<p>I’ve always done the laundry in our household. I get annoyed when my wife folds my clothes and packs them up because I fold (or don’t fold) things a certain way and would sometimes mix up my clothes with my sons.</p>
<p>I had no idea people no longer put two spaces after a period! There’s no way I could re-train myself to omit a space. It’s been too ingrained into me.</p>
<p>I fold as little as possible. Our laundry room has hanging space, so the clothes go directly from the dryer onto hangers unless they are socks, undies, or shorts. Ds are responsible for getting their clothes upstairs. My bedroom is on the main floor (same as the laundry room), so it’s not a big walk. I don’t enjoy laundry, but if I had to make a trek up and down the stairs to do it, I’d probably hate it too.</p>
<p>^ Notice that in your post as displayed on CC, the extra space has been removed. All browsers do this.</p>
<p>My kids are supposed to take their own laundry upstairs and put it away, but rather than do this my D as taken to using the laundry room as her dressing room. Over time all her clothes wind up migrating to the basement.</p>
<p>When her pile starts taking up too much space I make her take it up, it usually takes her three or four trips at that point.</p>
<p>Okay. I have not read the five pages of posts, but here are my laundry comments/suggestions/complaints, . . .</p>
<p>When <em>I</em> do laundry (as opposed to DH or kidlets), I fold each piece as it comes out of the dryer (except socks and underwear, which get tossed in one end of the basket). Adds mere seconds to the process, but the clothes will still look pretty okay even if they never make it from basket to dresser before going on body. My kids often live out of the clean laundry basket (i.e., it never does get put away), but I’m okay with that.</p>
<p>Another thing that helped (somewhat–more later) is that when my kids were still fairly young, I told DH I would no longer be doing his laundry. I was already doing four people’s, and I thought it set a better example for my kids to have DH take over responsibility for his. The downside <surprise surprise=""> is that there will be a mountain of his dirty clothes in the corner of our bedroom that I have to bite my tongue not to comment on. (The real kicker is when he heads out to buy new socks and underwear rather than doing a couple of loads. Grrrr. . . .)</surprise></p>
<p>When I do the kids’ laundry (sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t–kind of depends on their schedules), I do ask them to deliver their dirty laundry to me and take it back up (two flights) from the laundry room, although only mostly. Honestly–I sometimes count doing a couple of flights of stairs carrying a laundry basket as my exercise for the day.</p>
<p>And not sure how we got to spaces after periods, but it has to be two. Period. And yes I know CC takes them out, but that’s really not the point, is it?</p>
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<p>I had never noticed this before.</p>
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<p>I could have written that post, except for the fact that we don’t have a basement.</p>
<p>My husband doesn’t have to go to work on Fridays. He usually does laundry while I’m at work. He systematically does all the laundry and then neatly stacks the folded laundry on our bed. I come from from work and UNfold the laundry and hang the clothes on hangers where the belong. If only I could could teach him to head straight for the hangers. He says he folds the clothes because the he doesn’t like the wrinkles. </p>
<p>My coworkers wish they had husbands that participated in any part of the laundry process, so I can’t complain - and I don’t!</p>
<p>Laundry is OK–cooking is not so exciting to me either. At least H & I are happy going out or with take-out if no one wants to cook. I am home more than he, so I do more of the laundry. He does the dishes, garbage & yard, as well as any grilling outdoors. I do the rest of the cooking and clutter the house with my paperwork. I also organize his & our paperwork into piles by type. So far, it works pretty well. The kids know how to do laundry, but we have done it for them pretty often. Everything is on one floor and S is MUCH better about putting clothes away than D.</p>
<p>My SIL used to keep very minimal amounts of clothing in her home so that it sit neatly folded in the bathroom cupboards. Now that the kids are older, they have clothing in their own bedrooms instead. It used to be pretty easy for her to put them away & it’s more time consuming now that she has to get up & walk them to their separate bedrooms. At least two are away in college, so there are only the four of them home now. When they travel, they bring very little clothing and wash it as needed; very light packers.</p>
<p>I have a three part laundry sorter in the master closet. When I get up in the AM, I take whatever load is full and start it. I am up early anyway, so by the time I leave for work I have one load washed, dried and folded. I fold as I take the clothes out of the dryer as it is actually less work that way and I am all about less work.</p>
<p>Two suggestions for the OP: 1. Is there any way your laundry could be moved to the first or second floor of your house so you don’t have to go to the basement?</p>
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<li>If you live near me, I will gladly do all of your laundry if you will cook for me:)</li>
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<p>I much prefer the laundry in the basement. The dryer radiates some heat into the room though most is vented but the basement is cool to cold and so we don’t have to worry about the AC competing with the dryer. We also had a washing machine flood and it was a lot easier to deal with it in the basement than it would have been on the upper floors.</p>
<p>I like doing laundry (cooking is a different story).</p>
<p>Hanging almost everything does help. Even T-shirts and shorts are on hangers.</p>
<p>We moved to this house almost three years ago, and it’s made many things very easy to do. We have a laundry chute, so laundry arrives in the basement next to the washer. Minor sorting is needed. I have two washers, one for icky stuff (the old one), and one for nice stuff (the new one). Icky stuff includes anything the dogs have tracked mud onto or DH has gotten muddy by bicycling in the rain. The laundry room is huge (10x20, really) and decorated with all my ribbons and photos of the dogs competing in agility, as well as their title certificates (which makes me feel warm and fuzzy while I’m folding). There are lots of counters. I fold everything as I take it out of the dryer (only one dryer) and then leave it in sorted piles: my towels, his towels, the dogs’ towels, my clothes, his clothes, his bike clothes, sheets, dish towels… There is plenty of room for all these piles. </p>
<p>I also have a fancy sweater dryer that blows room air on four sweater-drying mesh racks (got it on sale one year after Christmas, guess it wasn’t as popular a Christmas present as someone had hoped). For some reason, DH loves spreading his sweaters to dry on it and does an amazing job of blocking as he does so. Go figure.</p>
<p>Clearly I don’t mind doing laundry—but I really hated it before I put up all the photos of the dogs. They make me laugh every time. (I cracked up when a friend of mine took my daughter’s future mother-in-law down to the laundry room during Thanksgiving dinner “to explain about the dog agility stuff.”)</p>
<p>Most days I enjoy cooking dinner, but on the days I don’t, DH is always willing to go out. Nice.</p>
<p>Nrdsbr, I only learned recently that two spaces after a period was no longer an ironclad rule. I still type two spaces (even though, thanks to notrichenough, I now know that CC will remove the second space!). It would be almost impossible for me to change.</p>
<p>I must be a little weird, but with the exception of ironing, I actually enjoy doing the laundry. And I think it’s fun to hang clothes on the line! Can’t do it right now though with all the oak pollen. That said, I would not want to go back to the “olden” days of laundry. I remember my mom’s wringer washing machine, and I remember her ironing all day long once a week.</p>
<p>It’s really comforting to know that there are other people who suffer from LCM and LLM! I have four daughters and I think there are just way too many clothes in this house! (Even with two who aren’t living at home full time anymore!)</p>