Hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

Collecting, sorting washing, pegging, unpegging, (folding as you go, with two baskets)...hand said baskets to kids...

hey presto, clothes all gone!

i have only 2 loads - regular and delicate and there's no separating anything else.

it just all goes together, regardless of material or colour and i hope for the best.

if something is ruined, i just go out and buy another.

Back when the kids were a bit younger, and all at home, I had four baskets.... one for the boys, one for the girls, and two for mine and the household stuff, sheets towels, etc...

each kid took a basket, and they put it away.

I wash my towels and sheets in hot water and clothes in warm water.
Some clothes I wash in cold water on gentle cycle.

White towels and white clothes/socks, etc. get bleach.

I don't get yellow clothes or bleach bothering my clothes. I double rinse everything.

I, too, do laundry everyday.

Oooooh the laundry. Well I am down to my own pretty much at this point so chopped that monster down to size.

When the kids were younger I bought all white underwear and tube socks so that was one load each a week in one of those big mesh bags. I learned early on wrinkled underwear does not kill anybody so out of the dryer into a deep drawer un-sorted or folded. Hang up the bag where the kids, even the big ones, strip help.

Everybody had their own bedroom towel bar too. Personal towels found not on the towel bars were confiscated and had to be bought back out of their arcade allowance. When they hang and dry and don't get tromped on a load a week usually does it.

Along the same idea everybody in our house had a personal chef apron for cooking and eating. That cuts down a lot on the boo boos and trying to scrub stains out. One over the door hanger in the pantry makes them easy to find.

Then as lacking in variety as it might seem everyone wore blue jeans or denim skirts the majority of the time.

I don't know it really made a difference or not but I think making kids responsible for their own laundry at a relatively young age starting with toddlers pushing the rolling basket back and forth during movie breaks and popcorn made it a family activity.

Also buying enough clothes and letting the kids pick more of their own when they get older so they take care of them seems to help.

Now if any of you have any good ideas how to talk me out of the clothes I have that I don't wear but am too cheap to toss go for it.

You guys are making this complicated.

Spend $2.78 on a 75' roll of Saran wrap...and a roll of scotch tape.

BAM! you got disposable loin clothes for at least a month.

Hey....indians wore loin clothes for thousands of years and no one batted an eye.....yet I walk into the grocery store and all Hell breaks loose. I tell them.."trying to cut down on laundry."

The "cheap" excuse don't fly with me pacific baby! hehehehehe

Yea, I do all my shirts in one load, all my paints in another and all my socks and under clothes in another. Thats it...

When my kids were younger they did do all there chores and laundry, dishes, ect..

But now that they are working full time jobs, and going to college full time, have a child, and helping pay the mortgage and bills. And I get to stay home run a childcare business in the house so i can be with my grandchild...

I am the one that dose 75% of all the house work! and laundry is one of these jobs.... even though on Sunday my Son in law brings down his 6 hamper bags sorted and is responsible and starts it.. there are a lot of times i end up having to finish it... on Monday and Tuesday. along with all of my stuff.. I don't mind believe me!

I do all i can to help these kids.... I have spent years teaching them how to run a house, they take full responsibility for everything in the home, bills, maintaining the house and cars.. ect...

So i am very proud of them and they are only 25,24,23yrs old.. My kids are great......

and my grandchild 3yrs old she has a lot of chores... she folds and puts away her own laundry.. to help us all.. lol...

LOl she is the owner of the childcare and runs it.. Well in her eyes.. at least... haa haa..

and all the kids in my center dose the laundry with me... so most of the time the 5 and 4 yr old help fold...

So I will do everyone laundry.. just send it air express... $1.50 per item and I will be rich............ and keep the kids happy and busy.. lol

OMG>> your DEAD GORGEOUS.. I FORGOT WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT...... hmmmmmmmmm THAT LONG LONG HAIR STOPPED ME IN MY TRACKS........

as FOR THE SARAN WRAP..........????? AND SCOTCH TAPE.... u USE WAY TOO MUCH OF THAT STUFF......

Dose it count i was called Pocahontas up until i was 31yrs old...

Krupa - Voted Sexiest Top Model In The World

Hmmm now i know were you got that name from....

Dang silly! I think you may need glasses Honey!

I just perved your profile....You are HAWT! I can definitely see the Pocahontas reference...The high cheek bones are beautiful.

Sexiest Model? You GOTTA be referring to my cousin!

The good Lord is doing my laundry.... so far it's been rinsed twice and I'm waiting for him to bring out the sun to dry it. I just wish the towels weren't so darn hard. I do miss my dryer.

Joanna Krupa wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Krupa

I know...Her parents are close kin to my Dad. When I go to penn/ohio (youngstown)..which ain't often.....I get to hang out with the rest of the Krupa girls who are just as beautiful. Last time I saw her was at my cousins wedding...Yeah..she is a good looking girl.

edit: But she is really cool too.

Front load washers and dryers match time! oh sorry. meant to leave work at work!!!!

When I was a teenager there were 15 people in my family, the well didn't produce so we (my sister and I) took the family laundry to a laundrymatt once a week. We did 32 loads! (on average) It took about an hour and a half...We folded it as it dried, loaded it in the car and delivered it to each bedroom. We had a great system, had we had to do that many loads in a pair of machines at home the machines (and us) would have run none stop!

We also showered at school or in a creek behind the house, discovered biodegradable soup...

Don't you just love sleeping in fresh sheets, makes it all worth it!

Heheh well I did cop that nap after all have the last load in the dryer just stuff that goes to the extra bed I'm washing and actually got my front and backyard all mowed so not a bad day after all

Oh! You are soooo lazy! You could have gotten drunk and played video games during that nap! hehehehehehe

Good for you! Doesn't it feel nice to check stuff off the list, feel so capable and strong? Really I love those days when I get it done!

Hehehehe hummm got drunk last night that is why I had to have a nap today hehehe shshsh getting too old to handle that stuff lol