So here's one of my light-bulb moments from the plethora of what Lisa shared and it's about laundry. I hate it. Hate. it. Seriously, if I wasn't eco conscious and didn't hate clothes buying more than laundry itself, I would just wear disposable clothes. One time use and move on. No washing ever. But alas, that's totally unrealistic. Frankly, this is all Adam and Eve's fault for eating that fruit. If they hadn't had a nibble of that fruit, then clothes never would have been invented. I digress.
Back to laundry. When Lisa was talking it occurred to me that she actually STAYS in her laundry room and folds the laundry straight out of the dryer. STRAIGHT. OUT. of. the. dryer. !!WHERE HAVE I BEEN? Why hasn't this monumentally important detail never occurred to me before? Because when you get down into the facts, what I really hate about laundry is folding. Lord help me, there better not be laundry in heaven!
I hate folding. Therefore I put off folding. Which only creates bigger mountains of clean laundry overflowing all over my house. Then they get wrinkly and as I'm sure you can guess, I'm certainly not an ironer (one who irons). Beyond the wrinkles, the cat lays in them, or the kids knock them over...sigh. I'm exhausted and irritated just thinking about it.
So I have resolved: I will no longer remove the laundry from the dryer unless I am literally folding it right then. This halts all laundry being done, so I'm incentivized (this is clearly not a word, but I'm sticking with it) to actually do it or never have clean clothes again. And it breaks it down into smaller folding sessions - which means less time folding and I hate folding, oh wait, I think we covered that already.
I also think I'll be adding four bins to our laundry room for the clean and folded laundry to go into so that little helpers can help me put it away. We'll see, for now...I'm liking this plan.
What was your favorite part of what Lisa shared? Did you have a light-bulb moment?
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I am all over the laundry. I have bins and color coded towels. I do not have 7 bins b/c I was afraid at some point a color might be discontinued and that would throw me into a tailspin. I just have 3 bins-one for each room. IT is working. I have been doing at least one load a day...and guess what that means my loads are smaller ad not as much folding. I also do towel Tuesday. I have a new lights and darks bin and now not baskets in every room I have to go collect. A new chore for my kids is to pick their laundry off the floor and separate it into the bins. I feel like a new woman. A vacation or doing lots of bed sheet could totally throw me off though :)
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