Organizational Challenge Week #8 – The Great Laundry Round-Up

Are you ready?

We’ve spent the last four weeks preparing for today. We organized the linen closet, and your clothes closet and then spent two weeks on the dresser, first on the top and then the drawers.

Now, it’s time for the great laundry round-up.

Now it is finally time to head into the laundry room, and anywhere else, your laundry lurks.

Today your mission is to put away all the laundry lurking anywhere other than where it belongs. (In case it wasn’t clear before, this is why we cleaned up the closet(s), dresser, and linen storage first. It makes this part MUCH easier)

Learn more: There are a lot of laundry tips and tricks on Wash It page.

There generally is a method to the madness around here. Not always, though, not always.

If a shirt is waiting for a button on the dryer, either replace the button OR admit you’re never going to and get rid of the shirt.

Do you have socks without their mates waiting for their loved ones to return? Into the rag pile, if it’s meant to be, one day they’ll be dust rags together in the great laundry basket in the sky.

Do you have a stack of delicates waiting for their turn on the delicate cycle? Today’s the day.

Tip: How To Launder Unusual Items

If you have empty detergent jugs or boxes, get rid of them.

Are clothes waiting to be donated? Into the donation bin, they go. (I have a mental image of that scene in Monty Python: Bring out your dead! No one around this house would appreciate my satire of a satire if I went around collecting socks in this manner.)

If space allows, set yourself up for success. Bring hangers into the laundry room to hang items straight out of the dryer.

Next week we’re getting started in the kitchen… try to contain your excitement.

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