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There are 8 of us, and I too refuse to do laundry every day. I usually do it every other day. The children all have baskets in their rooms, and are required to put their own clothes away. It does help that the house we're renting until we sell our house in Fl has 2 washer/dryer hook-ups and that they had a washer/dryer upstairs, and mine are hooked up down stairs. The upstairs washer and dryer are in the bathroom so the older boys will at least get the dirty clothes in the machine or on the floor in front of it.
My biggest problem is getting the time to get it folded. With 3 teens and 3 toddlers I'm always doing something other than laundry. Doesn't help that I hate to do laundry :-)
I had the problem of the older boys never having socks. I tried white with marking their first initial on them, didn't help. So they aren't allowed to pick out the same brand anymore. That way when I fold them I know what belongs to who. I'm going to have to start the same system with the girls because they wear the same size socks. I do towels the same day I do clothes as well. SOmetimes there are too many jeans for one load, but not enough for 2, and the towels are blue, so I put them in with the jeans. May not work for everyone, but it works for me :-)
Maybe instead of doing laundry only two days, you could go to every other, of Mon, Wed, Fri then you won't have as much to do in one day.
I will tell you before we moved and had our house on the market I was doing laundry first thing every morning, starting it when I got up, I only had two loads a day and was done with it, folded and everything, by about 9, or 9:30. I think everyone has to find their own system for laundry. I presonally would love to have someone come in and just do the laundry and clean the bathrooms :-) Shelley, Mom to 6
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