bloody washing!!!

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We always have loads!!! Its getting on my nerves and no matter how hard I try I cannot keep up with it. They way Im talking you'd think there was 5 or 6 people living here wouldnt you?!!

Well there is me, DP and DS and come Feb will have an extra little boy to cloth as well!

I honestly dont know where its comes from. Ive taught DS to put his clothes in the basket which lives in the bathroom - so good he tells us off if we dont do it (Specially DP) it just feels like I always have a mountain of washing to get through and just as I get on top of it we go and start getting them bloody dirty again!

So other than the idea that we dont wear clothes for a week whislt i get through it all and then do my best to keep on top of it any ideas??

DP doesnt use the washing machine, DS is only 4 so cant very well train him to do it, 6 months pregnant and still exhausted please give me some motivation!!!!

My 16 month old loads the drier so your 4 year old good definitely unload the washer. Your husband should pull his weight too. My last washer had a timer setting and it was great coming down to a load already done. I put one on now as soon as I come downstairs and it is finished in time to put another one before I leave for school. That is finished by the time I am back so the next one goes in. I have a huge airing cupboard with an airer inside so that dries clothes in a day and is fab. I have another one behind the en suite door for when I have run out of space. We did look into getting a second washing machine but there are better things to spend the money on. I have done 3 loads today and all that is in the wash basket is the babies socks.

I have started chanting the flylady mantra of 'a load a day keeps the chaos at bay....' and dh is beginning to think the lady is an angel. I put a load in every morning and set the timer so it comes on an hour or so before I get home. It then gets dried in the evening one way or another. I was drowning in the stuff before doing this but it's really helped me. I also make sure I put it away before getting into bed.
I hope you get to grips with it soon, I know how draining it can be.
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Big hugggs to all. I know how you feel!

There are 3 of us in this house and i constantly feel like I'm living in a chinese laundry.

My method for sane laundry is to empty the washing basket everyday by chuckingg it down the stairs, then I put it all in the washer, bung it on a 40 degree wash.

Then it's sorted into ds's things, faffy bits like socks and pants and other stuff (clothes and towels. DS's clothes are dried on the fire guard and the remainder are draged up 2 floors into the attic and hung on a clothes horse. Bi stuff like jeans and sheets are draped over the bannisters. Faffy stuff goes on one of those things that hang with loads of little pegs.

What hasn't dried in 24 hrs is popped in the dryer for 30 mins.

then it gets dumped in the bedroom for sortin to putting away or ironing.

I really really depise the little stuff. It just does my head in

I have 3 of those pop up bins in my hall. One white for lights/whites, one blue for coloureda, one pink for delicates. We put our washing in them even DS1 who is 4 1/2. He loves to put his clothes in the correct basket and doesn't even need to ask me now which is the correct bin. I put a load in before I go to bed as part of my bedtime routine, set the timer to come on in the early hours of the morning. I then Put it out when I get up either on airers on in the garden depending on the weather. This keeps it at bay with the odd day where I will do another load when I have extra like bedding.

baby socks!

Im getting there, surely but slowly, just about to sort out all the dry underwear and put it away, DS bless him has been a little star today! Emptying the washer, carrying clothes upstairs for me! Emptying the dryer, he thinks its all a big game! Even the sorting, oh to be niave LOL

My problems when i leave the washing on the line and it rains and I'm not back in time .. i feel like crying then. Once i was so desperate for clean washing i intermittently brought it in from the line ironed it to dry it out while there was a short shower and hung it out again .. (no tumbler drier sob)

Any sorting system will do as long as you stick to it so you avoid boring stuff getting left at the bottom for months. The only sorting system that will actually save you time however is if you do it by room (eg bathtowels, ds clothes & bedlinen etc) so when it's dry it all goes to the same place and your dp has no excuse to get it wrong. But again, you'd have to stop ironing altogether like me - I just hang DH's shirts in his cupboard and he brings them downstairs to iron when there's enough.

Babies socks as in his socks not baby socks as an item name.