Laundry Clutter

In an attempt to reduce laundry confusion and clutter in our house, we implemented a laundry system.

Each bedroom has a lightweight, collapsible laundry hamper. Dirty clothes go into the hamper and when hamper is full it is taken to the laundry room for sorting.

The clothes are sorted into a laundry sorter and then the hamper is taken back to the bedroom. The clothes are put into the three-compartment sorter by colors, whites, and darks. We have a separate hamper for linens, like towels and sheets. Each compartment pretty much holds one load of laundry, so when a section of the sorter gets full, simply lift it out of the sorter and dump those clothes into the washer. This method makes it easy to do laundry because you can quickly visualize which clothes need to be washed next.

When the load is done, we have simple laundry baskets that are used only for clean clothes. We have different colored ones for each “bedroom” of the house. The clothes are taken out of the dryer, sorted, folded and carried in a clean basket back to the bedroom. After the clothes are put away, the baskets make their way back to the laundry room where they are stacked up waiting for the next load.

This system helped us reduce clutter because clothes don’t end up on the floor or in heaping piles waiting for laundry day. Using the separate hampers and baskets, dirty clothes don’t get accidentally mixed up with the clean ones. I end up with less stress and anxiety over having to do laundry, because I spread out laundry day by doing a load every other day instead of putting it off until every piece of clothing in the house is dirty.