FLYLADY: Laundry Routines
show details 4/16/07
Dear Friends:
What does it mean to do the laundry?
Well for some it just means to actually get it to the place where you know eventually it will get washed. For others it means that you get it washed and dried but never get it out of the dryer or laundry room. YOUR DRYER IS NOT A LAUNDRY BASKET!
There are various ways to do laundry.
Once or twice a week to do large loads or Every Day.
For Flybabies, we recommend the everyday solution, for others that have been on the program for awhile if you can accomplish once or twice a week than do that.
Doing the laundry means that you take it to the machine, you wash, dry, fold, hang up and get this....PUT IT AWAY WHERE IT BELONGS! Now I know that is the hardest part that is why for Flybabies we recommend small loads every single day, this way you get the backlog of laundry taken care of and get yourself into a routine of doing it.
The following applies to either way of Laundry Routines:
Get clothes into the laundry area
Separate Laundry into colors (light and dark, towels, whites and bleach piles.
For each load that you are about to do, turn the clothes right side out and unroll the balled up socks.
Check for stains so you can hit them with a prewash treatment
Put Laundry in Washer, add soap and or bleach
Add Fabric Softener (if you do this at this stage)
When Laundry is washed, put into dryer, check your time, we waste a lot of time and energy by over drying our clothes. (throw in fabric sheet if this is what you normally do)
Hang anything that needs to be hung,do it right then out of the washer or dryer, this saves on the wrinkles
Fold clothes immediately out of the dryer - DO NOT THROW IN BASKET AND TAKE IT SOMEPLACE ELSE IN THE HOUSE! You know why! It will stay in the basket unfolded, won't get folded or put away and then everything needs to be re-washed because it is so wrinkled.
Put Laundry away as soon as it is folded.
Then start the next load into the dryer. If you are really good about staying on top of your laundry then throw in a load into the washer once you have put the other load in the dryer. If you have a tendency to forget, then don't start another load until one is COMPLETE! Complete is from sorting to put away.
This is a PROVEN Flybaby way of doing laundry. Following these steps will get your Laundry completed. As FlyLady always says: Nothing says I love you like clean underwear!
Kelly
PS - NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE WITH THE WASHER OR DRYER RUNNING!! WHY? THINK FIRES AND FLOODS. ENOUGH SAID!
PPS - speaking from personal experience - NEVER wash towels with clothes unless you like the Lint Look! :>)
Kelly
Bravery is not a lack of fear. It's proceeding in spite of it.
-Anonymous
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