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Homeschooling mom of eight here:
Laundry is the biggest pain, my own purgatory. The kids have a morning job of "dirty laundry down, clean laundry up," because our laundry is in a tiny hallway on the main floor, so if it accumulates, the mountain blocks access. I am constantly paring down their clothes in a vain attempt to lessen the burden, but just one bedroom of sheets/blankets sets me back for days. And the one thing that will put me in a foul mood all day is when the "clean laundry up" pile shows up in the "dirty laundry down" pile the next day because someone was too lazy to put it away. Not cool. |
Anonymous
| I am an obsessive laundry sorter too. No, clothes don't necessarily bleed, but washing them together definitely makes lights dingier. I save up laundry (but I have space in the basement for multiple baskets) and do full loads when a basket gets full. My kids wear uniforms which helps. |
Anonymous
| Once i came to terms that laundry was just never going to be DONE- like many tasks around the house- I felt much better. I accept that it is on going .... and somehow it seems more manageable. |
Anonymous
This is pretty much us too. Except add the highly stained and/or peed on clothes to the hot pile, and I do sort out the special-handling type clothes. I also separate kid and parent clothes, but only because our washing machine is too small to handle it all at once, and sorting pre-wash seems to make the fold/put away sequence go smoother. |
Anonymous
| My dh doesn't mind doing laundry (except putting it away) so he does most of it. We sort into just lights and darks. If we have an illness we will wash sheets and towels and underwear on a 'sanitary' cycle, but we default our ordinary wash to warm wash cold rinse. If whites are stained or particularly dingy we will run a load w/ bleach as needed. When we were first married, my dh used to ruin/dye so many of our clothes pink by washing something new and red with whites that I harrassed him for years about sorting. Please don't tell him now that that doesn't need to sort. |
Anonymous
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I've been doing my own laundry and cleaning my own bathroom since I was 10. I surely did not know about E Coli and other fecal germs, but I definitely knew at an early age that toilets were nasty and would NEVER have touched my mouth with a glove I used to clean the toilet or the like. If your kid doesn't get that, something is wrong and you have bigger problems than laundry.
Seriously, kids get bathroom nasty and would not want to ingest bathroom nasty. |
Anonymous
I think a certain degree of mess / imperfection is part of the trade off in delegating - eventually after practice she'll be a pro, but you might have to vacuum or steam clean laundry detergent while she gets the swing of it...how else will she learn? |
Anonymous
I use method laundry detergent, which comes in a pump bottle (it's super concentrated). I bet that would be the easiest, least messy option. |
Anonymous
| My friend has a deal with her husband that he can watch sports all sunday afternoon if he does laundry at the same time...I think that is brilliant. They are both happy. |
Anonymous
| I'm with the poster who thinks its weird and gross to have your kid clean toilets. My kids have never cleaned the actual toilet but help out in a myriad of other ways that does not remind them of being Annie. |
Anonymous
| Hey, Annie was a great kid! |
Anonymous
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I used to do the laundry every day thing - but I actually find it easier to wait until THursday night and then start my "laundry train" and then just keep it going. I sort and find it makes a huge difference in how long clothes last. I also find it is easier to fold and put away if my clothes are in a different load than my sons and my darks are separate from my lights (but my washer is not big so there's no putting them all in). What do all the non-sorters do with delicates? Or maybe your machines are just "nicer" to clothes than mine.
My son has helped cleaned the toilet since he was 2. |