New Year's Resolutions have always been a big joke to me. Last year I resolved to not drink any coffee. I detest coffee.
But this year, I'm going to try one. Laundry is a huge issue for me. I don't enjoy it. Washing and drying is easy. Putting clothes into one machine and then into another is a simple quick task. I don't mind that. I only have to remind myself that my grandmother had to haul all the clothes outside and wash them by hand--she had 6 kids. However, after the dryer comes the problem. I'm usually looking for a shirt or jeans that I know is in the dryer because I washed them a few days before. After I pull all the clothes out of the dryer, Elizabeth finds me and gets all under my feet, so now I have to leave the pile to tend to her. After 5 or 6 loads, that makes quite a pile. It's hard to find 2 little baby socks in all that. It has gotten so bad that I put a box in the laundry room to put in clothes that I find that are too little for the kids. Sometimes it's so long between foldings that the children have outgrown clothes on the bottom of the pile. When I finally take the time to fold the clothes, the pile is waist deep and takes up the entire living room and the biggest portion of an otherwise great afternoon. I hate folding clothes. I like them to be in my drawers so that I can find them. I don't mind washing and drying them, but after that, I've got issues.
So this year, I'm going to do my best to fold clothes as I pull them from the dryer. This sound a bit type A, but if I can conquer this area of housework, I will feel like I have made a major accomplishment. Maybe socks and underwear will be easier to find.
Just so you will know, I don't, nor will I ever, match socks. I have 4 bins in the laundry room for everyone's socks We each have a bin that I drop our socks into. It's worked for about 2 years, so I'll be hanging onto to that organizational method.
But this year, I'm going to try one. Laundry is a huge issue for me. I don't enjoy it. Washing and drying is easy. Putting clothes into one machine and then into another is a simple quick task. I don't mind that. I only have to remind myself that my grandmother had to haul all the clothes outside and wash them by hand--she had 6 kids. However, after the dryer comes the problem. I'm usually looking for a shirt or jeans that I know is in the dryer because I washed them a few days before. After I pull all the clothes out of the dryer, Elizabeth finds me and gets all under my feet, so now I have to leave the pile to tend to her. After 5 or 6 loads, that makes quite a pile. It's hard to find 2 little baby socks in all that. It has gotten so bad that I put a box in the laundry room to put in clothes that I find that are too little for the kids. Sometimes it's so long between foldings that the children have outgrown clothes on the bottom of the pile. When I finally take the time to fold the clothes, the pile is waist deep and takes up the entire living room and the biggest portion of an otherwise great afternoon. I hate folding clothes. I like them to be in my drawers so that I can find them. I don't mind washing and drying them, but after that, I've got issues.
So this year, I'm going to do my best to fold clothes as I pull them from the dryer. This sound a bit type A, but if I can conquer this area of housework, I will feel like I have made a major accomplishment. Maybe socks and underwear will be easier to find.
Just so you will know, I don't, nor will I ever, match socks. I have 4 bins in the laundry room for everyone's socks We each have a bin that I drop our socks into. It's worked for about 2 years, so I'll be hanging onto to that organizational method.
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