Looking for creative ways to manage my family's laundry. Seven children, plus mom and dad. Currently, there is not "wash day" as every day is "wash day" and there is a never ending pile of laundry to deal with. Hampers are a joke. They are too tiny, even with one in each bedroom. Any creative idea's besides dressing my children in paper clothes?
2006-06-30 10:04:09 · 6 answers · asked by Lovemyfamily 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
I only have 2 kids and a husband and I can't even keep up with the laundry, so bravo to you for even trying.
I strongly suggest you enforce everyone's participation in the laundry. If they can walk, they can do laundry. Firstly, let's be honest....I think if you have 7 kids, you need more than the normal resources. You need an extra large washer.....or 2 washers. You need a room dedicated to laundry, even if it's the basement.
I find using large laundry baskets AS the hamper gives you a little more room for clothes, and they are easy to carry the clothes in. Each capable person needs to first learn to separate their clothes and line them up for washing. A load before school int he morning, and one after dinner when they get home. Perhaps your husband can throw one in after the kids are in bed at night to be folded early the next morning. I'd think you'd need to do at least 2 or 3 loads a day, so teach everyone to do this efficiently, how to fold, how to put away. My children are 6 and 8 and can do this. They have to....... I work and they are dirty little boys.
I'm sorry I have no magic solution, but I think your saving grace is simply lots of help and an assembly-line style routing.
2006-06-30 10:48:19 · answer #1 · answered by paintgirl 4 · 7⤊ 1⤋
WOW seven kids?
I will be praying for you.
Paper clothes LOL that is funny.
Sounds like an all day job taking care of kids and house and laundry. I would get some help from all of them that can help.
Or make a room just for the laundry detail. Use bins to organize it, and as I did I have a OPEN Closet for hanging the clothes as I get it out of the dryer.
I have a long/wide table bought from Wal-Mart to fold on. I have a shelf unit I use to put my sorted clothes. I made this my self. Very easy.
Use some brackets that have a rod holder for the hanging part.
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2006-06-30 19:35:09 · answer #2 · answered by Chhaya05 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you could do 2 loads each night and then spend a weekend day doing up all the extra- sheets, towels, etc...
that way you just do a dark load and a light load each day to wash up what all the kids dirtied that day- would there be more laundry than that each day? Tell them if they don't put it in the dirty clothes basket, it doesn't get washed. Ever. Just have a basket for darks and one for lights.
2006-06-30 10:11:51 · answer #3 · answered by Heather 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assign a day to everyone over the age of 12 so they can do their own laundry.
Kids under 12 should separate their colors from whites and have the ones over 12 do their laundry.
2006-06-30 10:10:56 · answer #4 · answered by Quoi? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
teach your kids how to laundry let the ones old enough do the kids laundry and the adults split the other praise the kids let them know how good of a job they do it works with mine
2006-06-30 10:43:03 · answer #5 · answered by beautyladyshell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have too many clothes.
2006-07-02 08:38:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋