Laundry Tips For Families

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Does it feel like as soon as you turn your back that pile of dirty laundry magically doubles in size?

This phenomenon occurs even more frequently when you have children.

It seems counterintuitive, but the smaller the child the more laundry that child seems to create (well, at least until they are teenagers, and then the laundry begins to explode again).

Laundry tips that help you do laundry quickly and efficiently can be a lifesaver.

Getting Your Laundry Done - Scheduling

How often your household needs to do the laundry depends on many factors, such as family size and the age of your children.

The best way I have found to do laundry is to make a weekly schedule for your laundry so you make sure it all gets done.

Select Reader Submitted Laundry Schedules Listed Below

• Two Loads A Day Without Using A Dryer
• Laundry Schedule (And Organization) For Mom of 6
• I Hate Laundry So I Have A Marathon Laundry Day Weekly
• Bimonthly Laundry Schedule For Laundromat
• 20 Loads Of Laundry A Week For Mom Of 4

Basics Of Laundry

Before you can really feel in control of your piles of laundry, instead of them controlling you, you must learn the basics of how to do laundry.

Doing the laundry is a cycle.

Most problems with laundry are caused by a back up at one of these key steps.

Read this seven part series on how to do laundry to learn about each step in the cycle and identify your point of congestion to eliminate it.

1. How To Do Laundry - An Introduction



2. Gathering Dirty Clothes In Laundry Baskets



3. Sorting Laundry With A Laundry Sorter



4. How To Wash Clothes



5. How To Dry Clothes



6. Fold Laundry



7. Putting Clean Clothes Away

Washing Clothes

There is more to washing clothes than just throwing them in the washing machine.

You need to know how to wash clothes in the washing machine, but also how to wash those clothes that must be washed by hand for necessity or convenience.

• Washing Clothes Properly In The Washing Machine - How To Load Washing Machine
• Cleaning Washing Machine - Learn How To Disinfect And Eliminate Mildew Smells
• Washing Machine Smell From Mold And Mildew - Tell Us Your Problem And Read What Others Have Done About It

How To Fold Clothes And Other Items

Once you have mastered the basics of laundry, you still need to get everything in drawers and closets. Learn how to fold various items here.

• How to fold a shirt
• How to fold a t-shirt
• How to fold a dress shirt
• How to fold pants (with two videos)
• How to fold clothes
• How to fold towels (including video)
• How to fold a napkin (with multiple videos)
• How to fold a tablecloth (with two videos)
• How to fold fitted sheet (including video)
• How to fold a flat sheet (including video)
• How to fold a pillowcase (including video)
• Lost socks - the trick to keeping them together
• Keeping track of little socks

How To Iron (And How To Clean An Iron)

Sometimes ironing is no fun, but with certain clothing or other items it is necessary.

Learn how to iron clothes and other items here.

• How to iron a shirt
• How to iron a dress shirt
• How to iron a pair of pants
• How to iron clothes
• How to clean an iron

Laundry Supplies

Once you have Mt. Washmore under control and know the basics of how to do laundry, you are ready for some additional advanced laundry information.

• Typical Laundry Supplies For Your Household And How To Use Them Effectively Trying to figure out what those different laundry supplies you have are used for, and if you should get more? See a list of supplies and how to use them for your family's laundry.
• Vinegar Laundry Uses Learn vinegar laundry uses to help you get your clothes clean and soft for less.
• Laundry Hints To Get Out Odor And Grime - Oxyclean And Borax
• Tide Laundry Detergent - Does It Work Or Not?
• Tell us your favorite laundry supply here
• See other reader's favorite laundry supplies

Stain Removal Tips

• 7 Laundry Stain Removal Tips For Families With Children Are your children a magnet for stains? Learn these seven laundry stain removal tips to improve your chances of removing those stains and make the laundry chore less burdensome.
• Mildew Removal - How To Get Mildew Out of Clothes
• Getting Blood Stains Out of Clothes by Soaking Overnight
• Removing Fruit Stains
• Shout Advanced!
• Grass And Mud Stains
• Cleaning Crayon Stains - Crayon Out Of Laundry
• Lipstick Stain Removal From Clothing
• Tell us your best stain removal tip here
• See other reader's stain removal tips

Care Labels And Tags

• What Laundry Symbols Mean And When You Can Ignore Them Ever wonder what those laundry symbols means on your clothing tag, and if you really need to follow the instructions? Learn about when you can and cannot ignore laundry tags.
• Laundry Care Label: Decode Yours Easily And Accurately Have you ever looked at a care label on your clothing and had no idea what it meant? Learn here, including an instructional video.
• Fabric Care Labels - What The Symbols Regarding Temperature Mean Learn what all those laundry symbols that have to do with temperature mean on fabric care labels, like what all those dots mean.

Miscellaneous Laundry Information

• My Favorite Quotes About Laundry Let's face it. Laundry is something we do a lot. Read some quotes about laundry from the comical to serious.
• Laundry Pictures From The Past Everyone complains about laundry sometimes, but these laundry pictures from the past show how much harder it was back then, and how much better we have it today.

After you master these laundry tips and techniques you won't hear, "Mom . . . I don't have any clean underwear!" ever again.

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