And the next day when we had enough clothes to make a load, I went ahead and did that load, FOLDED it, and PUT AWAY that one load. I don’t know how I came to this revelation, but one week in early January I got all the laundry folded and put away. I was more determined than ever to work on being a better housekeeper, to keeping our home neater, to keeping our bedroom neater. I hated the mess, hated living out of piles and laundry basket, hated that I seriously thought about buying my husband enough pairs of sock to last for 3 weeks so I didn’t have to feel guilty for him searching for socks in the pile every morning, and in general I hated laundry! (Sorry, no pictures of this… way to embarrassing to share.) 2-3 weeks worth of laundry and it would take me over an hour to fold, hang, and put it all away. By this point, we had no clean socks or underwear left in the drawers and we were digging every day to find sock matches or clothes to wear.įinally I would get fed up, dump all the clothes on the bed (ok, usually it was TOO MUCH to fit on the bed at one time) and fold and put it all away. Then it was laundry day again and yet another 5-6 loads got added to the pile on the floor overflowing laundry baskets. Please tell me I am not the only one that has done this? Until I got tired of that or needed to vacuum and it got tossed BACK into the laundry baskets. ![]() And for the next several days, we got dressed out of the pile on the floor. Ok, actually the pile was so big, it just got pushed into the floor. And when we finally headed to bed this is what would happen. Sometimes the laundry even made it from the basket to the bed. Laundry would be done later in the day and I would be downstairs by that time for the evening busy working or spending time with my husband and I would just forget about it. ![]() I despised the FOLDING part of “doing laundry” especially when I had a laundry basket (or TWO) of clothes to fold.Īll those clean clothes got tossed load after load into the laundry basket (a few got hung to dry.) I always intended to FOLD and PUT AWAY the laundry that day too. But that is where my enjoyment stopped and the disaster started. I didn’t mind WASHING the laundry at all or even transferring it from the washer to the dryer. ![]() 4 loads of clothes – 2 dark loads, 1 light colored load, 1 load of whites, a load of towels, and a load of sheets or rugs. I would do 5, 6, or 7 loads that day for a family of 2. It was the day that worked best for my work schedule when I was still working outside the house and it allowed us to start out the week with clean laundry. “Laundry Day” in our house used to be on Monday. But first let me tell you what WASN’T working for me. I know that all of you have been waiting on pins and needles for the secret I have been keeping on how to have an empty laundry basket a huge majority of the time!
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