https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:05 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry/page/2#post-2200278 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:41:07 +0000 Greentea 2200278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am just constantly doing it. Honestly, it is at the end of our main living area, in french doors, so it is easy to just do it with such easy access. We also don't have a lot of clothes. DH will throw a load in randomly as well, and finally we don't really fold, kind of just toss things where they need to go. I can't seem to keep up with folding. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry/page/2#post-2200246 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:04:57 +0000 Ajsmommy 2200246@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH does his own. I do two-three LARGE loads once a week. Usually on Saturday morning. Most of my work clothes are darker so I can just throw them all in and I don't do any special cycles or gentle cycles (whatever they're called). Everything gets thrown in together. Most weeks it's one load of my stuff and one load of DD's stuff. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry/page/2#post-2200238 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 11:53:25 +0000 JenGirl 2200238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's just the two of us now, so I'm sure this will change once baby gets here. Our dryer takes forever, so we could only do one load after work and I don't really like doing that, so we tend to do massive laundry days on the weekend. we usually do laundry every other weekend, but if we have to stretch to 3 weeks, my husband usually does a small load of undies/undershirts. We've got a big washer so we can usually get all our clothes in 2-3 loads. Then we do a load of towels/sheets about once a month.</p> <p>The hardest part is folding/putting away. We fold/hang everything that needs to be folded/hung right out of the dryer. Clean undies/socks/undershirts get thrown in the hamper. We're pretty good about getting to that point but horrible at getting it upstairs and put away. So I now force myself to carry everything upstairs and put it all on our bed so that we're forced to put everything away before bed. It's the only way to make it happen. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry/page/2#post-2200162 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 10:32:21 +0000 808love 2200162@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sarac: LOL! Yes!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry/page/2#post-2200157 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 10:29:01 +0000 sarac 2200157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Get pregnant and tired, make my husband do it. That's been working out pretty well for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry/page/2#post-2200155 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 10:27:47 +0000 2PeasinaPod 2200155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There are only three of us, so Saturday/Sunday are our laundry days. If it's nice, I'll throw the first load in as soon as we wake up and hang them outside on our wash lines. If it's not, we have a ton of drying racks since I'm not a fan of certain things in the dryer. </p> <p>Once everything is dry, we run everything through the dryer on low for 10 minutes to soften or take out any wrinkles and fold on our bed upstairs. If it's on our bed, it has to be moved for us to get in it at night, so it gets put away immediately. My husband will sometimes fold and leave the clothes in baskets. That just sits for a week until we put it away, but I really try to do the bed to force me to put it away immediately. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry/page/2#post-2200151 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 10:22:42 +0000 808love 2200151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TemperanceBrennan: I've done it too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry/page/2#post-2200123 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:55:44 +0000 bunnylove08 2200123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We only have two loads a week (3 of us). I always have do laundry either Friday or Saturday. I agree if you scale down your wardrobe it really helps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2200115 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:47:22 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 2200115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@808love: Yep! Total game changer. Get on it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2200106 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:37:52 +0000 Corduroy 2200106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH works from home Monday and doesn't work on Friday. LO is in daycare both those days so I've made laundry his task and he usually gets it done. I try to help out with LO's laundry since it isn't as time critical. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2200096 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:31:57 +0000 808love 2200096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@TemperanceBrennan: Konmari!!? You are inspiring me.</p> <p>We have lots of underwear! Dh washes his clothes once a week and I wash mine and LO altogether once a week. Every other week DH puts in a second load of linens (is that gross) and overflow. When I do my wash I drop it first thing in the morning and switch to dry by the time I'm done with morning stuff or errands. We usually fold right before we sleep. It is so tedious!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2200021 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 08:28:51 +0000 Anagram 2200021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>laundry is our weak spot---not doing it, but hanging it and putting it away.</p> <p>DH does his and LOs most of the time; I do mine. DH will actually hang and fold his own clothes but always leaves LOs. But the jokes on him, because my house cleaning NEMESIS is putting away laundry--so it's way more likely to just sit around in a chair till LO wears it, which is what I do with my own clothes. :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2200020 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 08:28:51 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 2200020@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The secret: get rid of most of your clothes. </p> <p>DH and I got rid of about 3/4 of our wardrobe. It helps tremendously. Even if we washed every single thing we owned, it would probably only be about five or six loads. </p> <p>We (he) does a smallish load every few days. He works from home, so that helps a lot. He throws it in in the morning and folds it sometime that afternoon. Sometimes I fold after I get home from work. There have been times where we ran out of underwear, but it just taught us to stay on top of it. </p> <p>I'm sure things will change once we have kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2200009 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 08:18:19 +0000 Chillybear 2200009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I separate colors, darks, lights, Baby stuff, diapers</p> <p>I wash diapers 2 times a week, baby stuff once a week, and as the separate bins fill up those i throw them in </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199977 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 07:58:09 +0000 LulaBee 2199977@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do a few loads a couple of nights a week (never on Friday, mama needs a break), then loads all day long on Sunday. I honestly wouldn't mind it if my machines were on my main living floor instead of my creepy basement. And DD being out of cloth diapers makes it seem like so much less laundry! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199928 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 07:23:53 +0000 tinyperson 2199928@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have time of use electricity rates, so I try to work within those...I work from home most Fridays, so I'll do one load that morning, we do one Saturday morning if we're not heading out right away, and then one Saturday night, and then usually 1-2 loads on Sunday. If I work at home another day, I throw a load in then too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199920 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 07:20:47 +0000 Mamaof2 2199920@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No time for doing laundry every day - I usually do it when I get home from work Friday into the evening. Also I always wash on the "quick cycle" so it takes like 35 mins </p> <p>Then on Sunday I change all the sheets and wash those.<br /> That's it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199873 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 06:57:58 +0000 looch 2199873@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Large capacity machines. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199870 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 06:48:37 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2199870@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No trick, I just do it constantly. :sad: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199866 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 06:44:08 +0000 pinkb 2199866@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I feel like it's a win just to have everything clean. I keep up with washing, atleast 1 load a day. But I usually have a pile in our room that needs folded and put away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199804 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 01:48:52 +0000 lemondrop 2199804@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I cram on the weekends. I usually find one motivated day to do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199782 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:08:29 +0000 AprilFool 2199782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There's a trick? I feel like I never stop doing washing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199781 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:07:23 +0000 StbHisMrs 2199781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hate laundry.</p> <p>I do so many loads, so many. I make it harder on myself too, by separating everything, then hanging most to dry. It takes so long. </p> <p>I know if I fold as soon as they're dry then I keep up.<br /> My method is once the pile gets huge then I separate into jeans, pj's, towels, our shirts, kids shirts, underwear, and socks. Then I fold each pile and put away as I go. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199770 Thu, 04 Jun 2015 23:21:48 +0000 macintosh 2199770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I try also do seperate loads (usually) for DH, towels, baby clothes, and me. I try to only do 1-2 loads per day so clean clothes don't pile up. I try to fold it the same day, but lately it gets pushed the next day. I used to fold it while DH was in the bathroom. Tonight I tried but the baby didn't want to stay asleep. It's acutully bothering me that I couldn't finish folding. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199759 Thu, 04 Jun 2015 22:43:14 +0000 lamariniere 2199759@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I actually don't mind doing laundry because I had to go to laundromat for years, and having it in my home still feels like a luxury. I do laundry probably every other day to stay on top of things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199728 Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:54:27 +0000 FannyMae 2199728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do a heck of a lot of laundry, but I've found I can cut one load out of my day by setting the timer and having it wash (or dry) during the night or early morning. at least then by the time I'm awake one load is already done. ironing is my pet peeve, it never gets done. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199719 Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:39:16 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 2199719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do it everyday. That way if and when a day gest skipped, it's still not an overwhelming amount and I can catch up easily </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199709 Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:32:50 +0000 Boogs 2199709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have no clue. No matter how proactive I try to be, I always have laundry and somehow I always have folding to do. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199708 Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:32:23 +0000 californiadreams 2199708@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i do 3 loads on the weekend and that's it. unless LO gets sick of course. I just have to be vigilant about it because we share machines with the other tenants in our building....i don't know what will happen when we have a house in a couple of months. I remember once when i was single with a washer/dryer in my apartment, i opened the dryer after a week and found wrinkled unfolded clothes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-is-your-trick-to-keeping-up-on-laundry#post-2199702 Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:27:08 +0000 matador84 2199702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do laundry once a week. I hate it but it works. One week I do the kids laundry, the next I do mine. DH always does his own. It's the only way I can keep up. </p>