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I recommend doing laundry daily, depending on the
size of your family. If you have at least 3 kids, do
some every day. For example: baby laundry is handled
differently than adult laundry. You shouldn’t use
fabric softener for baby laundry, but it’s fine to
use with adults’ clothes. So choose a day to do only
baby laundry. Choose a different day to do adult
laundry. Do your oldest child’s laundry on a given
day (maintain that day on a weekly basis), your next
child’s laundry the following day, etc. If you keep
up on it, it won’t become a Mt. Vesuvius and
overwhelm your home again.
If you find laundry tedious, sort and pre-treat
while you’re watching TV, for example. It takes
moment to pluck a piece of clothing out and check it
for stains, squirt it with pre-treater, and then put
it in the dirty basket, ready for the wash. Folding
can be done the same way. Once it’s folded, I
recommend putting it on the recipient’s bed (not in
the basket). This way, it must be put away before
retiring for the night and you won’t live from a
laundry basket full of clean clothes.
If you have things that need ironing, do it when the
laundry is clean and hang it up. Be done with the
task and make sure that clean, ready-to-wear shirts
or blouses are smiling at you when you walk in the
closet in the morning.
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