Laundry Tips & Tricks For Busy Moms (And Everyone Else Too!)

I've started gathering laundry tips and tricks you can use in your home, so you can learn things you (perhaps) didn't know before to make the process of doing laundry easier and quicker.

Doing laundry is quite a process, from gathering dirty laundry, sorting, washing, drying, folding and then starting the whole cycle over again!

The tips below are arranged in approximately that order, to help you with all the stages of the process. (Please note that this page is still, very much, still being written and the individual articles are coming, but they haven't all been written yet!)

You can skip to a certain section of the page, depending on what type of information you're interested in:

• Overview Of How To Do Laundry
• Laundry Symbols & Care Tags
• Sorting Laundry
• Washing Clothes
• Drying Clothes
• Folding Clothes
• Frugal Laundry & Saving Money Tips
• Keeping Up With Your Laundry Piles
• Share Your Own Tips & Tricks

How To Do Laundry (An Overview)

There are just a couple of steps in the laundry process, but each of them is important and has the ability to ruin an entire load of laundry if done wrong. Here are the steps (I am planning to expand this section with individual articles in the future, since this information is very elementary right now):

• Sort laundry - make sure to separate by color, type of fabric, and amount of dirt or soil on the clothing or other laundry
• Wash clothing - typically this is done in your washing machine, but certain items may need to be hand washed. It is important to choose the right cycle for washing, and also the right water temperature, which depends on the fabric, stains, and other variables.
• Dry clothing - Obviously, after washing clothes will be wet and will need to get dried. If you dry them in the dryer, you must choose the right temperature and setting. In addition, you can also line dry or lay clothes out to air dry.
• Folding Clothes - Once your clothes are dry they need to be folded back up to be used again. There are some rules for folding which can make the process easier, faster, and also keep your clothes from getting as wrinkled.

Laundry Symbols & Care Tags

To do your laundry properly, and to make all the individual decisions necessary to make sure you get your clothes clean without harming them, you are typically guided by care tags on your clothes.

These can be difficult to decipher though, because they generally contain laundry symbols, little pictures which are supposed to convey a lot of information in a small space. Unfortunately, they aren't at all intuitive, and you typically need a chart to reference to help you decipher them properly.

I will be gathering resources for you to use to help you quickly and easily understand the instructions on your tags, so you can care for your clothes properly without a lot of headaches.

How To Sort Laundry

There are a couple of rules for sorting clothing properly, with the main criteria being to sort by color, fabric type, and the dirt or soil on the clothing itself. Here is the entire article on how to sort laundry explaining the four questions to ask when sorting, and also a tip for how to get the sorting done more quickly.

This section of laundry tips will also help you in case you've had a laundry mishap and not sorted properly, to fix bleeding colors and other issues like this.

Washing Clothes

When you wash your clothes and other laundry you need to first decide if you'll be hand washing, or using a washing machine.

In addition, you'll need to decide what type of laundry detergents and other laundry supplies to use on the clothing, and what water temperature to wash everything in.

Further, although most clothes, once properly sorted, can be washed in large loads with like items, there are some special rules for how to wash certain unusual items. I'll be discussing all these topics in this section.

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Drying Clothes

After your clothing gets washed, it must be get dried. You can, of course, dry clothes in either a clothes dryer, or dry them in the air either by line drying, or some other method.

This section will discuss all types of laundry tips for drying fabric, and rules you need to know to make the process easy, and keep you from ruining clothing during this part of the laundry cycle.

Folding Clothes

This part is generally pretty simple, but actually trips quite a few people up. It can be a lot easier to throw everything back in a laundry basket, out of the dryer, then actually take the time to fold everything.

This section will not only give some nitty gritty laundry tips and advice for how to fold various types of clothing and other fabric items, but also tips for how to get motivated to get the folding done in the first place.

Frugal Laundry Tips & Tricks

Laundry can be expensive, what with all the detergents and other supplies to purchase, along with paying for resources such as water and electricity that are used in the process.

This section will explore frugal laundry tips and tricks you can use to save money while still keeping your clothes clean.

Keeping Up With Your Laundry Piles

Let's face it, laundry is basically a never ending process. Even if you've washed all the dirty clothes in the hamper, you and every other member of your household still have the clothes on they are wearing right now, which will soon get thrown into the basket for washing.

While keeping up with the laundry can seem like an impossible task, there are tips and tricks you can use to turn those laundry piles into laundry smiles, by following a tailor made laundry schedule and routine which best suits your life and home.

Share Your Own Household Tips For Laundry

I'm sure there are lots more laundry tips and tricks I haven't shared yet, and there is always more information to learn and cool ideas to discover. If you haven't seen a great tip here already, I would love for you to share it with me now. You can share your household tips for laundry here.

In addition, I love to answer questions too! You can ask me your laundry questions here, or read other questions I've already answered.

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