Loathing Loads of Laundry

CLEAN!

DIRTY!

Mom, Where is my_____?

INSERT: PE clothes, Band shirt, Sunday pants, socks, favorite shirt or jammies...let alone a match to Ben's socks.

This is the phrase I hear every day and if you see the tons of laundry that is produced by our large family you will see why it's not always neatly folded in their drawers!

When the table looks like this, it's about 5-6 loads and there are still 5-6 to go without counting the extra towels or doing sheets and pillowcases. There are also loads in the washer and dryer currently. I did 2 loads yesterday (Monday) and this is only the weekend amount of clothing. So in about 4 days we go through 12-14 loads of laundry without doing beds or finishing towels. Just the towels on the floor fit in those loads.

See why I'm not anxious to pottytrain and have more wet stinky clothes?

There are plenty with 5 sweaty boys and Brookly!

Now, this is only going to get worse as Winter comes and the clothes are bigger with all the jeans and long sleeve shirts, let alone as they grow and need bigger clothes that take up more room altogether!

I don't mind washing, it's the folding and putting away that I can't stand!

Our table will look like this until they fold their own and do their service for the family by doing usually about 50 things and putting away more than just their own piles.

They won't eat tonight until this is clear and that won't be the end of the piles to come... :)

Thanks Lynnette for the idea of documenting the laundry at our home!