Recently, I shared with you about conquering Mt. Laundry in my home.  I few people have asked me to be a bit more detailed about what happens before the laundry makes it to the laundry room.

In each room, there is one of the above laundry sorters (or something similar) so that the color sorting is done each day.  I don’t have to sit there and weed through the clothes trying to find the ones that need to be washed for that day.  The ones in my room are 3 independent units, so I take the basket filled with the color for that day from my room, walk to the kids rooms and dump their like colors into my basket.  I then take it downstairs into the laundry room and let the fun begin!  (Sarcasm intended)

You might think your kids would not work with you on this sorting thing.  Mine didn’t just start doing it.  I had to take the time to train them on what colors go into which basket.  I set aside a chunck of time one afternoon, I explained to them what I wanted to see in each bin and we practiced sorting the clothes over and over again.  Ever since then, color sorting really isn’t a problem.  If your kids are a bit younger, I have a friend that put colored construction paper of appropriate colors over each bin so if in doubt, her children could consult the chart.