https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 11 May 2026 12:31:05 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home/page/2#post-1762426 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:45:08 +0000 sunny 1762426@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: Thanks! I'll give it a try.</p> <p>Ya I have never been able to get the paste to work. It just gets messy and doesn't stay on the stain. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home/page/2#post-1762323 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:05:11 +0000 mrs. wagon 1762323@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunny: some people told me to make a paste of oxiclean to scrub into the stain but it never works for me. It just flakes off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home/page/2#post-1762320 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:04:29 +0000 mrs. wagon 1762320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunny: i shoot the stain with oxiclean spray, then I put a scoop of oxiclean powder in a small plastic tub and run super hot water into it until it dissolves. Then I soak the clothes overnight. Next day (24 hrs later) I put it thru the wash, on cold. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home/page/2#post-1762248 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:35:34 +0000 sunny 1762248@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: I never knew to use hot water to pre-soak. So you shoot the stain with Oxyclean and then leave it in the hot water for how long? Do you also wash in hot water? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home/page/2#post-1762245 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:34:22 +0000 sunny 1762245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: We got this one:<br /> <a href="http://www.costco.com/Seville-Classics%C2%AE-Laundry-Sorter-II-with-Adjustable-Hanger-Bar.product.11220082.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.costco.com/Seville-Classics%C2%AE-Laundry-Sorter-II-with-Adjustable-Hanger-Bar.product.11220082.html</a></p> <p>I never took the bags off the old one because it was such a pain to get them back on and make them stay. So for me, this one is better because I can take the canvas bag off and bring it downstairs to the laundry room (we keep the sorter in our bathroom). The bag is heavier than the mesh bag, especially since there is the metal handle, but I don't mind it. I like having the top bar to stick random things we need to go get drycleaned or handle specially, but they have a version without the top bar too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home/page/2#post-1762234 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:30:10 +0000 sandy 1762234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sunny: where'd you'd get the new one? I would love to upgrade. Do you think the canvas is harder to use...I like how light the mesh bags are. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home/page/2#post-1761958 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:25:00 +0000 mrs. wagon 1761958@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Freckles: if you've never tried a hot overnight oxiclean soak, now is the time! I so regret many years of throwing items away because of a stubborn stain!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761947 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:22:51 +0000 Freckles 1761947@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Meridian: Every 3 weeks!! I hope you mean days because then i'm awfully jealous as to how much clothing you have!! :silly: </p> <p>@mrs. wagon: Most of our laundry stuff is still in boxes, but i'll have to dig it out soon - LO's clothing have all of these stains that refuse to come out. :crying: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761945 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:22:32 +0000 Littlebit 1761945@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Right now my husband has a hamper (that also gets things like towels and sheets) and I have a separate one. We throw everything together! Don't separate anything (whites, reds, darks, towels, it all gets washed together). We do wash in cold water though. And then it sits in the dryer til we need it ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761926 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:17:58 +0000 mrs. wagon 1761926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Freckles: I never pre-treated stains before either!! Just tried to with putting more detergent. Now I pre-treat as soon as the item comes off the body, which means I usually get it very freshly. Sometimes it doesn't fully come out in a cold wash, so at that point I do a pre-treat and then a HOT oxiclean soak overnight. That almost always does the trick.</p> <p>But for the most part, if I get it while it's fresh, and then it goes through a cold wash a few days later, it comes out. For food, paint, markers, blood, etc. I keep several bottles of oxi clean spray everywhere-- one right by the kids' hamper in the bathroom (so as I place items in, I examine for stains and then shoot them-- takes literally 2 seconds per item of clothing), one by our hamper in our bedroom, and one right above the washing machine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761922 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:15:07 +0000 Meridian 1761922@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We currently do laundry every 3 weeks (about 4 loads in one day), so I know we're in for a big change once LO arrives in the fall! Our usual 4 loads are:</p> <p>-towels/sheets<br /> - lights<br /> - darks<br /> - darks</p> <p>The only thing I'm anal about is that we have a separate "clean" hamper. I can't bear the idea of putting the fresh laundry from the dryer into the same "dirty" hamper that held all the unwashed clothes, haha. DH used to think I was crazy, but he now subscribes to this idea as well :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761918 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:13:54 +0000 Freckles 1761918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: Is it sad that i never heard of pre-treating stains until two months ago? So i read that if you do the stain treatment, you have to do it in a warm cycle rinse - is that true or does it come out fine in cold water? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761914 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:11:49 +0000 mrs. wagon 1761914@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Freckles: I do the kids' clothes on cold wash every time. I pretreat stains with spray and if something needs a really good cleaning I'll do a hot water oxiclean soak. But I'm paranoid about ruining an outfit with colors running. If I have a new piece of clothing that's brightly colored, I'll almost always use a shout color catcher sheet... and if it's going into an oxiclean soak for the first time, I soak it alone with nothing else. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761907 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:08:06 +0000 blackbird 1761907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@freckles, I never separate my darks and lights. I wash everything on cold. Never had problems. Honestly, if I have a small load, or if DH does, we dump E's clothes in with ours, too. I never saw the point in all the sorting. It just makes for extra work, IMO </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761898 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:05:03 +0000 MrsTiz 1761898@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the house we have 3 hampers<br /> -Towels<br /> -LO's<br /> -Mine &amp; DH's</p> <p>I wash towels whenever we run out :P and clothes when the hamper gets full. I used to sort them into 10 million loads of whites, blacks, towels, jeans, lights and then colors.</p> <p>Now I sort it into<br /> -Towels<br /> -Jeans<br /> -Clothes </p> <p>Do back to back loads one day or do a load or two a day and then throw them in a heap on my bed and fold laundry once LO goes to bed &amp; catch up on my reality TV :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761892 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:03:06 +0000 cascademom 1761892@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO has a hamper in his room. In our room, we have two hampers, one for each of us. Usually the dirties go in one bin while cleans/folded goes in another. Today's laundry day for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761879 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:59:07 +0000 Rubies 1761879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Freckles: Everything goes into warm wash/cold rinse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761876 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:58:06 +0000 ShootingStar 1761876@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I have separate hampers in our room - he has one where he combines everything (he separates at the time of washing), I have two separate ones for lights and darks. There is a hamper in the baby's room and all his clothes/towels/burp cloths, etc. I do my laundry and usually the baby's. @Freckles: When I do the baby's stuff, it all gets combined and I wash on warm. Most of his stuff is pretty colorfast, and I've never had an issue with darks/lights. </p> <p>Towels generally get thrown in front of the washer and when they pile up, one of us washes them. But we're moving next week and the washer and dryer will not be in the bathroom any more and there won't be space in front of them to throw things, so we'll have to come up with a new system for those. Maybe I'll put a hamper in the bathroom too. Although then I could see never remembering to wash them because it's kind of hidden and running out of towels.</p> <p>ETA: my husband has many talents, but laundry is not one of them, which is why I like to keep my stuff separate from his. I generally only trust him with towels, and his own stuff lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761865 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:55:15 +0000 Freckles 1761865@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rubies: LOL, i think the older i get, the more anal i am. So do you put everything in warm or cold wash? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761790 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:32:34 +0000 Rubies 1761790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Freckles: the kids' clothes don't get separated...ain't nobody got time for that. In, dryer, out, done. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761780 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:29:42 +0000 Freckles 1761780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: @blackbird: @Rubies: @Mamaof2: If you do kids' clothes separately, do you combine everything (dark/lights) and do one type of cycle (i.e., warm/cold/hot)? When LO was a baby, i'd mix it all together in the hot cycle (since we had diapers to wash as well), but i separate her stuff out now.</p> <p>I think i have to go back to our old system of multiple baskets. DH did the laundry last week and ended up warm-washing my dry-clean only sweaters and pants, as well as our bar stool covers. :crying: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761351 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:03:01 +0000 ValentineMommy 1761351@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have 3 hampers in the laundry room - one for lights, one for darks, and one for dry clean/delicates. The baby has a separate hamper in his room, and his laundry is done separate as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761349 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:57:53 +0000 looch 1761349@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a rolling laundry cart with three compartments: white, light, dark. I also have a separate laundry basket for drycleaning and hand wash articles.</p> <p>I no longer separate by person. My son actually has the grodiest clothes, lol, but they get washed separately from our work clothes, for example. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761347 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:49:46 +0000 Dandelion 1761347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't have much of a system. Everyone has a hamper in their rooms (DH and I share) and I wash a load or two of laundry every day, depending on who needs what. It's never ending. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761324 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:56:56 +0000 sunny 1761324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sandy: I have the same one! We recently upgraded to a more sturdy one with canvas bags and a metal frame. We used our original one for years and years though!</p> <p>I wash our laundry separately by person and by type (whites, darks, undies). I typically do 2-3 loads per weekend and 1 during the week. I don't have a lot of whites so it's really just dark or undies. I wash linens and sheets once a month or so because we have enough to just let them pile up in the laundry room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761220 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:16:09 +0000 mrs. wagon 1761220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a basket in the bathroom for all kid stuff and a hamper in our room for all our stuff. And a hamper in the hall for our linens.</p> <p>I do the kids laundry (one big load) on Thursdays and Sundays. </p> <p>Our laundry gets done about every two weeks. On the day I do it (usually a Saturday) I separate into whites, darks, and cold wash.</p> <p>I wash our linens when u have enough for a full load, usually once a month. Again, on a Saturday when I'm not doing our clothes laundry. I have enough sets of sheets and towels to be able to put it off a week or two if I need. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761215 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:10:57 +0000 gingerbebe 1761215@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH does the laundry and we currently have the slowest. HE. washer/dryer. in. the. world. The wash cycle takes like 70 minutes and the dryer SUCKS. It takes two 90 minute cycles to get things completely dry. Towels? 3 turns in the dryer. So our laundry is always piled up.</p> <p>We have 3 hampers. Towels, dark, white. We try to hang our bath towels and reuse them once or twice before washing them. Hand towels get thrown into the hamper every few days, as do kitchen towels. Once a month we do bed linens, but we have multiple sets of sheets so its not a big deal if there's a giant mound heaped in a corner. </p> <p>If we're too busy and our laundry pile up is too big, I admit we throw everything into the car and go to the laundromat. This happens once every other month? DH works from home so he tries to run a load every day to keep up, but he forgets sometimes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761209 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:06:49 +0000 Greentea 1761209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have one dirty hamper. I need to get a "clean" hamper or laundry basket as well! We do laundry daily- pretty convenient because it is in french doors at the end of the open concept kitchen/dining/living room. We just throw it all together. We have to do it constantly because we don't have that many clothes... I actually really dislike the front loaders, I hate to say. It is just really.hard. to bend and reach (?) I can barely reach the back of ours! And it gets funky. Still grateful it is in my kitchen! Sure beats down the hall or at the laundromat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761204 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:05:09 +0000 californiadreams 1761204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1 basket that I separate into 2 piles on laundry day</p> <p>Pile 1 = towels (towel setting)<br /> Pile 2 = everything else, but I check if things need to be hung to dry or dryer (cold water gentle cycle</p> <p>I do 2-3 loads every weekend. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-laundry-system-at-home#post-1761175 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:49:34 +0000 delight 1761175@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: we have the same system! We both like doing our own laundry.</p> <p>We do let things pile up though and end up doing a few loads at once. We are also pretty negligent at doing sheets and towels as terrible as that is. LO's laundry is done more frequently, but it's fun to do her stuff! </p>