Comments on: Organize Your Laundry Routine to Prevent Pile-Ups http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/organize-your-laundry-routine-to-prevent-pile-ups/ The Mabelhood is the sum of all blogs, combining posts from Mabel Labels' bloggers Julie Cole, Caitlin Madden and a cast of guest bloggers. The Mabelhood documents the daily dramas of a group of people raising families and a label making business, plus everything else in-between. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:58:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: melissa http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/organize-your-laundry-routine-to-prevent-pile-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-3450 melissa Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:17:47 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1392#comment-3450 this was a great post Tanna! this was a great post Tanna!

]]> By: Lynda http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/organize-your-laundry-routine-to-prevent-pile-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-3426 Lynda Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:15:38 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1392#comment-3426 Great tips! You are so right about getting distracted when folding in another room..it's happened to me, and the basket get messed up, clean clothes go on the floor, total chaos! Part of problem is a very tiny laundry room, with no counter to fold on & store baskets. Will be correcting this in future, as current laundry room will become 'mud room', and new laundry area will move to basement once it gets finished. Challange is to get 5 yr old boy to put away his laudry (and also put dirty clothes in hamper). Got a 1 year old boy that will be trained well early on!!! Great tips! You are so right about getting distracted when folding in another room..it’s happened to me, and the basket get messed up, clean clothes go on the floor, total chaos! Part of problem is a very tiny laundry room, with no counter to fold on & store baskets. Will be correcting this in future, as current laundry room will become ‘mud room’, and new laundry area will move to basement once it gets finished. Challange is to get 5 yr old boy to put away his laudry (and also put dirty clothes in hamper). Got a 1 year old boy that will be trained well early on!!!

]]> By: veronica lee http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/organize-your-laundry-routine-to-prevent-pile-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-3419 veronica lee Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:19:33 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1392#comment-3419 Hi! I'm visiting from MBC. Great blog. Hi! I’m visiting from MBC. Great blog.

]]> By: Ramona http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/organize-your-laundry-routine-to-prevent-pile-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-3416 Ramona Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:30:01 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1392#comment-3416 Usually laundry just once a week - for 3 people, we have 3 regular loads a week, plus one for towels. An extra one every second week for bedding. And that's it. Dirty laundry is kept in laundry baskets, and clean stuff gets folded and put away right away. (unless the cat has taken up residence for a while....what is it about clean laundry?) Usually laundry just once a week – for 3 people, we have 3 regular loads a week, plus one for towels. An extra one every second week for bedding. And that’s it. Dirty laundry is kept in laundry baskets, and clean stuff gets folded and put away right away. (unless the cat has taken up residence for a while….what is it about clean laundry?)

]]> By: Cynthia http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/organize-your-laundry-routine-to-prevent-pile-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-3414 Cynthia Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:37:49 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1392#comment-3414 That could be my laundry room:) But, we have rectangular baskets; it's easier for the two boys to get things out without messing up all of the folding. Putting away laundry is an expectation for ours. It's up to them (almost 9 and 4) to put things away. If the baskets aren't empty on Saturday, allowance goes down. If they are short clean clothes during the week, they don't complain because it's up to them to put them away in the first place - and they know it:) That could be my laundry room:) But, we have rectangular baskets; it’s easier for the two boys to get things out without messing up all of the folding.

Putting away laundry is an expectation for ours. It’s up to them (almost 9 and 4) to put things away. If the baskets aren’t empty on Saturday, allowance goes down. If they are short clean clothes during the week, they don’t complain because it’s up to them to put them away in the first place – and they know it:)

]]> By: Samantha http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/organize-your-laundry-routine-to-prevent-pile-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-3412 Samantha Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:33:42 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1392#comment-3412 You rock, Tanna! Thank you for this! You rock, Tanna! Thank you for this!

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]]> By: Jenny http://www.mabelhood.com/index.php/2009/11/organize-your-laundry-routine-to-prevent-pile-ups/comment-page-1/#comment-3409 Jenny Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:37:10 +0000 http://www.mabelhood.com/?p=1392#comment-3409 We have two boys and they each have their own laundry basket. With boys, the majority of their clothes are darks - actually with mine I think they all are! So I do a load per child and then the basket with each of their loads gets folded and put in their rooms to be put away. Then my husband and I have about 2 dark loads, a lights load and a whites load. I start it on Friday morning as soon as I get up and it's usually finished and put away by Sunday evening. We have two boys and they each have their own laundry basket.
With boys, the majority of their clothes are darks – actually with mine I think they all are!
So I do a load per child and then the basket with each of their loads gets folded and put in their rooms to be put away.
Then my husband and I have about 2 dark loads, a lights load and a whites load.
I start it on Friday morning as soon as I get up and it’s usually finished and put away by Sunday evening.

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