Things You'll Need:
- A laundry basket or sorter for every member of the family
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Step 1
The first step is to get a laundry container for each member of your family and put it in their rooms or bathrooms depending on where the clothes usually end up.
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Step 2
Have each person place their clothes in their basket only. If you have small children then you will have to help them with this. At 3 and 5 both my kids know where their baskets are and that is where they put their clothes.
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Step 3
When it is laundry time you go and get one person's basket at a time and do their laundry all together. This may be against what you have been doing but I have found that by doing one person's laundry at a time I do not have to waste time sorting out each persons clothes and I can take their clothes right back to their rooms.
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Step 4
Once you have the first person's clothes in the dryer than move onto the next person. Continue this until you are done.
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Step 5
Once you are done with the families laundry it is time to move onto other laundry. I have a basket in my laundry room where I put dish towels, cleaning rags, placements etc and I do that whole load together as well.
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Step 6
Then it is time for sheets and towels. I try to wash sheets and towels on one day so that they can go back on the beds and towel racks in the same day. This eliminates the need to have lots of extra towels and sheets cluttering up your closets and laundry room.
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Step 7
The final suggestion is to have all members of the house that are old enough to do this to turn socks, pants and shirts right side out before they put them in their laundry baskets. It take 6 seconds to turn a pair of socks right side out and if you figure 7 pairs a week time four people, times 52 weeks a year. You spend 2 hours and 25 minutes a year turning your families socks right side out.
Comments
alishacra said
on 1/6/2009 Great information about doing laundry efficiently - thanks!