My laundry hack: Have a small or different-shaped basket for the “can’t go in the dryer” category! Put anything that needs to air dry directly into that basket, and wash the basketful as a separate load, no matter how small a load. It has saved me so much grief over accidentally putting something in the dryer because I forgot it was in the load, or because someone else put the load in the dryer and didn’t know there was a delicate item in the load.
Yes! I have a cloth bin that sits either over the (admittedly narrow) top of my hamper, or next to it. This bin also holds my delicates bags. Which in my home is for wool shirts and socks as well as bras. All delicates are air dry. When I’m planning well, everything is air dry. So the cotton shirts that can’t take any shrinking go in the bin, wool in the bags. Regular laundry in the hamper. Simple. On the drying side, I finally learned to hang the damp clothes on hangers, and place them on the rack. (I don’t have a yard for a line) things that will still wrinkle do get hung on a rack bar. And I got a square sock and undies hanger from ikea, but dollar stores often have them.
You also could put all the delicate stuff in a laundry bag. It protects the delicate fabrics, you won't forget anything and you save a load of laundry :)
First, let me say that my heart feels for you and all moms of small children. You are amazing and doing a great job! I do want to say that there is a MUCH easier way to sort dirty clothes. Set up 3 plastic trash cans (or big bins) in your laundry room. That will be the only place there is dirty laundry. When you are finished with a shower, head to laundry room with dirty clothes in hand. When you give your kids a bath, have the kids take clothes to laundry room (kids as young as 2 can do this system - I have 4 kids). In laundry room, have them put whites in one bin, darks in another, and any special clothes (leggings, bras, etc) in the other bin. When it's time to do laundry, there are no extra steps of running around the house gathering dirty clothes. There is not a step of sorting clothes either. All there is to do is dump the clothes from the bin that is most full into the washing machine. It couldn't be simpler!
Doing one load, from start to finish every day, was a game changer for me. I also add white vinegar to the fabric softener compartment of the washer when I do towels and cloths to keep them fresh. Any men’s dress shirts that would require ironing only get a short time in the dryer and then get hung up to air dry - this keeps the ironing minimal to none. Thank you for all your ideas and for your amazing channel. You have truly helped me gain back some control in my house and life!
I couldn't agree more, my children are 3 and 5 and basically from they both could walk, they put their washing in the washing basket, dishes in sink & rubbish in the correct bin (compost, recycling or general) x
Yes ma’am!!! My girls wash their clothes, their towels and their bedding. And they are better at getting it in/out/folded/put away than I am lol. So they’d prefer to do their own now.
I so agree! Teach to sort laundry, and how to operate the washing machine and dryer. My 8 yo son taught my 13 & 15 yo step kids how to do it one summer. And, as I expected, when my son went to college, he was proud of not having pink underwear.
I"m so thankful to be at a point in my child-raising years where everybody pretty much does their own laundry. I do mine and the household stuff (sheets, towels, cleaning cloths, etc.) and everybody else is responsible for their own. I don't bother fighting with my teenager about it. When he runs out of clothes, he'll do a load.
Eventually, as the kids got older, we implemented a "if it needs to be done, do it..." rule. Like, if you're moving a load to the dryer, and there's a basket of towels ready for the wash, it's part of the job to start the load of towels as well as finishing with your own clothes in the dryer.
My best laundry hack is to actually look at the little measuring marks in the cap of liquid laundry detergent . You can fill to line A for regular loads or line B for large loads and it’s actually way less detergent than I have been using my whole life. Now that I use less detergent my clothes actually seem softer and cleaner.
My laundry hack is to hang washing on a line outside (weather permitting). I hear all you busy moms, No! But wait, it gives you time outside, slows you down, the clothes smell so nice and it saves on electricity. I find it so soothing, if in a hurry, put the smaller things in a dryer, or use one of those round portable, multi peg things, this can be done inside, by the children and hung outside. A little story... my youngest was 7 and saw that I was busy and asked to help, I asked her to hang the washing on the line. She did it. When I looked the clothes were hung higgldy piggidly. My inner self wanted to scream and redo her work, but my outer mother, thanked her and left them be. The next time she asked to do it, I said yes and let us do it together. Then gently I said, this is how I hang, towels, etc. We enjoyed the experience. Now she is 22, not once in all that time did she moan or complain when asked to hang out the washing! 😁
This is what I've been saying all along ! When you use a dryer, you only have a short time before you have to get it out of the dryer & get it folded , otherwise, it'll be a wrinkled mess. But ! If you hang your laundry on a clothesline, it doesn't wrinkle ! Even if you don't take it down as soon as it's dry, it won't get wrinkled ! You've got more time ! It saves on either gas or electricity (depending on which kind you get), your laundry lasts longer (dryers are tough on fabric...all that dryer lint is NOT surface lint...it's the fabric being torn apart). The sunshine deodorizes, sanitizes, gets rid of some stains. And I'll tell you, it is so nice to be outside on a pretty day, hanging freshly washed laundry....maybe you've got flowers blooming nearby, maybe there's a bird singing. It's a lovely experience! You "Intentionally creating My life", your story reminds me of one my grandma told me. She birthed & raised 9 children. Grandpa would hang the laundry for her sometimes & she said she'd look out there & see it hung kind of crazy, whopperjawed....but she never ever complained ! She was grateful for the help!
I did my laundry loads by person. Then I don't have to sort it when it's done. Once my kids were old enough they did their own laundry. Each person got their own unique style or color of sock so it was always easy to tell them apart if they got mixed into someone else's load by accident.
But Doesnt each person own a mix of whites, lights, darks, single stain and non - machine washable clothes? You still have to take them out of the machine, route around them, separate, fold, sort and match smalls and socks etc??.... Sometimes my kids will give me an item of clothing and say 'i need this for tomorrow', i will put on a load that matches that specific piece of clothing, i couldnt leave it until they have me a full loads worth of their clothes..
@@clairelynch4928 We don't own clothes that are non machine washable (except dance costumes). Most clothes can be mixed when washed unless they are new. If they've been washed once, bleeding doesn't occur anymore. Since most laundry detergents now contain OXY or white brightening agents, we rarely even separate whites out unless they are filthy. I have teens and have never let them do the whole "I need this tomorrow" unless it was a sports uniform. Otherwise, I doubt you found out tonight that you needed it for tomorrow lol
My laundry hack is that you can re-use the color catcher sheets several times. I make quilts so I use the color catchers a lot and I use them until they get really dark. I figure if they are getting darker they are still soaking up more dye :)
I do that, too. I make quilts as well, and when you use red fabric, it can be an issue. I am thinking of giving 1 color catcher and washing directions out with each quilt I gift now.
Wow! You've come a long way, Baby! I remember huge Mount Washmore and Mount Foldmore in your early videos and look at you now....and with three little kids! I've loved following you on your journey and you've helped me in mine so much! Sending you lots of love XXOO❤
I had seen some of your videos with Diane in Denmark a while back, and I am now subscribing! I watched a few of your videos over the last week and they have helped me "get" the flylady system a lot better! (I have tried and "failed" many times.) I feel more in control and my house looks so much better. Progress! Thank you so very much for your positivity and encouragement😄
My dryer has not worked since last October and it´s been annoying BUT it´s also been nice because I hang all on hangers and once dry they are ready to go into the closet or just fold the few I put in drawers.
A small dollar store tote is what our toddler uses for a reuse more than once laundry basket. So far it works for us. We understand laundry has levels of cleanliness.
I have 2 sets of sheets per bed. When my kids were little and they'd get a stomach bug, if they vomited on the bed, I could change their sheets and clean up immediately.
@@nspindlow5046 absolutely! Few things as bad as a sick child and having to wait for fresh bedding for them. Of course, they always came to my bed, and would always vomit on our bed before their own. Smh... 🙄
Our 3 year old had a bad flu last December. I stopped counting after 12 times of throwing up all complete with bedding changes. Needless to say the washing machine and dryer was going all night (and so were my husband and I and our newborn). I was thankful for multiple sets of bedding for her bed. Even still we went through a lot of bedding and pjs that one night! Thankfully that was the worst of it and she got better within a couple of days.
I love doing laundry, here in mexico is very common to sun dry the laundry, it's relaxing for me to hang the clothes to the 🌞 I don't know why. what I don't like it's have to do all the laundry loads on the weekend so I will try to do a load per night to have the weekend all for me.
All my delicate, hand wash only or items with zippers that might damage other clothing, go into separate mesh wash bags accordingly and get thrown in the normal wash. Never had a problem.😄
I have 2 laundry baskets. Towels and special care clothing. The everyday clothing that gets dirty is put directly into the washer, like a 3rd hamper. When its full, I do the load. Everyone takes their dirty clothes at the end of the day to the washer and toss them in. I love this. Less gathering for me.
I am with you that I take the sheets off the bed, wash them and remake the bed. The bedspread is in the wash now and I cover it with a flat sheet since my two dogs sleep with me. I can change that mid-week if they shed a lot or track dirt. I am single and limit my loads but this week I vacuumed and washed all the throw rugs and dog blankets since they went to the groomer today and hopefully shedding will be minimized for a little while. I prioritize the laundry based on dog hair so when I get to dark close there is less chance of still having residual hair in the washer. I'm lucky that as a single person I usually get away with 3 loads on average per week am I'm very curious to read about Tru Earth! The last two days I helped my sister declutter her walk in closet and dresser since she's close to retirement, down-sizing and moving away. We've filled two giant bags of clothes to donate and another 1 1/2 to trash! I'm so proud of her and I know it's in part because she's watched my journey over almost two years. She's a lot braver than when we've worked on her closet in the past.
I have two kids and put a basket in each persons room. Saves sorting as I just grab that persons basket on their day, wash, dry and put it back in their room to put away. My husband and I each have a basket as well in our room. Four loads a week of clothes. Then I fit in whatever else is needed on the fifth day, whether it is towels, sheets or dish cloths. No sorting whose is whose! I love your no -fold/half full drawer method. That is a good one :)
My laundry hack is to have one hamper in the bathroom (we only have one bathroom) all dirty clothes go in there. Then when a load is done since we don't have baskets, we literally fold as we pull from the dryer. For us a laundry basket just becomes storage for clean laundry or for dirty. Getting it in and out of the wash with no baskets helps keep our laundry picked up AND put away!!! When my kids were babies my biggest hack was to use a diaper pin on the socks, everytime I took their socks off I put them onto a diaper pin so they were together. Wash them on the diaper pin and then could fold them or just toss the whole thing into their sock drawer and not be searching for a pair! Thanks for doing this giveaway! This is a product I've seen in ads and have been interested in trying!
A tip from my aunt that has 12 children! Keep all kids clothing in the laundry room! She has shelves to store it, and a rod for hanging clothes. Kids go there to get clothes for bath time, and change there or in a nearby bathroom at bedtime/morning. Works a treat! My mom implemented this system with her 4 young ones. No carrying around laundry to bedrooms, gathering dirty laundry all over the house, etc! Super easy to fold and put away. Hamper only in the laundry room, with a laundry chute from upstairs. Parents have clothes in their room. Kids might eventually do that as they get older and can take care of it themselves.
I did this too. I used a hanging cloth shoe organizer for each child in the laundry room. I kept one complete outfit (shirt, pants, undies, and socks) in each bin. In addition to helping young ones get ready easier, this also helped keep a boundary to the number of clothing items we needed. If I didn't have an outfit to fill one of the spaces, I knew exactly what clothing items I needed to replace.
I acquired a husband whose mother bought him socks individually. He had a rainbow of sock colors that were a pain to pair. Occasionally, I would mismatch blue/black or brown/dk brown. That did not go well. So.... I threw away all his socks, and bought white and black. Threw them into the drawer and allowed him to match. It fixed the battle of mismatched socks :)
I love the idea of having the same socks! Also, I have learned through a professional organizer the tip you said about fold the laundry right after you finish it. You have to think of laundry same as groceries! Love the tips you gave!
I have been doing laundry by person for about 9 months now and it's ACTUALLY life changing. The hands-on time of sorting clothes all washed together vs running smaller more frequent loads cannot be compared. I'm never going back. We have one laundry basket in the laundry room (main floor laundry) for all the clothes that randomly end up downstairs and that's my only mixed load.
Went to the true earth website and planned on ordering some to try out, but changed my mind. I buy Tide basic and get 89 loads for $9. Even with 15% off it would be $30 for 64 loads. Now I’d really like to decrease plastic use but that’s over 3 times the cost, it can’t be nearly as expensive to produce and make a decent profit as Tru Earth is charging. Hoping maybe this company will read comments like this and see the average American needs a more affordable price, most of us are more than willing to try a new product but at a more reasonable price point.
Love the sock tip. To stop my long ago teenagers fighting, I bought one all Nike sports socks, one all Addidas sports socks and myself Converse. Saved so many arguments. And it just became a routine once every six months to top up socks.
My husband does laundry. He actually had a family meeting with the children explaining how laundry would be done. He taught our older boys how to do their own laundry and that all towels had to be put in the towel hamper while their personal laundry went into theirs. Our children are grown and gone but we still do a load a day to keep Mt. Washmore away. I don’t have laundry baskets but just fold and put away. I will purposefully make multiple trips around house to put items away knowing I get credit for every step with my Fitbit. 😁
I keep 2 sets of sheets per bed that are used year-round. With kiddos, you never know when they will be hit with a stomach bug that will have you awake at 2am and them needing fresh sheets immediately.
2 sets of sheets per bed in our home as well. I usually put the second set on immediately after stripping the bed but I'm gonna try her way to see if folding fewer sheets is worth leaving the incomplete ... cuz, I may not get back to it until it's a hassle before bed
Definitely need a spare set of sheets cuz you never know. What I do (and want to change) is put the 2nd set on while the 1st washes. What I want to try is washing the current set fully and putting it on the bed. This way I'm not unfolding one set and folding the other. Actually using the backup set as that: backup. Who would've thought lol
I live in a relatively small house so I'm able to have just one laundry basket in the hall outside the bathroom and bedrooms. Same socks has been a rule for years. No clothes that need dry cleaning. My boys have their clothes in a cupboard beside the bathroom, means they get changed by the laundry basket and sharing a wardrobe means putting away their clothes is easier (putting away clothes is my Achilles heel). Bed linens, towels and cleaning clothes are all white/light so they can be washed at high temperatures together for ease and hygiene. And finally..... minimise your wardrobe. Less stuff means less washing, and you have to keep on top otherwise you go naked!
I love doing laundry :) My parents taught me when I was about 14 years old on how to do it properly and then just said that I am responsible for the family's laundry from now on - back then we were a 6 people household. I really liked that they just let me do it however it worked for me, the only rules were that it should be done consistently so that nobody had to complain that they don't have anything left to wear and that my mother does not have to intervene at any point of the process. Quite strict actually, now that I put it into words, but I started to love doing it for some reason and have ever since. Maybe it was because my mom did not have to do so much anymore on her own and it was nice to see her more relaxed.
All of our bath towels, hand towels and washcloths are all white. That way the can be bleached, no fading and can go in any of our 4 bathrooms. Time saver for sure. We buy the hotel quality white towels from Costco.
I've shared this before, but I think it needs sharing again. At 4 years old I taught my kids how to separate their clothes. Jeans, lights, darks, whites. I bought laundry separators (unit with 4 hanging bags). I have one in each bedroom. When they take their clothes off they separate them into the correctly marked bag. On Sunday, they take their laundry to the laundry room and dump each bag into the corresponding large laundry hamper in the laundry room.... similar to the tall white ones she has in this video. At this point I can tell my kids to put lights into the washer, take clothes out of the washer and put them in the dryer or take them from dryer and into a basket. I have a ton of things that can't get dried and I've taught my kids what doesn't get dried and they put into a small basket that I then hang up. You can always do all of this yourself, but having your kids separate from the very beginning teaches them organization and responsibility. My kids don't take their clothes off anywhere except their room where they then hang it up or put it away. I don't fold my kids' shirts. I lay them flat and my kids hang them up on their own. Teach your kids how to do things and you won't be as overwhelmed by the things you need to do.
best hack: Zero Odor laundry additive to get rid of the sour smell that gets into clothes sometimes. My 2nd best hack: having only 3 laundry hampers in our house - 1 for whites, 1 for darks & colors, 1 for delicates. Towels, sheets, and cleaning clothes go straight from where they go to work into the washer when they are ready to be washed. Just ordered the unscented Tru Earth Laundry Strips and cannot wait to try them!
Hi Steph, I love your system. If you have a smaller family like we do I have switched 3 baskets for 1. Everyone has to put their laundry in there, and once it’s full the laundry is washed. I have also introduced the 1 load per day, complete game changer - thank you xxx
Hello! My laundry hack is to basically wear the same pants more than once so instead of having 7 pairs a week to wash I only have like 3. You could do this with kids too. Same with pajamas. But not underwear! Those must not be worn more than once! Change your underwear everyday! ;D
🧺 These are such great ideas! I'm steadily getting on track, but I do have one hack that works for me. I sort into loads as I go (lights, darks, towels, whatever) using multiple baskets. Then, when I do my one load of laundry I just choose the fullest basket. The point is: however you are going to sort into wash loads, sort as you take off the clothes or pick up around the house. I also highly recommend mesh laundry bags to sort like items. If you use one for socks, one for underwear, one for bras/athletic stuff, even one for washcloths...it makes it so much easier to fold--or not--and put away because it's already sorted. So, to make a load grab your mesh bags of socks, underwear, washcloths, and then throw in a couple of towels. It also cuts down on tangled laundry which can damage your clothes. I'm a grad student, so I do get behind occasionally. Having a system makes it much easier to get caught up again--which I am in the middle of now that Finals are done. Just some thoughts, but always do what works best for you. 🙏😀
One thing I do for socks our socks is wash them in a big laundry bag. That way they’re all contained, they don’t disappear like socks do and it’s so much easier to match and fold. I learned the tip of buying your kids all the same socks by the time my 2nd was born and that’s helped tremendously as well.
I have to say that from experience if there isn’t a back up set of sheets you are going to have a terrible night of those sheets get wet. Ask me how I know. I keep 2 sets for each bed and my kid who has occasional accidents has 3. Again. Ask me how I know. There is minimal and there is also common sense.
I've had this happen a lot. I have the same layers of sheets on each of my younger kids beds (and mine if kids sleep there). On bottom a fitted aheet I don't care about (we don't see it hardly ever), then a waterproof sheet and the top sheet is a cute fitted sheet. If an accident happens, the top fitted sheet and waterproof one go in the wash and there is already a sheet on the bed. Also, there have been so many times when we had to wash a sheet and there wasn't another sheet to go on the bed. Blankets or towels make do just fine. I mean... You get over it and get on with it. Especially in the middle of the night, and a wet sheet doesn't happen very often anyway.
@@rebeccastephens6087 Great idea! They make these big waterproof pads, too. My little granddaughter is 2, and will be spending the night with us eventually. I might get a big pad to put under her so I don't have to worry.
This is great. When my kids were young and living at home I washed my share of clean clothes. Hahaha Now it's just my husband and I and the 1 load a day has been a life saver. Even when we have company and there are showers at odd times. I never get too far behind. That baby is growing fast Thanks
I use the LG laundry sheets more than a year from Korean. I bought the LG washer and dryer and was given a fews boxes for Free. Was not how good but now Love these laundry sheets.👏👍
Just a thought. When you have 3 loads of clothes, get 3 different kinds/colors of laundry baskets. That way, as your bringing laundry in, you can pre-sort as you go. That's what I do. I have a white basket for on, a blue basket for one, and a grey basket for towels and cloths.
I'm in the minority. I love doing laundry. No need to sort. We have a second floor laundryroom w/2 laundry baskets in it. One's for darks/brights; one's for lights. When a basket is full, I toss it in the washer. I hang all of our laundry outdoors during mild weather months. I enjoy that! Being out in the fresh air, birds singing, flowers blooming near me. This helps make doing laundry more pleasant ! Line drying makes things last longer. Dryers pull fabric apart...that's what all that lint is in the lint catcher. The sun deodorizes. I've washed socks & had them still have an odor if dried in a dryer...but if I dry them outdoors, the odor disappears.
I used a laundry service when my dryer broke, now I use it regularly! Save all sheets and towels and comfy clothes, drop it off and pick up same day 😃 only do good clothes and undies at home. I'm soooo happy lol
I'm at the other end of raising kids (as a single parent, so little time), as mine are now adults. The best thing I had was a four-bag laundry sorter in a credenza kind of thing (actually two two-bag sorters) with each bag for a different type of laundry: white wash, hot wash (towels, underwear), light clothes, and dark clothes. From about 4 on, my kids put their clothes into the bins and when one was full, that was the next to be done (yes, I had to do some resorting). (We kept a small basket on top for the few things that required delicate washing.). I also have 5 laundry baskets. When I folded the clothes I put them into a laundry basket for each person (or for the linen closet) and delivered them (or asked my kids to carry them up). I did fold the kids' clothes, but what they did after that was their problem; mine and the linens got put away folded. Baskets were returned to the top of the credenza for the process to start over (more than once I've put a load into one basket, but carried 3-4 down). While the credenza could be a surface to collect clutter, it mostly hasn't and has been a useful way station for things to go downstairs or put out for another reason. The cats like to sit on it to get ear scratches. We also have used the laundry baskets for packing for trips. When the kids were little, they assembled what they thought they wanted to take and I could do a quick check that they didn't have ten shirts and no bottoms. One basket is about one carryon suitcase. We carried the baskets down to the suitcases and left them there, reversing the process upon return home
Us Spaniards tend to only have one hamper (we also tend to live in flats). My brother and I were taught when we were real young that as soon as you take off your clothes you must take them to the hamper. When we got a little bit older we were taught how to put them away and later on how hang clothes, and use the washing machine. Easy peasy
Hi Steph☺️ The sock transition happened when I got black school socks for all my 4 children, same type, ( ankle for summer, normal for colder weather) different size. They wear the black socks daily and the patterned on weekends or stay at home days! Pairing is a breeze and they still enjoy character/ patterned sock on fun days!
I cleaned out my dresser and closet shelves today. I thought I needed another dresser, but it was just full of crap! Tomorrow I will go thru the hanging stuff. Whew!
I have a small hamper with 2 sections (light and dark), I wash when full, about every 2 -3 days. And I try to do bedding and towels on mondays. I hang outside to dry and then put everything away
I wish I could use a line outside! We all have allergies to pollen and stuff so that takes out spring/summer for line drying for us, and then fall and winter is sooo cold here in Canada that I would just be freezing my clothes!!! Our house is boxed off a lot inside and there are five of us so hanging inside has never been efficient for us! I love that people are able to do this esp year round!
@@MarisaAndChew I live in South Africa, and were I live (province) we don't get snow, so of you hang it up as early as possible in winter it still gets dry. When it rains I hang it in our garage. (Don't have basement). We are 2 adults and 2 children. I have a dryer, for emergencies (electricity is expensive haha).
@@anitaventer2533 That's awesome! We don't have a garage to hang but i like that idea for anyone who wants to hang things and feels limited in the house!! We do have an energy efficient dryer and it can hold a LOT and seems to actually work better with a large load. Electricity is crazy priced in my area too and it shouldnt be since we use hydro electricity and our area is full of hydro dams! You would THINK it would be cheaper for us but, government...
Having a load assigned to a day has really helped me keep on track. But I'd say the biggest hack (a friend told me about after having baby #3 almost 5 years ago) is to have your children rewear the same clothes for 2 days in a row. So mine know they choose new clothes on MWF and Sunday clothes for church. Washing only 4 outfits and 1 PJs per child means I can wash a week's worth of kids clothes in ONE LOAD! 🙌🏻 (But now that my older two girls can do the entire laundry process I've split the 4 children in pairs and each of them do theirs and their assigned younger siblings laundry and towel. Win!)
All my towels and sheets are white. I wash them hot, with detergent and a minimum effective dose of Oxyclean (I reuse the small scoop that used to come with Oxyclean, not that huge one they put in now!). No stains, no dinginess, no fading...lovely snowy whiteness. And everything matches😊.
My hack is to take advantage of a handheld steamer for any wrinkles instead of the hassle of ironing! They are inexpensive and QUICK to run over a hanging shirt or dress. Bonus hack- instead of getting my daughter (9) lots of pajama sets, she gets a pack of xl boys white shirts and a few pairs of sweats. She loves sleeping in anything oversized and it makes sorting and putting away a breeze since there is only 1 type of pajama!
Have a single collection area for laundry- laundry room, or like I have, a laundry chute that each family member tosses their laundry into. Makes that every evening load so much easier!
I changed to Nellie's soda and have used wool dryer balls for years now. Washing machine gets much less grubby, and I made my own dryer balls from an "adopted" sheep's wool.
First, I love your channel! I'm so glad I stumbled onto here!! 🥰 My favorite laundry hack is having the same kind of socks but similar to the no fold method, I don't match socks. 😬
@@TheSecretSlob Another suggestion: Different colors per person for towels, sheets. Kinda like the sock theory.. if its pink,, I know who it belongs to and where it goes.. I do this for guests, too. Only my guest towels have color stripes. Each color represents a room.. That keeps guest sets separated so they dont get worn out. Same with sheet sets.. oh, I never make guest beds with their assigned sheets until I'm sure guests are coming. I keep guest sheets stored in the guest room, folded with dryer sheets to keep them smelling fresh.. All sheet sets and towels have assigned homes in their respective rooms.If all beds are equal in size, i guess you could just do white, like hotels. I have 15 beds but the color assignment seems to work best for me...and not so boring. Everyone knows who's towels, sheets go where. I do drop boxes for socks, underwear. Easy Sort but No folding. Easy access. We all have ADD so we use labeled drop/toss boxes INSIDE respective closets for most effective maintenance. This is a fun game for kids, too. Give them their basket of clean clothes and set timer. They just open their closet, pick out a piece of clothing from their basket, toss it into the basket that has been labeled for that piece of clothing! K.I.S.S. toss boxes: Socks, underwear, tshirts, pants, etc. No drawers. Forget folding. Effective for ADD, keeps clothes sorted, organized, visual and accessible. Yet,, maintained behind closet doors to keep rooms free from visual clutter.. Kindve like a corn hole laundry technique. Of course, prefer to hang some clothes, but mostly our everyday clothes can be managed by the "corn hole" system. I do like the idea of seasonal storing of Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter to maximize use of closet space. It also keeps kids from putting on shorts in wintertime or a sweater in the summer. I had lots of kids, so I also found it helpful to have kids set out their clothes for the next day the night before, especially if you have to go out the next day. Saves so much time and energy in the am...when there's not enough coffee and less time to think ;)
We've been doing the laundry together for a while. It's so important to work as a collective and not just alone. Plus the washing strips are SO GOOD and has cleaned everything so well
This was such an inspiring video to watch. I have five kids, so laundry can be a nightmare sometimes. I really like the idea of picking a certain day during the week to wash just towels and another day for clothes, etc. Also, the sock idea is awesome because I never thought to involve the kids in matching them out of a basket. I will most definitely be trying this out. Thank you so much for sharing your tips.
I have a tower with 3 baskets in our bedroom (we don’t have a laundry room unfortunately). One for cold washing, one for 60 degrees Celsius washing (towels and underwear) and one for whites. We sort them immediately and if something can be worn again, we lay it out for the next day. So no clean laundry in the baskets. We don’t have room for a dryer so we have to hang dry everything. We have 2 racks standing, one for clothes and one for the hot washing. We have to stay on top of laundry because it takes 2 days to dry. We have to empty the rack and fold/put away everything before we can hang the next load so no clean laundry is ever wandering about. We only have one laundry basket that we can take with us (in the sorting tower are stuck), so we have to put everything away before we can get the next load from the washer. The washer is downstairs in the kitchen and the drying racks are upstairs in a spare bedroom. It’s a perfect system for us... until we forget to do laundry a couple of days and are running out of underwear or something, because it will take 2 days to get it dry in the worst case scenario 😂🙈
I don't fold anything but towels and cloths. Pajamas, underwear, little clothes, etc. go straight into the drawers, unfolded. No one ever knows. ;) For big kid/teen/adult clothes, we HANG it all. Soooo much faster to throw a T-shirt over a hanger than to fold it and try to make it fit into a drawer...plus, it's so easy to look through hanging items to decide what to wear. (Yes, we even hang jeans, workout clothes, and leggings. No more digging in messy, overstuffed drawers.)
I try to do laundry in a way that's kinder to the environment too. My tip is the same as yours - check through your laundry to make sure you are not washing clean or almost clean clothes. My teenagers are so disorganised at times they put their clean clothes straight back into the wash because they 'store' their clean laundry on the floor! I use a ceiling rack to dry our clothes which means a minimum of 24 hours between loads as I have to wait for it to air dry, this stops laundry becoming something I end up spending a whole day on.
My "Charming sun-filled pre-war condo" is on the fourth floor of a walk-up building, and the laundry room is in the basement. These detergent sheets will be a godsend when carrying my laundry to the laundry room!
Denise Vickery from Florida. A Laundry Hack of mine is with towels. I put 1-2 Cups of Distilled Vinegar in a rinse cycle (pre-wash) before I put them through a regular washing cycle. When I put towels in the laundry room to wash, they would get to smelling before I could do them, this helps. I’ve pre-washed my husbands dirty work pants this way too. This was a good video! Thanks :)
My best tip is to have a laundry basket for each kind of laundry. We sort by colour and which temperature it should be washed in. We have 4 bins in the bathroom in the basement and 1 laundry bin on the first floor. When the bin on the first floor is full I take it to the basement and sort the clothes in the 4 bins. When the kids shower in the evening before bedtime, they put their dirty laundry in the designated bin in the basement. Then when one of the bins in the basement is full, I know to wash the clothes in that been. Only down side, is that those special items share a bin with the towels and so on, so I really should have 5 bins, but there isn't more room ;-)
My kids are 5 and 6, and in those evenings when they don't shower, they used to just put their clothes on the couch or coffee table. We recently bought a bin for each, which can be under the coffee table on a shelf, and now they put their clothes (if clean enough to wear again) in the bin at night, and their PJs in there in the morning. Socks and underwear goes in the laundry bin on the first floor. So much nicer for everyone, and they are really good at remembering this new ritual.
My laundry hack is having a clean basket that I can easily put loads into from the dryer or drying rack snd put it away throughout the day! Also love your colab with TruEarth :) I love them so much! I love your laundry routine. The piling laundry into the laundry room is such a good idea. I definitely will implement this!
Poof! Magic! Love it!!! I wash towels on Friday and bedding on Saturday. The other days are for clothes. I also have 3 baskets. One for hand wash, another for towels, 3rd for clothes. It's just me and my husband and it works well. I like the laundry strips. I will try those. Thank you! Love seeeing your adorable baby boy/helper!😀
Similar to the minimal clothing comments I'm seeing, but my favorite way to make sure I stay on top of my laundry is to only have enough underwear and socks for at maximum, 2 weeks. This makes it really easy to motivate myself to get through the laundry every week. It also makes it really easy to replace pairs as needed so I'm never holding on to hoards of old stuff that's falling apart.
I have a sorting system. Even my kids 3 and 6 start using it. And I am so glad I have it. It is an ikea shelf with 4 boxes. The boxes can be pushed in and taken out really easely. One box is for hot wash, towels ect. 2 boxes are for warm wash, dark cloths an light cloths, one box is for things that should never ever go into the dryer. So the adults put theire dirty used stuff right away in the box it belongs. The kids put theirs sometimes in, too. They understand where to put dark an light stuff. I have one more laundry basket in the bathroom. Since I started fly lady I take the basket from the bathroom an sort things in the right box of my sorting system every evening. Then I take the fullest box to my washing mashine. That's my load for the next morning. The boxes fit nearly exactly a load. And there is space if I find some more in one of the kids rooms. The shelf is standing in my bed room (no space some where else. But as it is the room we get dressed it is easy to sort dirty cloths away easy while getting changed)the shelf ist 1,8 m high. It really does not take a lot of room. But is is helping so much sorting the laundry. Before fly lady it piled up. The best sorting system is not helping if the washing is not done regularly. 😂 Thanks for the channel and reminding me doing a load every weekday.
I really like your system.. everything seems under control and I also love the fact you use the eco friendly detergent by Tru earth. I think this is such a great product and you just confirmed this to me. Thank you for your tips
I love the Tru Earth products and I'm excited about your collaboration. It's amazing how such small strips make your clothes perfectly clean and help to avoid so much plastic waste.
Love your system, I do laundry very similarly but sort by color, except sheets, towels, blankets, and, my husband's filthy work clothes. All that is done in their own separate loads so I do 1-2 loads a day and it works for me! Some days I even find that I don't have enough for even 1 load so that's a NO LAUNDRY day!!!
Our laundry hacks- a schedule. We cloth diaper so we pretty much do laundry everyday (diapers every other day, or every 3rd day). I schedule what get washed on the other day. Other hack- sorting laundry by wash type. For us this is cold/delicate, warm (most of our clothes), hot (towels and workout clothes for my husband), and small hot (washcloths and rags, which go into the diaper load). Kid hack- socks go into lingerie bags so they don't get lost, eaten by the machine, and are easier to match back up and keep each kids' separate from the other's.
I have learned when cleaning my lint trap to dust the top of the dryer with the lint. I have a ton of dog hair and wiping the dryer every time keeps the dog hair away.
My hack is the FLYLady idea of "A load a day keeps the chaos away". Not really one a day for me, but more a laundry habit than a laundry day. And I keep constant stock of sorting out laundry I don't wear and buy multiples of basics I love like shirts. I also changed to one colour of socks, sock mahjongg is a waste of time. Have you seen Brittany Vasseur's recent shirt hanging hacks? There's a genius one that saves so much time.
Socks - I’ve done that for my boys, same type and color of socks in one size - works great. (Imagine the feeling when I bought a lot of same socks, just to realize it was “stamped” L and R on them 🙈🙈)
This is giving me motivation to go through Mount Laundrymonjaro down in the basement.. We have a laundry chute which I love but I really let it get out of control. I think the pile underneath of it is about 5 ft high and 4 ft wide and I usually only wash the top half of it maybe I don't even know whats at the bottom of that pile anymore lol but I imagine I can get rid of it..
I have two hampers and a diaper pail for dirty laundry. They are approximately the size of my washer tub, so I dump the whole thing in without sorting. We quit storing dirty laundry in sorters or the basement. A basket or pail is ready to go everyday.
Quick Tip: MicroFiber Clothes, never use Fabric Softener on them. Fabric softener creates streaks because the fabric softener is embedded in the fibers. I don’t use fabric softener, just laundry detergent.
Keep stain sticks in the bottom of laundry baskets so they can be treated when they go in the basket and will be ready when they eventually go into the washer.
Hubby and I have a ver small laundry area, so I only gave room in there for the actual loads that I'm doing right then. Instead of a basket in our bathroom, we have a 2-bag laundry sorter, with detachable hanging bags. I have daily loads of towels and rags (the ones I use instead of paper towels. They get done as needed, almost every day. But I assign one or 2 categories of laundry for each day over a 4 day period. When my husband and I get changed, whatever we take off that can't be worn again before it gets washed, goes directly into the proper sorting bag (1 for bleachables, the other for non-bleachables. So, when bathroom and vlothing day comes around. I either just take one of the bags into the laundry area I n the morning and start the first load. Or, if they're big loads and I don't want to cary the bags, I just wheel the whole sorter in there. It helps that my house is on one floor, so that I CAN wheel the sorter around if the bags are really full and heavy.
I do the laundry but the kids put everything away. Including mine and my husbands stuff. I asked them a while back if they’d rather do one load a day or all the laundry in one day and they prefer a load a day. I like that better too.
My laundry hack: Have a small or different-shaped basket for the “can’t go in the dryer” category! Put anything that needs to air dry directly into that basket, and wash the basketful as a separate load, no matter how small a load. It has saved me so much grief over accidentally putting something in the dryer because I forgot it was in the load, or because someone else put the load in the dryer and didn’t know there was a delicate item in the load.
Yes! I have a cloth bin that sits either over the (admittedly narrow) top of my hamper, or next to it. This bin also holds my delicates bags. Which in my home is for wool shirts and socks as well as bras. All delicates are air dry. When I’m planning well, everything is air dry. So the cotton shirts that can’t take any shrinking go in the bin, wool in the bags. Regular laundry in the hamper. Simple.
On the drying side, I finally learned to hang the damp clothes on hangers, and place them on the rack. (I don’t have a yard for a line) things that will still wrinkle do get hung on a rack bar. And I got a square sock and undies hanger from ikea, but dollar stores often have them.
You also could put all the delicate stuff in a laundry bag. It protects the delicate fabrics, you won't forget anything and you save a load of laundry :)
You're a genius. Soooo many of our tees shrink in the dryer and I always have to squint at tags!! Thank you 💖
Don’t let a man near the dryer. They ruin tunic tops, wool caps by putting in dryer. One even put leather shoes in a hot commercial dryer.
I like that idea! I probably have a smallish container somewhere that I can use for that!
First, let me say that my heart feels for you and all moms of small children. You are amazing and doing a great job! I do want to say that there is a MUCH easier way to sort dirty clothes. Set up 3 plastic trash cans (or big bins) in your laundry room. That will be the only place there is dirty laundry. When you are finished with a shower, head to laundry room with dirty clothes in hand. When you give your kids a bath, have the kids take clothes to laundry room (kids as young as 2 can do this system - I have 4 kids). In laundry room, have them put whites in one bin, darks in another, and any special clothes (leggings, bras, etc) in the other bin. When it's time to do laundry, there are no extra steps of running around the house gathering dirty clothes. There is not a step of sorting clothes either. All there is to do is dump the clothes from the bin that is most full into the washing machine. It couldn't be simpler!
Doing one load, from start to finish every day, was a game changer for me. I also add white vinegar to the fabric softener compartment of the washer when I do towels and cloths to keep them fresh. Any men’s dress shirts that would require ironing only get a short time in the dryer and then get hung up to air dry - this keeps the ironing minimal to none. Thank you for all your ideas and for your amazing channel. You have truly helped me gain back some control in my house and life!
My son needs a crease in his pants for school, but I invested in a steamer for everything else that I used to iron to remove wrinkles
Teach your children to do their own laundry while they are young, I'm talking 5-7 years old. Trust me, you won't regret it!!!
I couldn't agree more, my children are 3 and 5 and basically from they both could walk, they put their washing in the washing basket, dishes in sink & rubbish in the correct bin (compost, recycling or general) x
Yes ma’am!!!
My girls wash their clothes, their towels and their bedding. And they are better at getting it in/out/folded/put away than I am lol. So they’d prefer to do their own now.
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I so agree! Teach to sort laundry, and how to operate the washing machine and dryer. My 8 yo son taught my 13 & 15 yo step kids how to do it one summer. And, as I expected, when my son went to college, he was proud of not having pink underwear.
I"m so thankful to be at a point in my child-raising years where everybody pretty much does their own laundry. I do mine and the household stuff (sheets, towels, cleaning cloths, etc.) and everybody else is responsible for their own. I don't bother fighting with my teenager about it. When he runs out of clothes, he'll do a load.
Eventually, as the kids got older, we implemented a "if it needs to be done, do it..." rule. Like, if you're moving a load to the dryer, and there's a basket of towels ready for the wash, it's part of the job to start the load of towels as well as finishing with your own clothes in the dryer.
My best laundry hack is to actually look at the little measuring marks in the cap of liquid laundry detergent . You can fill to line A for regular loads or line B for large loads and it’s actually way less detergent than I have been using my whole life. Now that I use less detergent my clothes actually seem softer and cleaner.
Really good point! A lot of them are concentrated too now!
My laundry hack is to hang washing on a line outside (weather permitting). I hear all you busy moms, No! But wait, it gives you time outside, slows you down, the clothes smell so nice and it saves on electricity. I find it so soothing, if in a hurry, put the smaller things in a dryer, or use one of those round portable, multi peg things, this can be done inside, by the children and hung outside.
A little story... my youngest was 7 and saw that I was busy and asked to help, I asked her to hang the washing on the line. She did it. When I looked the clothes were hung higgldy piggidly. My inner self wanted to scream and redo her work, but my outer mother, thanked her and left them be. The next time she asked to do it, I said yes and let us do it together. Then gently I said, this is how I hang, towels, etc. We enjoyed the experience. Now she is 22, not once in all that time did she moan or complain when asked to hang out the washing! 😁
This is what I've been saying all along ! When you use a dryer, you only have a short time before you have to get it out of the dryer & get it folded , otherwise, it'll be a wrinkled mess. But ! If you hang your laundry on a clothesline, it doesn't wrinkle ! Even if you don't take it down as soon as it's dry, it won't get wrinkled ! You've got more time ! It saves on either gas or electricity (depending on which kind you get), your laundry lasts longer (dryers are tough on fabric...all that dryer lint is NOT surface lint...it's the fabric being torn apart). The sunshine deodorizes, sanitizes, gets rid of some stains. And I'll tell you, it is so nice to be outside on a pretty day, hanging freshly washed laundry....maybe you've got flowers blooming nearby, maybe there's a bird singing. It's a lovely experience!
You "Intentionally creating My life", your story reminds me of one my grandma told me. She birthed & raised 9 children. Grandpa would hang the laundry for her sometimes & she said she'd look out there & see it hung kind of crazy, whopperjawed....but she never ever complained ! She was grateful for the help!
I admire the kind & gentle way you corrected your 7 yr. old without breaking her spirit. We should all take a lesson.
I did my laundry loads by person. Then I don't have to sort it when it's done. Once my kids were old enough they did their own laundry. Each person got their own unique style or color of sock so it was always easy to tell them apart if they got mixed into someone else's load by accident.
that's what I do too. Saves a ton of time. I also do the small loads every day so it's easy to get it done.
This is exactly what we do, too (I am a mom of 5) (y)
But Doesnt each person own a mix of whites, lights, darks, single stain and non - machine washable clothes? You still have to take them out of the machine, route around them, separate, fold, sort and match smalls and socks etc??.... Sometimes my kids will give me an item of clothing and say 'i need this for tomorrow', i will put on a load that matches that specific piece of clothing, i couldnt leave it until they have me a full loads worth of their clothes..
@@clairelynch4928 We don't own clothes that are non machine washable (except dance costumes). Most clothes can be mixed when washed unless they are new. If they've been washed once, bleeding doesn't occur anymore. Since most laundry detergents now contain OXY or white brightening agents, we rarely even separate whites out unless they are filthy. I have teens and have never let them do the whole "I need this tomorrow" unless it was a sports uniform. Otherwise, I doubt you found out tonight that you needed it for tomorrow lol
@@nikkil314 ouch on my parenting!! You do you...
I do one load of laundry every single day and I never have a problem keeping up, if I miss one or two days it’s overwhelming.
My laundry hack is that you can re-use the color catcher sheets several times. I make quilts so I use the color catchers a lot and I use them until they get really dark. I figure if they are getting darker they are still soaking up more dye :)
I do that, too. I make quilts as well, and when you use red fabric, it can be an issue. I am thinking of giving 1 color catcher and washing directions out with each quilt I gift now.
Wow! You've come a long way, Baby! I remember huge Mount Washmore and Mount Foldmore in your early videos and look at you now....and with three little kids! I've loved following you on your journey and you've helped me in mine so much! Sending you lots of love XXOO❤
Thank you Pat! It has really been a 180 for me! I appreciate you always being here and being so supportive
I had seen some of your videos with Diane in Denmark a while back, and I am now subscribing! I watched a few of your videos over the last week and they have helped me "get" the flylady system a lot better! (I have tried and "failed" many times.) I feel more in control and my house looks so much better. Progress! Thank you so very much for your positivity and encouragement😄
My dryer has not worked since last October and it´s been annoying BUT it´s also been nice because I hang all on hangers and once dry they are ready to go into the closet or just fold the few I put in drawers.
A small dollar store tote is what our toddler uses for a reuse more than once laundry basket. So far it works for us. We understand laundry has levels of cleanliness.
I have 2 sets of sheets per bed. When my kids were little and they'd get a stomach bug, if they vomited on the bed, I could change their sheets and clean up immediately.
I did the same when my kids were little and stored the spare set between the mattress and box spings.
@@nspindlow5046 absolutely! Few things as bad as a sick child and having to wait for fresh bedding for them. Of course, they always came to my bed, and would always vomit on our bed before their own. Smh... 🙄
Our 3 year old had a bad flu last December. I stopped counting after 12 times of throwing up all complete with bedding changes. Needless to say the washing machine and dryer was going all night (and so were my husband and I and our newborn). I was thankful for multiple sets of bedding for her bed. Even still we went through a lot of bedding and pjs that one night! Thankfully that was the worst of it and she got better within a couple of days.
@@AF-ot4pi oh that sounds awful for all of you! I'm so glad your little one started feeling better quickly.
yes! I was wondering about that when Steph said she only had one pair per bed!
Best hack: minimalism. You have to stay on top of it or you’ll walk around naked 😂
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Amen!
You could move to a nudist camp.
I love doing laundry, here in mexico is very common to sun dry the laundry, it's relaxing for me to hang the clothes to the 🌞 I don't know why. what I don't like it's have to do all the laundry loads on the weekend so I will try to do a load per night to have the weekend all for me.
All my delicate, hand wash only or items with zippers that might damage other clothing, go into separate mesh wash bags accordingly and get thrown in the normal wash. Never had a problem.😄
Me too!
I have 2 laundry baskets. Towels and special care clothing. The everyday clothing that gets dirty is put directly into the washer, like a 3rd hamper. When its full, I do the load. Everyone takes their dirty clothes at the end of the day to the washer and toss them in. I love this. Less gathering for me.
I am with you that I take the sheets off the bed, wash them and remake the bed. The bedspread is in the wash now and I cover it with a flat sheet since my two dogs sleep with me. I can change that mid-week if they shed a lot or track dirt. I am single and limit my loads but this week I vacuumed and washed all the throw rugs and dog blankets since they went to the groomer today and hopefully shedding will be minimized for a little while. I prioritize the laundry based on dog hair so when I get to dark close there is less chance of still having residual hair in the washer. I'm lucky that as a single person I usually get away with 3 loads on average per week am I'm very curious to read about Tru Earth!
The last two days I helped my sister declutter her walk in closet and dresser since she's close to retirement, down-sizing and moving away. We've filled two giant bags of clothes to donate and another 1 1/2 to trash! I'm so proud of her and I know it's in part because she's watched my journey over almost two years. She's a lot braver than when we've worked on her closet in the past.
I have two kids and put a basket in each persons room. Saves sorting as I just grab that persons basket on their day, wash, dry and put it back in their room to put away. My husband and I each have a basket as well in our room. Four loads a week of clothes. Then I fit in whatever else is needed on the fifth day, whether it is towels, sheets or dish cloths. No sorting whose is whose! I love your no -fold/half full drawer method. That is a good one :)
My laundry hack is to have one hamper in the bathroom (we only have one bathroom) all dirty clothes go in there. Then when a load is done since we don't have baskets, we literally fold as we pull from the dryer. For us a laundry basket just becomes storage for clean laundry or for dirty. Getting it in and out of the wash with no baskets helps keep our laundry picked up AND put away!!!
When my kids were babies my biggest hack was to use a diaper pin on the socks, everytime I took their socks off I put them onto a diaper pin so they were together. Wash them on the diaper pin and then could fold them or just toss the whole thing into their sock drawer and not be searching for a pair!
Thanks for doing this giveaway! This is a product I've seen in ads and have been interested in trying!
A tip from my aunt that has 12 children! Keep all kids clothing in the laundry room! She has shelves to store it, and a rod for hanging clothes. Kids go there to get clothes for bath time, and change there or in a nearby bathroom at bedtime/morning. Works a treat! My mom implemented this system with her 4 young ones. No carrying around laundry to bedrooms, gathering dirty laundry all over the house, etc! Super easy to fold and put away. Hamper only in the laundry room, with a laundry chute from upstairs. Parents have clothes in their room. Kids might eventually do that as they get older and can take care of it themselves.
I did this too. I used a hanging cloth shoe organizer for each child in the laundry room. I kept one complete outfit (shirt, pants, undies, and socks) in each bin. In addition to helping young ones get ready easier, this also helped keep a boundary to the number of clothing items we needed. If I didn't have an outfit to fill one of the spaces, I knew exactly what clothing items I needed to replace.
P.s. The hanging shoe box organizer I used had seven bins - five outfits, two sets of pjs.
@@tinahood3100 wonderful idea! It's like a capsule wardrobe for each kid. Love it!
I acquired a husband whose mother bought him socks individually. He had a rainbow of sock colors that were a pain to pair. Occasionally, I would mismatch blue/black or brown/dk brown. That did not go well. So.... I threw away all his socks, and bought white and black. Threw them into the drawer and allowed him to match. It fixed the battle of mismatched socks :)
I love the idea of having the same socks! Also, I have learned through a professional organizer the tip you said about fold the laundry right after you finish it. You have to think of laundry same as groceries! Love the tips you gave!
I have been doing laundry by person for about 9 months now and it's ACTUALLY life changing. The hands-on time of sorting clothes all washed together vs running smaller more frequent loads cannot be compared. I'm never going back. We have one laundry basket in the laundry room (main floor laundry) for all the clothes that randomly end up downstairs and that's my only mixed load.
I love the new Zealand wool dryer balls. The man who installed my dryer years ago said drier sheets are hard on dryers!
Went to the true earth website and planned on ordering some to try out, but changed my mind. I buy Tide basic and get 89 loads for $9. Even with 15% off it would be $30 for 64 loads. Now I’d really like to decrease plastic use but that’s over 3 times the cost, it can’t be nearly as expensive to produce and make a decent profit as Tru Earth is charging. Hoping maybe this company will read comments like this and see the average American needs a more affordable price, most of us are more than willing to try a new product but at a more reasonable price point.
Love the sock tip. To stop my long ago teenagers fighting, I bought one all Nike sports socks, one all Addidas sports socks and myself Converse. Saved so many arguments. And it just became a routine once every six months to top up socks.
My husband does laundry. He actually had a family meeting with the children explaining how laundry would be done. He taught our older boys how to do their own laundry and that all towels had to be put in the towel hamper while their personal laundry went into theirs. Our children are grown and gone but we still do a load a day to keep Mt. Washmore away. I don’t have laundry baskets but just fold and put away. I will purposefully make multiple trips around house to put items away knowing I get credit for every step with my Fitbit. 😁
I keep 2 sets of sheets per bed that are used year-round. With kiddos, you never know when they will be hit with a stomach bug that will have you awake at 2am and them needing fresh sheets immediately.
2 sets of sheets per bed in our home as well. I usually put the second set on immediately after stripping the bed but I'm gonna try her way to see if folding fewer sheets is worth leaving the incomplete ... cuz, I may not get back to it until it's a hassle before bed
I do the same thing, it really helps
Definitely need a spare set of sheets cuz you never know. What I do (and want to change) is put the 2nd set on while the 1st washes. What I want to try is washing the current set fully and putting it on the bed. This way I'm not unfolding one set and folding the other. Actually using the backup set as that: backup. Who would've thought lol
@@amberglines874 I prefer to do it they way you currently are. Keeps the "backup" set of sheets fresh too.
I live in a relatively small house so I'm able to have just one laundry basket in the hall outside the bathroom and bedrooms. Same socks has been a rule for years. No clothes that need dry cleaning. My boys have their clothes in a cupboard beside the bathroom, means they get changed by the laundry basket and sharing a wardrobe means putting away their clothes is easier (putting away clothes is my Achilles heel). Bed linens, towels and cleaning clothes are all white/light so they can be washed at high temperatures together for ease and hygiene. And finally..... minimise your wardrobe. Less stuff means less washing, and you have to keep on top otherwise you go naked!
I love doing laundry :) My parents taught me when I was about 14 years old on how to do it properly and then just said that I am responsible for the family's laundry from now on - back then we were a 6 people household. I really liked that they just let me do it however it worked for me, the only rules were that it should be done consistently so that nobody had to complain that they don't have anything left to wear and that my mother does not have to intervene at any point of the process. Quite strict actually, now that I put it into words, but I started to love doing it for some reason and have ever since. Maybe it was because my mom did not have to do so much anymore on her own and it was nice to see her more relaxed.
Aww you are a great daughter, I’m glad you find joy in daily tasks 💕😊
All of our bath towels, hand towels and washcloths are all white. That way the can be bleached, no fading and can go in any of our 4 bathrooms. Time saver for sure. We buy the hotel quality white towels from Costco.
Really smart! I have mostly white bedding for that same reason!
I've shared this before, but I think it needs sharing again.
At 4 years old I taught my kids how to separate their clothes. Jeans, lights, darks, whites. I bought laundry separators (unit with 4 hanging bags). I have one in each bedroom. When they take their clothes off they separate them into the correctly marked bag. On Sunday, they take their laundry to the laundry room and dump each bag into the corresponding large laundry hamper in the laundry room.... similar to the tall white ones she has in this video. At this point I can tell my kids to put lights into the washer, take clothes out of the washer and put them in the dryer or take them from dryer and into a basket. I have a ton of things that can't get dried and I've taught my kids what doesn't get dried and they put into a small basket that I then hang up. You can always do all of this yourself, but having your kids separate from the very beginning teaches them organization and responsibility. My kids don't take their clothes off anywhere except their room where they then hang it up or put it away. I don't fold my kids' shirts. I lay them flat and my kids hang them up on their own. Teach your kids how to do things and you won't be as overwhelmed by the things you need to do.
best hack: Zero Odor laundry additive to get rid of the sour smell that gets into clothes sometimes. My 2nd best hack: having only 3 laundry hampers in our house - 1 for whites, 1 for darks & colors, 1 for delicates. Towels, sheets, and cleaning clothes go straight from where they go to work into the washer when they are ready to be washed. Just ordered the unscented Tru Earth Laundry Strips and cannot wait to try them!
Hi Steph, I love your system. If you have a smaller family like we do I have switched 3 baskets for 1. Everyone has to put their laundry in there, and once it’s full the laundry is washed. I have also introduced the 1 load per day, complete game changer - thank you xxx
Hello! My laundry hack is to basically wear the same pants more than once so instead of having 7 pairs a week to wash I only have like 3. You could do this with kids too. Same with pajamas. But not underwear! Those must not be worn more than once! Change your underwear everyday! ;D
🧺 These are such great ideas! I'm steadily getting on track, but I do have one hack that works for me. I sort into loads as I go (lights, darks, towels, whatever) using multiple baskets. Then, when I do my one load of laundry I just choose the fullest basket. The point is: however you are going to sort into wash loads, sort as you take off the clothes or pick up around the house. I also highly recommend mesh laundry bags to sort like items. If you use one for socks, one for underwear, one for bras/athletic stuff, even one for washcloths...it makes it so much easier to fold--or not--and put away because it's already sorted. So, to make a load grab your mesh bags of socks, underwear, washcloths, and then throw in a couple of towels. It also cuts down on tangled laundry which can damage your clothes. I'm a grad student, so I do get behind occasionally. Having a system makes it much easier to get caught up again--which I am in the middle of now that Finals are done. Just some thoughts, but always do what works best for you. 🙏😀
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One thing I do for socks our socks is wash them in a big laundry bag. That way they’re all contained, they don’t disappear like socks do and it’s so much easier to match and fold. I learned the tip of buying your kids all the same socks by the time my 2nd was born and that’s helped tremendously as well.
I have to say that from experience if there isn’t a back up set of sheets you are going to have a terrible night of those sheets get wet. Ask me how I know. I keep 2 sets for each bed and my kid who has occasional accidents has 3. Again. Ask me how I know. There is minimal and there is also common sense.
I agree.
When I change the sheet Pillowcases to was I put the extra set on straight away.
Dude little kids wetting the bed and throwing up in the middle of the night, with no more clean sheets. Kill me now.
I've had this happen a lot. I have the same layers of sheets on each of my younger kids beds (and mine if kids sleep there). On bottom a fitted aheet I don't care about (we don't see it hardly ever), then a waterproof sheet and the top sheet is a cute fitted sheet. If an accident happens, the top fitted sheet and waterproof one go in the wash and there is already a sheet on the bed. Also, there have been so many times when we had to wash a sheet and there wasn't another sheet to go on the bed. Blankets or towels make do just fine. I mean... You get over it and get on with it. Especially in the middle of the night, and a wet sheet doesn't happen very often anyway.
@@rebeccastephens6087 Great idea! They make these big waterproof pads, too. My little granddaughter is 2, and will be spending the night with us eventually. I might get a big pad to put under her so I don't have to worry.
This is great. When my kids were young and living at home I washed my share of clean clothes. Hahaha
Now it's just my husband and I and the 1 load a day has been a life saver. Even when we have company and there are showers at odd times. I never get too far behind.
That baby is growing fast
Thanks
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Just a thought. When you have 3 loads of clothes, get 3 different kinds/colors of laundry baskets. That way, as your bringing laundry in, you can pre-sort as you go. That's what I do. I have a white basket for on, a blue basket for one, and a grey basket for towels and cloths.
I'm in the minority. I love doing laundry. No need to sort. We have a second floor laundryroom w/2 laundry baskets in it. One's for darks/brights; one's for lights. When a basket is full, I toss it in the washer. I hang all of our laundry outdoors during mild weather months. I enjoy that! Being out in the fresh air, birds singing, flowers blooming near me. This helps make doing laundry more pleasant ! Line drying makes things last longer. Dryers pull fabric apart...that's what all that lint is in the lint catcher. The sun deodorizes. I've washed socks & had them still have an odor if dried in a dryer...but if I dry them outdoors, the odor disappears.
I have started washing what we wear each day and completely finishing a load a day. It has really helped!
I used a laundry service when my dryer broke, now I use it regularly! Save all sheets and towels and comfy clothes, drop it off and pick up same day 😃 only do good clothes and undies at home. I'm soooo happy lol
I'm at the other end of raising kids (as a single parent, so little time), as mine are now adults. The best thing I had was a four-bag laundry sorter in a credenza kind of thing (actually two two-bag sorters) with each bag for a different type of laundry: white wash, hot wash (towels, underwear), light clothes, and dark clothes. From about 4 on, my kids put their clothes into the bins and when one was full, that was the next to be done (yes, I had to do some resorting). (We kept a small basket on top for the few things that required delicate washing.). I also have 5 laundry baskets. When I folded the clothes I put them into a laundry basket for each person (or for the linen closet) and delivered them (or asked my kids to carry them up). I did fold the kids' clothes, but what they did after that was their problem; mine and the linens got put away folded. Baskets were returned to the top of the credenza for the process to start over (more than once I've put a load into one basket, but carried 3-4 down). While the credenza could be a surface to collect clutter, it mostly hasn't and has been a useful way station for things to go downstairs or put out for another reason. The cats like to sit on it to get ear scratches.
We also have used the laundry baskets for packing for trips. When the kids were little, they assembled what they thought they wanted to take and I could do a quick check that they didn't have ten shirts and no bottoms. One basket is about one carryon suitcase. We carried the baskets down to the suitcases and left them there, reversing the process upon return home
Us Spaniards tend to only have one hamper (we also tend to live in flats). My brother and I were taught when we were real young that as soon as you take off your clothes you must take them to the hamper. When we got a little bit older we were taught how to put them away and later on how hang clothes, and use the washing machine. Easy peasy
Hi Steph☺️
The sock transition happened when I got black school socks for all my 4 children, same type, ( ankle for summer, normal for colder weather) different size. They wear the black socks daily and the patterned on weekends or stay at home days! Pairing is a breeze and they still enjoy character/ patterned sock on fun days!
I do a load of laundry as soon as the basket it full. Start the wash in the morning and make sure it's all done and put away by bed time.
I don't mind doing laundry either and if clean laundry has been mixed with dirty laundry I wash anyway
Same
I cleaned out my dresser and closet shelves today. I thought I needed another dresser, but it was just full of crap! Tomorrow I will go thru the hanging stuff. Whew!
I have a small hamper with 2 sections (light and dark), I wash when full, about every 2 -3 days. And I try to do bedding and towels on mondays. I hang outside to dry and then put everything away
I wish I could use a line outside! We all have allergies to pollen and stuff so that takes out spring/summer for line drying for us, and then fall and winter is sooo cold here in Canada that I would just be freezing my clothes!!! Our house is boxed off a lot inside and there are five of us so hanging inside has never been efficient for us! I love that people are able to do this esp year round!
@@MarisaAndChew I live in South Africa, and were I live (province) we don't get snow, so of you hang it up as early as possible in winter it still gets dry. When it rains I hang it in our garage. (Don't have basement). We are 2 adults and 2 children. I have a dryer, for emergencies (electricity is expensive haha).
@@anitaventer2533 That's awesome! We don't have a garage to hang but i like that idea for anyone who wants to hang things and feels limited in the house!! We do have an energy efficient dryer and it can hold a LOT and seems to actually work better with a large load. Electricity is crazy priced in my area too and it shouldnt be since we use hydro electricity and our area is full of hydro dams! You would THINK it would be cheaper for us but, government...
@@MarisaAndChew yes the governments haha sounds like you have a very nice dryer
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Having a load assigned to a day has really helped me keep on track. But I'd say the biggest hack (a friend told me about after having baby #3 almost 5 years ago) is to have your children rewear the same clothes for 2 days in a row. So mine know they choose new clothes on MWF and Sunday clothes for church. Washing only 4 outfits and 1 PJs per child means I can wash a week's worth of kids clothes in ONE LOAD! 🙌🏻
(But now that my older two girls can do the entire laundry process I've split the 4 children in pairs and each of them do theirs and their assigned younger siblings laundry and towel. Win!)
All my towels and sheets are white. I wash them hot, with detergent and a minimum effective dose of Oxyclean (I reuse the small scoop that used to come with Oxyclean, not that huge one they put in now!). No stains, no dinginess, no fading...lovely snowy whiteness. And everything matches😊.
My hack is to take advantage of a handheld steamer for any wrinkles instead of the hassle of ironing! They are inexpensive and QUICK to run over a hanging shirt or dress. Bonus hack- instead of getting my daughter (9) lots of pajama sets, she gets a pack of xl boys white shirts and a few pairs of sweats. She loves sleeping in anything oversized and it makes sorting and putting away a breeze since there is only 1 type of pajama!
Have a single collection area for laundry- laundry room, or like I have, a laundry chute that each family member tosses their laundry into. Makes that every evening load so much easier!
Get the hubby to do it!! 🤣
I changed to Nellie's soda and have used wool dryer balls for years now. Washing machine gets much less grubby, and I made my own dryer balls from an "adopted" sheep's wool.
First, I love your channel! I'm so glad I stumbled onto here!! 🥰
My favorite laundry hack is having the same kind of socks but similar to the no fold method, I don't match socks. 😬
Thank you Grace! I need to try the sock thing!
@@TheSecretSlob Another suggestion:
Different colors per person for towels, sheets. Kinda like the sock theory.. if its pink,, I know who it belongs to and where it goes..
I do this for guests, too. Only my guest towels have color stripes. Each color represents a room..
That keeps guest sets separated so they dont get worn out. Same with sheet sets.. oh, I never make guest beds with their assigned sheets until I'm sure guests are coming. I keep guest sheets stored in the guest room, folded with dryer sheets to keep them smelling fresh..
All sheet sets and towels have assigned homes in their respective rooms.If all beds are equal in size, i guess you could just do white, like hotels.
I have 15 beds but the color assignment seems to work best for me...and not so boring.
Everyone knows who's towels, sheets go where.
I do drop boxes for socks, underwear. Easy Sort but No folding. Easy access.
We all have ADD so we use labeled drop/toss boxes INSIDE respective closets for most effective maintenance. This is a fun game for kids, too. Give them their basket of clean clothes and set timer. They just open their closet, pick out a piece of clothing from their basket, toss it into the basket that has been labeled for that piece of clothing!
K.I.S.S. toss boxes: Socks, underwear, tshirts, pants, etc. No drawers. Forget folding. Effective for ADD, keeps clothes sorted, organized, visual and accessible. Yet,, maintained behind closet doors to keep rooms free from visual clutter.. Kindve like a
corn hole laundry technique. Of course, prefer to hang some clothes, but mostly our everyday clothes can be managed by the "corn hole" system.
I do like the idea of seasonal storing of Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter to maximize use of closet space. It also keeps kids from putting on shorts in wintertime or a sweater in the summer. I had lots of kids, so I also found it helpful to have kids set out their clothes for the next day the night before, especially if you have to go out the next day. Saves so much time and energy in the am...when there's not enough coffee and less time to think ;)
My system is similar like yours only I soak overnight my kitchen towels .You are so young and have so many good advice.
We've been doing the laundry together for a while. It's so important to work as a collective and not just alone. Plus the washing strips are SO GOOD and has cleaned everything so well
This was such an inspiring video to watch. I have five kids, so laundry can be a nightmare sometimes. I really like the idea of picking a certain day during the week to wash just towels and another day for clothes, etc. Also, the sock idea is awesome because I never thought to involve the kids in matching them out of a basket. I will most definitely be trying this out. Thank you so much for sharing your tips.
I have a tower with 3 baskets in our bedroom (we don’t have a laundry room unfortunately). One for cold washing, one for 60 degrees Celsius washing (towels and underwear) and one for whites. We sort them immediately and if something can be worn again, we lay it out for the next day. So no clean laundry in the baskets.
We don’t have room for a dryer so we have to hang dry everything. We have 2 racks standing, one for clothes and one for the hot washing. We have to stay on top of laundry because it takes 2 days to dry. We have to empty the rack and fold/put away everything before we can hang the next load so no clean laundry is ever wandering about.
We only have one laundry basket that we can take with us (in the sorting tower are stuck), so we have to put everything away before we can get the next load from the washer. The washer is downstairs in the kitchen and the drying racks are upstairs in a spare bedroom.
It’s a perfect system for us... until we forget to do laundry a couple of days and are running out of underwear or something, because it will take 2 days to get it dry in the worst case scenario 😂🙈
Really enjoy your enthusiasm, love seeing the littles. Very good teachable moments.
You read my mind - I was just thinking about how to review my system! I do fold or hang clothes straight from the drier to avoid ironing!
Anything to avoid ironing eh!? :)
I love love love that you don’t fold certain clothes!! Genius!!!!
I don't fold anything but towels and cloths. Pajamas, underwear, little clothes, etc. go straight into the drawers, unfolded. No one ever knows. ;) For big kid/teen/adult clothes, we HANG it all. Soooo much faster to throw a T-shirt over a hanger than to fold it and try to make it fit into a drawer...plus, it's so easy to look through hanging items to decide what to wear. (Yes, we even hang jeans, workout clothes, and leggings. No more digging in messy, overstuffed drawers.)
Great idea! I love hanging t shirts 👕
I try to do laundry in a way that's kinder to the environment too. My tip is the same as yours - check through your laundry to make sure you are not washing clean or almost clean clothes. My teenagers are so disorganised at times they put their clean clothes straight back into the wash because they 'store' their clean laundry on the floor! I use a ceiling rack to dry our clothes which means a minimum of 24 hours between loads as I have to wait for it to air dry, this stops laundry becoming something I end up spending a whole day on.
My "Charming sun-filled pre-war condo" is on the fourth floor of a walk-up building, and the laundry room is in the basement. These detergent sheets will be a godsend when carrying my laundry to the laundry room!
Denise Vickery from Florida. A Laundry Hack of mine is with towels. I put 1-2 Cups of Distilled Vinegar in a rinse cycle (pre-wash) before I put them through a regular washing cycle. When I put towels in the laundry room to wash, they would get to smelling before I could do them, this helps.
I’ve pre-washed my husbands dirty work pants this way too.
This was a good video! Thanks :)
My best tip is to have a laundry basket for each kind of laundry.
We sort by colour and which temperature it should be washed in. We have 4 bins in the bathroom in the basement and 1 laundry bin on the first floor. When the bin on the first floor is full I take it to the basement and sort the clothes in the 4 bins.
When the kids shower in the evening before bedtime, they put their dirty laundry in the designated bin in the basement.
Then when one of the bins in the basement is full, I know to wash the clothes in that been.
Only down side, is that those special items share a bin with the towels and so on, so I really should have 5 bins, but there isn't more room ;-)
My kids are 5 and 6, and in those evenings when they don't shower, they used to just put their clothes on the couch or coffee table. We recently bought a bin for each, which can be under the coffee table on a shelf, and now they put their clothes (if clean enough to wear again) in the bin at night, and their PJs in there in the morning. Socks and underwear goes in the laundry bin on the first floor. So much nicer for everyone, and they are really good at remembering this new ritual.
My laundry hack is having a clean basket that I can easily put loads into from the dryer or drying rack snd put it away throughout the day! Also love your colab with TruEarth :) I love them so much! I love your laundry routine. The piling laundry into the laundry room is such a good idea. I definitely will implement this!
Great video! Yes I only buy the same type of socks for myself for 2 years now. Game changer! I love it!
I have to do that!
Poof! Magic! Love it!!! I wash towels on Friday and bedding on Saturday. The other days are for clothes. I also have 3 baskets. One for hand wash, another for towels, 3rd for clothes. It's just me and my husband and it works well. I like the laundry strips. I will try those. Thank you! Love seeeing your adorable baby boy/helper!😀
Similar to the minimal clothing comments I'm seeing, but my favorite way to make sure I stay on top of my laundry is to only have enough underwear and socks for at maximum, 2 weeks. This makes it really easy to motivate myself to get through the laundry every week. It also makes it really easy to replace pairs as needed so I'm never holding on to hoards of old stuff that's falling apart.
I have a sorting system. Even my kids 3 and 6 start using it. And I am so glad I have it. It is an ikea shelf with 4 boxes. The boxes can be pushed in and taken out really easely. One box is for hot wash, towels ect. 2 boxes are for warm wash, dark cloths an light cloths, one box is for things that should never ever go into the dryer. So the adults put theire dirty used stuff right away in the box it belongs. The kids put theirs sometimes in, too. They understand where to put dark an light stuff. I have one more laundry basket in the bathroom. Since I started fly lady I take the basket from the bathroom an sort things in the right box of my sorting system every evening. Then I take the fullest box to my washing mashine.
That's my load for the next morning. The boxes fit nearly exactly a load. And there is space if I find some more in one of the kids rooms. The shelf is standing in my bed room (no space some where else. But as it is the room we get dressed it is easy to sort dirty cloths away easy while getting changed)the shelf ist 1,8 m high. It really does not take a lot of room. But is is helping so much sorting the laundry. Before fly lady it piled up. The best sorting system is not helping if the washing is not done regularly. 😂 Thanks for the channel and reminding me doing a load every weekday.
I really like your system.. everything seems under control and I also love the fact you use the eco friendly detergent by Tru earth. I think this is such a great product and you just confirmed this to me. Thank you for your tips
I love the Tru Earth products and I'm excited about your collaboration. It's amazing how such small strips make your clothes perfectly clean and help to avoid so much plastic waste.
Love your system, I do laundry very similarly but sort by color, except sheets, towels, blankets, and, my husband's filthy work clothes. All that is done in their own separate loads so I do 1-2 loads a day and it works for me! Some days I even find that I don't have enough for even 1 load so that's a NO LAUNDRY day!!!
Yess!! Love that 😄
Our laundry hacks- a schedule. We cloth diaper so we pretty much do laundry everyday (diapers every other day, or every 3rd day). I schedule what get washed on the other day.
Other hack- sorting laundry by wash type. For us this is cold/delicate, warm (most of our clothes), hot (towels and workout clothes for my husband), and small hot (washcloths and rags, which go into the diaper load).
Kid hack- socks go into lingerie bags so they don't get lost, eaten by the machine, and are easier to match back up and keep each kids' separate from the other's.
I love the True Earth laundry strips. It cleans well. It also reduces the plastic clutter.
Been using Tru earth strips a couple of months and love them I store mine in a pretty jar too. Doing laundry daily is my go-to
Can you use the strips if you only have cold water to your machine?
@@anitapendleton1209 they work in hot or cold x
I have learned when cleaning my lint trap to dust the top of the dryer with the lint. I have a ton of dog hair and wiping the dryer every time keeps the dog hair away.
So smart!
Folding is such a dreaded task in my house so I will definitely start using some of these simple tips!
My sweet baby girl (14 months) likes to help sort the clean clothes and tries to fold them. It’s so cute ☺️
Aww they love to help mom 💜
When you are ale socks put a clothes pin on them. Wash . Already matched.
My hack is the FLYLady idea of "A load a day keeps the chaos away". Not really one a day for me, but more a laundry habit than a laundry day.
And I keep constant stock of sorting out laundry I don't wear and buy multiples of basics I love like shirts. I also changed to one colour of socks, sock mahjongg is a waste of time.
Have you seen Brittany Vasseur's recent shirt hanging hacks? There's a genius one that saves so much time.
Socks - I’ve done that for my boys, same type and color of socks in one size - works great. (Imagine the feeling when I bought a lot of same socks, just to realize it was “stamped” L and R on them 🙈🙈)
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A good tip for when your kids get adult size are to colour code people's socks. My husband got stripes, my grown son got spots!
Love the little baby!
I mix those things up like a dj. Usually one of them ends up without socks😂😂
This is giving me motivation to go through Mount Laundrymonjaro down in the basement.. We have a laundry chute which I love but I really let it get out of control. I think the pile underneath of it is about 5 ft high and 4 ft wide and I usually only wash the top half of it maybe I don't even know whats at the bottom of that pile anymore lol but I imagine I can get rid of it..
I have two hampers and a diaper pail for dirty laundry. They are approximately the size of my washer tub, so I dump the whole thing in without sorting. We quit storing dirty laundry in sorters or the basement. A basket or pail is ready to go everyday.
How do those strips work in a front load machine ?
Awww!! You're baby boy is crawling!! Super cute!! Good plan with the laundry. I sort of do the same thing.
Quick Tip:
MicroFiber Clothes, never use Fabric Softener on them. Fabric softener creates streaks because the fabric softener is embedded in the fibers.
I don’t use fabric softener, just laundry detergent.
It’s just me, I do laundry once a week and only separate by heavy ( towels, pants, etc) and everything else
Keep stain sticks in the bottom of laundry baskets so they can be treated when they go in the basket and will be ready when they eventually go into the washer.
I don't know about that. I wouldn't want a little one getting into it.
I love the Tru Earth detergent strips too. It's amazing how easy they are to use and how clean my clothes become.
Hubby and I have a ver small laundry area, so I only gave room in there for the actual loads that I'm doing right then. Instead of a basket in our bathroom, we have a 2-bag laundry sorter, with detachable hanging bags. I have daily loads of towels and rags (the ones I use instead of paper towels. They get done as needed, almost every day. But I assign one or 2 categories of laundry for each day over a 4 day period. When my husband and I get changed, whatever we take off that can't be worn again before it gets washed, goes directly into the proper sorting bag (1 for bleachables, the other for non-bleachables. So, when bathroom and vlothing day comes around. I either just take one of the bags into the laundry area I n the morning and start the first load. Or, if they're big loads and I don't want to cary the bags, I just wheel the whole sorter in there. It helps that my house is on one floor, so that I CAN wheel the sorter around if the bags are really full and heavy.
I do the laundry but the kids put everything away. Including mine and my husbands stuff. I asked them a while back if they’d rather do one load a day or all the laundry in one day and they prefer a load a day. I like that better too.