Jake recently told me that if I have one fault as a homemaker, it would fall in the laundry department. This was due, in part, to the fact that at the time of his comment Jake was ironing his own shirt. This shirt had sat on top of the ironing board from last October until early April, due to its fortune of being a short sleeve button down shirt, and therefore not in need by its wearer through the winter months.
But hey, that's okay. I am totally aware of my lack of laundering prowess. My usual routine (don't judge me, Mom) is to wash and dry the laundry and promptly deposit it into one of 4 laundry baskets. Where it waits. And waits. Until Tuesday. Or until someone in the family digs through the clean laundry and rescues a piece of clothing from laundry purgatory. If it is a fortunate item that should be hung, it gets a beeline pass to the hangers straight from the dryer. Those are the lucky ones.
Why Tuesday, you ask? Well, for starters, Tuesday is "Towel Tuesday." It is my reminder that, yep! you guessed it: the towels need to be washed. And Tuesday night is LOST night, which gives me a perfect reason to stand in front of the TV and tackle my 7-8 loads of laundry. Whew. Last night I decided to take photographic evidence of my weekly mound of nicely folded laundry. Note, this is one week's worth of clothes and towels... minus the hanging clothes, the kids' linens, the delicates, those items waiting to be ironed, and the random items that were sprung from laundry purgatory.
Just the kids' clothes:
The complete haul. It looks insignificant here... I feel the photo doesn't do it justice.
Amazingly enough, I actually enjoy folding the laundry. I like seeing the neat stacks of clothes folded just the way I like them to be folded. I just have a problem actually getting around to the act of folding. If I try during the day, the kids knock the stacks over and I'm not very nice when they do. And the girls try to help, which I know should be a welcomed gesture, but they are so slow... and so messy. Hopefully in another couple years I will be ready to relinquish my nice, neat piles of clothes and let the girls take over... I just need to get rid of the perfectionist within me.
I have scheduled our laundry.
ReplyDeleteMondays are mom and dads sheets and another load(could be napkins, microfiber cloth or towels just depends on what has accumulated enough for a load)
Tuesday are two kids laundry(the girl and #4)
Wednesday is older two boys
Thursday is mom/dad and baby clothes
Friday is kids sheets day and a load of towels
Saturday only wash if have an excess of towels or misc items
Older kids wash their own(though have to be reminded) and the 4 kids all fold and put away(again I have to check this because they'd rather just throw it in the closet!) I do fold #4's and have him put it away. It's usually not so folded once it gets in the drawer but just trying to instill good habits.
Btw I don't iron either!
Wow, Jenn! That is way too organized for me! Sounds like an awesome schedule, though. ;)
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