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The key for me is doing more, smaller loads. I can fold and put away a small load of laundry in less than 10 minutes, so it's hard to avoid when I know how easy it is. I fold the laundry in the room where I plan to put it away so that extra step seems easier.

Here are the loads I do weekly:
- 3 loads of my/DH laundry (darks, colors, lights/whites) -- fold & put away while watching Bravo on Monday/Tuesday nights;
- 1-2 loads of DS laundry (all together, generally later in the week) -- fold & put away during bedtime routine or when I'm otherwise in his room;
- 2 loads of sheets every other week (wash the MBR and guest room sheets separately so I don't have to sort them back out and they can go directly onto the beds once they're done);
- 1-2 loads of other household linens (cloth napkins, hand towels, dog blanket/towels, etc.) - I have a hamper in our laundry room and just throw a load in when it gets filled up. generally fold it when I'm upstairs for bedtime routine on nights

@HappyBaker: if it's not overflowing I feel like it's acceptable, lol.

My one thing that I do to make it easier is just hang up a lot of things. And I don't stress if drawers of jeans/kids leggings/pjs/socks/whatever are messy.

And when I get really behind I throw everything in there mixed up. Maybe not the whites though.

DH does his own laundry, that is a big help.

I do one load for DS a week, I start it Friday night and dry, fold put away Saturday morning. I do my laundry usually on the weekend. I find if I just fold it and put it right away it is easiest. We do sheets, towels etc through the week as needed. We have hampers in the laundry room that they all get thrown into and when they are full one of us throws it in. We both fold/put away these loads.

@HappyBaker: OMG we are exactly the same way

Usually we just empty a basket onto another basket so we have a huge tower of laundry!

I need to go through and donate close I'm not wearing anymore!

Living in a small apartment is my answer to having to stay on top of putting things away.

A few things that have helped me is making space in my closet by getting rid of things I dont wear often. The more empty space there is the easier it is for me to put stuff away.

I wish I washed/changed our sheets more often. I think I need to schedule a sheets cleaning day to stay on top of that. I just hate making beds.

This is absolutely us too. Only when I'm feeling super motivated does laundry get folded and put away! And usually it's just the kids' clothes. Hubs and my stuff end up in "clean piles" that we then have to iron or dewrinkle to wear.

Small frequent loads and purging unworn/unloved clothes to leave as much closet and drawer space as possible.

I actually really like folding laundry, but putting it away....less so. I find that if I sort it well, it's easier. I do the following:

- 1 basket for adults, one for kids (ill switch to one per kid when they get bigger);
- put each persons things to a separate side of the basket
- pile all like items together - so each girl's undies, then undershirts, then socks in a pile bc they go in the same drawer; leggings, long sleeve tops, then shirt sleeeve tops; Jammie's; and hanging items draped over the basket edge.

I also find it a lot easier to wash kid/adult loads separately (for sorting). I get SO ANNOYED when DH thinks he's been helpful and mixers adult/kid/household laundry into one little load!

laundry gets done, but only the kids and DH's laundry gets put away. Mine is stacked in random piles because I just don't get a chance to put mine away! Our baby sleeps in our room, so nap time and evenings are out and it just seems there's so many other things to prioritize during the day!

I've never had a problem with laundry

Friday night I do me and DHs laundry and sheets - it gets folded and put away immediately

Sunday I do the kids clothes and sheets- fold and put away

That's it- I don't do laundry any other days

I don't know. When we added the second kid, the amount of laundry quadrupled. I'm the only one who folds it because I hate how my husband folds stuff. If I tasked him with folding his stuff, it would just live in a pile like it does now.

Maybe I should just get rid of all of our clothes.

@avivoca: That's true - when it was just me and my husband I could do a lights and a darks every two weeks and be fine. When we added B I added a load of his clothes on the off week, mostly just because I didn't want to buy 14 pairs of jammies. But now that we have two kids I'm doing three loads every week and that doesn't even include sheets and towels! I wonder how much sideeye I'd get from daycare if W just wore his pyjamas all day?

I am not saying this to brag but we have no problem keeping up with laundry and I'm always perplexed by laundry posts. So I was trying to think of what we do that causes this laundry magic and these are my ideas:
1. Fewer clothes in particular for me and DH.
2. I do not wash a lot of my clothes after the first wear. I wear a tank under almost everything I wear and that always gets washed and underwear too but basically everything else I wear more than once before washing. I wear the same PJs/house clothes several days in a row before I wash them.
3. My DH used to say things to me like "we need to do the laundry." He learned that he did not need my permission or assistance to put a load in and now takes the initiative to do it as well.
4. We have two laundry baskets, one for lights and darks and so do not need to sort prior to putting in the load. Everyone's clothes get put in there so I don't have to combine multiple laundry baskets.
5. I like folding laundry and am happy to do it while watching a tv show at night. Putting away sometimes takes a few days but I try to do it the next afternoon. I sort everything as I fold so it doesn't take me more than 5 minutes to put everything away.
6. We don't wash our sheets very frequently
7. I only have one kid so far.

@avivoca: Yes, we have a two year old so the clothing volume required in a week has obviously gone down a lot from the pee/poop/spit-up days! Can you just get those square bins for your kids and separate their clothes into the appropriate bins and not bother to fold?

I think for adults the key is really to not have many clothes.

ETA: My clothes that I have worn once and need to be hung back up in the closet often collect all week on my dresser til I bother to do that on the weekend. Just in case I was making myself sound all perfect.

I like doing laundry so clearly I'm a freak. But the way I find myself actually putting it away all comes down to how I fold it. I fold each item into a separate pile based on its drawer/home - so for me it might be tank tops, short sleeve shirts, long sleeve shirts, active wear, pajamas, undies/bras and hang up clothes. I can buzz through putting that stuff away really quickly because I just grab a stack or two and walk to the dresser. I usually do a load during the week of LOs stuff but otherwise I do it all on Saturdays throughout the day.

laundry is my nemesis. Like you, I don't mind washing/drying it but I hate hanging it up. I'm also a person that hangs most clothes (including kids clothes) instead of folding, so it takes longer.

My husband does his own laundry and does it in a much more timely manner than I do. Our nanny does the kids laundry 1x a week and generally DH will do any odds or ends of theirs that need to be washed outside of that 1x. I do my own laundry only.

@gotkimchi: "once in April 2016" oh man this made me lol

I'm the laundry person and haven't found a way to tame it. If I'm not feeling like crap thanks to the weather or kids, I can manage a load at night after work. The kids laundry takes the longest since there's so much of it. Once we got our big washer/dryer, I don't have to do as many loads of their stuff since washing and drying doesn't take forever like it used to.

We don't have that many clothes so that helps a ton! DH does his own laundry (he is terrible at putting it away though). I do everything else. Sheets and towels get washed as needed and folded immediately out of the dryer. My laundry and kids laundry get done once a week, usually on the weekend. Sometimes a basket of clean laundry will sit out for a day, but our house is tiny so it has to be put away.