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Conquering Mount Laundry
by:
Katie Amos
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The other day I was sick and tired of looking at the mountain of laundry that
had grown on the second floor landing. (I would do the necessary laundry, but
always let the other less important laundry stay there). Since I am pregnant I made
my husband carry that whole mountain of laundry downstairs. He is so
strong. What I did next made me cringe, but I did it for my own good.
When you enter our home you walk right into our kitchen, which I had just
cleaned. I had my husband remove the mountain from the second floor landing to
the clean kitchen floor. I know, you can gasp now. It is very unusual for me
to want to make a mess in a room that I just cleaned. Once the mountain
was on the kitchen floor I knew that it must be done- and soon, because people
are always popping into say hi. I did not want that mail man to see the
mountain of laundry in my kitchen next time he delivered a package; that is for
sure!
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Next, I made the mountain into several mole hills. I
had mole hills of red, blue, lights, darks, towels, and sheets. (As it turned
out this was a good way to help my preschooler practice her colors). All of the
laundry that I had been putting off was right there staring me in the face.
So now that I had broken it down into mole hills I counted. I am ashamed
to say that it boiled down to twelve loads! Hey, those sheets are big and
apparently I have a really big hamper for all of that to fit in and spill out
of. I then decided that I needed to do all of the clothing first, then
move on to the sheets and towels. All the things that take longer to dry I
did last.
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I did
load after load that day and I kept at it until I had done ten loads. As
they came out of the dryer I folded each one. I got a basket out for each
of my family members and put all of their laundry into their basket. I
don’t know about you, but doing the laundry isn’t the hard part. The hard
part is it is getting it put away. You know hung up and in the right
drawers. But I was on a mission. Once I had all of the clothing done
and separated into the baskets, my husband was home from work. I had him
carry them upstairs for me to put away. I can’t wait until my little ones
are old enough and big enough to put their own clothes away.
This method really worked for me. In two days time I
had all the laundry done and put away. (Well, almost all put away). I felt
so good that everything was clean again. I had conquered my mountain of
laundry! There is no limit to what I can do now! I bet now I can
conquer the clutter of my kids’ rooms (that is another article entirely)!
Good luck with your mountain pile up!
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