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Quick House Clean Up #3: Dirty Laundry and Clothes
Forgot to read the introduction? Before reading on, read 5 Quick Clean Ups That Can Save Your Messy House.
Quick house clean up #3: Pick Up Dirty Laundry and Clothes. Good preventive measures will keep clothing mess from becoming a mess issue in the first place, but if strewn laundry has taken over your house, never fear! Getting all the clothes laundered and back into the closets and dressers will make your house look much cleaner.
Here’s How:
- Rule # 1 for clothes is this: If they’re on the floor, they’re dirty.
- Using either a laundry hamper or large trash bag, go through the house and put any clothes you encounter into the container. Be sure to check floors, couches and chairs, kids’ rooms, closets, and all surfaces for clothes which should not be there.
- Once done, take the bags or hampers to the laundry room and get started washing the dirty clothes.
- Be sure that as clean laundry comes out of the dryer, you immediately fold or hang it and put the clothes into closets or dresser drawers to prevent future clothing mess.
Next, read Quick House Clean Up #4: Toys
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Do you have any alternative tips for those who have to use a washateria because we have no washer and dryer at home? That’s our biggest problem with dirty clothes. Both of us are out of a job and have been for a very long time, so we don’t always have the money to go to the washateria. Clothes just have to pile up until we have money available to do the laundry. It gets out of hand real fast! While we’re sitting at the washateria babysitting the clothing so it doesn’t get stolen, we’re wasting time that could be spent doing other cleaning chores while the clothes are in the machine. Buying a washer and dryer for home use is not an option as we don’t have any hookups and our place is very small. There’s not even a closet suitable for stashing an apartment sized set. We do hand-wash some things, but that’s not practical for bedsheets, jeans, towels, etc. What can we do about laundry?
@schrodinger: Right off the bat, from reading your comment on http://www.homeeverafter.com/minimalist-mom-decluttering-with-a-big-family/ about your husband’s clutter, I’d say it’s time to convince him to have a garage sale or yard sale. Even the broken items can be listed (for free) on Craigslist as “good for parts” for a cheap price. If you’re not asking a lot (like only $1-$5 per item), you’ll be able to sell much of the clutter and clear space while the proceeds add up to help with living expenses since you’re both between jobs right now.
Try showing him on paper that if you just sold 100 items out of all the clutter at just $5 each, you could make $500 to go towards a stackable washer/dryer!
You can also advertise on Craigslist for a handman to come put in the washer hookups for a very reduced price or for a barter (maybe you could do housecleaning or yard work for him/her in exchange for the quick plumbing job). You may have to install the hookups in a strange place, like a bathroom or corner of the living room if space for a stackable set is limited, but you can definitely get creative and make it work.
Here’s a short list of saving money at the laundromat tips too:http://www.ehow.com/how_4505479_save-money-laundromat.html
Good luck with everything!
Danelle