What's your least favorite household chore? If it's laundry, you can rest assured that you're not alone.
Parents tend to detest this chore the most, since kids obviously create a lot of dirty clothing.
It's not that any one part of the process is particularly difficult, but more that all of the steps involved in the process can take a lot of time, especially if your kids don't help.
It's a lot of work to wash, dry, fold and put everything away.
If you're eager for a solution to remove some of the work from this process, you might consider a family closet.
This is an interesting concept that involves keeping all of the clothing for the entire household in one central location, which may include a walk-in closet, the utility room or even an entire room.
The benefits to this system are appreciated by many families, and parents maintain that the workload is greatly reduced, especially if the family closet is the utility room right next to the washer and dryer.
The process is fairly easy once you have a room in which to house everything.
The most difficult aspect is likely accumulating enough storage organizers to hold everything.
Depending on the size of your room, you can opt to move a few dressers into the space.
Otherwise, you can use shelves, either wood, wire or canvas.
You'll also need a variety of storage organizers to hold dirty and clean laundry, either hampers, baskets or totes.
Another way to make the process easier is to buy storage organizers in a specific color for each family member.
That way, each person will know exactly where to locate his or her clothes based on the color of the basket or shelf where the clean items are located.
So, if laundry is a problem that plagues you on a weekly basis, you might try implementing some version of the family closet.
All you really need is a large space and some storage organizers to hold everything.