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Random laundry confessions

Is it just me or is laundry crazy


We have 5 people in our house

Towels alone for the week are 16-20 towels......a week

You have bedding for 4 beds so that is 4 fitted sheets, we are blanket people to at least 2 blankets per bed so 8 blankets and then 10 pillow cases.

That alone is 4 loads of laundry

Clothes

The kids clothes are smaller but man they go through more. They each have a pair of pj's per day and Sissy and Marshall have a undershirt to go with that. Then they have an outfit for the day. Plus socks.
So in one day we amass 3 pairs of pj's, 4 undershirts, 3 t-shirts, 3 pairs of pants, and 3 sets of socks.

Kids clothes alone I do 3 loads of laundry a week because for sure at least 2 days a week someone spilled on themselves and so outfit changes it is.

During hockey season that is a whole load by it self.


Michael has a load of work clothes

And then we do two loads of our laundry.

11-12 loads of laundry a week......I get why the Duggars needed all those washer and dryers. I would love a double washer and dryer right about now.

How young is too young to make kids do their own laundry?


I usually only have to do one of the kids loads because my aunt washes two loads on Tuesday's when she watches them. She also does a load of towels for us and folds it all. And then everyone said AMEN!!!!

Plus tell me I'm not alone in that I feel like when I'm putting laundry away that's a whole project every time. Kids grow out of thing/stain things every week it seems and so I feel like I'm constantly putting things into piles and re-organizing drawers.
Grayson's clothes have to get packed away for Marshall as he outgrows them. Marshall and Charlotte's clothes get packed up and given to my sister for her one day babies and some of Charlotte's clothes go to my sweet niece Jordy.

I spent 2.5 hours going through the babies dressers organizing and cleaning them out. Then I changed all the sheets, dusted and vacuumed.

I spent an additional 3 hours going through Grayson dresser and the next size clothes that he is growing into and organizing all of that stuff. We went through his books and stuffed animals and dusted and vacuumed his room as well.

I wanted to get our room done this weekend too but ha! That did not happen. So now I have that on my to do this next weekend.


Also my husband has super sensitive skin and I can only use Tide to wash our clothes. I buy the pods and we go through a big container about every 3ish weeks. Oh and my favorite stain spray is the OxiClean Max.....it gets out anything even chocolate stains that someone forgot to spray and you washed and dried the clothes just let it sit overnight and then wash and BAM good as new.



That is just my random laundry talk for the day because it consumed my Sunday!

Happy Monday!

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