Dawn's Weekly Laundry Schedule

by Dawn

Taylor says:

Dawn has figured out a laundry schedule that works for her and her family. It involves using color coded laundry baskets to sort the clothes as they get put in making one less step in the laundry process.

You should also check out Dawn's idea for how to get the wash ready to go first thing in the morning! I love that she only spends about 10 minutes/day actually doing laundry, but it all gets done!

Dawn says:

Every morning I turn on the washer, which I loaded the night before. Then I empty the dryer (from the night before) and put away the clothes. Since it's only one load (and I hang EVERYTHING), it doesn't take me long.

When I get home from work I flip it to the dryer, turn it on, then make sure that all dirty clothes are gathered and in baskets. We have three big color coded baskets in the central hall, and we don't have individual baskets in bedrooms or bathrooms. The three baskets are on a rolling cart. They are for Lights/Darks/Special Wash. When people undress they either put them in the correct color-coded basket, or (more likely) they toss them on the floor, and I take two minutes to put them in the right baskets each evening.

I choose the most-full basket and toss it in the washer, put in the (dry) soap, but don't turn it on -- I'll do that in the morning. Once or twice a week, instead of choosing a basket I'll strip all the beds and wash sheets, or blankets, or the nasty fuzzy floor stuff in the bathroom.

On my day off work I might do an extra load. With this method I spend less than 10 minutes a day actively doing laundry (Of course, I'm doing other stuff while it's actually washing or drying), but there are always clean clothes, beddings, etc.

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