Welcome to the 30-Day Organize-athon!
In today’s 5 minutes we’re going to express-organize your laundry.
Our focus is clarity, freedom, order. Now let’s do it!
Day 9: Organize Your Laundry
Step 1: Get a large bag. Quickly scanning your laundry shelves and benches, throw into the bag:
- Old paint cans, tiles, etc
- Decrepit brooms, dustpans, cleaning equipment
- Cleaning supplies you don’t use
- Empty bottles of laundry detergent, fabric softener, etc
- Tatty baskets and hampers
- Broken irons, ironing boards, etc
- Anything moldy, mildewed, or yucky.
Step 2: Pop your bag into the trash.
Step 3: Remove anything from the laundry that should be stored elsewhere – eg:
- Car-related stuff –> in the garage
- Random clothes –> in the closet
- Spare paper towels –> in the pantry
- Spare bulbs –> in the hall closet
- Towels –> in the linen closet; etc.
Step 4: Do a quick tidy of your laundry shelves.
And you’re done!
Got an Extra 5 Minutes?
Review your laundry equipment and supplies. Make a note of anything you need to replace, update, or purchase so that doing laundry takes as little time and effort as possible. Check that you have:
- A washer and dryer that work well, and are of the right size for your family’s needs
- Laundry detergent, fabric softener, dryer softener sheets, stain remover, etc – in sufficient quantities for your household routine, and appropriate for your needs (eg for cold water, front loader, etc)
- Laundry hampers – one in the laundry (or several, if you sort whites, colors, etc); or one in each bathroom; or one in each bedroom (this can be more effective with kids)
- A laundry basket for transporting clothes
- An iron and ironing board.
Now doesn’t that take some of the pain out of doing laundry?
The 30-Day Organize-athon Mantra
Move fast. Don’t overthink. Let it go!
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See you tomorrow!
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And used the time/occasion to teach 9 1/2 year old to do her own laundry! W’ere in NM w/310 days of sun … so hopefully she’s out back hanging it now!
Thanks again Michele …
Done! I have a very small laundry so not much storage space to gather clutter, easy one!
done! (a couple weeks ago-but it needed tidying again)
This took longer than 5 minutes for me, but I’m glad it’s done. Got rid of towels and rags I store in the laundry and a few more items added to my garage sale pile! Marked with price stickers already, of course!
Task #9 done!
I stood there and stared at it for five minutes before finding two things to toss that wouldn’t send my mother ’round the bend. I wish I could overhaul the space, but my mom is… resistant. To say the least. So I tried, anyway.
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I have so much more space. Glad to get it done.
Easy. Laundry probably is one of the most organized things at home
This one was harder but got rid of lots of stuff. So … Done
Done!
Done, but what a job! I had already decluttered and sort of organized the laundry room a few weeks ago. So today I hit the actual laundry itself (which seems to be a never ending job in our house). Still, after folding up clean clothes and sorting the dirty ones by colour ( 90 minutes) I finally feel like I´m on the right track again.
Done! 😀 Another part of my home that become clutter-free!
Can’t wait for another challenge 😉
ok done and a load of clothes to boot
Done. But this task took too time. Luckily it’ s the weekend!
My laundry room is small with a small cabinet, which now has clean and organized shelves. I did a few other thing in the room which took just a little over 5 minutes. I even tossed a couple of things.
5min done but this is an area I have really neglected will have to work on it again but it feels good to make a start.!
DONE! this was pretty simple because I don’t quite have a laundry room yet! so all my stuff sits in an organized cupboard 😀
Yay! I needed to do this one. Done for today…just in time to head outside and enjoy the BEAUTIFUL day!
This was a cinch for me– we JUST remodeled our laundry room last week, so I organized it when I put it back together. And did some good purging then.
I will wash down the washer and dryer today to feel like I did something!