and two are teenagers. They know better.

By: Ginny

Ginny — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:53:48 +0000

I have a confession. I don’t buy my daughter different colored socks, or even different styles. I buy her several packs of all the same style, all white. I save a lot of time by not sorting her socks.
Plus I convinced her that sorting laundry into the sorter was a little game… and she totally fell for it.

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By: Josie

Josie — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:18:45 +0000

I have 7 children, ages 3 to 21. The last one just quit wearing diapers (except at night). For 21 years I used cloth diapers, and I never minded. I would put them in a diaper pail (later, a food service pail with a good lid, as diaper pails became obsolete) with some Odoban and water. (If the diaper was dirty, I would first rinse it out in the toilet, using rubber gloves.) When the pail was full, my husband or older son would carry it to the laundry room for me, and we would empty it into the washer and spin out the water. Next I would wash them in hot water and detergent (bleach not necessary). My kids would hang them out in the sun, which kept them nice and white. After they were dry we would pile them up and put them in a drawer. Simple.
I bet we saved $4000 or so! Not to mention reducing waste in the landfill!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:34:21 +0000

Thong underwear take up much less space than granny panties.

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By: Taylor at Household-Management-101

Taylor at Household-Management-101 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:51:20 +0000

Small notebook, I swear I just found your website tonight so it is eerie how similar we are in thinking, especially about the three bag laundry sorter. I have one that I use for my entire family's laundry and love it. I have posted my weekly schedule for my family of five, with three children 6 and under on my website. Come check it out! Taylor at Household-Management-101´s last blog post..Put Away Clothes To Complete The Laundry Cycle

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By: Naomi in Ohio

Naomi in Ohio — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:59:40 +0000

We totally do our laundry PER PERSON. Each kiddo has a laundry bin in their room, as does their bathroom and our bedroom. When the bin is full, a load gets done. That way, when it comes out of the dryer, it can be folded and the bin goes right back up to the appropriate room. NOW - tell me how to get the motivation to get that bin EMPTIED and put into drawers??? Naomi in Ohio's last blog post..Borrowing, twice over