I dream of a laundry fairy that sneaks into my home at night and PUTS AWAY my clean clothes!
I can wash them.
I can fold them.
But why is it so difficult to get that clean, folded laundry into the drawers where they belong?
Luckily, I have these pictures to let me know that I’m not alone…
“Messy” Laundry Room
Karen is a frequent flyer on the Messy House Edition (you can see her basement here).
To be honest, I think her laundry room looks pretty darn tidy. But I am curious about the brown item hanging next to the washing machine.
Is it a bag?
Or is it some new-fangled undergarment that I don’t know about because I’m a housewife living in the suburbs? Anyone care to enlighten me?
And I just have to ask – is that a huge jar of sprinkles next to the bug spray?
Mega Laundry Piles
Just Keep Swimming made a little collage of her laundry piles for me.
And I’m so glad she did – because this is another part of the laundry mystery that I just don’t understand. Why doesn’t my laundry just stay in one place?
It seems that I have baskets of nearly folded or dirty clothes in several different areas of the house. And – clearly – I’m not alone. (Be sure to visit Just Keep Swimming – she’s fabulous!)
Anonymous Laundry Room
I love it when an “anonymous” submission comes through, because I figure that means it must be SO bad that people don’t even want their first names associated with it.
This doesn’t look too bad to me – but it does make me feel a little better about my dirty laundry.
Where Are We Sleeping Tonight?
This Happy Mom has an impressive laundry pile!
And it illustrates why I NEVER fold clothes on our bed – because where would we sleep if I did that?
I haven’t been able to fold a pile of laundry uninterrupted since 2007. That would be way too many nights in the guest room if I dared to start folding on our bed.
You’re a brave woman Happy Mom!
Taking a Swim
This takes cleaning the baby to a whole new level!
Here’s what Jessica has to say about her submission: “Both my husband and I were in the kitchen when this happened…. in the kitchen! I was cooking dinner, and he was at the computer (surprise).
Neither of us even noticed until the baby started crying because she was tired of swimming in detergent.”
Feel better?
See? You’re not alone in your laundry agony.
But while you’re here, you might as well share – what’s your least favorite part about cleaning clothes?
Remember – Life isn’t Pinterest-Perfect – and our houses don’t need to be either!
Think your house is messier? Send me your pictures! (Garages and cars are welcome too!)
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You made me feel that much better about my husband constantly nagging why I don’t put his clothes away after I launder them. I put everyone else’s away usually except his, because seriously if I can do the laundry least he can do is put it away, right? Lol!!!
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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!! Laundry has been my arch rival my entire life. LOL much like you it isn’t the washing or the folding (ok sometimes it is the folding too LOL) but the putting away part that gets me every time. It makes me feel 100 times better to know that I’m not alone anymore! ;0)
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I love that Karen keeps wine in her laundry room as well!!! Ingenious!!!
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Oh, well now, I’m an old granny with no young children around, just my neat and tidy grown daughter. I do the laundry 2-3 times a week, one load each time. We are fairly clean. But….the putting away part? I have our only 2 laundry baskets overflowing in my room with clean laundry. When it’s time to wash again, I just dump one on top (sides, floor) of the other and off I go. Usually when I run out of underwear in my drawer I get it put away. Usually. Not always. If clean undies are close to the top of the pile…..well, there ya go! Right? Maybe I need to get a government grant to study this clean laundry dilema!
I am most entertained by the number of wine bottles on Karen’s laundry shelf. Along with the sprinkles right next to the bug spray. I assume this is the HANDS OFF shelf and that all things that kids would love to get into get stored on the laundry shelf.
I am a huge fan of doing the laundry and even hanging it out on the line when the temperature is below freezing. But putting it away? It’s a deal breaker every single time!!
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I love this! I too am part of this phenomenon. But I will admit that the folding still alludes me as well. My bedroom often looks like This Happy Mom’s. My thinking is that if I pile the laundry on the bed (usually when I run out of baskets to pile it in), I HAVE to put it away before bed. 9 times out of 10, it just gets dumped back into the baskets. Drives my husband crazy. To the point that last night, he and I folded and put away no less than 7 loads of laundry. For the record, there are only 4 people in our house…
I too am pretty good about getting things washed when they need to be washed, but have laundry baskets scattered throughout the house full of clean laundry. It might get put away slightly more often if the laundry room was on the same floor as the bedrooms, but probably not. Our king size bed is the only place big enough to sort and fold it all, so once every week or two I end up doing a massive laundry fold that takes forever. I just never seem to find the time to do it after each load comes out of the dryer. Getting it put away after the big sort and fold is easier now that I’ve been making my oldest two help do their own folding and putting away after I sort it all. I don’t feel too bad about not getting put away faster since DH doesn’t often get dishes put away out of the dishwasher either (dishes is one of his big chores).
It took me three hours to sort fold and put away the pile of clothes on my bed. Yuck! My kids are so used to the clean laundry pile thing that they are confused when the clean stuff is put away.
My husband frequently has to push laundry (clean, but unfolded) onto the floor before he can go to bed.
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My least favorite part is folding.
I’m impressed by the way the trim stopped the detergent from oozing onto the carpet — think that’s an intentional design feature?
With four kids, the only thing worse than laundry is the dishes!
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The “sprinkles” are bungee cords….I’m guessing the brown thing is for a dog? All i can say is now I don’t feel so bad about my laundry room and inability to get things folded and put away. Shout out to the ladies who live and let the laundry lay where it shall. Until we get so tired of it we spend an entire day off putting it away organizing and muttering about how if we did it regularly we wouldn’t have to waste an entire day doing THIS…2013, it is definitely the year of laundry getting finished and not just done.
My house use to be one of the messiest houses out there.However,recently I attacked my mountain of dirty laundry and did 5 loads a day for 2 weeks.It is now nice and washed,dryed and folded.Just need to get it away.