Post by downtoearth on Apr 5, 2018 13:46:24 GMT -5
No advice... I too hate folding. Laundry is fine, and I don't mind doing it for the 5 of us, but we constantly have baskets of unfolded laundry to hide when people come over. I have a 11 and 9 year old who I make fold their own and put away, but honestly the other family laundry of towels/sheets, the 5-yr old's laundry, and DH and my laundry are often unfolded in our room. I don't routinely watch TV each night, but when I am binge watching a show, I notice the laundry is always folded, otherwise, we rarely have the TV on at night and the laundry is clean, but in baskets.
We switched to washing one smaller load each day. Every morning when he gets up, DH throws a load in the wash, i move it to the dryer before I leave the house. When the kids go to bed we fold it while watching TV and in the morning the girls take their stuff to their rooms and put it away. Its just so much easier to convince ourselves to fold laundry when its one small basket versus 5 giant ones.
This is similar to what we do, but not daily. We use one hamper and throw everything in the wash when it gets full (no sorting). It's so much easier to fold/put away one load than 5.
We used to have a mothers helper who would fold and put away clothes, but it was a bit of hit-or-miss whether things would go where we thought they should. It was worth it at the time (first year of having two kids), but then it stopped being such a big deal to do laundry.
I don't know how babies make so much laundry, but now that our kids are older/out of diapers there is less to be done... even though their clothes go in the wash after one wear...
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?)
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A drive-through laundry service sounds like a goldmine!!! I’m opening this!
I've always thought a combo full-service laundry and movie theater sounded like a great idea. Drop your laundry off before your movie, pick it up after, all done and folded. I think it would be a hit in the middle of the day, especially if there was a bar/food at the theater.
My 17 year old has done his own laundry since age 10.
H does his own laundry.
I do mine, my 7 year old's laundry & bedding, and our towels. H and I will take turns doing our sheets.
I do about 1 load a day, but can do up to 6 or so. My 7 year old needs his bedding washed frequently, so that is at least 2 loads by itself.
I hang as much as possible, and mainly fold our "comfy clothes" for around the house.
Everything is put away within 12 hours. Sometimes I can't get into my son's room if I fold a load of laundry before I leave for work, so I put it away after work.
A drive-through laundry service sounds like a goldmine!!! I’m opening this!
I've always thought a combo full-service laundry and movie theater sounded like a great idea. Drop your laundry off before your movie, pick it up after, all done and folded. I think it would be a hit in the middle of the day, especially if there was a bar/food at the theater.
Post by mountaingirl on Apr 5, 2018 18:58:48 GMT -5
I’m the weirdo that loves doing laundry. I would so do something like this. I just spent 10 days at my sister’s house and did all the laundry. I do not put it away though. That is all on you!
I do laundry day too, but I fold each load out of the dryer before I put the next load into the dryer. It keeps things from piling up and if I have to go out I never get more than one load behind.
I use a "flip and fold" board to make everything the same size (I make an extra half fold at the end). This way I can have everything stand up in the drawers in neat rows and putting stuff away is super fast.
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