The theme to the responses I got was this:

**Fold your laundry right away, and have some sort of a plan!**

Here are some of the suggestions:

1. Use a laundromat. This necessitates getting all your laundry

in one place at one time, doing it, and then actually folding it

all at once. Then you don't have to worry about it, and it

doesn't pile up around your house. If you don't have enough

money for a washer or dryer, or enough room, then don't worry.

This may be just what you need to give you the push to get

organized!

2. Another reader suggested doing one load of laundry every

morning no matter what. Carry your laundry basket to the washer,

put a load on, and empty the laundry that's in the dryer into

your basket and carry it back upstairs. Then fold it right away!

You only need to go down to the washer once, but if you do it

everyday, you're unlikely to have a backlog (unless you're

family's really huge!).

3. Finally, someone suggested having kids match socks while

they're watching TV. It can be one of their weekly chores.

Keep a basket where all the unmatched socks go, and let the

kids get to it!

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