The stomach bug visited our house this week. Such a horrible house guest and always overstaying its welcome. One kid gets it, and then just as they are better, the next kid gets it, and then the next. By this time you haven’t slept in a week so now your immune system is down and you get it. Then hubby is down for the count. I just wanted to sing “another one bites the dust” each time one of us went down. You can see why this week I have decided to make laundry the habit of the week.
I have lovingly named my piles of laundry “Larry the Laundry Monster”. He grows and grows and feeds off one half of each pair of socks. He is stinky and dirty and he is always there just waiting to devour entire living rooms. You finish the piles of laundry on catch-up day and just when you think you have conquered Larry, you look in the hamper and realize his span has already filled it up.
So the habit this week is to do one load a day. That is it. Just one load. The catch is that it has to be folded and put away. A load a day will keep Larry away. Wouldn’t it be nice to feel like the laundry is done for the day even though there are still cloths in the hamper?
I have 3 laundry baskets in my closet. One for whites, one for mediums and one for darks. My 5 year old knows how to sort his cloths into them and the 2 year old and baby cloths get sorted by me. This makes the load-a-day very easy because it is already sorted so all I have to do is grab the fullest bin for the day.
Does Larry live at your house? How do you make laundry an easier chore?
I got so sick of cleaning 5 peoples clothes in my home over and over. One too many times the kids would not put away the clothes that were folded, and they would end up in the dirty pile over again..
ReplyDeleteso I decided to downsize the clothes Friday night. I pull a Britney Spears and went ape poo, got a wild hair up my bum,pulled all the clothes out of the kids room at midnight. Now each kid has 10 pairs of pants 3 pairs of shorts for summer, 10 short sleeves for summer and 10 longsleeves for winter. Now ,Larry has been evicited and my laundry room is clean. :)
-Candice from MOPS :)
Less cloths = less work. I like it!
DeleteMy Larry doesn't visit too often as I'm usually pretty good at this habit.....but as with anything, if there is a deviation from routine (sickness, increased work load, etc) and habits get broken, he comes on with a vengeance. He was taking over my upstairs hallway, and just yesterday I got caught up, running non-stop laundry from 8am-6pm!
ReplyDeleteSickness makes it impossible. Same with house guests (sheets, towels). Larry wins on those days.
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