Laundry is……complicated. I remember the day I had the sad realization of how much time I spent managing our laundry. I hated the amount of time I spent washing, folding and putting away. I’ve spent countless hours trying to figure out what I can do to make it more efficient and less time consuming and frustrating.
I was one of those people that got through the washing and drying just fine, but the folding and putting away were typically put off until it reached mountain stage and I told one of my boys to do it. In general my thought about laundry was this–
One day I was watching a show on Netflix and I heard the phrase, “A stitch in time saves nine.” I knew what it meant but I looked it up anyway; here’s what I got from Dictionary.com: if you sort out a problem immediately it may save a lot of extra work later. Which got me thinking.
What if I did exactly opposite of what I’m doing now? Would this solve my laundry frustrations?
Household Hack #184
The current load of laundry in the dryer must be folded AND put away before any new loads can be put in.
I absolutely could not empty the dryer unless I was prepared to fold and put away what was in it.
CRAZY, RIGHT????
But it works. It takes a bit of strategy, but it works.
It takes AT THE MOST 5 minutes (because I timed myself) to fold and put away a load at my house.
Mind blowing.
It takes a little discipline to do it. Sometimes the clothes may sit in the dryer a few days before I get to them but that’s okay. The 5 minutes (or less) that it takes me to fold and put away saves me so much time and frustration later.
IT WORKS.
Seriously, I don’t have any more laundry piles.
You will transform your whole laundry future if you do this, I promise! No more laundry chair. No more clothes on the couch or bed. No more annoying piles of clean clothes that get strewn about or stuck in laundry baskets for weeks. And you can teach your kids to do this as well. A win-win for everyone.
IT’S A MIRACLE!
Now my laundry life is more like this:
instead of this:
Cheers!
Annie
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