Children can help with the laundry
Take a week to train them
You don’t have to do it all. Well, at first you do… but soon your children are old enough to put a load on, transfer a load, bring a load to where it needs to be folded, help fold it! A child as young as seven (maybe younger!) can be very useful in this department.
One important part of the system is to have hampers set up so that clothes are sorted as they enter the laundry process.
No one wants to go through soiled clothing that’s been sitting in a heap. Those things need to be sorted up front.
And even a 2- or 3-year-old can learn to put whites in the hamper for the whites and darks in the hamper for the darks. Another hamper for towels, perhaps one for delicates, and you’re good to go.
For a detailed description of how I trained my kids to do laundry, go here (and click on the embedded “worksheet” link!)
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My favorite part to offload is sorting *folded* laundry into the correct laundry baskets and putting them away!! That seems to be my least favorite part of the process lol.
I actually don’t have any of my kids fold independently bc I’m just too OCD about the end result. I mean, I even re-fold some of the things my dear mother folds for me! 😝 it’s all about how it’ll all fit back into the drawers and the kids don’t have that coordination yet. Maybe when they’re teens … ! And I also took back putting clothes into the washer, because again, I have very specific stain treatment protocols and I have found my success with stain removal is massively increased when I pre-treat it myself immediately before washing.
But the sorting, toting, and putting away are the kids’ domain for now!