This is a quick tip that I learned a few years ago and that has since saved a multitude of clothing from being ruined. You know those pesky grease or oil stains, those little places on your clothes that look like they are wet even when they're dry? Those pesky spots that do not come out ...
We clothe our family of 11 for $25 a month. We have done it for this or less since we have been married. Now lest you think that our children run around in rags, we have gotten compliments from near strangers about how we must spend a fortune on dressing our children in such cute ...
This laundry closet is located in our school/art/computer/ family room located just off of our kitchen. This is mega prime real estate in our house. It is also our diaper changing area and where we store all of our cleaning supplies. Here is the before picture:
One last way to help with laundry management is to limit the number of clothes that each person owns or has out at a given time. In our house this is managed when the seasons change, which for us (sorry to those up in the frigid north) is just about now. This is a process that ...
Whether or not you use the family closet or take my advice on minimizing the amount of laundry that you have to wash, it is helpful to have a system in place to get through all of your laundry in a reasonable amount of time. Otherwise, you may have ...
The family closet is a laundry/storage system that has always interested me. You must click on the link, it's just pictures, go on. If you aren't intrigued after looking at the pictures then you don't have to read anymore, I promise. Still here? The premise is simple, store all of the clothes or at least ...
A few years ago I Googled directions for making laundry detergent, made up a batch and HATED it. We didn't like how it cleaned ( or rather didn't clean) our clothes and so I scrapped the idea. Several months ago, the economic climate being what it is and the fact that I had run out of ...
Our family produces a lot of laundry. We have the normal amount of clothes, towels, and bedding that any group of 12 people would produce and in addition we use cloth napkins, cloth diapers, cloth wipes, and cloth cleaning rags. This saves money and resources, but produces more laundry. So how do we keep up ...
