Day 15
Laundry is like fleas in the summer. It multiplies so quickly you and your washer/dryer can’t keep up! What is a family to do when shopping everyday for new clothes is not an option? It is time to conquer the laundry room and laundry schedule!
Not all of us are blessed with a laundry room. Some of us have to deal with laundry in the garage, the basement, or a closet in the hall. Laundry spaces need about the same things regardless of location and size. A shelf or cabinet above the washer and dryer are great. If you have a hard to reach cabinet or shelf, you may need to consider other options. Think about how much laundry you do! If things are inconvenient to get to you won’t use it! That means laundry soap doesn’t make its way back into a cabinet. This is one easy way to have a messy laundry space! Invest in good functioning shelves or cabinets if necessary. You will be amazed at how important this is!
Think about what you need to do in the laundry space. I hang a lot of my laundry, so I have a lot of hangers and a dry rack in my laundry room. If you don’t hang laundry, this isn’t necessary for you to have! Do you need to fold your laundry in this space? If so, a flat, clean surface is important for you. (I tend to do mine on the floor in my office while watching shows I have Tivo’d.) Do you iron in this space? Then an ironing board and iron should be in there. (Now don’t say duh!)
For laundry supplies, I like to use plastic bins in the cabinets and shelves to group like with like. I keep one with all the ironing supplies in it, one with cleaning supplies that need to be easily accessible, but not under the sink, and one with stain remover and color catchers. This helps keep everything from spreading out in the cabinet and keeps the bowling effect to a minimum. (When you reach into the back of the cabinet and knock everything down.) You can pull this bin down when you need things and put it back with all items in tack!
I keep two baskets in my laundry, one for ironing and one for the dirty clothes that are stripped down near the laundry room and all the kitchen towels. This keeps the laundry from the being all over the floor of the laundry room! This is a picture of my laundry room and the baskets for dirty and ironing!
I keep rags and other cleaning supplies in the cabinets around the washer and dryer. I also keep a back-stock of paper towels and tp for our downstairs bathrooms. I use the upper shelves in the cabinets for less used items and back-stock and the lower shelves of the cabinets.
I blogged about doing laundry before and have a lot more tips there: Laundry Tips
How do you handle laundry? Do you have any secrets to make laundry less of a drag? Music? TV? What helps you get through the never ending laundry? We would love to hear!!!
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