6 Ways to Know For Sure That You Have a Laundry Problem

You rarely have clean clothes, but do you really have a laundry problem?

‘Problem’ is a more…serious word.  Maybe you only have a few laundry issues.  Or maybe even a slight laundry dilemma.

Or maybe an actual laundry problem.

Here’s how to know for sure:

1) You’ve gone to Target at 11pm to buy underwear just to avoid washing the dirty ones you already own.

2) You have 6 bottles of laundry detergent in your stockpile, but you never have to replenish it.  Hmmm.

3)  You have actually thrown away a few pieces of clothing just so you don’t have to deal with the stains on them.  Ugh – yellow mustard.  Enough said.

4) You only wash your favorite jeans every 4–6 weeks. (Please, please wash them more often than that!)

5) You haven’t seen the floor of your laundry room since you moved in.  5 years ago.

6) You chronically have 3 empty drawers in your dresser…because you don’t have any clean clothes to go in them.

7)  Your sock drawer is completely empty.  Your stray sock bin, however looks like this:

 

(Oh yes, this really was my sock bin a few months ago.)

 

I wrote this tongue-in-cheek, but there are those of us who struggle – a lot – with some aspect of taking care of our homes.  (If you’re curious, my struggle is keeping our floors clean.  They need to be vacuumed practically every day with six people living here and oh! that’s just ridiculous to me.  Who in the world has time for that?!)

But if your struggle is laundry, you’re at the right site. There are easy steps you can take today to improve your laundry life.

So what are some of those ‘easy’ steps?

Here are a few good places to start:

– If you have no idea where to start with the pile of laundry you’re facing, here are 10 steps to getting your laundry pile under control.

– Here’s some direction if you’re looking to start a laundry routine.

– And if you’re the type of person that needs quick results, here are 3 immediate ways to reduce your laundry pile.