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How to Catch Up on Dirty Laundry

Do you use the "sniff test" to salvage clothes from the dirty pile? Have you bought new clothes instead of doing laundry? Is your home cluttered with laundry piles? Will it take several hours, days, or weeks to get it done? Here's some advice on how to get caught up more efficiently!

1. Find a large area to sort clothes. Move furniture out of the way if you must.
2. Gather all the laundry into this area. This includes bed as well as bath linens, dishtowels, slip covers, etc.
3. Prioritize sorting into piles. Start with underwear, socks, as well as work clothes as top-priority items. Then come favorite items that you wear frequently.
4. If you don't have clean linens for bed as well as bath to replace the dirty ones, go ahead as well as prioritize them too.
5. De-prioritize the following into piles: Clothes that don't fit, off-season clothes, clothes that need repair, clothes you wear only when nothing else is h as well as y.
6. Place all these piles into manageable bags that each contain only enough clothes to fill a washing machine.
7. You may need to prioritize the "priority bags," depending on how many piles you have.
8. DO IT NOW! The sooner you start, the sooner you'll finish.
9. The laundry task isn't finished until you've put away the clean clothes. If something doesn't fit or doesn't make you feel great to wear it, then don't bring it back in the home. Leave it outside with a sign that reads "FREE."

• Take the clothes to a laundromat where you can wash several loads at one time.
• When scheduling laundry, be sure to calculate as well as include the following time needed for: Traveling to as well as from the laundromat; washing, drying, as well as folding; loading as well as unloading the car (twice); putting clothes away; as well as , if necessary, ironing.
• Try using clear tall kitchen trash bags for laundry bags. You can see exactly what's in a bag as well as general rule of thumb is 3/4 full = one regular-sized washing machine load.
• As soon as you've successfully completed one round of priority items, schedule another round as soon as possible (within one week or less).
• Once your priority piles are caught up, continue to schedule persistently as well as add one or two bags of deprioritized items with what has now become a normal week's worth of laundry (including linens).
• Put aside clothes that need mending - next to the television where you can sew a button or stitch a seam during commercials.
• If a significant other or children have contributed to the problem, enlist their aid toward the solution.
• Wash, rinse, repeat!

• Avoid weekends at the laundromat. They are usually crowded as well as you may find yourself waiting for machines.
• Until you've caught up on the priority piles, don't bother washing shorts as well as tank-tops in November; likewise for sweaters in June.
• If you wash only a week's worth of clothes as well as wait a week (or more) before washing another load, you will never catch up!
• Stop beating yourself up. This problem didn't happen overnight as well as it won't be resolved that soon either.
• Stop fretting over bags of laundry when guests stop over. Your home was already cluttered with laundry!
• Under no circumstances are you to add items to any of the already sorted as well as bagged piles during this process. As soon as you undress, start a new bag to sort at the end of the week.

• A large area to sort piles
• Several laundry bags
• Laundry detergent, fabric softener, stain remover, etc.
• Quarters for laundromat machines
• Time

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Added: Thu Feb 02 2006

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