Home Organizing Tip #3
The Laundry

Home Organizing tip #3 deals with that beast we all refer to as the laundry. Nothing can bring down the spirits of mother than being faced each week with an unruly, overbearing hamper full of laundry.

I struggled for a long time with how to keep up with my laundry. The biggest hurdle I had was the sorting. It seemed that I could never get that laundry hamper sorted into piles in time to get everything washed. On top of that, I would try to wash all of the clothes in one day. AAAHHH! Pretty soon there got to be too many of us to keep up with that.

I would often find myself in the home of other large, catholic homeschooling families. Being one to take advantage of an opportunity, I would usually ask them about their laundry. I found that most people handle their laundry in one of three ways:

This last one seemed like it might work for us, however I still had to conquer the whole laundry-sorting issue. Somewhere along the line I learned about having a bin for each of the different loads of laundry you do.

In our house that means five bins - light colored clothes, dark colored clothes, towels, cold water clothes and Dad's work clothes. This way, the laundry is already sorted for you. It takes awhile to train everyone as to which clothes go into which basket, but it is worth the time.

Depending on the load and the season, there might be more than one load of that type to do per day. This system also left Friday open for miscellaneous loads like sheets or extra items.

So far this home organizing tip has worked great for our family. The laundry is no longer a burden.

As you know, lightening the "load" in one area can make a big difference to a home school family!