I LOVE this email from one of you. Such a great way to apply the Container Concept to different situations! I NEVER write emails to authors or bloggers, but I had to write to you, and thank you. I am a teacher-turned-homeschooler. I always thought when I stopped working full time and stayed home with my two kids that my house would be tidy and …
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I Tackled Laundry!!! (from one of our readers)
Laundry can be one of the most overwhelming (and never-ending) household chores. I love hearing from readers about how they have made my Laundry Day strategy work in their own homes. Hi Dana, Thanks sooooo much for the great idea of having a laundry day instead of doing a little bit every day. I divide the laundry day into two …
Three Easy Family Laundry Solutions
This post contains referral links. Any purchases you make after following those links help to support this site. Our family laundry schedule keeps me sane. Weekly Laundry Day has had a huge impact on our home and on my sanity, and works better for our family than any other laundry routine I'd ever tried. And I'm pretty sure I tried them …
Large Family Laundry Day – It CAN be Done!
Jodi Bonjour is an old blogging friend. She isn't actually old. I just know her from my early days of blogging. We were in a group of bloggers who brainstormed together and tried out all sorts of different ways to grow our blogs, reporting back to each other about what worked and what didn't work at all. Over the years, we'd mostly …
Ridiculously Simple Laundry Trick for Organizing Shared Closets
Sometimes I feel like I'm the Queen of the Obvious. Welcome to my kingdom. I've recently come up with a solution that's so obvious, I'm pretty sure every mom of more than one kid has been doing it since she washed her first load of baby-plus-toddler laundry. But whatever. I don't write for the moms who already have it together. I write …
Facing Modern Laundry Challenges: Tide vs. Washing with Baking Soda and Vinegar
This blog post was created in partnership with Tide. Y’all know that cleaning doesn’t come naturally to me. I’m constantly searching for the very best way to clean everything, including clothes. When I heard that adding something I have in my pantry, like vinegar, to bargain detergent makes it clean clothes better, I was ready to try it. …
I Tried Out Wash and Fold Laundry Service (And Whether I’ll Ever Do It Again)
I'd always wondered how wash and fold laundry service worked, and I'd always dreamed of doing it. Of letting someone else take over this task I don't love one tiny little bit. The idea of dropping off wadded up dirty clothes and picking up clean and folded ones seemed like the definition of luxury to me. So, last spring, when I was writing my …
Three Ways Your Laundry Routine Can Keep You From Ironing
Doing laundry is required. Ironing is (usually) optional. I actually don't hate ironing as long as I have plenty of time available to do it properly. And as long as there's no clutter piled on the ironing board. Hahahahaha!!! As if! Plenty of time . . . do it properly . . . no clutter?!?! (Let me catch my breath!) Here are ways I've …
Replacing My Laundry Basket
I got a new laundry basket for my master bedroom. The one I'd been using had cracked, the handle was gone and clothes were getting snagged. So I replaced it. Replaced. Because I didn't need another laundry basket in there, just a different one. Actually, at the time, it was the only laundry basket in the entire house. The others had …
