Laundry help....

melgul001

Tell me what you girls do with dirty laundry before its laundered. I have tried two different sorting things and they fall apart, dont work for us, etc. We want to start to work on baby's room and currently that room is just thrown laundry in...or atleast an attempted sorted. I've tried 3 laundry baskets and sorting that way...worked for awhile but not very long.

I just need some idea on what to do after taking off and before the washer....

 

Thanks  

LindsaymR

We just have 1 laundry hamper in our bedroom. I've wanted to get the double one so I could do whites in 1 and everything else in the other (that is how I wash) but we don't have the room. It works fine for us. It is near our closet so when we dress/undress it is close by but still out of the way. When it is full I can usually do 2 loads of laundry and be done. I sort everything in our laundry room and I usually do the 2 loads in a row so I just throw the clothes and towels on the floor until I wash them. I'm sure once we have kids I'll need something better.

SuzEJ

I have a sorter in the actual laundry room as well as hampers in bedrooms. The special sorter consists of just 3 canvas bags that are arranged on a rack thing. I have one for lights, one for darks, and one for underwear. It became a necessity earlier in the spring when I'd toss in bibs, washcloths etc. to the laundry room floor after feeding DD (and those things would of course have food bits on them), and we developed a bug problem   That was stupid of me. Problem fixed with laundry sorter, keeps laundry off the floor and waiting patiently in the corner for its turn in the wash.

AudreyHpbrn

We have a hamper in our room a small one in each of the kids room.  Once it gets full, we take it downstairs and I have a sorter there for whites, darks and red.  Then one for underwear, towels/sheets. 

Right now we have been doing really good about getting laundry washed folded and put away.

gbtc01

We aren't the best with this either. We have a pile between the 2 rooms upstairs and then one just outside the bathroom and usually one on the landing of the basement stairs. I wait until the pile is just about a loads worth and take it all at once and wash together unless its towels or denim. I prewash what we wear so we have very little bleed through weith clothes, also I wash on cold alot.

The worst part of laundry for me (and hence the piles) is getting it put away. It tends to sit in the hampers for a few days (I do fold it frist at least) before it gets put away.

With a newborn in the house I am doing 2 or 3 loads a day and most of it gets repeated the next day it seems. She spits up a whole lot more than DD #1 did.

seekup*

We have three stacking baskets in our closet and put our dirty laundry into those so it is already sorted- we use one for whites, one for darks, and one for brights.  These are the ones we have, I think I just bought them at Target?