Yum yum. Piles and piles of laundry, damp from your bath towels, piled higher than the cheese from a car salesman.
It’s a never ending struggle. You think the laundry just may be all caught up- then you take your clothes off to go to bed and you’ve got another load to do!
If you are the sole laundry doer it can just get plain old. You can’t decide- go to the tool box, get a pair of pliers and pull a few teeth, or do some laundry.
There are basically two ways to go about keeping the duds in the suds.
1. Let them pile up, put on your snorkeling gear and dive in to get it mostly done. (see above- it can’t ever be ALL done.)
Number 2- which is worse than one– You decide what you want to wear and dig around like your digging for gold, find what you want and wash it all together. Makes for some dingy clothes. Plus be careful, when you are digging around you may find a pet you didn’t know you have.
And after the act of putting the laundry in the washing machine there are myriad combinations of ways to end up with your laundry not all the way done.
The Piler- you wash and dry the laundry, then leave it on the couch.
The Thrower- you wad things up and throw them where ever in your drawer looks convenient.
The Tumbler- everything stays in the dryer until you’ve picked enough out to wear. You put the rest away when the dryer needs to do it’s job again.
There is a third way to take care of your laundry. One that will not leave you rushing around hoping things dry before the movie starts and won’t take up your whole Saturday.
As a matter of fact- if you do it right you’ll barely notice that you have to do laundry at all.
This method works if you have a DVR- but may work better if you don’t!
Step 1: Your TV show is coming on in an 90 minutes. So it’s time to multi-task with a touch of laundry. Go separate out your load and put it in to wash. As soon as it’s done dry it.
Your show comes on probably about 10 minutes before your laundry is done drying- so at the first commercial break go get hangars. As soon as it’s all warm and dry bring it in and get to folding and hanging.
You can do this while you are watching TV and you won’t even realize that you are folding.
Then at each commercial break go put away a few pieces. By the end your one hour long TV show you are all done.
If you have two TV shows to watch do two loads.
At the end of the week you’ve done four or five loads of laundry. This works really well too if someone else is watching a show you don’t like so well. Then you can be productive instead of just bored.
If you don’t watch TV then put in some ear phones, take the laundry out on the porch, fold it on the kitchen table instead of the couch, or even take it outside.
The whole point is this: Do one load of laundry every day. Then do the odds and ends when you feel like it. This means you’ll never again have whole days devoted to “catching up on the laundry.” Things you want to wear will be clean, your life will be happy and you can 
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