Did I mentioned a few posts ago that I went to a homeschool conference? At that conference I went to a class called 8 Systems to an Organized Life (or something really close to that), and I got to listen to the lady named Becky Evans (who is super cute and also a professional organizer) talk about some systems that she uses in her home to be more organized. All of her ideas were great, but the one that seemed to be bathed in holy light with a chorus of angels singing it's praises was her laundry system.
Why? Because it is so doable. And it's flexible (which is crucial for me, whenever I attempt to follow a schedule that requires me to do a certain amount of something on a certain day, I always fail and end up hating the system, because my days never look the same.), and it takes the majority of the work off of my shoulders and evenly distributes it onto the whole family. Win. Win. Win.
I ran right home and told Aaron about it, and we figured out how to implement it into our laundry space. I didn't take a very good "before", because I was in such a hurry to get going. But I wish I would have. Just imagine this space, only with dirty laundry bins, a stupid plastic bucket full of junk, and an ironing board with stuff piled from hell to breakfast, so that really you can't see very much of this space. :)
The set-up above, is just us setting the dowels between the block to determine if they are long enough. They don't actually go there.
And here the bars are in place, we're just figuring out the spacing of laundry baskets, and deciding that we need one more rack on top.
So, quick over-view about how our system works...
-The three baskets at the bottom are for dirty clothes: darks, lights, whites. Each family member brings in their own dirty clothes from their room and sorts them into the dirty bins.
-My job as mom (or Aaron's job when he feels like it) is to run the dirty clothes through the washer, then move them to the dryer. When they come out of the dryer, I sort them.
-Each person has a black basket for clean clothes (Aaron and I are sharing a basket). I sort the clean clothes into black baskets, and leave them there. Every day (or so) each family member checks their black basket, they take the clean clothes to their room and fold them and put them away, and bring back the black basket.
-Not pictured above, but I also added a white basket on the floor for clean towels/sheets/blankets/rags/etc.
And that's pretty much it. It's genius because it's simple. AND the best part is that there are NO, ZIP, ZERO, ZILCH piles of clean clothes stacked sky-high all over my bedroom. That right there folks is worth millions. :) My laundry room is a happy place and therefore my bedroom is a happy place.
Now if only I could figure out something equally genius for the dishes....
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