Laundry

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I am doing well with keeping up with our washing and drying the clothes but I never seem to get round to putting them away. We all have draws which are totally empty. All currently in washing baskets. Is there an easier way to do it, maybe keeping a storage unit by the tumble dryer or something? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Don't put it in the washing basket. Put it on the table with a pile for each person and have everyone take their pile up to their room and put their clothes away.

I fold and sort but dump each pile on the person's bed. The hope is that they will to put them away, or if not, at least they're not my responsibility any more.

My boys are 4 and 6 so won't manage it.
I can't manage to put my own clothes away let alone getting them to do it!

How do you dry the clothes?

If you use a clothes dryer, hang them up as soon as you pull them out if the dryer and skip the laundry basket or they will just get creased again.

If you use drying racks, dry things on hangers. There are very few things that I don’t dry on hangers. Then when they are dry, they can go straight into the wardrobe.

I have very, very few things on shelves or in drawers.

A mixture of tumble dryer/clothes horse in front of fire or outside on the line in the summer. We don't have wardrobes or hang anything, have only just graduated from floordrobe 🤣🤣

Then it is the folding that is point of pressure in the system.

Buy coat hangers, buy a clothes rail. Problem solved.

I spent a day folding every item of clothing that went into drawers the Marie Kondo way ( sad I know ) because I just wasnt keeping on top of things getting clothes put away

Now as the clothes are dried, I automatically fold and just slot them away. I do it on the ironing board as I do iron some clothes, make little stacks, my gym clothes, his work clothes, my knickers, etc and just pick up each stack, open the drawer and slot them in

No clothes lying around in piles any more. Ive kept it going now for 6months. It takes no time once you get the drawers sorted

Both of my teenagers keep their basics in laundry baskets in their rooms, on top of their dirty laundry hampers, and see putting it away in drawers as unnecessary. When the basket is needed again they put the leftover items away or bring it down with leftovers still in it. Things that get creased - tops, shirts, trousers etc go straight onto hangers and wait at the bottom of the stairs. Once we'd all left home, my Mum kept all her clothes in the airing cupboard rather than putting away. My head agrees with them, but I can't break the putting away habit for myself, however futile it seems.