by Darcie | May 5th, 2008
Every Monday I do the same thing: laundry. And lots of it. I know there are varying trains of thought on this. Some people think you should spread the laundry out and do a load or two each and every day of the week so as not to spend a full day sorting and folding.
Like I did today.
Then there are those (like me) who would gladly do a marathon day of laundry so as to avoid it for six full days. Six full days without sorting by color only to find that somehow a solitary red sock snuck in with my load of whites and turned everything a lovely shade of pink. Six full days of not coming across a mostly melted tube of chapstick in the load of clothes I’ve just pulled from the dryer and going on to find grease stains on my favorite pair of khaki slacks. Six full days free of turning the clothes right side out and whipping them into shape. Six full days without matching and pairing countless tiny white socks. Six full days of not heaving that basket onto my hip and lugging it from room to room.
Six full and glorious laundryless days. Those six days make this one time each week worthwhile.
And really, there is just something very rewarding about going from this:
And this: 
To this:
I do wonder if I’m in the minority or the majority. So tell me; I have to know. How do you handle the never-ending cycle? Are you a stockpiler like me, or a distributor?
I do one load a day and that way it never takes me that long! Good luck! Hey, isn’t that my blue shirt!
Give it back!
I’m a stockpiler… but what i don’t have is a day that is laundry day… some times it’s saturday, sometimes it’s monday, usually it’s whatever day one of the kids tells me they are out of clean underwear…. hey! you asked!
I’ve done it both ways. For about a year, I did the stockpiling gig. It didn’t work for me. I just can’t allocate an entire day to laundry, because I have too many other things that interrupt me. I loved it at first, but once baby came along, that was it.
So I have become a distributor, and I love it. I love doing the laundry, all except the folding. I love the sorting part. I think it is another of my sicknesses. I could organize paperclips if you asked me to. :) Anyway, I have a “1 load per day” quota that I fill. Normally I do more than that, but I know that if I have done my one load per day, I don’t have to do more. And it doesn’t take too long, this way. So that’s it for me.
I’m a stockpiler for sure. I have four bins for our laundry in the laundry room.
1. All towels and wash cloths
2. All undies and socks
3. Kids’ and my clothes
4. Hubby’s scrubs and clothes
It makes it so much easier on laundry day. The hard part has been nagging everyone to put their clothes in the correct bin!
I usually do all my laundry on Saturdays since I work outside the home during the week. Who wants to come home and do laundry? Not me!
I don’t mind doing the laundry, but I absolutely HATE to put it up!
I’ve tried the one or two loads a day way and have found that I tend to be more of an ‘open the washer to find load of damp clothes that were washed days ago so run the washer again and come back 2 days later to realize that the clothes still never made it into the dryer’ kind of a gal. Sigh. If I could ever actually get caught up on laundry, I’d be thrilled. :)
I always wait till my day off to all my laundry…
When I was younger and laundry was my chore, I had to do it every day.
It was a never ending cycle. (still is for 12 people)
I so want to be a distributor, but I always, inevitably, end up being a stockpiler. I’ll go for a few days doing a load a day, and then, subconsciously I think I should be rewarded with a day off for all of the effort I put in. You know, a kind of “pat on the back for a job well done.” Except I don’t just take one day — I take three or four. And then, the laundry is overflowing again. So, I go back to the marathon laundry day.
I do all of my laundry on Monday. I just want to get it over with and put away. I still have to do a few loads during the rest of the week,towels and stuff, but I don’t have to spend time dealing with a mountain of laundry.
I’m a total stock piler.
I wash on Monday’s, and fold on Tuesdays. Unless I have something better to do. Than I fold when there isn’t any more room on the couch!
Kellie
I am definatly a stockpiler. I do the exact same thing that you do, I save it all for one day when I can do laundry, homework and general house cleaning. The picture of the bed filled with folded laundry looks all to familiar. I fold it all and then put it all away at once instead of making many trips to the towel closet and to my daughters room, this way there is only one trip to each. I also don’t let my husband anywhere near the laundry because he doesn’t do it in the same order that I do (sheets, whites, lights, darks). I know this seems a little OCD, but I have always had to do my laundry in this order for as long as I can remember. This way the clothes are hung up in the closet and put away in the same order and everything is easy to find. And you though you were crazy…
Total stockpiler here. Sadly though I fall short when it comes to putting the laundry away, and it generally sits in laundry baskets for the majority of the week.
Total stockpiler. I enjoy pretending it doesn’t exist. But I wish I could get in the habit of doing it daily, because I am usually tired of all the clothes by the time everything is folded and then it takes a couple of days to put it away. I always thought it would be so nice to have just one or two loads to put away.
Stockpiler. Saturday is laundry and house cleaning day. Unless I take off on Friday then one or the other gets done that day. It’s great to have a scheduled day until that day gets interupted with something else. Then I have 2 weeks of laundry to do the next week! I, too, fold it all and put it up all at once. I fold on my kitchen island and table. It makes me clean my kitchen before the first load is dry.
I usually do mine all in 1 day (or 2 if there’s more in the week for some reason)