Marilyn Bohn | Creative Organizer

In our home I was responsible for the family laundry until my daughters were about 12 years old. I remember when the first one (of five) told me she was going to start doing her own laundry. I was surprised and I thought that wouldn’t last long, but it did. And the reason I had been ‘dethroned’ from doing their laundry was because I ruined things. Okay so I did shrink a shirt or a sweater here and there and even got bleach on a shirt that was not meant to be bleached. I did feel bad about that but I was happy that I had less laundry to do. (In my defense I didn’t do it very often and it was always an accident).

Here are four organizing ideas to use in the laundry room to help save time.

•Keep everything within easy reach that we use in the laundry room. Place the soap in a place where you don’t have to reach and stretch for it. And don’t have it too low where you are always bending to get to it.

•Store the products used like fabric softener, bleach, all fabric bleach, stain sticks and other stain removers according to how often you use them. Place the ones used most often up front.

•For the small items, store them in a basket, plastic bin or even in a shoe box. I don’t personally care for using a shoe box because it is not as convenient to see what is in it. By using a basket everything stays contained and it can be pulled out to get the item needed.

•Have a rack, a knob, or a clothes line that clothes can be hung on when they shouldn’t go in the dryer. I have a small pipe that runs along the ceiling that works just fine in my laundry room.

What are some of your time management ideas you use in the laundry room?

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