Days Of The Week Laundry Schedule For Mom Of 6

by Gloria

Gathering dirty clothes in laundry baskets

Taylor says:

Gloria doesn't wash all her kids clothes, but only some of them.

I have suggested that where you keep your laundry baskets in your home should depend on who is going to end up washing the clothes.

She has chosen a good strategy for how to make it most efficient for the person washing the clothes to have access to the dirty ones they are going to wash.

I also love how she has trained her family to
sort the clothes as they go, which is a great time-saving technique.

Gloria says:

I have six kids, two of whom are still in diapers, plus myself and my husband in our home.

The two oldest children do their own laundry, so they have their own laundry baskets in their own rooms.

For everyone else, I do two loads a day, at least. All the rest of us put our dirty clothes each morning and evening in central laundry baskets in the laundry room.

We have several baskets, so we can sort as we go.

• Whites


• Colors


• Darks


• Bedding

We also have a diaper pail in the laundry room and a place for kitchen rags in there.

I do my laundry by the days of the week.

• Monday - diapers


• Tuesday - whites (generally two loads)


• Wednesday - darks / diapers (separate loads, obviously)


• Thursday - lights


• Friday - diapers


• Saturday - towels and bedding (one-half one week, then other half the next week)


• Sunday - darks

After the clothes are clean and dry I fold them and each person that is old enough puts away their own clothes, and I put away the rest.

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