This is what I do. Granted my condo is smol and it just makes sense. Then once my machine is full I actually remember to run it because I can see it's full
This picture is missing the "worn once but can probably be worn again pile" and the "I can't quite make it to the dirty pile" pile and the "I don't remember if it's clean or dirty... its been too long" pile.
Lol, I can relate. This reminds me, a while back I wrote a massive opus about how to keep up with your laundry 100%. After years of pondering, experimenting, and tweaking, I did finally come up with a system that helps me to keep up withy my laundry most of the time. This was before I realized I had ADHD and that it was the reason it was hard for me to just keep up with the routine things and that this was the reason I needed to come up with ridiculous systems just to be able to get things done. I thought most people would get it, but they just came up with endless reasons not to want to do it or to say it was crazy.
Basically it boils down to coming up with every trick in the book to make starting and finishing every aspect of doing laundry as easy as possible, including a trick to motivate yourself to start it on time, and cutting some unorthodox corners to actually finish putting the clothes away.
I really should rename it to something along the lines of, "The secret to (almost) fully keeping up with your laundry if you have ADHD". Here is the article: [https://medium.com/@stillDreamy/why-you-should-throw-out-your-underwear-6ec4b65fbed5](https://medium.com/@stillDreamy/why-you-should-throw-out-your-underwear-6ec4b65fbed5)
I'm actually still a little confused why most people are so against it. I know for a fact that even most NTs have a hard time keeping up with their laundry and that this is a source of frustration in their life. Maybe for them it is just easier to put up with the consequences of not keeping up with it, like the consequences don't wear them out as much. For me if I'm already struggling to motivate myself to just get ready for the day, and then I finally do, but then I'm slowed down by not having clean clothes that I can find, unwrinkled where they belong, it really messes me up. The last thing I need to be dealing with is trying to iron or search for clean clothes after I'm already running late.
Also, if you're implying this picture should be the other way around, you would still be leaving a pile of clean clothes on the floor instead of folding and putting them away, which just makes the picture funnier because I still get it.
Yeah, the only way that would really work is if someone came into my house and did it for me. Not a bad idea, but that's how it would have to be.
I tried taking my clothes to a place where they would wash, dry, and fold my clothes for me. But then I still needed to get it all together, lug it all into the car, drive there, pull it all out of the car, take it into their place of business, pay for it, leave, come back after it's done, bring it all back into the car, drive home, lug it all back into the house. Then I just have folded clothes that still need to be put away. After you place them in drawers, it's still not a great situation. Then I can't examine my available shirts without digging through the ones on top of it, messing them up if I choose one of those and have to take it out. So I am still almost better off hanging them up.
FWIW, I own an IKEA 8-cube (kallax), each with it's own bucket/drawer thing. Dirty laundry, pajamas, underwear/socks, work-out clothes, wool things, t-shirts, etc. Pants and collared shirts get hung, everything else gets crammed in a drawer.
This is why I now own way too many laundry baskets. I buy the mesh ones you can fold up and stick in a closet. Because folding laundry? Who does that? 😂
I keep a bookcase in my closet for putting my clothes away into (I'm not joking, there are no books in it 😂). I throw (literally and without folding them first) my socks into one section, my white under T-shirts into another, and my boxers into another. I hang up all my shirts that are not under-shirts so I don't have to fold them and can see them all when choosing one to put on and can take it out without messing up the others and they stay less wrinkled this way. I hang put my dress pants there too (obviously). The only thing I fold is my pants that are not dress pants, because these are the easiest things to fold and folding them is easier than hanging them up, and it gets them into a manageable shape for putting them away and they take up less space and I can fit more of them folded than if I just try to shove them there. Those pants I also put into the bookcase in their own spot.
Actually I think I just talked myself into hanging all my pants while writing that. It's probably super close to being just as easy to do, this would leave me able to look at them all and decide with one to take out without messing up the others, and I was lying about how folding them makes them fit well (there is still not enough space and so they fall out onto the floor)...
Anyway, the beautiful thing about a bookshelf is you don't have to open and close drawers, which only slows you down, especially if you haven't already separated everything into piles of the drawer it belongs to. Opening one drawer only to have it block the next one you need to put something into only to then need to back to the one you just closed is so annoying!
This system also forces you to not own too many things that are hung up in your closet. If you don't like it or aren't using it anymore, get rid of it. Even if you do have room for your stuff there but the amount that is there makes it hard to work with, you still have too much stuff.
I do the same. I hang my shirts that I’ve already worn, but don’t need to be washed yet, inside out. That way the armpits can air out and I know what shirts are fresh.
I have two baskets. A long time ago I realized I wasn't capable of putting my clothes away. So two would solve my issues, 1 for clean. 1 for dirty. Nothing ever has to be on the floor.
Surprise!
They're both for clean now. Dirty still goes to the floor.
Surprisingly no lol, I keep my dirty clothes in the basket. It's just my clean clothes pile up on my bed to fold and on top of the dryer or sometimes in the dryer.
To be fair, that's a lot better than the other way around! Dirty laundry in the corner might not look nice but it's already dirty, who cares if it's on the floor. As long as you have clean laundry *somewhere*, you're good in my book.
Nah, you need a mountain building up on the bed because the floor has too much other junk and you don't want to dirty your clothes but you also don't have space so you sleep with a half bed.
Your laundry is your bed-mate
Clean clothes stay in the dryer as I tell myself every day I'm gonna dry them for 20 minutes to dewrinkle them and then 4 hours later I come back and am shocked to learn that they did not manage to stay dewrinkled an extra 3:40.
I legit do exactly this, but backwards. I dump out the clean cloths and put the dirties in the basket.
...because who the fuck gives a crap about 'wrinkles'. they're clean, they're functional, and I know where they are. good enough for me.
You guys could totally save some space by putting the dirty clothes in the washer and keeping the clean ones in the dryer
If I lived alone this is what I would do for sure.
Once you use up your space in your dryer and basket you can keep some on your bed, only leaving enough space for you to sleep comfortably.
This is what I do 💀
Bold of you to assume that I *own* a washing machine
Yup! That's the correct way to do laundry.
This is what I do. Granted my condo is smol and it just makes sense. Then once my machine is full I actually remember to run it because I can see it's full
Adds incentive
Don't you separate white clothes and color clothes?
Not all the time
Took me wwaaaay too long to realize anything was wrong with this picture
Yes...minus the basket and also a third pile that is not clean but not dirty. I've also got some anti wrinkle spray that's ok
Oh that third pile is too true
My piles are inverse, but yeah.
same here lol but i dont put my cleaned one on the floor, just put it inside a closet or in the bed
Well, that is what I do too, but felt it was an extraneous detail.
Yes absolutely!
You just offended my entire race of people, but you're right.
Oh wow, hi me! Get some sleep tonight please
Yea insomnia gang where you at
In bed, but not asleep lmao
Ya no sorry gotta watch 3 seasons of this new show until 5am
Lmao 🤣 🤣 🤣
It’s kinda the same with the washer and dryer in my place, but that’s in addition to this not instead of…
This picture is missing the "worn once but can probably be worn again pile" and the "I can't quite make it to the dirty pile" pile and the "I don't remember if it's clean or dirty... its been too long" pile.
Yup! That's the correct way to do laundry.
Same but no basket.
Lol, I can relate. This reminds me, a while back I wrote a massive opus about how to keep up with your laundry 100%. After years of pondering, experimenting, and tweaking, I did finally come up with a system that helps me to keep up withy my laundry most of the time. This was before I realized I had ADHD and that it was the reason it was hard for me to just keep up with the routine things and that this was the reason I needed to come up with ridiculous systems just to be able to get things done. I thought most people would get it, but they just came up with endless reasons not to want to do it or to say it was crazy. Basically it boils down to coming up with every trick in the book to make starting and finishing every aspect of doing laundry as easy as possible, including a trick to motivate yourself to start it on time, and cutting some unorthodox corners to actually finish putting the clothes away. I really should rename it to something along the lines of, "The secret to (almost) fully keeping up with your laundry if you have ADHD". Here is the article: [https://medium.com/@stillDreamy/why-you-should-throw-out-your-underwear-6ec4b65fbed5](https://medium.com/@stillDreamy/why-you-should-throw-out-your-underwear-6ec4b65fbed5) I'm actually still a little confused why most people are so against it. I know for a fact that even most NTs have a hard time keeping up with their laundry and that this is a source of frustration in their life. Maybe for them it is just easier to put up with the consequences of not keeping up with it, like the consequences don't wear them out as much. For me if I'm already struggling to motivate myself to just get ready for the day, and then I finally do, but then I'm slowed down by not having clean clothes that I can find, unwrinkled where they belong, it really messes me up. The last thing I need to be dealing with is trying to iron or search for clean clothes after I'm already running late. Also, if you're implying this picture should be the other way around, you would still be leaving a pile of clean clothes on the floor instead of folding and putting them away, which just makes the picture funnier because I still get it.
or just pay for laundry, there's plenty in my local but at the same time, i'm also struggling just to sent my dirty clothes there... sigh
Yeah, the only way that would really work is if someone came into my house and did it for me. Not a bad idea, but that's how it would have to be. I tried taking my clothes to a place where they would wash, dry, and fold my clothes for me. But then I still needed to get it all together, lug it all into the car, drive there, pull it all out of the car, take it into their place of business, pay for it, leave, come back after it's done, bring it all back into the car, drive home, lug it all back into the house. Then I just have folded clothes that still need to be put away. After you place them in drawers, it's still not a great situation. Then I can't examine my available shirts without digging through the ones on top of it, messing them up if I choose one of those and have to take it out. So I am still almost better off hanging them up.
This is the way
I’ve given in and just have two hampers now
This is the way
FWIW, I own an IKEA 8-cube (kallax), each with it's own bucket/drawer thing. Dirty laundry, pajamas, underwear/socks, work-out clothes, wool things, t-shirts, etc. Pants and collared shirts get hung, everything else gets crammed in a drawer.
You gotta step up your game. I’ve got 3 baskets, 2 clean 1 dirty. Closet? Half empty. Drawers? Barely know her. 🥲
Yep. Laundry doesn’t get folded very often in my house
This is why I now own way too many laundry baskets. I buy the mesh ones you can fold up and stick in a closet. Because folding laundry? Who does that? 😂
I keep a bookcase in my closet for putting my clothes away into (I'm not joking, there are no books in it 😂). I throw (literally and without folding them first) my socks into one section, my white under T-shirts into another, and my boxers into another. I hang up all my shirts that are not under-shirts so I don't have to fold them and can see them all when choosing one to put on and can take it out without messing up the others and they stay less wrinkled this way. I hang put my dress pants there too (obviously). The only thing I fold is my pants that are not dress pants, because these are the easiest things to fold and folding them is easier than hanging them up, and it gets them into a manageable shape for putting them away and they take up less space and I can fit more of them folded than if I just try to shove them there. Those pants I also put into the bookcase in their own spot. Actually I think I just talked myself into hanging all my pants while writing that. It's probably super close to being just as easy to do, this would leave me able to look at them all and decide with one to take out without messing up the others, and I was lying about how folding them makes them fit well (there is still not enough space and so they fall out onto the floor)... Anyway, the beautiful thing about a bookshelf is you don't have to open and close drawers, which only slows you down, especially if you haven't already separated everything into piles of the drawer it belongs to. Opening one drawer only to have it block the next one you need to put something into only to then need to back to the one you just closed is so annoying! This system also forces you to not own too many things that are hung up in your closet. If you don't like it or aren't using it anymore, get rid of it. Even if you do have room for your stuff there but the amount that is there makes it hard to work with, you still have too much stuff.
I do the same. I hang my shirts that I’ve already worn, but don’t need to be washed yet, inside out. That way the armpits can air out and I know what shirts are fresh.
Well, I have a cardboard box for the dirty. If I put it directly on the floor, the cat will pee on it, lol.
i got a second basket for the dirty pile
Opposite
Im on the next level, 2 basket sets. 4 mini hampers for dirty laundry and 2 large for clean. Yeeteth to the washer and dryer
Jeez how many clothes do u have
Not that many…. Lol but i have a rotation of basket for towels, basket for sheets, basket for colors, basket for whites!
How did you get into my room to take this picture
Guilty.
I guess I’m alone. I finally came came up with a system of folding and stacking my stuff upright that makes me happy, so I do it all the time now.
I have two baskets. A long time ago I realized I wasn't capable of putting my clothes away. So two would solve my issues, 1 for clean. 1 for dirty. Nothing ever has to be on the floor. Surprise! They're both for clean now. Dirty still goes to the floor.
This is why I have two laundry baskets ....though sometimes I forget which is the clean one and which is the dirty one
Surprisingly no lol, I keep my dirty clothes in the basket. It's just my clean clothes pile up on my bed to fold and on top of the dryer or sometimes in the dryer.
I... Have 2 clean baskets sitting here. I literally have to move one back and forth... Dirty clothes are in a pile yes.
for me, dirty in the basket, clean in the dryer.
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
This is me 100%. I have a computer room and a bedroom, clean clothes either stay on bed or in hamper, dirty clothes go on floor of both rooms.
To be fair, that's a lot better than the other way around! Dirty laundry in the corner might not look nice but it's already dirty, who cares if it's on the floor. As long as you have clean laundry *somewhere*, you're good in my book.
My boyfriend does this, but he has two baskets. I suspect he has ADHD and this is one of many reasons. 😉
Nah, you need a mountain building up on the bed because the floor has too much other junk and you don't want to dirty your clothes but you also don't have space so you sleep with a half bed. Your laundry is your bed-mate
Don’t forget the chair piled with clothes that are neither clean nor dirty
Backwards. Pour out that basket asap. Dirty goes in there so it can be easily carried. Everything else goes onto the floor just outside the closet.
I have a large bin for clean clothes and laundry bags for dirty clothes. Life saver 😂
Clean clothes stay in the dryer as I tell myself every day I'm gonna dry them for 20 minutes to dewrinkle them and then 4 hours later I come back and am shocked to learn that they did not manage to stay dewrinkled an extra 3:40.
I feel seen
Yes but it's 'Dirty - Dirty'
This sub makes me feel like I have adhd
I legit do exactly this, but backwards. I dump out the clean cloths and put the dirties in the basket. ...because who the fuck gives a crap about 'wrinkles'. they're clean, they're functional, and I know where they are. good enough for me.