LAUNDRY! My laundry situation has gotten outta control so today I’ve been steaming away on getting that stuff all caught up. If I would get in the habit of putting a load into the washer every night before bed then first thing in the morning putting it in the dryer, my laundry dilemma would be no more. But I am undisciplined. There are about 47,000 different aspects of my life that would be a billion times better if I would just be disciplined. I can come up with these rather brilliant planning ideas (like just putting a load of laundry in the washer every night before bed), but I follow through like 3 times, get sidetracked or offer myself an excuse why it is okay to skip that night and I’m totally off track. It is so awful. And it makes me feel like a failure every time it happens. Drives me nuts. But does it stop…NOPE!
The other item on the agenda today is a deep cleaning of the kitchen. It’s surfaces get cleaned daily, but it needs the floor tended too, miscellaneous stuff put away, counter fronts wiped down etc. So between running between floors doing laundry, I’m working on kitchen chores.
My parents, when they built the house they live in, were brilliant about one particular design element. They put the laundry facilities on the same living level as the bedrooms…where the laundry goes when finished. Whatever goober though putting a washer & dryer in the basement and the bedrooms on the second floor was not thinking. If ever I have the opportunity, some washer & dryer in my future will be on the living floor where the hampers, closets and bedrooms live. This business of lugging a heavy basket down two flights of stairs, washing them, then lugging them back up two flights of stairs to be put away is really annoying. It isn’t efficient either. See I know how to be efficient and I certainly know how to plan & organize…but follow through on a continual basis eludes me.
Give yourself a break woman! You have more discipline than I’ve ever had. I have always tried to (and still will be for the rest of my life) achieve the level of dicipline you have. I admire the path you have taken in the realm of your homemakeing (which all requires discipline) ie. natural cleaning products, homemade everything (including baby toys).
I commend you & Dave for the lives you are leading. By the way, I agree completely with the laundry on the main floor idea, it is the only logical method anyone could have. P.S. Your are not alone with the laundry accumulation. I have also been trying to follow a load a day laundry system for 2 years now and have yet to achieve it.
Thanks! I am not too hard on myself…that’s why the laundry gets piled up..hehehehe! Dave & I are going to TRY making some homemade baby toys, stick with cloth diapers, and HOPEFULLY I’ll successfully breastfeed, but WE’LL SEE. You know how best intentions can be. How long does it take to create a new habit? Three weeks? I should just challenge myself to doing a load of laundry every night for three weeks and see if I’m successful.
Hey, is there any way you could make a laundry shoot so close can drop from the 2nd floor into the basement? My parents only had a one story, but it helped having a shoot under the bathroom sink where we could drop our clothes and therefore only had to carry them up. Any kids who visited thought it was cool. Even with having to carry stuff upstairs, my mom thought having it in the basement was good as it was on the concrete floor and the house didn’t shake or anything like some people’s do when the washer was going. Now that she’s older though, it is good that she’s in a house with it all on the same level.