keeping up with laundry?

Question

does anybody have any advice to keep up with my laundry i end up just having huge piles on my floor and it takes me days to do it all

Answer 1

You have good answers so far but they don't address the root of the problem. Wardrobe is just another word for laundry and so if your mountain is too big, address it first in your CLOSET, not your laundry room.

Declutter your clothes and get rid of excessive amounts all the way around...in the closet, and in the hamper.

Get rid of anything that:

Doesn't fit
Is way out of style
You never wear it
You got it as a gift and don't like it
Doesn't go with anything else in your closet
Will never get mended, stains removed, buttons replaced, ironed Clothes that lived a good life, and needs a funeral...just worn out
Maintenance is harder than you are willing to do.

These are taking up space in your closet, keeping you from enjoying, maintaining, and finding the clothes you do wear, and giving you the illusion of abundance. See, you THINK you don't have to wash because you have all these other clothes, but you really don't because you don't ever wear them. Get them out so you have no real or virtual safety net. If you only have a certain number of pants and they are all good garments for you to wear, and you run out on Tuesday night, there is no question what is going to happen...no fumbling around for an escape situation with pants you don't like. What will happen is: you either go to work on Wednesday morning without pants, with dirty pants, or you wash your well-loved pants on Tuesday and go to work with clean pants that you feel good wearing. I promise you will wash your pants...sooner, with less accumulation of laundry. And chances are, when you see your pants-dwindling closet, you will wash way before you are really out. Either way, the pile on the laundry floor will be smaller because there are not as many clothes to MAKE a pile with.

Another thing you can do with servicable clothes, unlikely to be reused by others, or stuff you just can't part with...is get them out of circulation on a temporary basis. If it isn't available, easy to reach, it will not end up in the washer or on the laundry room floor.

Start with out of season. Box up and label and stash.

Pack up kids' clothes that are between kids. Label these specifically as well as an anticipated date to bring them back out and who can use them next.

Pack up excessive socks and underwear, other basics...wear a few until they are ready for the trash and shop from your stash to replace them.

If there is still a lot of nice things that qualify as keepers, you can consider breaking down further into smaller independently functioning wardrobes, keep all but ONE stored away, rotate them in and out whenever you want. Each collection should represent your needs to dress up and down, do different things etc. It should also contain pieces that work well together, and should give you variety so you don't go picking through your stash on a regular basis.

The other logical thing to do is go around the house gathering laundry daily, and as a load accumulates (sorting is up to you) then wash it right then and there, start to finish. That will keep you on top of it.

Answer 2

You can get a hamper that has dividers in it and sort it as it goes in. That way you don't have them on the floor. Then when you get enough for a load do it. Try doing a load everyday when you get up. Just start it and when it get finished put it away right then. You will be done for the whole day. It is a lot easier for me to do it now that this is the system I use. I used to have piles on the floor. I don't envy you. Good Luck!

Answer 3

i have a laundry room so i just bought those pop up hampers and i sort the laundry as i go during the week and on saturday i simply brew a pot of coffee and play on here as my laundry is washing. i usually have about 6 loads so i save it all for saturday. you could also do your clothes one day and the linens and stuff another day to break up the laundry pile up

Answer 4

The only way that I can stay up with the dirty laundry is to divide it into darks,lights, whites, light towels, and dark towels.
I wash everything in one day, hang it (no dryer) and take it down the next. If I put it away the same day, it stays reasonably ok in my house.
If I have a bad week, or I'm sick, out of town,etc, I'm sunk!

Answer 5

Our laundry room is in the basement. I toss the dirty stuff to the bottom of the stairs, and when I go down later, I put the stuff in the hampers in the laundry room.

Answer 6

Wash a load when you first wake up. Do another one before you go to bed.

Answer 7

As soon as you have a load of whites, colors etc. wash it. I have seperate baskets for each and as soon as one is full I wash it.

Answer 8

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