AliGal
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Bettie and Zest,
Laundry! I know that feeling. The Flylady way has worked for me. It's funny - now it's a habit to do a load (and sometimes 2) a day, to fold and put away. I had forgotten I used to know that feeling.
The timer, maybe doing a laundry reset, reducing the amount of clothes everyone wears*, baskets to collect and sort into laundry load types, and a load (or more) and fold a day plus training your household to bring clothes and process into the right baskets and then out their own away really helps.
FlyLady has a sort of laundry re-set on her blog - so if you are overwhelmed, she suggests taking it all to a laundromat to get caught up Ideas for laundry please - FlyLady Forum Ask for help - maybe your partner or a friend will help you. You can then go to their house and help them - with laundry or something else.
I think having enough laundry baskets is key. I bought some ikea bags - they were sold as being suitable to fill with earth and grow a few lettuces - smallish and circular with a bit of hard plastic that keeps them open. Those are used for collecting and bringoing clothes downstairs where they get sorted into darks and lights.
I used to use my timer for laundry as it was so overwhelming.
Now it's in my routine and a load goes in, maybe another gets hung up and the dry one folded and put away. I use the Lakeland heated dryer which has reduced my ironing as many clothes laid flat on the dryer or hung up to dry don't need ironing. I put a pair of single sheets draped over as that makes it dry faster (I think by containing the heat). I do a load a day, and sometimes more. It's beside the kitchen and now I'm not feeling overwhelmed it's so much easier to just pop in and hang up a load or fold it when the kettle's boiling. My attitude has changed because I know I'm on top of it and if it slips away from me, I can reassert sanity.
My top tip is to use the short or gentle cycle on lots of clothes. Many of our clothes aren't filthy, the short wash is good enough and it's so quick. Then hang them up on plastic hangers along the heated dryer and put the cover over the top so things that usually need ironing look great and don't!
We don't have a dryer. It's often too rainy to dry outside so I also have a dehumidifier that I bought before the Lakeland dryer. I use that as well, and have some extra ordinary drying racks. Sometimes I use the short cycle and then do extra spinning. I just did my 88 yr old MIL's dresses - very manmade fabric - and none need ironing because the wash was so gentle and I hung them up to dry.
* put some clothes away - it's so much easier to put away when drawers aren't stuffed full. You can rotate them by season or just when you or they fancy a change of tshirts , or just use the ones they always wear. Flylady has some suggestions on how many clothes younger children need. Make sure you get your kids involved in their laundry. The reason we struggled is that our mum's didn't show us how to do it as routine without drama.
Courage, dear Minimins friends.You can create order in your house over the coming months 5 or 15 minutes at a time. Make sure you get an easy to use simple timer - it's essential to really getting Flying. FLY = Finally Loving Yourself.
Laundry! I know that feeling. The Flylady way has worked for me. It's funny - now it's a habit to do a load (and sometimes 2) a day, to fold and put away. I had forgotten I used to know that feeling.
The timer, maybe doing a laundry reset, reducing the amount of clothes everyone wears*, baskets to collect and sort into laundry load types, and a load (or more) and fold a day plus training your household to bring clothes and process into the right baskets and then out their own away really helps.
FlyLady has a sort of laundry re-set on her blog - so if you are overwhelmed, she suggests taking it all to a laundromat to get caught up Ideas for laundry please - FlyLady Forum Ask for help - maybe your partner or a friend will help you. You can then go to their house and help them - with laundry or something else.
I think having enough laundry baskets is key. I bought some ikea bags - they were sold as being suitable to fill with earth and grow a few lettuces - smallish and circular with a bit of hard plastic that keeps them open. Those are used for collecting and bringoing clothes downstairs where they get sorted into darks and lights.
I used to use my timer for laundry as it was so overwhelming.
Now it's in my routine and a load goes in, maybe another gets hung up and the dry one folded and put away. I use the Lakeland heated dryer which has reduced my ironing as many clothes laid flat on the dryer or hung up to dry don't need ironing. I put a pair of single sheets draped over as that makes it dry faster (I think by containing the heat). I do a load a day, and sometimes more. It's beside the kitchen and now I'm not feeling overwhelmed it's so much easier to just pop in and hang up a load or fold it when the kettle's boiling. My attitude has changed because I know I'm on top of it and if it slips away from me, I can reassert sanity.
My top tip is to use the short or gentle cycle on lots of clothes. Many of our clothes aren't filthy, the short wash is good enough and it's so quick. Then hang them up on plastic hangers along the heated dryer and put the cover over the top so things that usually need ironing look great and don't!
We don't have a dryer. It's often too rainy to dry outside so I also have a dehumidifier that I bought before the Lakeland dryer. I use that as well, and have some extra ordinary drying racks. Sometimes I use the short cycle and then do extra spinning. I just did my 88 yr old MIL's dresses - very manmade fabric - and none need ironing because the wash was so gentle and I hung them up to dry.
* put some clothes away - it's so much easier to put away when drawers aren't stuffed full. You can rotate them by season or just when you or they fancy a change of tshirts , or just use the ones they always wear. Flylady has some suggestions on how many clothes younger children need. Make sure you get your kids involved in their laundry. The reason we struggled is that our mum's didn't show us how to do it as routine without drama.
Courage, dear Minimins friends.You can create order in your house over the coming months 5 or 15 minutes at a time. Make sure you get an easy to use simple timer - it's essential to really getting Flying. FLY = Finally Loving Yourself.
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