help i'm being burried alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes, always accumulates on its own really fast. makes me want to think of opening my own laundry shop business

My laundry situation at the moment is the same. It's piled up in places it should never be piled up at. I have clean clothes still in the clothes basket from the other day that's never made it to the correct drawers to be put up. Usually, I am on top of my laundry but I've had a sick child, a husband who's been down and out for the last couple of days, and I myself havent' felt well, so I have let that slide and only paying the price of my slacking. I will wish for a washing, drying, folding and putting up genie tonight when I go to bed tonight, and hope that she/he will appear with all of my laundry done first thing in the morning.

Ah yes, the never ending parade of laundry. It is a bit easier around here since my teens are now doing their own laundry. They will eventually grow up and you will wonder what to do with all the time you used to spend doing laundry.

I know exactly what you mean my friend there are 6 of us in our house and some weeks are a nightmare. Especially this week as my son has been ill and has been sick giving me a few loads of extra washing! Just lately I have never seen the end of my washing basket.

I can't even imagine how much laundry you have with 5 kids and 2 adults. With me, its just two adults and its just enough for me to keep up with it. If I was in your place, I'm not sure if I could handle it. Kudos to you!

Oh I hate when I do laundry and at the end of the day I have to put the clothes I was wearing in the dirty hamper. It makes me feel like all of my efforts were wasted. And I would imagine living with 6 other people you're going to have a load of laundry to do a day, easily. Here's my trick. I have a hamper behind my hamper, and this is the one I put my dirty clothes in for the first couple days after doing laundry. This way I don't see it for a little while. Another trick I learned from my roomie last year. If you put your nightie in the pillow case every morning then it's still there for you to reuse the next night. It's not like you're doing anything active in it and you're always clean before you hop into bed so you can reuse it for almost a week and be fine. :D

I do my own so I have to wash about every 2 weeks more if I go places. Now my daughter seems that she never gets done! gets it all out of the way the nexy morning there is a ton more!

It's just me, my hubby and my daughter in my house...and the laundry STILL manages to pile way up! I just can't keep up with it. Especially the towels! Both my hubby and my daughter will use a towel once and then on the floor it goes, where of course the cats think it's there for their express sleeping pleasure. I just can't win either hon. LOL

Sweetheart, there is only one of me and I have loads of laundry. I even wear my outside clothes for a few days but still I have about 3 loads to do each week...I know you just scoffed but remember, there is only one of me. Mind you, I change my undies every six months whether I need to or not. Jus' kiddin'

I am sure that we take it in Bella. My daughter is away, yet I seem to wash her stuff almost everyday. I am convinced that we have a poltergeist that goes through the clean washing and throws it into the dirty washing bins. At least spring is coming and I can get the washing out on the line. I love the smell of outdoor dried laundry!

Hi bellaofchaos...love the name..and apparently quite fitting! My laundry situation is quite fine thanks...now that my 4 children have moved out!.. See, once you decided to have 5 children, you automatically win the title of laundry robot..one of many titles you incur with that many children! I had exactly the same problem, only I was able to find out the reason for some of it besides the obvious.( teenagers constantly changing)( 6 pairs of undies daily) I always washed and folded the clothes and set them on their beds and they were to put their clothes away. Well I noticed one day that it seemed like I was washing my sons clothes again the day or so after I just washed them. I recognized that favourite shirt or jeans, sneaking back in the laundry basket!..Funny thing was, I didnt recall him wearing them. I lifted the clothing carefully and had a good luck and even did the dreaded smell test!..AHA!!...Nothing! This is what I discovered...I had laid his clothes on his bed. He was too lazy to put them away and when going to bed that night had laid them on the floor. The next day I had told him to clean his room before going out. What quicker way when a teenager is in a hurry , then to pick up the armload of laundry and throw it back in the laundry basket! I found out he wasnt the only one doing this...They told me since they were on the floor, they were now dirty because they had walked on them too!.. Well..this was not going to continue...so after that, I made them come get their own clothes or not have them at all!!

I have decided that the real problem is that you get introuble if you leave your house without clothes. Try making rules for changing clothes and have enough hampers to sort clothes into. THis way your family, even young children can sort their dirty clothes into the hampers and save you time.

Laundry is a never ending subject. I have 2 kids and my husband and I do laundry every day. If I skip and let it go I just cant stand to let it build up I hate it. My mom waits till saturday and sunday and dedicates her time doing it all then. I cant do it that way its there I got to get it done.

Make them all wear disposable overalls, then no washing and simple to choose in the morning.

Hi Bella, Its been a long time I am replying to your discussions and to find you in such perilous condition! Its only three of us here and so three days of laundry is enough to see me through the week though….but right now, I am half underneath a mound myself, just about with my neck sticking out. You see, winter’s just bade us farewell (thank God) but I haven’t been able to put her accessories away yet. So one half of my rooms are occupied by quilts and shawls and jackets and sweaters and flannels (and what not)…ob dear! With three loads already, I really don’t know when I’m going to get thru this pile…so I’m here with you on this.

I think, with kids, they like to change into freshly laundered clothes and so, discard a few more piles of laundry into the basket. Having five of them must produce a heck of a lot of laundry, which must mean you have to wash almost every, single day. I don't envy you the ironing! Brightest Blessings, my friend.

Ok bella.... you're confusing me again! lol Is it 5 kids or 3? I know I know.... your fiance is one of them so that makes 4 kids!! LMBO Ok back to the discussion at hand.... although it won't work for you because of small children however, this is what hubby and I do and it works great! We put all white clothes in the hamper and all the colors in the washing machine. When the washer gets full, that's when I wash a load. We never get behind doing it that way. Cheers friend!

i feel the same way most weeks. i do at least one load per day and i have the high capacity washer that holds a very large load. by the time i fold it and put it all away it is the next day again and there is another load to be done. if all i had to do was laundry it would not even be an issue but i have so many things i have to tend to in a day and it is just one more tedious chore. but it could be worse. i could have no washer and dryer (been there done that) or we could be back in the old days where the women had to do the wash by hand on a washing board. so here is to my washer and dryer!

Well my laundry service is very weird you wont even like to hear to. lol.. i am a student and i wash my clothes which are piled up after a week, its really hectic then because there are so many clothes lying in my laundry basket oh gosh, probably i must say now i am been buried alive ;) well but i just soak them for an hour or so and just wash dry.. i never scrumble them they might take long time and i dnt like working on holidays

Wow, jumping laundry!!! hmmm in our country, we used to have maids.lol. a little lucky coz you dont have to be rich to have maids that will do all the laundry and household chores for us.