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Lighten the load: Laundry Systems Analysis

By Cynthia Townley

From Organizedhome.com

Systems analysis. So weighty. So professional. So mysterious. Yet nothing can streamline an organized home like a well-crafted set of household systems. Today, we focus on laundry and clothing systems. What do they do? How do you develop them? What benefits will establishing laundry and clothing systems give to you and your family?

Chances are, you already have these systems in place. After all, a system is just a set of organized items, decisions or actions, designed to work together to achieve a common end. In terms of an organized home, a clothing system, for example, would be a set of related decisions, actions or items, designed to work together to supply family members with an adequate supply of clean, well-fitting and appropriate clothes.

However, there are systems, and there are systems. In a disorganized home, systems springs up unassisted. There's no thought or planning underlying them, so they don't work particularly well. Most of the time, the steps of the system are only instituted when things break down: there are no clean clothes, so someone does the wash. Yes, clothing gets clean, eventually--but there's tremendous waste of time, money, resources and family harmony built into haphazard systems.

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Free Vintage Laundry Bag pattern

From Curbly.com

Go old school with this vintage laundry bag pattern. Besides being a great place to stash your dirty undies, it would be a perfect way to keep diapers at hand in the nursery.

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Cold Water Bleach Conserves Clothes and Energy

From Culinary net

Family Features) - Washing clothes in cold water as a way to save energy and money is a hot topic in households across the country. Simply turning the setting down from hot to cold water when doing your laundry can save up to 14 percent on annual energy bills.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, more than 80 percent of energy used to wash clothes comes from heating water, so switching from hot to cold helps save $.17 a load, or more than $60 a year. With more than 105 million households in the country, that adds up to more than $6 billion in savings.

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Big, bad laundry monster doesn't have to rule your life

By Marla Cilley
For the Deseret Morning News

All of us have to do laundry. Some have only a couple of loads a week, while others have a dozen. It affects us all the same way; we put it off till it gets to be such a big job that we are paralyzed by the thought of it. This week we are going to tackle our laundry monster.

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Clothes closet Declutter

From organizedhome.com

It's the time of the season: summer's heat begins to wane as shorter days, cooler temperatures herald the coming of autumn. What better time to head for those dim, dark, cool closets?
A closet clean-out clears the decks for the new season and gives even the most frazzled home manager a feeling of accomplishment.
Whether in the children's closets or in your own, follow these principles for efficient, organized clothing storage:

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Laundry Systems Analisys

From organizedhome.com

Systems analysis. So weighty. So professional. So mysterious. Yet nothing can streamline an organized home like a well-crafted set of household systems. Today, we focus on laundry and clothing systems. What do they do? How do you develop them? What benefits will establishing laundry and clothing systems give to you and your family?

Chances are, you already have these systems in place. After all, a system is just a set of organized items, decisions or actions, designed to work together to achieve a common end. In terms of an organized home, a clothing system, for example, would be a set of related decisions, actions or items, designed to work together to supply family members with an adequate supply of clean, well-fitting and appropriate clothes. More

Autumn Closet Declutter

(from Organizedhome.com)
Once again, I mark the coming of autumn with a clothing closet declutter. I wade into the closet and find the boxes of out-of-season clothing. Try everything on, skin itching at the touch of wool when the temperature's 80 degrees. Sort the summer's keepers from items to donate. Look for "holes" and orphans in my autumn wardrobe. Count the dinners and fund-raisers and upcoming holiday balls, and divide them by the number of my cocktail dresses. Try, for the 900th time, to locate some good transitional outfits: cool enough for warm autumn days, but not too summery or too bare. More

Washing baby clothes: Not what you might think

By HC Staff

From:housekeepingchannel.com

So you know your baby's skin is more easily irritated than yours, and it seems that "everybody" is using specially formulated, baby laundry detergents to prevent rashes for their infants and small children. Should you follow suit?

The University of Michigan Health System says not necessarily, if you use detergents that don't contain perfumes and coloring agents — plus it offers information about washing baby clothes separately, safely removing stains and laundering cloth diapers.

Read more at: http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/wha/wha_laundry_pep.htm

Share the Care

One of the best ways to lighten the load is to "share the care" and involve the whole family.

A laundry for 20

This is an example of how to organize linen in a very big family. 20 students live here and we have a linen room and a laundry room

WHERE TO KEEP THE LINEN:


There are 2 bag carriers where we keep the bed sheets and towels until the day they're washed
and a trolley with the bed sheets.
You can see another trolley with the towelsSome shelves for stock or for storing linen that is not being used like duvets in summer or beach towels in winter
WHERE TO WASH CLOTHES
A room with a sink, a washing machine and 2 hampers to collect dirty clothes
Iron and ironing board
2 shelf racks to lay out clothes to dry
1 coat rail to hang the ironed garments

And this trolley. DONE!

Too Big!

Don't worry, this is a blog about laundry at home, but while learning how "blog world" works I will give you a tour through my work. This laundry is in a hospital "University Hospital of Navarre"

This is the main entrance. Now I will show you the big machinery
The biggest one is the flatwork. We iron thousands of bed sheets every day. It has a feeder machine that helps us with the bed sheets.
It has a folding machine. (I don't know if you can see clearly how it works).

A piling machine that finishes the work.

I bet you haven't seen this machine before. It is a tunnel. There is a person that hangs the garments on a hanger and the rest of the work is done by the machine.



Done!
The dryer helps us unload the linen
This machine helps us fold and sort the towels

This is where we iron the doctors' coats.

It may look like a factory but we know that small details like a table cloth and servilletes on the food tray and well-ironed pyjamas can help our patients feel at home.

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