Keep up with my laundry

All of my laundry is done. Yes, yes, yes it is!!! And by my laundry I am including my daughter’s. There is one small pile of cleaning rags that I will wash tonight as I further organize all of our clean clothes. I started pulling clothes out of my dresser for giving away or discarding. And separating summer clothes for vacuum packing. I am thrilled. :) But this is only half the battle. Now I must stay on top of it! Ready. Go!

I did a load of laundry today! I still have a lot of laundry I need to put away tho.

I have done a couple loads of laundry this week.

I’m doing a load of laundry right now. It’s been nice to make my bed each morning and put my clothes away each nice, and I feel good getting out a nice clean towel today and throwing my old one in an almost-empty hamper!

Now that I’ve managed to make dish-washing routine, I need to do something about all things cloth. I have a neat little hand-crank laundry machine for small loads, and an ordinary washer for big loads, plus an outdoor clotheslines.

I have extra incentive to do this because my kitten started peeing on dirty laundry. I think it’s because stuff tends to mold in my damp old apartment, and the smell is attractive to little kitties.

To Start:

• Clean out my drawers

Daily Maintenance:

• Put folded laundry away immediately
• Make bed every morning unless partner still sleeping when I leave; if that is the case, make bed when I get home.
• Do not keep any laundry under any table anywhere.
• Every night before bed, put all clothes away.

Weekly to more-than-weekly maintenance:

• Do a little wash of whites every few days
• Wash pants as soon as I notice they’re dirty
• Change sheets and towels every week (or every two weeks)
• Do big wash as soon as my hamper is full, instead of after the entire closet is jam-packed. If it is a Saturday and there is no need for a big wash, do a little wash; this way maybe a big wash will not be needed next week either.

My idea is that as I am doing laundry I have two bags, one for donation one for garbage. Once the bag is full it goes into my trunk to be dropped off at Goodwill or into the trash. I am also considering getting rid of extra pillow cases, throws, fitted sheets, flat sheets, etc. that no longer have a “match.” As long as everyone has 2 sets for their bed that is all you need. When one is being washed the other set is on the bed. I am going to donate all my extras to the local dog shelter. They are always in need.

I’m marking this done, but I have to be careful not to backslide…it’s easy to shrug the task off. Right now I’m enjoying the results of my discipline so much. Yay!

I am making progress on this. I’m almost ready to mark this done. Whatta ya know.

There are two loads of clean dry clothes in the laundry room. Getting more and more wrinkly as each moment passes…gotta go!

This morning when I got up, I folded the clothes that were in the dryer. Before doing anything else.

I’m so proud of how I’m training myself.