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My time saving hack: Don't buy/wear white clothes. I have black socks, and no white shirts. I can do my laundry in one load. Saves me about 50 minutes from the
by dkokelley 17y ago
My time saving hack: Don't buy/wear white clothes. I have black socks, and no white shirts. I can do my laundry in one load. Saves me about 50 minutes from the eliminated load, plus any inefficiencies from waiting to switch the loads.
The biggest time-sink for me (and something I'd consider spending money to have removed) is folding/sorting/putting away the clothes. I have a bad habit of keeping clean clothes in the hamper and moving the dirty ones to the floor, just because I don't bother to spend the 15 minutes folding my clothes.
- anamax 17y agoWhy not two baskets (or hampers), one for clean, one for dirty? That makes it easier to take the dirty to the laundry.
- dkokelley 17y agoBecause I don't mean to keep the clean clothes in the basket. I plan on putting them away, but I don't get around to it, and then the clean clothes get wrinkled to the point where I don't bother putting them away - I just put them in the wash with the dirty clothes from the floor. I'm thinking of moving to more hangable clothes (button up shirts, etc.) so that I can skip the folding step.
- randallsquared 17y agoMost clothes stop looking wrinkled within an hour or two of putting them on, so if you have a commute, it might not matter whether you fold them.
- randallsquared 17y agoI do that. I'll publicly admit to fully intending to avoid folding clothes.
- aarongough 17y agoHah! I do everything the exact same way! I'ce had several people ask me why I don't wear white/light colors and my answer is always "Because they are annoying to wash/keep clean." Ditto for the hamper/floor organization method.
- rwhitman 17y agoI do this too! I only own about 3 white pairs of socks none of which I particularly care about turning grey
- Calamitous 17y agoMan, now I don't feel so bad about doing the exact same thing...