Sunday, March 15, 2009

Laundry

Burning question for you today gals. What's your laundry schedule?

I used to do it when it piled up and I had no underwear left. Which for me was about six weeks because I have a bit of a thing for undies. Mr. Bella and I both had cushy desk jobs and our dress clothes didn't get laundered with each wear. Therefore I really could go for about three weeks.

When BB moved in and I was no longer an executive the schedule had to change. I made Monday and Thursday my laundry days. Monday is clothes and sheets, Thursday is clothes and towels. But sometimes I wonder if it's the best system. Thursdays are normally a busy day for me so it's a rush to get it finished. But moving to another day doesn't give it adequate spacing and I don't want to do laundry on the weekends. I also don't want to do all laundry on one day. Ugh!

So I'm thinking of adopting a daily system. Laundry isn't my favorite chore but if it's just a load a day maybe it will be simple and routine like loading the dishwasher and cleaning the kitchen. Let's see now:
Monday: Sheets
Tuesday: Brights
Wednesday: Darks
Thursday: Towels and Whites (bleaching day)
Friday: TBA

I was thinking Friday could be nothing, or it could be a potluck load of whatever clothes are in need and can be washed together, or, because I am one fantastic wife who deserves two carats in each ear I could do dress clothes and actually wash my husbands work attire.

For those of you who don't remember Mr. Bella and I used to do our own laundry. It was our own little secret to marital bliss. However I took over doing all of his non work attire when I no longer worked outside of the home. I suppose I could start laundering all of his clothes because again I am a fantastic wife who deserves two carats in each ear. Ahem!

So spill of all of your dirty laundry secrets. How do you keep up with it?

3 comments:

Emily said...

I'll let you borrow my hubby... he does most of the laundry for me to help out around the house and the baby. Just an idea!!!!

♥B said...

I have this bad habit lately of waiting until the weekend, which is silly but I use to do one load per day that way I was free on my days off to do whatever in clean clothes.

Platinum Rose said...

I do it all on Saturday and/or Sunday. And if the weekend's super busy, it may go into Monday or Tuesday. I do 3 loads of clothes (dark colds, dark warms, and white), then a load of towels, then a load of sheets. To save time, I dry a couple loads all at once. (washer takes about 30 minutes, dryer takes 1.5 hours).