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First things first, if you’re overwhelmed with your laundry, you need a plan for it. Use this simple worksheet to map out your week and your laundry intentions. If you’re doing the Clean Mama Routine, you know that Laundry is a Daily Task. I find that doing a load daily from washer to folded and put away. Saturday is Sheets and Towels Day – that’s the day that we launder bedding and bath towels. I do a quick load at the end of Saturday of cleaning cloths and then the ‘clean washer’ cycle on the washing machine.
Our Laundry Schedule – followed loosely but it’s helpful! We have five in our family so everyone gets a ‘laundry day’, starting with my husband on Monday, myself on Tuesday, our oldest on Wednesday, our middle child on Thursday, our youngest child on Friday, and sheets and towels on Saturday. This gives us a framework and a goal for what to wash and when to wash it.
Grab this free printable and map out your laundry schedule. Do you do laundry daily? Every other day? Once a week? Plan it out, realizing that not every week will go perfectly, but at least you have a plan for your laundry moving forward. It makes a big difference!
Print the Laundry Schedule printable, put it on a clipboard, in your Homekeeping Binder, tape it on the fridge, put it in your planner….use it to help you figure our your laundry schedule. Head to the FREE PRINTABLES page, enter your email address (you’ll only need to enter it ONE TIME for lifetime access), and grab this printable. Happy Laundry!
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Lizzy Says...
I was surprised to see that you do a different person’s laundry each day. Do you divide the laundry into different loads based on colors and material or just throw it all in together? I was taught to divide the laundry pile into light colors, dark colors, red/oranges, jeans (and other heavy fabrics), delicate/ hand wash, towels, and sheets. My husband thinks I’m a bit obsessive about it haha but I have yet to shrink or change the color of anything. You’re so on top of cleaning though, so I’m curious to hear what you do. Thanks!
Clean Mama Says...
Post authorI do separate clothes by workout, whites, and darks for everyone but my youngest’s clothes – his goes in as one load. My middle has baseball gear so that gets laundered separately and then he has a regular clothes load, and my oldest’s clothes are workout, whites, and darks. Hope that helps!
Nicole Says...
Hi! Thank you so much for this wonderful resource. I definitely can get overwhelmed by laundry and am eager to work to create a plan to tackle it. Question for you: Do you launder workout/sweaty clothes daily regardless of whose laundry day it is or do those wait until their designated day as well? My husband has sweaty workout clothes daily so I have been washing everyone’s clothes every day to make sure his wet clothes are not getting funky. But I do like the idea of a designated day for each person’s clothes.
Clean Mama Says...
Post authorI let workout clothes that need to be dried air dry in the bathroom and then put in the laundry. I wash my workout clothes separately from my other laundry as well as my husband’s workout clothes.
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Ana Villanueva Says...
Does everyone in the family do their own laundry on the designated day or you do everyone’s laundry?
Clean Mama Says...
Post authorEveryone does their own laundry!