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Death, taxes, and laundry. It’s one of the constants of life. Sometimes, finding the perfect balance between running out of socks a day early and spending hours in the laundry room can feel impossible.
To keep up with your work, personal life, and other housekeeping, your laundry schedule should be personalized to your needs. Remember that what works for someone else may not work for you. The most important thing is to develop a plan that fits your needs. Whether you’re developing a laundry schedule for the first time or you’re looking to streamline your process, here are some expert tips for designing a personalized laundry schedule.
Understand Your Laundry Load
The first step to creating a workable schedule is understanding how much laundry you actually take on. Do you have one load’s worth of laundry each day or each week? How often do you need to do laundry before you’re running low?
If you’re unsure how much laundry you do, it’s best to take a few weeks and keep track of your regular washing. Once you understand your usual pattern, you can develop a consistent plan that ensures you finish all of your laundry when you need to.
Break It Down
After you track the laundry you do, take a minute to reflect on the different steps involved for each load. Consider the sorting, washing, drying, folding, and ironing while you design a laundry schedule. You may find it more effective to schedule similar laundry to be completed at the same time. For example, you may choose to do all of your ironing-heavy laundry on the same day, or do all of your sorting at once. Alternatively, you can choose to break these phases up into smaller batches. This step is all about making sure you’re aware of the time and effort you put into laundry so you can be more conscious about your wash schedule.
Consider Your Life Schedule
Between work, travel, social activities, and family obligations, we know you’ve got a lot on your plate. You lead a busy life—but there may be some days that are less hectic than others. Think over your weekly schedule and recognize the days where laundry is not an option. Then, you can select from the remaining days that have some extra time. You can break your laundry load evenly between these days, or shuffle your schedule to accommodate all of your laundry during one day. As you work around your life schedule, keep in mind how often you need to do laundry.
Organize Your Laundry Effectively
For a streamlined laundry schedule, it’s a great idea to organize your batches in an effective way. If you’re washing for a large family with several different hampers, consider lumping all of the white batches together, or washing all of the dish towels at once. If organized correctly, you can cut down on the number of loads you have to do each week.
Embrace the Power of Hands-Off Laundry
Laundry already tends to involve a lot of hands-off work. While your clothes are in the washer, drying in the machine, or air-drying is time you don’t have to spend working on your laundry. However, there are several aspects of laundry that require more hands-on time than others. In particular, treating stains can quickly drain your time away. Scrubbing, scouring, dabbing, rinsing-and-repeating—it quickly becomes time-consuming.
The easiest way to switch to hands-off stain treatment is through powerful products that do the work for you. Pretreatments like Charlie’s Soap pre-spray work to lift tough stains without all the elbow grease. Simply spray the stained areas with the pre-spray, then leave it to work its magic for 30 minutes. You can even leave it to soak overnight, no stress—it works just as well when it dries. Then, toss the stained garment into the wash and enjoy the time you saved on scrubbing stains.
Use Efficient Cleaners
The last thing you have time to worry about is poorly cleaned clothes. Constant re-washing and annoying stain scrubbing can disrupt your schedule and throw a wrench into your perfectly-designed laundry flow.
If you’re looking to take a load off, try Charlie’s Soap highly effective cleaners. From our oxygen bleach to our liquid and powder laundry detergents, Charlie’s Soap products attack dirt, sweat, and stains at the very root of your fabric’s fibers. Our active cleaning agents attach to residue on your laundry and lift them away from the fabric. Then, they wash away in the rinse cycle, taking the grit and grime with them.
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