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May 6th, 2009

Affording Clothes

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 [...]

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April 3rd, 2009

Laundry Help: Decluttering the Laundry Closet

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:

I emptied it out and decided that I want to [...]

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March 24th, 2009

Laundry Help: Clothing Limits

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 [...]

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March 18th, 2009

Laundry Help: Laundry Systems for Large Families

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 problems with family members [...]

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March 12th, 2009

Laundry Help: The Family Closet

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 all [...]

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