I have a problem doing my laundry i have way too much and cant seem to get a grip can someone help?
Question:what is best way to get it all done
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Try getting rid of some clothes. I don't know how big your family is, but if they have that many clothes they may need to cut back some. Give them to a clothing center or Goodwill. If you don't want to do that, find a consignment shop and take them there. Hope this helps.
set aside one day to do nothing but laundry. after that...do a load every morning before you shower.
You have to crawl before you learn to walk. "One step(or in your case load) at a time"
When doing laundry, it is best to separate into at least three separate loads: dark clothes, light clothes, and white clothes. Check your tags and make sure that you don't have any handwash only or dry clean only clothing in the loads. Then, wash each load. You can add a couple more loads for just towels or sheets/comforters.
Then, wash each load and when one is done washing, hang to dry or put into dryer. Make sure that all the clothes can be put into the dryer before you do so, or else you will shrink them.
Once you have gotten this far, it is a matter of repeating the process, folding your clothes and putting them away. Good luck getting it done.
Ah yes, good ole laundry.
Ok, if you have children, which we do, I found out that my kids were taking clean clothes and hiding them under the bed, in closets and when it is laundry day, they come out with clean clothes in a pile.
Make sure that your not rewashing clean clothes. Like I did, and made a ton more work for me.
Have one day for colors, one day for darks and so on.
Don't do laundry before you shower. You may not have enough warm water for yourself. :-)
Have someone help you with doing the laundry.
My husband and kids pitch in to fold.
You'll be ok, just organize yourself.
This saturday, cancel all plans, rent a good book from the library and just do it. Set a timer every time you put in a load and when the timer goes off, go get another one in the machine. I say rent a book because most other activities take your attention off laundry, and you can always set a book down and pick it up when you're finished loading and putting your clothes away.
Number one thing to remember: The laundry is NOT finished until it is put away in the proper drawers/closets!
Sometimes when I get in over my head with laundry, I find it easier to take it all to the laundromat, wash it, dry it, fold it, and then take it home and put it away at once! It takes a couple of hours devoted to doing laundry, but it's not a long drawn out process of doing one load, and waiting for the dryer or waiting for space on the clothes line, etc.
Once you're caught up, just get in the habit of starting a load while you're making dinner, dry it while you're eating dinner, and fold it/put it away as you watch TV after dinner (or some similar plan that works into your schedule).
I have 5 people in my house hold so we have a lot of laundry too (3 kids). I dont mind washing and drying it, it's just folding it and putting it all up. But when I was doing laundy, if there is some thing stained, tore, not wore very often, etc. I just go ahead and throw it away. It is hard trying to keep up with all the laundry. One way I "try" to do it, is, right when I gt a full load dirty, I wash, dry and put it away then, instead of letting the laundry pile up.
OK you say that you have way to much laundry right well a way to get it all done fast and easy is to go to the laundromat and have your clothes sorted and get the biggest washer machine they have and put all those huge loads in there and put the smaller ones in the smaller washers
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i always find that when I have a real back load of laundry I will sort through and start with the laundry that wont need any ironing , that way you can fold it and put it away really quickly before getting to the ironing pile (which i find the most depressing) but at least you won't have much else in the way of dirty clothes hanging around too! Also, scoop it all into big towels according to colour, wrap the clothes up in them, then make a neat pile of your bundles.it will look like less, and tidier! Good luck
assign chores to your family. sounds like you are overwhelmed. i usually put in one load in the AM before I go to work and when I come home , i take the load out and put it in dryer so it is drying while dinner is started. if you have a family, i would suggest that you ask for help. the kids are usually great in starting out with towels / bed sheets. if kids are driving age, they love being asked to go out and do errands for you. you can have them take comforters to the laundrymat where the bigger washing / drying machines are at. or have them pick up / drop off any drying cleaning that you have. if you are single, you might want to think of having your laundry done for you. there are many women who would do this for you at a reasonable cost because they can do it at home and make a little extra money. laundromats usually have reasonable costs on washing and drying for you too. you have to compare / figure out what is best for you and your budget. but your time is money too so it may be cost effective to pay to have it done. not sure of your situation. good luck to you in managing the laundry monster!
I totally sympathize with you. My family all work in very "messy" jobs. I have to do laundry ( up to 6 loads) twice a week. Every single day I do a load of towels and a load of tee shirts (at least). If I could afford it I would pay someone to just hang out at my house and watch movies and do laundry. There isn't a stain that can hide from me, but I get sick of it. I have tried skipping a couple days but oh my, I have a terrible time catching up again.
Do not wait start now.
Start doing it one at a time, if by hand.
In case you are using washing machine, use separation method, separate them by white, light colours and dark colours, also keep them separate by water temperature if you use hot water, then do a load at a time, but start now.
I use cold water for every thing, there are cold water soaps that do a good job in cold water.
Go to a "Laundromate" at non pick hoursand do all at once by using few machine at same time, get done this way in no time then do not fall behind, do it regularly or as needed, depends on your life style.
Use dryer if available. Make sure it can be dried in the dryer.
Fold/hang them and put away while other load is in the dryer and one in the machine.
Use a laundry service.
In big city they have paid laundry, you drop it off in the morning and pick up in the evening. They charge by the pound or minimum load size, most machine do 9 pounds of clothing at a time. I have used them in New York, they were next door from my appartment.
In small towns they have ladies who pick up and deliver the laundry just by asking them and charges are reasonable, in both cases.
Hit: Yellow page listed as Chinise laundry, some times.
Sounds simple enough.
First determine how many you are doing laundry for.
Second determine whose making the majority of your soiled clothes.
Third see if the clothing is soiled or just in the hamper cause they tried it on and didnt put it back in the drawer or closet.
Fourth -Tell whomever it is that is making all the soiled clothes to start doing their own laundry (providing they have been shown how to do it properly). Identify what is soiled or dirty means.
Fifth -if that doesnt work. Start throwing away all the excess clothing. Take the clothes they dont wear to the Salvation Army or other donation locations for the needy. If you reduce the amount of clothes they have to choose from ... you will cut down on your laundry amounts.
Goes to simple supply and demand. If they have less they will use what they have longer.
Its like a room full of toys all over the place. Clean up the room by eliminating a lot of the toys.
Put all white clothes in a pile & all dark clothes in a pile. Start with the dark clothes as they normaly go on a short wash program so you can get them put outside to dry. Then select the whiote clothes you need the most. A good idea is to put your machine on at night , just before going to bed. Like this they are ready to hang outside or pop in the dryer first thing. Then you pop another load on, You will soon get down to the bottom of the basket
Do a load or two each day. Toss in a load before you go to work. When you get home dry that load and toss in another. Wash seems like a lot of work but it really isn't. I have 3 roommates and I do theirs, yes I have to do laundry everyday but its one of those household jobs I really don't mind doing.
When you have a ton of stuff to do, its worth hauling it to a laundromat and spending a few hours and a couple rolls of quarters to get it done. In about 3 hours, everything will be clean, folded and hauled back into the house. Then promptly put it away.
Tip: sort before you go, bring hangers, start the sheets and whites first, and have your last load be jeans or towels. That way, the shirts and whites can be folded while you wait for the rest to dry. And by the time the towels and jeans are done, you already have the car loaded up.
We had a clothing store when I was a kid, and had so much laundry, it was the only way to keep up. Otherwise, it was just a constant chore, and we would have gotten nothing else done. If we didn't do this, we would spend a whole day of laundry and cleaning between loads.
Now I have one day I do most of the stuff at home for a week, and an occasional towel load or something in between. The key is to not let it pile up too much. We have four baskets in the laundry room...one for whites, one for towels, one for jeans or work clothes, and one for light stuff. When its full, I do a load. We don't keep laundry baskets in the bedroom or bathroom, just haul stuff there when we are done with it. (No, I don't have kids! I know things aren't that easy with four or five kids in the house!) If you do have kids, they can help fold, and when they see the work, they are more likely to keep their stuff in order.
First, evaluate why you have too much. I have a family of 6, so I know what it's like to be buried in laundry. The best advice I ever got was to get rid of some of our clothes. Decide how many outfits you really need and donate the rest or have a yard sale. Then, make sure your kids are not throwing clean clothes in with the dirty by organizing the way they store their clothes. For small chidlren, buy each child a hanging sweater organizer for the closet. It has 8 compartments. In each compartment, put 1 outfit (bottom and top or a dress ). You could add the underwear and socks, but I keep them separate, since kids get dirty and sometimes need to change clothes but don't need new underwear and socks.
Next, organize your dirty laundry and decide whether you want to spend a whole day doing laundry or do a little every day. Personally, I spend Thursday and Friday as laundry and cleaning days. While the washing machine and dryer are running, I tidy, dust, vacuum and clean bathrooms. That way we have everything nice for the weekend. If you decide on 1 (or 2) laundry day(s) I recommend putting a hamper or laundry basket in each bedroom. Then on laundry day, collect all the hampers, dump them out and sort them back into the hampers (light, darks, whites, etc.) Then just keep cycling them through. If you decide to do a load or two every day, you will need a centralized dirty laundry location -- perhaps the hall or laundry room, with hampers clearly designated bythe way you want the laundry sorted. Then spend some time training each of your family members how to sort. Even toddlers can do this. That way you can pull dirty laundry out of any basket and have a load ready to go.
Very important note: Never put clean laundry into a laundry basket without folding it first. I used to do this and I woudl end up with mountains of unfolded clean laundry in one place and more mountains of dirty laundry in another place, and sometimes the two piles got mixed up. Now I always fold laundry as I take it out of the dryer. It is so much better, and it only takes a few minutes. If I don't have time to fold it when the dryer stops, I leave it and fluff it later when I have time to stop and fold.
Folded laundry gets sorted by owner onto beds. For the little ones, I then go back and organize it and put it away, but for the older kids, I just make sure that all the shirts are together, pants, socks, underwear, etc, so that it is easier for them to put them away. To behonest, it would be just as easy for me to put their clothes away, too, but I think they need the training, so I make them do it.
I really like having "laundry days" because it means that I don't have to feel guilty if I don't do laundry any other day. (Although sometimes I do an occasional extra load.) But I am a stay-at-home mom, so I have that luxury. If you're a working mom, you should try to get your whole family involved. Throw a load in the washer before work, into the dryer when you get home and another into the washer. After dinner, fold the first and throw the second load into the dryer. Get your kdis to help with the folding and putting away -- or have them do dishes, wipe table, sweep floor, so that you can work on laundry. We have a daily 30-minute clean up time, when EVERYONE who is in the house (this includes friends who might be visiting AND mom and dad) works for 30 minutes on anything that needs doing.
Hope my ideas help. Good luck!
buy 4 hampers one for whites,lights,darks, and towels. they will take longer to fill by sorting this way and you wont feel overwhelmed by the piles you are used to seeing. also this will allow you to do a load as needed without having to do all of it at once. when you see the hampers are half full start doing a load from each even if you only do one load a day. you will soon get your laundry under control.
I too have this evil problem! I finally figured out whether or not I like to, I do laundry every day! I even did all the blankets in my house and put them in a jumbo ziploc bag and put them away. Sorting the laundry into loads also helps, so you can just grab a load and throw it in. My machine can do a load in abouty 30 minutes, so I can do a lot in a day! If your too far behind go to the laundromat and get it all done, then keep up with it. Good Luck!
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