Do you have a plan for laundry at your house?
Having a routine for dealing with laundry each week is a huge time saver. Laundry may seem like an odd topic to include on our teaching tip day! But, laundry can really interfere with teaching by taking up needed space for “school” and overtaking your house! So, I’ll just share a tip that may get you thinking of how to address laundry at your house.
How do we deal with sorting laundry each week?
As our family has grown, we’ve discovered that the sorting of whose clothes belong to whom can really take time. It also slows down the folding process. So, we’ve found it’s easier to keep the laundry more separated from start to finish. To do this, each of our bedrooms has a laundry hamper. Even within the bedrooms, we have individual clothes baskets for our boys. This reduces the amount of mixing of clothes among family members.
How do we schedule our laundry to be done?
We schedule our laundry to be done in smaller chunks each day to keep it more manageable. So, at our house, Monday is our littlest guy’s laundry day. Tuesday is towel day and also the day my hubby and I’s laundry is done. Wednesday is our third son’s laundry day. His laundry requires special laundry detergent, due to skin allergies. Thursday is our oldest son’s laundry day. Friday is our second son’s laundry day. Saturday and Sunday we have off from laundry.
What is our laundry routine?
Everyone just brings their own laundry downstairs in their hamper or basket on their designated day. The person whose laundry it is also helps fold and put away on his/her assigned day. This makes sense, as each person knows best where his/her own clothes go! Of course, we all pitch in to help fold and put away when we are in a hurry. We have a goal to get everything put away by bedtime. Sometimes, we don’t quite make it. But, having a school workspace free of folded laundry is a great motivator!
Try making a laundry plan and see what you think.
Having a plan for your laundry may really free you up from feeling like the laundry is never really done. Try making a laundry plan, and see what you think!
Blessings,
Carrie
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Thank you!
This was so Great!
Really blessed me tonight!
Oh good! We hope your laundry plan helps make that task more manageable! Have a wonderful homeschooling week with HOD!
We only have my husband, daughter, and myself, but we keep a hamper in our daughters room and 4 in our room: darks, hand wash only shared between my daughter and I, lights, and sock/unmentionables load. We basically rotate the loads and get them done when we’re running out of something.
Elisa – that’s a great idea to have baskets for each type of laundry! Sounds like a very practical plan that is working well! Thanks for sharing!