4. Buy clothes that are dryer friendly. If you have clothes that need to be hang dried, they will not make it into your folding cycle. If you have to hang dry clothes, let them dry until next week’s laundry and fold them when you fold the new laundry or pick a day to finish this 1-2 days afterward.
5. Depending on where you live, doing laundry on the weekend might be more financially beneficial. If you have time-of-use billing on your electricity weekends and evenings are typically cheaper.
6. When folding laundry, I find making piles for each type of clothing helpful. For example, I will make a t-shirt pile, a pants pile, etc. So when I’m putting everything away, it’s quick. I just pick up the shirt pile and it away one time.
7. When you are folding clothes, or if your kids are doing it, it’s a good time to pull out any clothes that need mending, like kid’s pants, and get them ready to fix. Check out how to quickly fix holes in pants (and any other clothes) here.
These are helpful tips, thank you! Another that’s helped me is having a laundry basket for each person in my house, and there’s an extra basket. So when I pull a load of laundry from the dryer, they go into the extra basket, then I fold those clothes into everyone’s basket. I finish folding in time to swap laundry and grab the next dryer load. Then those clothes get folded and added to everyone’s baskets. When I’m done clothes, the extra basket is then used for folded towels. And everyone has to put their clothes away that night.
I love having a laundry basket in everyone’s room. But the spare basket is genius! I will have to get another one!
Great tips! I always do laundry on the weekend in order to save extra money. Thanks for sharing!
Having 3 kids, I’m always about saving money, so weekend laundry is great for me. And we have lots of it!
I am forwarding this to my grown daughters! 🙂
Thanks! I hope it can help them!
I find by using a timer i’m more likely to change the wash immediately as well as fold them/put away right after their done!! Great Tips
I need the timer! If I miss it, that laundry will not moved. It’s a lifesaver! And my washer has a nice chime that does the trick!
I hate folding laundry! I don’t mind all the other steps, but the folding is where I want to quit. I have 2 baskets to fold from 2 days ago. Would someone please hurry up and invent a machine to do it for me!
I hate folding as well. I’ve been teaching my kids for a while, so they do their own, and soon I will teach them how to fold mine, and no more laundry folding for me! At least for a while!
I like picking a day to do my laundry and usually sticks to it. Saves me with scheduling, and yes folding isnt always fun but folding when nicely done is helpful and saves me from ironing. lol
Oh! I hate ironing! I would sooner wear wrinkled clothes than iron! I completely forgot about that! Thanks!