It’s a beautiful thing, when all the laundry is folded. To be truthful, it’s a rare thing to be caught up on the laundry even for a day in our house. Because if we’re being honest here, it’s just for a day that you really are caught up! I try to remind myself that it’s a never ending job, because otherwise it can be overwhelming!
Here are some other tips I use when doing the laundry:
TIME MANAGEMENT:
I always try to go to bed with both the washer & dryer empty. Being a family of 5, with young kids, I typically do at least one load a day. If possible before I start our morning routine, I always throw a load of clothes in the washing machine. That way when I come back from taking the kids to school, and after all the morning routine is over, I can throw them into the dryer & we are half way done with a load of clothes before you know it.
STAINS:
I have 2 easy secrets that I use ALL the time for stains. I pour actual laundry detergent on the stains, if I can get to them “the day of” but my all time favorite thing I use to get the stains out is a regular bar of soap. I run cold water over the stain & then take a regular bar of soap & rub the soap against the stain until lots of suds appear. Then when I can get to do the laundry, I already know that my soiled clothes have been treated & are ready to be washed.
WHITES:
Bleach & the soak cycle are my best friends. I’m known to soak a load in a mixture of bleach & laundry detergent for a few hours before I run it through the wash & rinse cycle. It works like a charm every time on those gross grass & dirt stained socks!
FOLDING & PUTTING AWAY:
Folding & putting the clothes away is the hardest part for me! I don’t know why but I hate to fold & put away clothes. We have several laundry baskets in our house. You can find them cheap at the big box stores or at family dollar type of store. Trust me on this, go & buy yourself some extra baskets! So on big laundry days, I get all my laundry baskets out & place one by each bedroom door. Once I do a load of clothes – I place the according clothes for the according bedroom in that particular basket by the door. I will wait until my laundry is done for the day, before I actually put the clothes away from the baskets. It saves time & you’re doing everything all at the same time for that particular bedroom. Then when each laundry basket is empty, I stacked them together to be used again, on another big laundry day.
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