Ahh...To Dream The Impossible Dream of An Organized Home. We have a fun guest post today from Tami K. Fox, author of Giving your Children Wings without Losing Yours. While you can expect many tips and tricks to managaing a busy home in her book--she is talking laundry in her post here today! Enjoy!
Perpetually Behind on Laundry and Too Many Clothes
Guest post from Tami K. Fox
Do you suffer from having piles of laundry and never seeming
to find the end of the pile? When I talk to people who have too much dirty
laundry piled up, I ask questions to see if we can discover the root of the
problem. Sometimes it is a lack of access to a washing machine. If you have to
go to the coin-operated laundry, it is hard to stay caught up on laundry. This
has been the case of a few people I have talked to, and the best recommendation
I have is for them to save money and purchase a washing machine. That puts
things into perspective for those who are behind on laundry and have a working
washing machine in their homes.
For the majority of people I talk to about laundry, it comes
down to having a good system and regular schedule for washing clothes, bedding,
and towels. When you get married, you usually do not have a lot of dirty
laundry to wash. As your family grows, the amount of laundry grows. The need
for more than one laundry day a week becomes necessary to keep the laundry
caught up. With a family of six, I wash two loads of laundry per day. Usually,
one of us washes our bedding each day of the week, too. By doing laundry six
days a week, we do not have piles of dirty laundry. We also do not have piles
of clean laundry sitting around the house.
The key to keeping the piles at bay is having a place for
all of our clothes. Many people do not get clean laundry put away because they
have too many clothes. Closets are bursting with clothes. Drawers are
overfilled with clothes. Spend some time thinning down the amount of clothes
you and the rest of your family have. You can do this one closet and one drawer
at a time over the course of a month. You don’t have to do it all at once. You
can also thin down the amount of clothes in your house when you are doing the
laundry. If clothes come through the laundry room and you notice holes or
tears, go ahead and get rid of them. If you notice that your children are
growing, watch for clothes that come through the laundry room that don’t fit
any more. Set up a place to collect items to donate and put them there as you
run across them.
Set a number of outfits per person in the family. Make sure
you consider school clothes, play clothes, and dress clothes. You will also
need to consider how to store season clothes. By thinning down the number of
outfits each person, you will make your laundry system run much smoother. You
will also make it easier for your children to pick out their clothes.
With a few easy steps, you can tame the laundry monster in
your home. Even if you work outside of the home, you can do a load of laundry a
day.
Tami Fox is a homeschool mom of
6, who in age from 24 to 8. She and her husband have homeschooled for 15 years
and have graduated two of their children from their homeschool. They are currently
homeschooling 4 boys who are in grades 10, 8, 6, and 3. They use hands-on
learning and unit studies to ignite the fire of learning in their children.
Tami is a homeschool writer and conference speaker.
You can contact her through
her blog TamiFox.com or by email at Tami@TamiFox.com.
To Dream The Impossible Dream of An Organized Home
Quick Summary of Giving your Children Wings without Losing Yours. Does the idea of organizing and cleaning your home seem like an impossible dream? Homeschooling mother of six Tami Fox shares how she uses routines in her home to make it a haven for her family. She’s taught her children these routines, so they’ll be able to take their wings and fly into life as prepared adults. She shares positive methods for organizing and cleaning. Tami wants to help you give your children wings, so they can FLY, too!
Marla Cilley, The FlyLady
Tami has taken FLYing to a new level! Not only has she educated her six children well and eliminated CHAOS, she has not lost herself in the process."
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About the Author
Tami lives in rural North Carolina with her husband of more than twenty-five years and their children. She has been a home educator since 2000. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Information Systems and uses her education to be a better teacher for her children. Tami is a writer and speaker to encourage moms.
She writes reviews and other details about her life with her family at www.TamiFox.net.
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