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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see how it's efficient to have everyone do their own laundry - in our 4 person household, I do 4-5 loads of clothes per week (1 whites, 1 delicates, 2-3 colors) - we'd need a lot more clothes if everyone individually amassed enough dirty laundry to run their own load(s)! I do have my newly-10 year old stripping her bed and putting the sheets in the wash every weekend. My 4 year old likes to help move clothes from the washer to the dryer. And I don't fold/put away clothes - everyone gets a pile of clean stuff on their bed to put away.[/quote]

It’s so much more efficient for us!

For better or worse, many clothes that you own now are at least partly synthetic materials. They don’t bleed and there is no need to separate clothes. We haven’t had an issue with colors bleeding in many many years. Each person dumps out their hamper, does a load, takes that load back to their room.

You’re also spending time separating the load by person once clean, even if you don’t fold it. If there’s a load in the dryer and I need to get in, I unload, see it’s fully my son’s and then move it to his room. Done. If each load is mixed, you need to stay on top of it all the time. Which, good for you! We used to end up with a crazy pile on our guest bed. And it took each person longer to find their clothes in that mess. Now, either we decide to live out of a basket or we spend literally 5 minutes to put away our own clothes. It is less overwhelming to put away, so Dh and I are always on top of it now. I don’t care if the kids have to do it, so long as I don’t have to! They fold 50% of the time.

I still wash everyone’s sheets and towels.  (Cleaners strip the sheets and put on new sheets.) We have separate colored towels for each person so it’s easier to organize. [/quote]

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