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I'm trying to improve the quantity of laundry by having the kids hang their towel on a personalized hook and getting rid of extra clothes. Dh wears 2 outfits/day and they can rarely be reworn. Dd2 goes through clothes like crazy.
I recently made linen towels for each bathroom that were really long and in a loop so they could pull them to find a dry section, but they button around the towel rack, so they can't get them off. . .easily.  I wouldn't use these for guests. They may not be as sanitary as I'd like.
My ideal situation for me is to put the clothes away right after they come out, but with babe in arms, I can't easily carry it all upstairs, and I don't like to leave him unattended. 
I can get the olders to rewear, but the littles, . . .well  , they're dirty!
Glad to hear what people do.  You all have such good ideas.
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Okay...so nobody mentioned the socks!!!??? Socks were the bane of my existence heretofore....but, no more!
I read it someplace...may have even been here, lest anyone think me brilliant..... I am not!
I purchased a large-ish lingerie mesh zippered laundry bag for each member of the family (baby gets combined with mine). They have a loop and hang off of the back of the kid's bathroom door towel hanger and dh and I keep ours in our closet..... I wrote in sharpie on each bag, the owner's name. They put the dirty socks in there and I collect them about once a week, zip close (don't forget that part), and then launder and dry all in the bag. I then open them and sort them right then and there. All the mates are right there....no odd men out. I do have to take the bag out of the dryer and shake it a little to get the socks from wadding up and resisting drying, but it is sooo worth it.
I had no idea such a little thing could bring me so much joy!
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Neat idea, Kathleen! Thanks!
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I refuse to let laundry dominate my life. I shut the door on it...literally.
Yet, careful consideration to everyone needing clean clothes has prevented my household from ever having a problem in this area.
My laundry schedule now is:
I wash a load every other day. I'll wash darks one day, skip a day, wash whites another day, skip a day, wash towels & wets.
It's a constant circulating cycle, but it works well. There's always a steady stream of clean darks, whites, and towels coming through the household.
Sport season does add wash loads to the schedule but they're inevitable. Uniforms go straight into the wash when the player goes to take a shower after the game.
Older two teenagers have a hamper in their bedroom. They wash and do their own laundry. 
Dh has been telling me it's time for middle child to do his own as well but  Momma still passes his room on her way to laundry room, picks up his clothes (always thrown in a heap by the door) and combines them with ours.
Dh, my own, and little girls' clothes used to go into a hamper outside the back bathroom door. It got busted up after too many games of hide-and-seek.  The clothes still get thrown on the floor in the ghostly spot the hamper once stood in. I pick them up once a day and carry them to the laundry room where they are sorted into a hamper and the laundry room door is shut.
The clean towels usually end up on the settee in the living area. The two younger girls are assigned the folding of these towels. I let them watch cartoons as they fold but, usually, the towels end up as capes, tents, bedding for the dolls, or dressings for the dog. 
I wash and hang all the little girls' outfits. They are responsible for putting away their pjs and undies.
Socks! Oh, forget it! Everyone does their own socks except dh and middle child. A long time ago I gave up trying to determine whose socks fit whose feet when I had 3 males in the household with man-size feet. Now older ds does his own. I throw my dh and second ds' socks in a hamper basket for them to sort and pick through. Should work nicely, huh?
Not!
Seems that they can't tell whose socks are whose. But they expect me to know...instinctively! I use to try to figure them out. But if Mark's were put in Garrett's dresser, Mark couldn't find any socks and would get aggravated. If Garrett's were put in Mark's dresser, I was accused of putting them in the wrong place.
So the socks sit in the hamper and it drives my dh nuts. This morning, he even crawled back into bed and said he wasn't going to work until someone found socks for him to wear. (He has been threatening me with this for months. Seems the guys at work use this tactic with their wives. I told him to take the day off, rolled over, and went back to bed. )
He finally got out of bed and picked out his socks. This might not sound like a very "holiness for housewife" practice, but socks is a *stinky* issue. Nothing I have done with socks has worked, so I make it as easy as it'll ever be for myself and these two guys and I have to let it roll. The basket is right at the foot of our bed. It isn't like he has to go searching under beds and dresser for clean socks.
I don't feel guilty. I do all his other clothes and wash his work clothes in a seperate wash by themselves every weekend so he's fresh to go Monday morning. They are all hung on a separate side of his closet, apart from his other clothes. I hang all his clothes and put away his T-shirts and unders. I would suspect that he and Garrett could distinguish their own socks...because I can't!!!
Socks!!! Who needs 'em?
This might sound lengthy and unorganized but it works for us...all except the sock issue. And I've determined that everyone has a sock issue.
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I hear ya, Cay... my oldest is getting to the point that his socks all look like his dad's, too. Here's what I plan to implement: (1) have different brands that have different toe and/or heel threads/patterns or (2) make son take a permanent market and make a dot on the toe or heel of his so his are different from his dad's.
And I KNOW I'm not the only one out there who has an orphan sock stash, either. If they are orphans they get thrown in the bin and every so often we find matches for them. The rest are waiting for a craft or to be made into doll clothes, etc.
I do hope we'll have room in our new laundry room for a better "system". Right now I have two mountains of laundry ... lights and darks. I do laundry about every other day, lately. I have my eldest start laundry going now and he can change them over to the dryer, too. We all try to pitch in on the folding but it's a battle...
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Lana has trained us all to fold over the top of each pair of socks we place in the laundry hampers. Also, we only have one style/colour of socks per person. Mine are all black and the same style so any two match. Each of the children get their own colour.
I am looking for a bulk sock supplier. I reckon about 12 dozen socks ought to do it!
Our boys are willing to wear the same clothes many days in a row, regardless of heat or activity. I guess they must feel comfortable. I seem to remember that is why I used to do the same thing when I was young.
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Cay Gibson wrote:
I refuse to let laundry dominate my life. I shut the door on it...literally.
This morning, he even crawled back into bed and said he wasn't going to work until someone found socks for him to wear. (He has been threatening me with this for months. Seems the guys at work use this tactic with their wives. I told him to take the day off, rolled over, and went back to bed. )
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My dh gets a bee in his bonnet every once in a while about socks. I let him vent. . .and then he matches his own.
I now have a good system with socks.
We only buy the same kinds. All the boys and dad have gold toe, the boys have white sport socks with gray toes/heels. Dh has all the same sports socks. DD2 has only pink socks that all match each other (who cares if they don't match her outfit-its usually some shade of pink anyhow). I matched all socks that were anything else and gave them ALL away-yep ALL of them!!! Boy, did that feel good. 
Any others without a match were tossed!
No more green one here with polka dots, red one there with stripes. All gone.
If the kids have issues someday that they were never allowed to wear unique socks  then I'll pay for counseling. For now the system works. Maybe when dd gets older she'll need more variety.
I also don't match. All unmatched socks go into a rattan basket near where my dh gets dressed. So, he can match them himself. (our husbands, Cay, can start a support group-UA--that is, unmatched anonymous! And all members can bring their baskets of socks and match them at the meetings. I can just see the brochure-- "All bare feet welcome!"
In my house, I do so much for the family, that I'm not going to get nuts about socks!
If you want socks--get a pair from "the sock basket!"
We wear bare feet & sandals when the weather permits.
I met a lady the other day who assigns a brand to each kid- one might be Nike, one might be Hilfiger, one might be Puma, etc. Kind of an interesting idea. Thought I'd pass it on. She buys her socks at places like TJMaxx in order to get the brand names discounted.
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I can definitely relate to the sock issue! I finally settled on a solution that works for us. Each child gets one type of white socks that is marked with their initial. Usually, our socks don't last too long, so when a child needs new socks, all their old ones get tossed. This has made things much easier for me. It was amazing how much energy I expended on socks!  It was really great when we lived in Texas, and the kids could wear sandals almost 9 months out of the year
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| Each child gets one type of white socks that is marked with their initial. Usually, our socks don't last too long, so when a child needs new socks, all their old ones get tossed. This has made things much easier for me. It was amazing how much energy I expended on socks! |
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With five girls, I have socks that are next to impossible to match to the proper girl. I buy white Hanes socks for everyone and use permanent marker to put their initials under the toe part of each sock. We recently began buying navy blue and black knee socks for each of the older four. Knee socks are sized differently than the Hanes socks. The older two need one size and the next two share a different size. I buy two different styles of knit for each size, so we can always tell whose socks are whose. (Unfortunately, this system will break down in a year to so when dd #3 moves into the sock size of her big sisters.) Like, Noreen, I used to expend way too much energy on socks.
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I love the Hanes socks with the "Hanes" sewn in different colors on the sole. We have blue, green, purple, red and pink.
I recently taught my daughter the 'sock game'. It was just a game sort of like concentration that I made up at one point to amuse myself when I was matching socks. She loves it and will play it until it's done. The widows and orphans go into a drawer in my dresser for future games.
I also read recently that you could set your kids against a timer.
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We pass every thing along in our family - so names don't work. My sis came up with a brilliant dot system. Since she has 10, the oldest has 1 dot down to the youngest with 10 dots. Now if you are passing something down the line, you just add a dot and everyone - even grandma can figure out whose stuff belongs to whom. Also - new baby comes - well its no big deal because nothing else changes.
Also as soon as socks get a hole in them, I take a pair of scissors and cut so that this is clearly a rag and not a pair of socks. I got awfully tired of washing rags thinking they were someones clothes. If they are rags, they get used and rinsed a few times and then thrown out because we always have an abundant supply of rags - kept in Wal-Mart bags in each bathroom and the laundry room. The same is true of underwear.
We do all black socks for dh and all white socks for everyone else - no matching involved. We just dump them all together in the respective droors - no folding required. Actually my dh hates for me to fold his socks as it stretches them out - instead we have 1 droor in the night stand for his socks.
We also rewear a lot - which says more about my negligence than about any great system. Our boys don't care a bit about being filthy, so they usually sleep in what they were wearing during the day and don't like to be bothered with changing everyday. I do try to monitor if we actually leave the house - but if they are simply going out to dig in the dirt again - or cure the deer meat, well, I guess I just cannot get too terribly upset about it. We change the bedsheets when they start having a mess of sand at the bottom - or I suddenly realize its been months . The girls take showers before bed every night so I figure their sheets must be clean, if not they strip them and wash them. We do always wash sheets before guests as others may not care for our system.
I also save on laundry by not being a nit-picker about sorting by color. We do all laundry in cold and only buy color fast items. I generally put all the little boys stuff in one load - colored and whites (sometimes it takes two loads). It saves on the water bill to always have a full load so I make sure the washer is definitely full (not that that is hard to do). The less soiled items go in another load - which means mostly dh, girls and my clothes. Again all colors get mixed together to make it a full load. This may be why some of our whites get a bit dull looking but generally our whites are socks and underwear and T-shirts in the zillions that dc use for sleeping if they bother to change. These whites are worn out before the gray sets in so I guess that part isn't a factor in our house. Blouses (we don't happen to own very many of these) or white work shirts might get set aside for more TLC by oldest dd when she does her special clothes. (That is the other system - any clothing needing special handling is done by the owner, generally the teenage girls who have things that cannot be dried, etc.).
My dh and boys re-use shower towels which helps. We have lots of rings and towel racks for the towels to spread out and re-dry. Unfortunately I and the girls generally use 2 shower towels (I've paired down to one) - but towels sure add a lot of bulk to the laundry and are generally fairly clean (except the hand drying ones). We use the shorter towels for hand drying at the utility sink and bathroom sink - these are often pretty ratty so I really don't care if they get really filthy - other than that at some point hygiene demands a change. I don't think anyone uses a washcloth (those are always in immaculate condition so we always have a nice washcloth to put out for guests).
Now that I've revealed all the embarrassing reasons why laundry doesn't back up at our house - here are a few other things that help.
Our laundry room is on the main living floor, right off the kitchen. The dc and I walk past it every few minutes in the course of a day simply to get from the kitchen to our school area or to pull something out of the freezer. It is very easy to throw a load in or transfer from washer to dryer whenever we pass by. If our laundry room were in the basement or upstairs, it would be a nightmare to get done. The dirty laundry is dumped on the floor - so piles cannot get to high before someone has to throw it in the washer just to get through! The laundry basket here is for clean clothes coming out of the dryer so these don't re-mix with the dirties.
Whoever takes stuff out of the dryer places it in a laundry basket that is stored in the laundry room - and is generally dumped on the family room sofa. Because it is in our area of sitting and relaxation, it HAS to get folded for us to have a place to sit. I actually like folding as it gives me an excuse to sit down. I shove the laundry to one end while I sit and fold - starting with bigger items like towels and sheets work to the bottom of the pile. Anyways, the neatly folded piles are left on the sofa and as soon as dc head upstairs (generally to play legos or something after school but before dad is home - they grab their pile on the way up - they have to pass the sofa to get to the stairs). I must admit that any ironing generally gets dumped back into the laundry basket for LATER (which seems to never come until dh or someone is out of work/church clothes). By limiting clothes per person - that cannot back up beyond what can be done in one 2 - 3 hour day. (It only takes my mom 1 hour but she is fast - I'm a bit of a poke at ironing).
Each bedroom has a laundry basket at the door and dc are required to bring their laundry down. Yes, they do forget, but since I do laundry everyday there is no one but themselves to blame for being out of clothes. Generally someone will make an announcement during the day about _ "hey I'm throwing in a load, if you have clothes you want soon, better bring them down now!" We do a Saturday evening check so we don't have any last minute panics on Sunday - but other than that things just seem to get done.
I'm sure we could be more efficient if we had a better schedule in place - Ie wake up and first thing bring down dirty clothes, etc. One of our goals has been to get a bit more regular about changing sheets - but I think for sanities sake, I'd want that staggered or we'd have one horrendous laundry problem on sheet changing day. I'm thinking I'd rather assign a day of the week to each bed / bedroom for sheet changing. Ie - Monday is the oldest, Tuesday is the little boys, Wed. is the next girl, Thurs is the older boy, Friday is mom or something like that. I also don't fold sheets as I would wash them first so they'd be dry before dad came home - and then re-make the bed with the same sheets and save the step of folding.
Basically one bed adds an entire load to the day. If you add in any blankets or comforters thats another load too. I guess we have some lazy tendencies around here . We are not into athletics here so that saves a ton of laundry. I cannot even imagine the quantities if we had to worry about clean uniforms. I must say I did not worry about getting Alabama red clay out of the white baseball pants our 9 yo had the year he played ball. They were clean, everyone got team pictures early and the dirt stains became status symbols. But if you have folks in baseball or other sports - not only do you have the athletes laundry but also all the littles who spent the game digging in the Alabama clay.
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Aha!! You've hit on a great solution.....for now
But I'm here to warn you young mothers about a recent discovery I made.
It seems that after 25 years of putting up with missing socks, saving dead socks for an eternity just to throw them out and then find the mate and 9,125 days or so of matching nearly identical white socks for 5 boys, the evil sock machinery (or whatever it is) has new treat in store for me.
Yes, that's right! You didn't think there could be any more did you? Well, get a load of this (yes, it's intended): You start receiving new socks that you never put in the washer!! No, I'm not kidding. You get socks that everyone swears do not belong to them, you have never seen before, do not fit any of your kids' friends and......are you ready???......you get 3 of them.
O.K. whew....I'm all done.
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Karen,
I have been known to say.. "Life is laundry" It often begins and ends the activities of my day. Washing for seven is an absurd challenge for a self-confessed laundry neurotic who lives in a shoebox of a house! That said, I must say that implementing some improvements to the laundry area has helped. Our boys closet in the bathroom (where the washer/dryer is installed) has four sections with space under each for a small square laundry basket (darks, lights, colored towels and whites). I usually begin with the load which has the most items spilling over the side of the basket onto the closet floor. Not much space to store bedding, so that goes straight from the bed to the washer and right back to the bed. Same goes for the washable rugs at each doorway and kitchen sink.
On days when I am "caught up" the intention is to run two loads each day. I try to set the washer timer to start in the morning and end by the time I am up and ready to flip the load. Our eight year old is becoming quite good at loading up, adding the detergent (pre measured squeeze bottles on the new concentrated detergent are brilliant!) and softener and pressing the buttons. If only I could motivate the children to help me place the proper items neatly into the correct drawers. At least they deliver the items that go upstairs to our bed for us to put away when I get there. Babysteps..
To prevent faded clothing and minimize fuzzies, I airdry polartecs, newer clothing and any good quality cottons that need to be passed down to the next child. Our shower curtain is on a double rod so the inner one is the one I use to hang items. The shower curtain hides my "drying rack". I made the mistake of purchasing the double shower curtain rod at Linens and Things for too much, when in retrospect two separate inexpensive tension rods would have given the same result. When the clothing is dry, I fluff in the dryer for five minutes to take the crunch out and usually prevent the need to iron.
Despite all of our laundry improvements, socks are still a joke. We have an orphan sock bin under the center closet unit which has at least 50 singles at any given time. Our children are forever shedding their socks and running barefoot. If a sippy cup leaks and a sock gets wet, off it goes - and one sock is found later.. under the couch, behind the bunkbed, in the toybox... anywhere but the laundry basket!
We are not ready for standard socks since our young children have the non-slip types with the letters on the bottom. Its a vicious cycle and my husband is ready to chuck the orphan bin and start all over, but my frugality won't have it. Besides, our kids have fun with the "matching the most orphan socks game" on Saturday mornings.
Our center closet unit has a hamper which I use to store laundry that needs stain work. I do an oxy soak and then wash. Whink works well to remove rust stains and occasionally I use a mixture of 1/2 c bleach and 1/4 c cascade crystals in the green box with 1 gallon superhot water to soak impossible stains that can handle bleach. I always rewash anything with bleach to get the smell out. I feel very un-frugal when I do this, but I really cannot tolerate the odor of bleach and it is done so rarely.
As our family has grown, laundry has gone from my least dreaded chore to just right above scrubbing the toilets! At least it is better than it was at our previous home where the laundry was in the basement, I would be backed up 14 loads ( no kidding!) because the washer balance would only accomodate 3/4 full loads and I did not get to the basement as often as necessary with 3 toddlers running about. Fortunately Saint Nana (my mom) saved the day and offered her services of washing all of our "wash and dries" -- I couldn't let her do my fussy air dry stuff. She became my husband's hero because he would actually have clothing ready for work on a regular basis and he did not have to make comic statements such as "My Kingdom for a Pair of Pants!" I think my mom did a dance the day we moved to this house and had a new laundry system implemented.
Reflecting upon this reminds me of how thankful I am.
1. For the treasures whom I have the privelege of washing their clothing.
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2. For the proper equipment with which to do the laundry! I often give thanks that I do not need to use a washboard, need to walk miles to a creek for clean water.. among other modern conveniences that I utilize.
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We pass every thing along in our family - so names don't work. My sis came up with a brilliant dot system. Since she has 10, the oldest has 1 dot down to the youngest with 10 dots. Now if you are passing something down the line, you just add a dot and everyone - even grandma can figure out whose stuff belongs to whom. Also - new baby comes - well its no big deal because nothing else changes.
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I read a magazine story of a family who also did this with their underwear. Like Irene they had five teenage (not yet I know) daughters and they ALL were the same size so each child had an allocated number of dots.
I'm not at this stage yet but dh, dd and ds share sock style and size now. I have sown different colour thread on the toe of each child's.
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I love this! Kimberly Hahn talks about the washer and dryer as being "handmaids" that we put to work.
Now, Janet, I have a question.
Do your boys bathe and then put dirty clothes back on? Or do they just go a few days without bathing either? My boys have body odor already so they can't rewear or even extended wear anything. And all the other kids seem to use their clothes/PJs as a combination plate and napkin.
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You start receiving new socks that you never put in the washer!! No, I'm not kidding. You get socks that everyone swears do not belong to them, you have never seen before, do not fit any of your kids' friends and......are you ready???......you get 3 of them.
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This happens to me after every big party! Our last party the big boys played football and I ended up with a bunch of tee shirts and sweat shirts as well.
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Okay, so tell me, right now, how many loads of laundry are dirty in your home?
I have at least 6, not including bedding from an accident last night.
So much for no laundry on Saturday...
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4 loads and no one has gotten ready for bed yet. Also i just remembered that Dominic's diaper leaked 2 nights ago and I never stripped the bed.
Face it, we can't win the laundry battle, it is always with us.
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Four I think, but we don't wash on Sunday. Also, at least 2 that aren't folded.
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My older two girls have at least one in their hamper. I have a few partial loads for the rest of us, but won't wash again until Tuesday or Wednesday.
I actually did the sheets for 5 out of 7 of us yesterday. (I honestly think I was subconsciously motivated to do it by this conversation. They get done far too infrequently, I'm afraid.) Who wants to talk about how hard it is to re-make the top bunk of a bunkbed from scratch? I just about put my back out each time I do it!
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