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Can I learn to love laundry?

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ZibbidooZibbidooZibbidoo · 17/04/2018 11:38

I feel like one of the DHs in a thread who just “doesn’t see mess” except it only applies to laundry in my case. I love cleaning my house, and it’s spotless (most of the time) but the laundry is my Achilles heel. I don’t even know if I hate it but I just constantly forget to do it. I will remember at 11pm just before bed that I should stick a load in the machine. So I do, always with the intention of hanging it to dry the next morning. But I always forget. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had to rewash stuff that has been in the machine for days. I have such a massive backlog of laundry it seems I will never get caught up with it. I have managed to delegate so that DCs wash their own school uniforms on Friday evenings so at least I know they have clean stuff for Monday. They don’t always remember though and neither do I so it’s often a case of me leaping out of bed at 1am on Sunday night to grab a couple of shirts and trousers to put in a quick wash.

I have no tumble drier but I can dry one load in my airing cupboard and one smaller load on my over stairs airer per day. If it’s a very rare sunny day I can hang a small load outside but it’s very shaded and usually means nothing dries.

What do I need to do to crack this? I need to rewire my brain to think “laundry” on a daily basis. Please help me.

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TreeClimbingMonkey · 17/04/2018 12:05

You need a laundry schedule, but I do have a tumble dryer which makes life much easier. My laundry is sorted before it goes into the dirty laundry baskets and I have separate baskets for darks/whites/uniform etc

Alternatively, look at your local laundrette and see what a service wash would cost you. You could do the bulk of it there. Just drop off dirty and collect it clean.

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