Laundry

With a couple of little kids... and the hubby... we somehow manage to make a LOT of washing. Which has my house cluttered throughout of dirty washing. {read: not impressed}. So with Lots of little kids... hubby at work {& not house trained}, lots of little kids too little to tackle lots of loads of washing means that the job is just about completely and soley all my responsibility.

Although I do admit... over the years... my washing habits have swayed between a love / hate relationship. It has somewhat evolved from manageable to out of control to permissable to forgotten to Mt WashMe... I remain not impressed.

Until VERY recently Monday was my "washing day". Which meant that I *cough* ONLY did washing on MONDAY. So if it was any other day (with the exception on a few occassions of washing hubbies work clothes on a Saturday - I know... shocking!) my two, yep TWO washing machines wouldn't get touched.

Come a (pregnant) sunday night where sleep was absent from my life I'd lie in bed desperately trying to find the balance of comfort and pain-free resting positions (because I didn't sleep) and getting up to put the next two loads of washing on. By morning I'd have 4 washing baskets piled up with 8-14 (sometimes 20) loads of washing. Actually some days I'd tip the wet washing onto the couch and start the 'sorting' process. Hangables on coat hangers, little stuff (jocks & socks mainly) on the little airer and 'others' in the basket ready to be hung on the line with the pegs.

((What? You think that 6 loads is lots? Ha!))

After sleep returned to me and the bubba was out I kept up our 'washing routine' to discover that it really wasn't working for me. Climbing Mt WashMe to get to the toilet was annoying. Staring at basket loads of washing was reminding me of my housekeeping skills - or lack of. Hearing the hubby demand and demand where his ### were was driving both of us madder than we already are. The worst part was when I was sick, or too darn lazy, or one of the children really needed me and I was unable to tend to up-to-20-loads-of-washing-in-a-day. Lets face it, with lots of little kids your bound to be needed every day. Something just had to be done... and I knew it was the washing.

As I was hanging out in the laundry hanging washing on coat hangers I cried out in desperation to a God that I do know "Why can I not get this done?". & then it hit me. We'd (@ Mum's place) always done the majority of our jobs on a saturday morning. I had to break the cycle. But how?

Within the week I split my 'washing day' into 'washing days' and now I wash TWICE a week. But ACTUALLY!! I have been doing washing SEVERAL times per week. Monday & Thursday are my new 'washing days' but you'll probably catch me hanging out washing on a more regular basis. So why Monday & Thursdays? Monday is the first day of the week. As in non-week-end day. So lots of washing has been piled up over my 'non-work-days' of the weekend & it was taking 3-4 days for my washing to dry in our wet weather undercover so that brings it to Thursday. Go Me!

Actually this has meant that I've been able to put the kiddies back into MCNs!! YEAH!! 

Now that I have more wash days, and I remember to bring the washing inside before it gets wet again I seem to have a LOT of folding to do... DOH... {Worthy of another post = I'm paying the little kids to do it}. Fortunately I have a doable and easy solution for this!