Laundry Laundry Everywhere

We all have mountains to climb...mine is made of laundry.

What is it about laundry that is so daunting and soul sucking? Washing and drying it is easy. In fact, it's one of the easiest household tasks that one can do. Throw it in, dump some stuff, hit a button..it's done. It's the putting it away that really sucks.

I'm not going to lie. If you were to walk down to our basement or bedroom on any given day of the week, you would find laundry mountain. It's clean..it's dried....it just never made it past that point. It's a dirty little secret... well a clean BIG secret.

Here are some tips of how to live with piles of clean laundry.

1. Keep your bedroom door shut at all times. Don't invite company in to see something in your room. People start assuming it's a mysterious room full of treasures when in reality, it's just a mess.
2. If by chance someone sees the laundry, perch a cat on top and scold the cat for knocking over all the folded laundry..again. (apologize to your cat later) They wont tell on you.
3. Put a "to donate" sign on it. That way people will assume you are just a good person.
4. Learn to use your dryer as an iron. Clothes all wrinkled from sitting in a pile? Pluck out what you need and throw it in the dryer with a damp towel... it will be wrinkle free in no time.
5. Do you have little ones at home? Teach them that Mommy isn't a slob by allowing them to jump off the bed into the piles of laundry. This makes you cool and fun.
6. Learn to rotate the same outfits. Who are we kidding? You haven't missed the clothes at the bottom of that mountain..get creative with the clothing that is always on top.
7. Stop being a snob about matching socks. Call yourself quirky and people don't bat an eye at the fact that you have one argyle sock and one ankle sock on. They will think you are just a unique individual.
8. Buy tons of underwear. There's nothing worse than running out. Keep your eye out for sales and purchase several weeks worth. You'll thank me later.
9. Use hangers for everything. People are quick to judge a pile of laundry... but I find that if everything is hanging from the rafters, they just think we are running a cleaning service.
10. Make teens do their own laundry on the guise of teaching them responsibility. Remember not to be judgy when you walk in their room and see the clean piles. You taught them that trick.

If it gets bad enough, I suggest keep lengths of rope tied to doorknobs.. when you enter the bedroom, tie one around your waist so you can use it to guide you back to the door. Otherwise you run the risk of being lost forever in laundry mountain.

And no one will here your muffled screams of help through all of it.

God speed.