Ms. Vera

i never do my laundry because my mother does it for me.

Vera, I know what you are going thru, but try doing this for a family of 6. I hate doing laundry now and I mean HATE...I personally feel I am washing more clean clothes than I am dirty.

When all my kids were babies I had no problem washing and folding nor putting them way. I guess they just had some real handsome outfits and I love the smell of baby clothes. Now, I can let it pile up for weeks on end and that is all the dirty clothes all though it never happens that way.

Mother's Day: I washed 7 loads of laundry and just piled them on the couch and said, there are some basket of clothes needs folding.
I would be washing and I am not lying at least 7-8 loads a day. OMG I can't believe how many times my boys shower, change clothes, and plus they don't even put their clean clothes away. It gets as far as their bed or floor.

My problem is: Our home is too small for our family, we have NO closets to hang anything. All my dresses and formals are in storage in boxes getting wrinkled. We have no storage...seriously on the record, the former owner prior to us had to piece this house together like a jigsaw puzzle.

I would rather clean my house and rock from top to botton and do yard work rather than do laundry. Its one job I can not stand to do. Plus, I feel my kids owe me some laundry. HA!

I am the same way. It got so bad, my cat decided to make my "clean" laundry pile her new bed...then she thought getting sick was fun. And what fun it is to clean clothes I didn't wear..again!

And.. I'm so organized now that the kids are grown. When they were growing up, we had a ping pong table in the basement. I'd wash and fold and leave their piles of clothes on the table.. and don't even mention SOCKS! I have a problem matching them up.. I HATED IT. So, I'd leave them.. unmatched in a basket on the table. I'd tell them to go claim your stuff..

Life will be easier in the future.. heh.. Enjoy your chaos..

OMG,I do laundry once a week. even when we were raising kid's.I wash,dry and put away.I match sock's. Few month's back I lost a sock no were to be found. I know it was probably stuck in my son's pant's as I had done his laundry that day also. But I am sure he never noticed and it is on his floor at his house. Probably blend's in with the rest of the muck on his floor.Daughter same way. Alway's load's of laundry,washing everyday.No way Jose` I may leave the towel's in the dryer.As I do them last.Just incase I get side tracked.The sock's are matched and everything is put away.Yes when my kid's were home I put their clothes away.If their clothes weren't in the laundry room day of laundry,no starting the washer to have clean clothes. We were poor and still are. Certain amount of clothes and that is it.Play clothes,dress clothes and school clothe's.Our's were work clothes,yard work clothe's and dress clothe's.

The problem I think alot of people have they have way to many clothes. If they (You)don't wear it ,get rid of it.You will never wear it.

Wash,Dry, Fold, Putaway. I hate to iron now so out of the dryer real quick.
Use to love to iron. Did ironing on Wednesday night while watching my tv show's.Oh yeah that is when you sprinkled you clothes,rolled them up and put in fridge. OMG they ironed so good.
Not no more mama, if it has to be ironed out it goes.

I dont mind laundry, i just HATE putting it away!

I have found that if you own more than ten days worth of clean clothes, you own too many clothes...clean out your closets and drawers and throw away or give away excess clothes, then you will be able to get all those clothes in the drawers, and out of sight....then it will be easier to get them folded and out of the way.

i dont think they are that great MD..my mom had one and warned me not to get one but i did anyway, and its useless. not sure the name brand, will look and for warn ya! lol

Just hang it all up then you don't have to fold anything.

I would also add that kid laundry is like toys. You have to weed frequently in order not to drown in crap. When I had one kid, I would always eyeball drawers when I put clothing away. If I saw something that I knew didn't fit, I'd yank it from the drawer immediately and ignore it. Had a running goodwill bag in her closet and just kept adding to it. When it was full, I'd plunk it in my car and drop it off the next time I was nearby. Now I do it at the end of hot weather and the end of winter with two kids. When I don't do this (like last year), oh WOE IS ME. It's ugly.

Right now my laundry is insane. We just got two puppies and I'm constantly doing 'dog towels' with this weather. AND the kids are playign with the dogs outside. Talk about multiple changes?? Dear Lord, it's bad.

Leave you with this...My mother used to say "trying to keep a house clean with kids in it, is like shoveling **** against the tide. You throw it out, it comes back in..." I daresay that this idea came to her while she was doing laundry.

Btw, once your kid is old enough to understand that 'socks go in the sock drawer', set his dresser up so that things like socks are in a bottom drawer. You can give him a plastic bag with HIS socks in it and he can put those away. Yep, it will turn into a game of basketball, but it will feel like you're getting some help. And then insist on help putting away when he's old enough to really do that. Having someone do even one step of the job helps, psychologically.

Good luck. There are a lot of mothers out here that feel your pain.