How to Keep up With Laundry Easily

Whether you're doing laundry for one person or twenty, keeping up with the laundry is a fact of life until someone invents disposable clothes. There are a number of things you can do to stay on top of this chore so it doesn't become an overwhelming task. Incorporating a few small changes on a daily basis and being consistent with them will help you conquer a seemingly endless task.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Enthusiasm
• Laundry supplies
• Organizational skills

1. Get organized. You need to have a place to put your dirty laundry and sort it as it accumulates every day. Keeping laundry sorted helps you stay on task, identify top priority loads of laundry and know exactly where uniforms, gym clothes or other key items of clothing might be hiding.

2. Schedule enough time each day around other activities to sort the dirty laundry, load the washing machine, transfer clothes to the dryer, fold the clothes and put them away. Most of these can be done in 5 minutes or less.

3. Be consistent and focus on completing one entire load of laundry each day until you get it where it belongs so it's ready to be used.

4. Enlist the help of others in the household to assist with laundry maintenance. Have each person sort their own dirty laundry into appropriate piles and put their clean laundry away.

5. Purge clothing that is worn, torn, out-dated or outgrown to keep clothing clutter at bay so you can focus on the actual laundry that is being utilized.

6. Reward yourself by using nice-smelling laundry detergents and fabric softeners to turn that chore into an aromatherapy session.

7. Indulge in your favorite hot or cold drink each day and sit down to relax while you fold the nice-smelling laundry. Watch a favorite show, listen to music or just let your mind wander and be thankful for your washing machine and dryer.

[lenamv24]

on 9/27/2009 Keeping up with the laundry is always difficult! Doing one load everyday helps though! Thanks for sharing your tips. 5*