This is the best laundry routine we have as a family of 5! Mom, Dad, a six year old, eight year old and a 2 year old. We have some basic division of tasks and do it when we can. There’s always a mountain of it somewhere at all times and I’m grateful for it because it means we have this family and good life to be able to do it!
I try to run a load each day.
We have 3 loads: Whites, colors and pinks (this keeps our pinks and reds vibrant).
My husband and I have a laundry basket in the closet, the boys have one one their bathroom and there are three bins in the laundry room where we toss kitchen towels and sheets.
Most days I tell the big kids (and our little 2 year loves to help too) to bring me all the dirty laundry in the house and I start the loads.
The kids take any dryer laundry out and put it in the big rolling cart shown.
My husband often checks the washer at the end of the day to make sure anything forgotten about in there gets switched to the dryer.
Sometimes I sort all the kid shirts into a flat pile and they use the “folding machine” to fold them. Other times I fold them all.
I often leave the socks in the bin and my husband folds those.
Once I have all the clothing folded into piles: Shirts, pants, underwear per person, everyone puts their own laundry away.
Shortcuts of the Laundry routine
Underwear:
For the kids, I just pile them flat.
For me, I sort them into piles and then I toss them into 2 different drawers.
For my husband they get a half fold.
Socks: With kids ages 2, 6 & 8 we use all the same size socks in 3 colors. We love these socks. This makes sorting socks a breeze!!!
What we use in our laundry routine
This is plant based and free of fragrance and any yucky stuff. It’s gentle to keep clothes from breaking down but strong enough to get it all clean. One bottle does 64 loads because it’s super concentrated and I have it on subscription. Time and money saver.
This helps the environment and now I don’t have to buy dryer sheets. They last forever. The trick to not having static is not to over dry your clothes. You’re also saving your self from extra chemicals.
Makes the laundry smell great and keeps it fresh naturally! I love Stress Away, Citrus Fresh or Purification if the laundry gets funky from being forgotten in the dryer. No need to wash it again, just put some Purification on a couple wool balls and run it for a few minutes. Voila!
This lives in our living area. If we have guests, we just roll it into one of the bedrooms! It’s cute enough to have out and everyone knows where to put or find clean laundry.
Laundry Baskets: (linking similar)
We have two plastic laundry baskets. One is for collecting dirty laundry in our bathroom and the other is great for transporting clean folded laundry to bedrooms.
How to make a Folding board
2 Outer Rectangles 7″ X 20″
Middle Top 7.5″ X 12″
Middle Bottom 7.5′ X 8″
Wardrobe Hackers has a video! That’s were I learned how!
I accidentally taped all the way down so I just cut the bottom tape up to the horizontal fold so the bottom is a flap that folds up. See below or watch the video I linked above!
What do other people do in their laundry routine?
This is how we do it and it works pretty well! Is there a great laundry hack you have? A friend of mine would take her laundry to the fluff and fold if she ever got super backed up. A nice way to reset! I hope this was insightful, friend!
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