Day six of the Spring Fling and it’s time to come clean … and organize the laundry room.
It is my pit of shame. Oh friends. I can’t even believe I am showing you the before picture…
It Gets Better in the Laundry Room
Yes, my laundry area gets CRAZY, but the good news is that I know it will not be an all day project to get it back to functional. This is a picture of what my laundry area looks like after 30 minutes.
When you know it will only take 30 minutes to get back to functioning, it’s easier to not put it off for months on end.
Instructions:
- Set up your three boxes/totes and two bags.
- Clear off one surface at a time – first the washer, then the dryer so you have a clear space to work off.
- Condense boxes. Have a place for single socks (we all have them).
Don’t let outgrown/old/nobody wants them clothes linger in the laundry area. This is valuable real estate friend. Make it as functional as possible.
Bonus:
Once you clear the space, put something inspirational up there. I’m going to print off a sign with this quote by Fred Rogers:
I believe that appreciation is a holy thing – that when we look for what’s best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we’re doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we’re participating in something sacred.”
I mean, won’t that make cleaning socks for those we love a holy act of service?
Share Your Fling
After you fling, either tell us about it or share a picture in the comments. Remember, each day (at the end of the Fling) there will be one winner, randomly drawn from the comments, who will receive a copy of The Cure for the Perfect Life from Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory. So share below and tell us about your fling.
I’m a bit behind. I’ve been focusing on areas that more desperately need flinging. My laundry room/garage entry is pretty minimal, but I have flung a few items (an laundry basket that’s no longer needed, laundry detergent bucket, a few extra coloring books, extra backpack).
Whew! This has been in my to do list for a while! We moved our laundry room to the main floor (from the “pit of despair” basement) and it needed to be organized badly. Thanks for the push I needed to get it clean and get things put away! I have a trash can in there now!
Didn’t want to post until I had done my flinging, but now I’m late to the party. Cleared off the counter and tended to its occupants, finding homes for some items and the trash can or donation for the rest. (Found my daughter’s ant farm–time to order the ants!!) Removed a lovely but useless woven box and placed it elsewhere to see if it works as a decor item. Next step–what do I really need in that room on that counter?
My laundry room is probably the most ignored area in our house. I was hesitant to even start to tackle it, but spent about an hour and filled two lg garbage bags worth of trash. This area is in our basement so has much more than the washer and dryer. Feels great to get a start on this area!
There is not much room in my laundry room for extra items so I originally thought I would not be able to find enough items and then I realized this is where I store my “bag collection”, all those plastic and paper bags for walking the dog, wet suits, garbage, etc. It was easy enough then to find 50 items to toss! I also found all the items left in pants pockets that went thru the was over the years, yes I said years, and since no one has missed them or needed them out in the trash they went!
My husband and I worked on the laundry room,it was time well spent, we love the result, we got rid of half the stuff that was stored there.
I got rid of twenty items but really need to work more on my laundry room so will keep working at it. Laundry is my least favorite chore!!
Thank you Kathi for an easy Monday task! Our laundry room is not a room, just a nook without a door, so there were hardly 20 items to begin with. Alas, I’m still working on my office.
Today is day one after moving my mother in law in. So, the house is in total chaos, even though several hundred items have been flung in the last few days. My main task for laundry was to empty the dryer, which seems to be the dresser overflow and wash all of the bedding that was moved yesterday. Consolidated three types of like detergents and two dryer sheets to get rid of 5 containers and donated 32 more clothing items to avoid the need for the dryer as a dresser in the future.
That should have said Ginger and not Beverly.
I don’t have much, but threw out the expired fabric softener, gave away the dryer sheets we do not use anymore, and cleaned out the drums around the edges (found some single socks.. and etc).
I don’t have much, but threw out the expired fabric softener, gave away the dryer sheets we do not use anymore, and cleaned out the drums around the edges (found some single socks.. and etc).
How do you clean around the drum of a dryer??? I never thought of doing that; maybe that is where the sock-eating monster lives.
I don’t have a laundry room but threw out the trash sitting on the dryer, rehomed items that didn’t belong, and cleaned both machines.
Any suggestions for those single socks? We have the neatest sock clips that go hook socks together and go through both the washer and dryer..and STILL end up with single socks. 60 single socks at one count!!! That is for a family of 9, but still, that’s a lot of money in single socks!
Have you tried a mesh zipper bag? Put all of your socks in it and run that through the machine.
When you have socks for 9 people, that is not feasible :o(