How to Keep up With Laundry Easily

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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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.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Enthusiasm
  • Laundry supplies
  • Organizational skills

Step1
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.
Step2
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.
Step3
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.
Step4
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.
Step5
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.
Step6
Reward yourself by using nice-smelling laundry detergents and fabric softeners to turn that chore into an aromatherapy session.
Step7
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.

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