30 Laundry Timesaving Tips

These quick and easy tips will cut your laundry time in half!

I recently had the chance and privilege of speaking at the Women's Institute of Torah's Yom Iyun in Baltimore, MD. There were about 200 women, at my disposal, to interview.

These were asked, "How do you do the laundry? Is there a specific laundry tip you imagine will be valuable for additional Jewish homemakers out there to learn?"

Here are some of their answers. Enjoy.

* "I've a white hamper and a black hamper so the clothes get sorted as they go in and will get thrown directly into the device when I'm ready."Homemaker for 4 years

* "Put the washer and dryer on a single level as the bedrooms, if at all possible." Homemaker of 46 years

* "Wash staining ASAP. Each individual has his / her own hamper. Children age 13 or more do their personal laundry." Homemaker of 28 years

* "Buy easy to launder clothes. Move your laundry space near your bedrooms. I recently was able to move mine and this has made an enormous difference. Front loading machines are gentler on clothes. Be sure you never leave your home together with your dryer on and to check the lint screen before each load." Homemaker of 16 years

* "Read labels before cleaning. Laundry is performed after Shabbos you start with bed linens, towels, and tableware. After that, clothes must be done by Thursday. Things go to the cleaners on Monday so they are cleaned prior to Shabbos."Homemaker of 40 years.

* "Sort clothes according to loads; warm, hot, cold. "Homemaker of 45 years

* "Get yourself a helpful, caring spouse."Homemaker of 57 years

* "For large households, do laundry each day. Each morning gather the laundry and divide it into piles-colors, fat, etc. Our laundry space is in your kitchen. This makes our kitchen look a bit messier, nonetheless it makes laundry much easier. You can change the loads when you cook supper."

* "I don't separate colours and whites, everything is performed in warm/cold. My husband's t-shirts are hung on hangers in the toilet to dried out, no ironing or drying. I keep a laundry basket in the bed room. My 2 year old loves to help me, carrying quarters and handing me laundry and pressing the baskets from our apartment to the laundry space."Homemaker of three years

* "Everyone must have 14 days worth of underwear and socks."Homemaker of 30 years

* "For those who have a child of preschool age, it is fun to complement up socks by color or design." Homemaker of 30+ years

* "Pretreat stains before putting stained clothes in the hamper. Fold bed linens and towels first, since that minimises your pile considerably."Homemaker of 5 years

* "Use color-safe bleach choice. This prevents issues with lighting and darks getting blended together."Homemaker of a decade

* "Sort your laundry in independent bins to begin with."Homemaker of 5 years

* "Pin socks together thus they don't get lost. Use sock clips. Or, provide each family member a mesh bag. As their socks obtain dirty, they can fill up their own mesh bag. Wash the entire bag and hands the clean bag back to them to complement their own socks."

* "Put your washer and dryer in your bathrooms so you can put filthy clothes in right after a shower."Homemaker for 22 years

* "Put one dot on the tags of your first child's clothes. When the second child gets the hand-me-down put in a dot. By the time the 4th child gets the clothes, they have 4 dots. Laundry sorting is quite easy because you know what belongs to which child."

* "When I remove linens from beds, I put each set into a pillow case. I wash the set collectively and fold it into the quilt cover since the set is stored collectively in the linen closet."Homemaker of 37 years

* "My laundry is in the basement. I like the fact that it's out of the way. However, easily had to choose, I would have got my laundry on the bed room floor."Homemaker of 30+ years

* "I keep a stain-stick in your kitchen so I can work on the Shabbos tablecloth while it is still on the table after Shabbos. I could see the places that need it much better than in the basement laundry space. Our house includes a laundry chute; I keep an old playpen under the starting to catch the filthy clothes." Homemaker of 38 years

* "Keep a laundry hamper in each person's space and independent a laundry bag for cold water wash. From the age of 10 each young one learns to accomplish their personal load."Homemaker of 27 years

* "Fold laundry in a different basket for each child and put the basket in the child's space. This way, all the laundry doesn't obtain confusing with one another."Homemaker of 16 years

* "Keep an arts and crafts center adjacent to the laundry space so kids can be in your area when you fold."Homemaker of a decade

* "Wash the delicates first; they take more time, and the sturdier clothes can be laundered more immediately." Homemaker of 30 years

* "Devote 6 drops of Ammonia in each wash."Homemaker of 40 years

* "Put hampers around (we.e., bathrooms, bedrooms) so people will put filthy clothes in the hamper instead of on the floor. Homemaker of 7 ½ years

* "Pay out yourself $10/hr to completely clean or make a summary of rewards you want for 1x weekly."Homemaker of 28 years

* "Make your kids sort, they will end up attempting to do their personal laundry to escape sorting."Homemaker of 23 years

* "Pre-soak clothes in a bucket overnight."Homemaker of 26 years

*  "Pay for a quick and efficiant laundry service to do the job for you" See additional information here