Now I have some before and after photos here but I want to note that before these before photos about 4 months ago the laundry was seriously shameful! The dirty clothes were piled up in front of the door to outside, you couldn't open the door, clothes and towels were going mouldy. Clean clothes were piled next where the dirty clothes baskets are now in a massive pile so big you could hardly get in. It would take forever to find clothes each morning and I could never seem to catch up on washing or folding or anything.
I've had people make comments to me like "I just don't understand how you can't just do a load of washing, hang it out, take it off the line and put it away" well because I'm sorry but I'm not perfect and I generally have a stack of other things on my mind and the last thing I'm thinking about is "hmm have I folded the washing yet".
So anyway I came up with a system that suits us and works quite well. But it did get a bit out of hand as I got lazy.
Well it wasn't just me getting lazy everyone was just throwing stuff everywhere...and as you can see on the filing cabinet I was getting slack with putting the clean linene away.
I hadn't folded or even put any clean clothes away for I don't know how long and they were overflowing.
And well there was just stuff everywhere
It took me a couple days to get things in order, a little here and there to catch up
So now we have things back in order
I moved the filing cabinet, I can't be lazy with linen then, and I needed a place to store that box so I'm using it as a bench.
How the dirty clothes baskets work
- lil rats
- big rats
- concrete_mans work clothes
-linen
Already sorted for washing and I have Rat_girl all trained!!
Clean clothes have been folded and tidied, each person has a basket for clean clothes is responsible for their own basket, well except Rat_boy I do his
And I cleaned up the messy corner, moved the rubbish bin into the sink so Rat_boy can't eat the contents and gave it a quick mop.
I still need to scrub some of the walls and the cupboards as there is a mould issue but I'll do that as I get time. It's not getting any worse it seems to be container to one area.
And this photo shows were I'm getting a hanging rail so that some clothes can come straight from the wash onto a hang and hung to dry.
So anyway that is what works for us and it generally works pretty well. Concrete_man prefers to keep all his work clothes in his clean clothes basket, well folded next to it actually, so that early in the morning he can find them easy without waking anyone up.
