We only have 2 laundry baskets and I fold straight out of the dryer, both which help with backup. I try to fold on conference calls (also WFH). Doesn’t always work but helps!
My peak laundry days were when I had a regular afternoon two hour conference call on one of my WFH days. Run everything through the washer/dryer in the morning, then fold for the two hours.
I honestly don't mind laundry that much, but I really hate putting DD's clothes away. But she's old enough to do it (or not do it) herself now. DS's are easy, because his drawers always end up a mess anyway.
I have the same problem. My house is often spotless and I have loads and loads of clean laundry sitting in baskets. I despise folding and putting away so much. It's my Achilles heel of housework. AND, it's just me and the girls - H does his own laundry. I think part of the problem is, more than anything, it's like Sisyphus. Just when I get on top of it, it keeps coming and coming and coming. The satisfaction of being "done" lasts literally hours, if that.
I've tried a load a day: my stuff, DD1, DD2, sheets and towels, school uniforms. It works as long as I stay on it. But if there is one hiccup (usually the folding part, which I do while I am watching TV at night), the snowball of disorganization begins rolling down the hill. Sorry I am no help.
My ex-husband sends his laundry out, they wash and fold for him. I think he's pays by the pound, but it's only him and then the little bit of kids clothes. I could never afford that with all of the laundry we have, so I just let it pile up and then do a marathon folding session on the weekend while listening to a Podcast. When I'm folding, it's put in piles by person. I only put away MH and my laudry, the kids piles get put in their rooms and they put them away. Sometimes LOL
Oh and one more thing. My girls will look at something and throw it in the basket, where it will sit surrounded by grunge and thus need to be washed. My mom and MIL keep buying them bathrobes - they both have about 4. NO ONE NEEDS 4 BATHROBES - but I digress. When I sort I will find 4 damn bathrobes in there. And usually a stray princess dress, or sometimes a couple fleeces. These huge voluminous things do not need to be washed this frequently child! The rage.
The 10-year-old has started doing some of her own laundry because I am just over it.
We fold together. We dump all clothes on our bed so that it forces us to fold before we go to sleep. We then divide and conquer putting them away; he puts away his and DSS and I do mine and DS.
I do 1-2 small loads every-every other day. It’s the only way I can stay sane. I don’t do my husband’s laundry though. I do mine, kids and household. I do sheets and linens Sunday typically or another day I’m home most of the day.
Oh and one more thing. My girls will look at something and throw it in the basket, where it will sit surrounded by grunge and thus need to be washed. My mom and MIL keep buying them bathrobes - they both have about 4. NO ONE NEEDS 4 BATHROBES - but I digress. When I sort I will find 4 damn bathrobes in there. And usually a stray princess dress, or sometimes a couple fleeces. These huge voluminous things do not need to be washed this frequently child! The rage.
The 10-year-old has started doing some of her own laundry because I am just over it.
When my DS was like 6 months old and SDs came for the summer, I went to get their laundry and they had just put their folded pile from the week before in the hamper. Like still folded, still in a pile.
That was one of the times I lost my freaking mind.
Oh and one more thing. My girls will look at something and throw it in the basket, where it will sit surrounded by grunge and thus need to be washed. My mom and MIL keep buying them bathrobes - they both have about 4. NO ONE NEEDS 4 BATHROBES - but I digress. When I sort I will find 4 damn bathrobes in there. And usually a stray princess dress, or sometimes a couple fleeces. These huge voluminous things do not need to be washed this frequently child! The rage.
The 10-year-old has started doing some of her own laundry because I am just over it.
When my DS was like 6 months old and SDs came for the summer, I went to get their laundry and they had just put their folded pile from the week before in the hamper. Like still folded, still in a pile.
That was one of the times I lost my freaking mind.
Oh and one more thing. My girls will look at something and throw it in the basket, where it will sit surrounded by grunge and thus need to be washed. My mom and MIL keep buying them bathrobes - they both have about 4. NO ONE NEEDS 4 BATHROBES - but I digress. When I sort I will find 4 damn bathrobes in there. And usually a stray princess dress, or sometimes a couple fleeces. These huge voluminous things do not need to be washed this frequently child! The rage.
The 10-year-old has started doing some of her own laundry because I am just over it.
When my DS was like 6 months old and SDs came for the summer, I went to get their laundry and they had just put their folded pile from the week before in the hamper. Like still folded, still in a pile.
That was one of the times I lost my freaking mind.
That shit would have gone right back in their drawers. Nope.
I just taught C (4.5yo) how to fold. Put S to work! Lol. As I was folding the laundry the other night, he asked if he could fold all of his own shirts and he actually did a pretty good job.
My other method is to try and do one load of laundry, start to finish, every day or two. This way I'm not buried in laundry on the weekend and it seems much more manageable to fold and put away. I work from home on Fridays and that's when I try to do more of the blankets and sheets and have all of the laundry done before the weekend starts.
There's very little laundry that gets folded in our house.
- DS and DD hang up their own shirts; they toss their pants, jammies, undies, and socks into the right drawers or baskets but none of that gets folded. - I hang my pants and shirts, so I have a few cardigans in the wash each week to fold. And maybe 2 pairs of yoga pants; those get folded. I don't fold my undies or socks. - H's shirts and pants are all ironed and hung up; and I put his undies and socks in drawers, unfolded. So that means I fold his undershirts, and around-the-house shirts.
All in all, this probably amounts to maybe one laundry basket worth of clothing per week that needs folded.
ETA: Oh, towels and sheets; usually I just wash them and either put them back on the bed or hang them back in the bathroom.
We do laundry a couple of times a week. Dh washes his own clothes and never folds them. Ss 12 washes and folds his own clothes. Ds 6 and 3 help fold towels and put away their clothes. I just wash and fold my own stuff.
Kinda...we get out house cleaned once a month and anything that is clean she folds and puts away. She's even started folding the Kon Mari style that I like. Other than that, I try to get to it when I can, which means it is out of control right now.
I don't know why I find it so funny that laundry is paid for by the pound. Like you're buying ground meat. But I guess it's the best way to figure out what to charge so people don't have to fish through and count the number of items, it still makes me laugh.
There's very little laundry that gets folded in our house.
- DS and DD hang up their own shirts; they toss their pants, jammies, undies, and socks into the right drawers or baskets but none of that gets folded. - I hang my pants and shirts, so I have a few cardigans in the wash each week to fold. And maybe 2 pairs of yoga pants; those get folded. I don't fold my undies or socks. - H's shirts and pants are all ironed and hung up; and I put his undies and socks in drawers, unfolded. So that means I fold his undershirts, and around-the-house shirts.
All in all, this probably amounts to maybe one laundry basket worth of clothing per week that needs folded.
ETA: Oh, towels and sheets; usually I just wash them and either put them back on the bed or hang them back in the bathroom.
Thank you, I was beginning to think I’m the only one that doesn’t really fold much! I pile all non-wrinklables in the bottom of the basket, all shirts get draped over the side. All shirts get hung up. Jeans/leggings get rolled up and put in baskets in my closet. Everything else but undies is rolled and put in drawers. I don’t know why but the Kon Marie method of rolling was life changing for me, kids clothes get rolled, and anytime we travel, all clothes in suitcases are rolled, I freaking love it, will never fold again!!
I hate folding so I wash, he folds. I WFH so I do it during the day and he folds at night.
We used to send it out when we didn’t have a washer/dryer and it was 80¢ a pound after we shopped around with 24hr turnaround. They did a great job and folded everything so neatly. Even underpants.
H does his own laundry and I do the rest. We got in a big fight about 3 years ago and he declared that he would be doing his own laundry from now on like it was a punishment to me. LOLOLOLOLOLOL
It was one of the best things that has ever happened. I don’t mind doing the rest of the laundry because I like things to be done routinely. If I left it to him the kids would run out of clothes, we would run out of towels etc. That never happens when I am doing it and it makes my life a million times easier.
So I do loads throughout the week and then a big fold on weekends. Each boy gets a basket and they are in charge of putting that away. So the only time suck is like the half hour that i am folding all that laundry. I just pile it all on my bed and go at it.
I also do the smaller loads daily. Everyone has their own hamper, so one day it'll be my son's stuff, the next day it'll be mine, ect. It goes straight from dryer to closet/drawers, and it doesn't take anymore than 10 minutes because it's all going to the same place.
I can't deal with sorting, and I can't deal with huge mountains of stuff.
I make the boys (5) fold their own laundry. It took a few weeks of having to show them how to fold and refold the balls they made, but now they can do it quickly. Since 75% of the laundry is their crap, I figure they should pitch in.
They sort the clean laundry and fold their own.
H or I fold the rest.
I usually throw a load in first thing in the morning after I put my contacts in, then throw it in the dryer a bit later as I'm showering. It helps that the laundry is in our big bathroom. I fold it when I get home or the next day. Sometimes I have to do a wrinkle release load before I fold if its been in there awhile.
I have the same issue, except I hate putting away more than folding. Sometimes I’ll have baskets of folded laundry sitting around, taking over the half bath that doubles as a laundry room. My 3 year old loves folding but sucks at it so I have to refold hers when she’s not looking. She is good about matching socks up, though!
Post by countthestars on Apr 5, 2018 10:23:31 GMT -5
I dont fold my kid's stuff. I just take it out of the dryer and lay it all nicely in a pile (sorted by type) and then dump that flat pile into their drawers. My kids always look like disheveled little fools anyway, so I'm not super worried about wrinkles (though they are surprisingly not usually too wrinkly?)
One thing that has helped me with getting the laundry put away is not mixing each family members clothes. I do my laundry on Thursday and then take it directly to my bedroom to fold/hang. I hate trying to divvy everything out. I do the kids Saturday morning. I now hang all my sons shirts so that eliminates folding those. I am working on this with my daughter. I stopped doing my husbands as he frequently wears an item for an hour and then throws it in the laundry so he didn’t have to hang it up. We were fighting over it so he agreed to take his laundry over.
DH finally realized a few months ago that when I said I was going to "check the laundry" or "go put laundry away" it was code for hideout in the bonus room watching netflix, lol. I mean sometimes laundry was actually involved, but more often not.
Post by irishbride2 on Apr 5, 2018 12:57:16 GMT -5
We have someone who comes two mornings a week. Her primary job is laundry, but between loads she organizes various things (I leave a list) and does other odd jobs around the house, like unload the dishwasher and change sheets. She doesn't clean.
I have to be honest....I'm really spoiled. She took off last week (her kids' spring break) and it sucked.
I have clean laundry sitting in the dryer, a basket in the bedroom, and the bassinet we don't use anymore is also full. That's how I fold and put away.
I should note...I work from home and DH wears a uniform at work so we both don't have a daily need for work outfits.
Our cleaning lady folds it for us. She just did it one day when I left a basket of clothes by the bed (I didn't intend for her to fold it). When I asked her about it, she told me she doesn't mind doing it and would be happy to continue every time she comes. I DESPISE folding laundry. I don't mind washing it.