1) I am not very good at keeping up with the laundry. I am good at washing and drying it, but folding, hanging and putting away are another story. It gets so bad that there are times when you can hardly walk down our hallway for the piles of laundry that have accumulated. All clean mind you. Honestly, I would rather clean a toilet than fold laundry. (I used to think I was the only sick person out there, but then my friend Kathie shared that she too has the same aversion. We are starting a group called LHA--Laundry Haters Anonymous. Anyone else care to join? I digress.)
2) My kids change clothes an excessive number of times in any given day. Whatever happened to kids wanting to wear the same clothes for a week straight?!
One of the biggest problems it that of pajamas. My boys think that every night warrants a new pair of pajamas. Even though they shower before bed and have finally mastered eating breakfast without getting it on them. But it's not enough to just get a new pair of pajamas. Somehow the old pair wind up in odd places: under their bed, in the toy box, on the bathroom floor, under their sheets. . .anywhere but in the hamper. It had gotten so bad that there were times I would go to change their sheets and find 3 or 4 pairs of pajamas stuck between the bed and the wall.
I finally decided that I'd had enough and decided to try to do something about it. I made these simple little bags for the boys (Dallas Cowboys fabric of course). Every morning when they get dressed, they put their PJ's in the bag so that 1) they don't go missing and 2) unnecessary laundry is not created and 3) they can find them when it's time for bed again. Then every few days we swap out pajamas. So far it's working pretty well! Now if I can just get them to stop changing clothes!!!
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