I don’t think this was what Deanne was commenting about regarding clothes, but I’m going to talk about laundry. If Lloyd would have remembered to pick up my glasses from Lenscrafters, I’d write about those – but he didn’t.
About laundry: I go through cycles of being right on top of it, or waking up and finding that I have no pants to wear. All that depends on my personal laziness, but I have to say that the one thing that saves a huge headache is pre-sorting. We have hampers for white clothes, colors, and dark clothes. (There’s also a secret hamper behind my closet door that holds things that require so much pampering, I’d have to shoot you if I told you about it.) This is great because when the hamper is full, we just throw in the load. When I was a kid we had a giant hamper that folded out of the bathroom wall – it was the BEST hide & seek spot, except that everybody looked in there first. The trouble was, it was just one big giant space. I remember when it was time to do laundry Mom would reach down in there, grab something and throw it to its appropriate pile in the hall. If I had a time machine, I’d go back and install dividers.
We used to use some plastic bins, but years ago I spent the big bucks for these. The covers are just closed for the picture. They’re always open. (The stuff in the basket needs to be put away.) My dream house will have a washer and dryer inside my walk-in closet. Currently I have to walk down two flights of stairs to do laundry.