I have put instructions in my Palm Calendar: Repeating meetings every week on Tuesday evenings, 8-10PM from now until 12/31/2006. With these details, adapted from my last entry here:

“Seven loads is the most that ever should accumulate w/o warning bells going off in my head. If I get all hampers full plus one basket, that is 7 loads.

I can do 1 load a day until it is all done: Sort it out into 1 load bags so I can “dump a load and dash off” anytime. Wash 1 load at night; in the morning or the next evening, bring in the dry load, fold it and put it away; and hang out the wet load. Start the next load in the wash before I go to bed.

Crunch times: September - because of change of season. Post-Christmas - holiday wear and tablecloths. May - because of change of season. Before beach trip Memorial Day and vacation in summer - because house sitter is coming.

I can take the laundry to the beach house or Mom’s. I can take it to the laundry service at Hangers or Carolina Dry Cleaners. I can do an extra load at a friend’s house if I am pet sitting. I can go to the laundromat.

Clean dry laundry has to be put away before I start the washer for the next load. If I need inspiration, I can turn on the radio’s “sleep” button or set the iPod for 30 minutes of tunes to work by.

If something is difficult to put away, I have too many of those. I need to share the wealth. I’ll keep a thrift store bin in the laundry room and on the front porch. I’ll weed my clothes as I do laundry.

Best of luck!”

I have given all my laundry baskets away but 2. I have installed a clothes line in the laundry room from hooks in the ceiling. It is a sunny room and there is a furnace vent. I can hang up one load in there even if the weather is bad in the winter. I am going to purchase an “umbrella” clothes line tomorrow to go in the backyard. I have a new wooden drying rack that can stand over a furnace vent. I have a line in the bathroom over the tub. I will purchase a used dryer if I come across one.

We’ll see how it goes from here—but for now, I have done all the laundry and as much as I can do to make sure it stays done. I am calling this goal complete.