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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  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! Yeah it does but seems like that list never ends.  
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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 have some great ideas! I put some of those big plastic hooks right onto the shower walls. We are supposed to hang up our towels there to dry and use them a second time. We like to use the big towels and I was constantly doing laundry if each person had 2 of those in the laundry every day. I bought each person in the house new towels in the color of their choosing with matching washcloths. It doesn't always work like it is supposed to, but did reduce the amount of laundry here. I have one child that takes off clothes and just leaves them lay wherever she strips out of them. Drives me batty! As far as sorting, I'm kind of anal about that. Towels and blankets get washed together (color coded too). Whites and lights together. All those on warm. Reds to their own in cold. Jeans and real darks in cold. Anal about detergent too. HAS to be gain. Nothing else will do. I love the smell. |
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 the kids got incredibly muddy today at camp!  so....we stopped at the pool on the way home! 2 hours of splashing later, a shower and they are all clean their clothes on the other hand...
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Edited by
earthytaurus76
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Fri 07/31/09 07:35 PM
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I wash almost everything in cold usually, and warm every once in a while.
I hang up alot of stuff too. Why am I even posting that? |
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Hahahaha!!!!!!!!!! Collecting, sorting washing, pegging, unpegging, (folding as you go, with two baskets)...hand said baskets to kids... hey presto, clothes all gone!  Ya but really... Don't you still have to check it out later to insure they actually put them away. Mine used to build tents with my freshly wased sheets as soon as I turned my back. |
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Today is laundry day... Sort, wash, sort, dry, sort, fold, sort - put away. Can somone please invent a laundry bot? (and no I don't think a woman is a laundry bot) I keep waiting for the same thing! Tomorrow is laundry day for me! |
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Hahahaha!!!!!!!!!! Collecting, sorting washing, pegging, unpegging, (folding as you go, with two baskets)...hand said baskets to kids... hey presto, clothes all gone! Ya but really... Don't you still have to check it out later to insure they actually put them away. Mine used to build tents with my freshly wased sheets as soon as I turned my back. Making tents? That sounds like it was a fun house. 
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Hahahaha!!!!!!!!!! Collecting, sorting washing, pegging, unpegging, (folding as you go, with two baskets)...hand said baskets to kids... hey presto, clothes all gone! Ya but really... Don't you still have to check it out later to insure they actually put them away. Mine used to build tents with my freshly wased sheets as soon as I turned my back. Making tents? That sounds like it was a fun house. Oh well... It was hard to stay mad. I usually ended up playing in the 'tent' with them. THEN I made them wash the sheets. |
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Hahahaha!!!!!!!!!! Collecting, sorting washing, pegging, unpegging, (folding as you go, with two baskets)...hand said baskets to kids... hey presto, clothes all gone! Ya but really... Don't you still have to check it out later to insure they actually put them away. Mine used to build tents with my freshly wased sheets as soon as I turned my back. Hahaha!!!!!!!!...the little ones, when they were littler yes...or the dog becoming 'superman' with a white towel tied around it's muddy neck..  now though, they just open drawers and shove them in willy nilly... (they have to wear them like that, not me) Nah they're great kids....they are most willing to help out, whatever is needed doing. |
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oh, this just reminded me I have clothes in the dryer....
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