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Where do you fold your laundry......

Moms View Message Board: General Discussion Archive: Archive May 2005: Where do you fold your laundry......
By Dana on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 01:16 pm:

if you don't have a set up in the laundry room?

I do mine on the couch while I watch TV and/or kids playing in the backyard (all my windows face the back yard and I can see everything from the couch).

DH thinks I am in the only person who does this and he hates seeing a laundry basket on the couch or clothes all spread out over the couch when he comes home. Most of the time my couch is clear, but often I am still in the process of finishing the laudry.

By Kernkate on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 01:25 pm:

I fold mine down cellar as I take them out of the dryer, my whites {all the socks} I usually fold and separate on the couch. Cause they take forever to do! So no your not the only one who uses your couch while doing laundry.

By My2cuties on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 01:28 pm:

They go from the dryer to the couch to the closet or drawer, Immediately! LOL, I can't stand for my livingroom to have stuff in it so I get it done faster that way. So count me for the couch too! :)

By Tink on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 01:40 pm:

I fold my laundry on the couch after the kids are in bed. My dh hates it too but I've told him more than welcome to fold it anywhere he wants when he takes it over. Since it is my least favorite chore, I want to make it as easy and entertaining as possible.

By Tonya on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 01:42 pm:

You guys fold yours!!! HA HA HA

Mine has to be clean I hate dirty cloths but once it leaves the dryer it goes into the appropriate persons basket and sooner or later only 2-3x a month it is put away. I hate to fold cloths but when I do they are taken into the livingroom on the floor and folded then everything is put away. Unless company is coming then they are for sure done otherwise they are in each persons room in a basket.

By Rayanne on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 01:42 pm:

I fold mine either on the couch or the floor.

By Brandy on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 01:50 pm:

Amen Tonya lol i hate to fold laundry and put it away = ) ...

By Tonya on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 01:55 pm:

I won't but when I do I make DS and DH help so it gets done quickly.

And someone said something about socks. I have a sock basket (funny story) it is the basket my mom had for the 19 yrs I lived at home and she gave it to me when I moved out. I NEVER match up socks. If that gets done Rich does it (usually every other month he gets fed up with digging for socks).

By Maddysmommy on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 01:56 pm:

i fold mine in the living room on the couch too:)

By Kate on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 02:00 pm:

I fold mine on my bed. Much more flat room than a couch.

By Karen~moderator on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 02:01 pm:

Either at the dryer or on the couch.

By Happynerdmom on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 02:03 pm:

Most of it gets folded right out of the dryer and placed in each persons pile, with the exception of socks and towels, which get folded on the couch.

By Trina~moderator on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 02:30 pm:

My tiny laundry room is on the second floor near the bedrooms. I sit in the hallway on the floor to fold clothes and pile them outside each person's bedroom to be put away. Not the ideal set up but it beats lugging laundry baskets downstairs to fold clothes on the couch and then lugging them back upstairs again.

My two former houses had laundry rooms right off the kitchen. I folded clothes on my kitchen island. :)

By Debbie on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 02:32 pm:

I fold mine in the laundry room. I like to hang certain things up right away because I don't iron(I hate it). Everyone has their own basket and they take it upstairs and put it away. I help my 4 yr. old, but he is getting pretty good at doing it on his own.

By Kym on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 03:36 pm:

I fold mine on the dining room table, so before dinner at the 15 minute quick tidy time, they all put there's away! Well that's the intention anyway, my boys are good it's my oldest dd age 11 who is the problem, I usually find folded clean clothes in the bottom of her hamper,,,,,,,ARG:)

By Kate on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 03:59 pm:

I'm surprised I'm the only one so far who uses the bed! After all, 95% of the laundry needs to be put away upstairs in the bedroom area anyway! And if company drops by I'm safe. :)

By Bellajoe on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 04:13 pm:

I fold mine on the couch most of the time. Kate, sometimes i fold it on the bed too. it just depends on what i feel like doing at the time i guess. And usually i do get it put away pretty quickly.

My 6 yr old dd likes to help match the socks and fold them. She is my littl helper. Sometimes i even get them to put their own clothes away!

By Cat on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 04:22 pm:

Usually I fold it on the floor in the den while watching TV. Sometimes I will bring it upstairs and fold it on the bed, if I need to be upstairs (like during the day while kids are here). Our laundry room is downstairs (basement) right off the den. My mom always sat on the couch and folded laundry. My dh doesn't mind me doing it on the floor in the den, he just hates when the folded clothes sit there more than a day!

By Imamommyx4 on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 04:22 pm:

Couch and my dh hates it too. I don't mind doing the laundry and folding it but I hate to put it away. So it all stays on the couch until all of the laundry is done. Dh makes remarks when he comes in and it's lying there.

By Dawnk777 on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 05:21 pm:

I fold laundry on my bed, since we have a tv in our bedroom.

By Palmbchprincess on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 06:21 pm:

I'm like you Dana, it gets folded in the living room or on the bed. Never thought twice about it. LOL

By Jelygu on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 06:57 pm:

I fold it on the couch too. Oh and Tonya, we have a sock basket too. I HATE folding socks!

By Feonad on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 07:21 pm:

Folding is highly overrated.... I try to fold as little as possible.

All I try not to wrinkle or pants and shirts.
Everything else can be wrinkled.

By Kay on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 07:31 pm:

After my dryer is finished, I immediately hang what needs to be hung, and fold whatever needs to be folded. It's so much easier to deal with that way.

By Kay on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 07:32 pm:

Oh, yeah - my washer/dryer is in our den, which the previous owner converted from a large garage.

By Annie2 on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 07:36 pm:

I usually fold/hang straight out of the dryer. Socks, pj's, towels, things that can get wrinkled get put into a basket and I sort it (on my bed) when it gets full or when we start digging for socks. That drives me bananas.

By Missbookworm on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 09:21 pm:

My kids fold their own, I fold mine. It normally all ends up in the living room, sorted into seperate baskets and they take theirs to their room and I fold mine on my bed normally. It depends how much there is. Sometimes if it's a little then I'll fold it in the living room. I hate folding laundry too so it doesn't always get done so it's all over the washer and dryer and in my bathroom laundry sink thing, then it gets taken to the bedrooms and folded.

I used to have a sock bag, now they all go in a basket and I make my oldest son match em up...I HATE matching socks. LOL

By Kim on Saturday, May 14, 2005 - 10:07 am:

No Dana, you are not the only one. I sit on the couch and make piles on the coffee table 90% of the time. Then it waits for each child to come home or wake up and put it away. The other 10% I do it on my bed. The LR is the center of activity. I can see out the front and back door and work on other things also.

By Marcia on Saturday, May 14, 2005 - 11:16 am:

I have about 9 piles on the couch - one for each person, one for bathroom towels, and one for kitchen towels and cloths. I expect those who can to put their own stuff away. I do the rest.

By Cocoabutter on Saturday, May 14, 2005 - 09:08 pm:

I am the only one that folds in the KITCHEN!

Dishes and laundry go hand in hand. Somehow we don't have much laundry that wrinkles, so it can wait until I get the dishes done and the counters wiped down. Folding is usually the last thing I do in the evening, and I listen to my radio. It is also away from the other action in the house, since dh or ds usually have the TV in the living room. I couldn't fold on the couch anyway- the dog would get up there and lay down on them!

By Eve on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 07:54 am:

I dump it out on my bed and fold it there most days. Then, my DD brings the clothes to what room it belongs in. I do put my DD's clothes away, but she helps. I don't touch my DH's clothes. He is a clothes horse and it would take me all day! LOL

Speaking of laundry....gosh, I have a lot to do!!


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