I love to organize things. I love to have a place for everything and everything in its place.
When I started college, I had one laundry basket under my bed for dirty clothes. Once I moved off-campus I had one of those cheap laundry organizers.
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Of course, I always put laundry off until the last possible moment, so the plastic pieces holding it together didn't last very long and broke under the weight of my dirty clothes.
When we moved to Illinois back in 2008, I decided to change the way we organize our laundry. I settled on three round laundry baskets -- whites, lights, and darks. They were in the corner of our room and we could easily toss our dirty laundry in them.
Once we bought our house in 2009, the laundry organization changed again. I had a dedicated laundry area in the basement for my baskets. The original three basket system became five -- whites, lights, colors, darks, and towels/bedding. I also acquired a laundry basket specifically for carrying laundry to and from the laundry room. Gene also has his own laundry basket.
Lost count yet? That's seven laundry baskets. Seven.
We also have a large hamper in our bathroom that the hubs can't seem to find and an old one in the basement with nothing in it.
The laundry basket situation is betting a bit out of hand.
It's time to simplify. In an attempt to stay organized, I got carried away.
I found this on Ana White's blog the other day. I love it. It's simple and it takes advantage of vertical space rather than horizontal.
I have a birthday coming up very soon, so I'm hoping a certain someone takes it upon his handy self to build me one. (hint hint)
I have seen a similar organizer and it is pretty cool! We only have 1 clothes basket! We have two bins in the bedroom (that I want to replace sometime soon) that we put dirty clothes in (darks in one, whites & gentles in the other). Then I take these to the basement when I do laundry on the weekends. I pile all the clean stuff in one basket to come upstairs to be folded.
ReplyDeleteNick and I have yet to buy a washer and dryer (who knew buying a house wipes out your savings?). Right now I have one basket, Nick has his own basket, and we take our baskets (individually) to our respective parents' houses to do laundry when the baskets are close to overflowing. Maybe one day we will own a washer and dryer. Maybe we will even wash his clothes and my clothes together! That's an idea...
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