How to Wash Your Clothes and Love it

Wash your clothes and realize it is not as big a deal as many make it.It is not as if you had to do it as shown on the picture. Instead you have a washing machine, dryer, detergent in a bottle or box, and an air conditioned laundry room. Wearing clean clothes is important unless you want everyone to whiff the scent of dirty clothes you are wearing as you walk by.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• empty laundry baskets
• laundry detergent
• table or floor to sort clothes.

1. 
    
   dropping dirty clothes on floor

   Stepping out of your clothes at the end of the day, and just dropping them on the floor is not the way to keep a clean room, or get your clothes clean. This is just announcing to anyone who walks into the room, that you are a slob. Wash your laundry and love it and you will always look and smell clean.

2. 
    
   Better place to drop clothes

   Go into any Dollar Store and buy 3 laundry baskets. You know the type-the ones you put your laundry into instead of the floor.

3. 
    
   Hit the basket not the room.

   Get undressed at night, and immediately separate the clothes. Instead of dropping them all on the floor in a pile, drop colors in one basket, whites in another, and blacks into a third basket. To make it fun, make believe you are trying to put a ball in a basket, as you do in basketball, and try to hit the right basket from a distance away. This method also will eliminate having your clothes just tossed all over the laundry room.

4. 
    
   Wash in machines and not with stones

   Bring the baskets into the laundry room on laundry day, and put them on the floor. Wash your laundry and love it by using this method. Wash whites first. When the wash is finished,put them into the dryer to dry. At the same time start washing the colors. Now you will have about 1/2 time to go back to your room and clean or straighten it up.

5. When the clothes are dry,immediately remove them from the machine, put them on hangers and hang them up. By this time the colored wash should be finished, so put those into the dryer, and at the same time put your blacks into the washing machine. With this system you will be done with everything at almost the same time, and you are ready to wear clean clothes instead of making dirty clothes smell clean.

Tips & Warnings

• If you do not have blacks, then use the basket for bedding. Remember, sheets and pillowcases do have to be washed once in a while also.
• If you keep to this system, you will never hate laundry day again. You will be finished both washing and drying nearly at the same time.
• Shaking out dirty clothes, and putting them dirty into the dryer with a dryer sheet, will not clean the clothes but would only add scent to the dirt smell.
• Set up one day a week as laundry time. Not letting them pile up to the sky, will make it easier and quicker to wash, dry, and for you to get out of the house.
• Never wash whites and colors together. Separate blacks also from colors.
• Wash bedding separately.
• Always check the pockets to make sure you do not have any tissues or stuff in there. Picking lint out of wet clothes is no fun.
• If lint should get onto clothes, dry them with the lint. The heat of the dryer will remove the lint.

Resources

• Stop Losing Socks in the Washing Machine
• Wash Your Floors with a Foot
• Clean a Clothes Closet
• Live on a Budget

[ljstraight]

on 8/13/2009 Great ideas for a tidy fresh home. 5 stars

[BodyLogique]

on 6/12/2009 Love the article & the photo at the top! Informative & entertaining...Made me smile :) Thank you! 5*

[slphilbrick]

on 12/1/2008 As a massage therapist, I wash sheets daily. Sometimes it's tough to even LOOK at the clothes piles ! Good tips, maybe I'll get to this point someday ! :-) 5*

[tiffanykei]

on 11/22/2008 This reminds me of my Mother when I was a young girl. She had my Father make this box looking thing out of poles and she made a bag out of our old bed sheets. One black, one green, and the other white. After each wear, we had to toss our clothes by color coordinating it.

I must also disagree with momofour. This article doesn't make laundry "fun" but it does make laundry time a lot faster and efficient! Think of it., instead of having to dig through a pile of clothes for colors, this makes it a lot less dreading! DOESN'T IT?!

:D Thank you for this awesome article! 5 STARS!

[ellischristina]

on 10/10/2008 Good advice and you tell it like it is! It is always worth reading your articles. You give good tips and always put a smile on my face. Thanks!