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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Airing My Dirty/Clean Laundry

This year I'm setting 2 New Year's resolutions. Usually I set so many I have forgotten what half of them are by the end of the first week. Not this year. My plan is to work on my resolutions/goals until it becomes a habit or something I'm not struggling with anymore and then I am going to choose something else to work on.
Resolution/Goal #1) Don't let the laundry get piled a mile high on the love seat and have it stay there for months with everyone digging for clean clothes out of the pile.

For this goal I knew I needed an action plan. I knew I couldn't just say I would fold and put away the laundry (washing isn't a problem) and expect it to just be that way, I knew I needed to do it differently. Asses the problem, formulate a plan.
Plan: Do 2 loads of laundry (at least) every day.
I put up a new, larger shelf in the laundry room, and got every child their own laundry basket, I got a basket for socks and one for clothes that kids have out grown or that need to go to goodwill.
When the clothes are done drying they get folded and put in each child's basket right away. Preferably straight from dryer to their baskets. Clothes don't leave the laundry room unless I am folding them that instant, so there will be no more piling up on the couch.
Twice a week the kids will put their clean clothes in their drawers (Wednesday and Saturday) and once a week (Wednesday) I will pair up all the socks in the sock basket that haven't found theri mates during the week.
The basket marked sort will be sorted for goodwill or storage when it gets full.
I started my master plan just after Christmas and so far it has been working great. Granted I am only doing about half of the laundry I normally do with the big kids gone, we'll see how it holds up them but I'm actually excited about doing the laundry which has never happened before. Crazy, I know.

3 comments:

Dahlia said...

That's a great goal and I like your new setup! Abbie has helped cut down on laundry since she'd rather just wear her diaper during the day - that or dress up clothes...

Glad you got the frozen pipe fixed so laundry didn't pile up so much!

Kandace Welch said...

awesome plan. good luck on it. have you thought of having tabetha do her own laundry now that she is 12?

Tammy Smith said...

Great idea! Think I might have to steal it! My big kids do their own laundry, even my 10 yr old. Once he discovered he could control whether or not he had clean clothes he was all over it! LOL

But man I still have to do 4 loads a day, or should I say my laundry slave (that's what she thinks she is) has to do 4 loads a day! ;>

Tammy