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Ah welcome to the wonderful world of being a SAHP!!
First off, I would recommend the group:
alt.recovery.clutter
VERY helpful for me, anyways, and obviously others as well.
I am currently a SAHP, and DH is working. I stay with the kids as well -
DS(5), DD1(16 months) DD2(5 weeks) and DS1(6) is visiting often, but he
lives in the suburbs of the city. Oh, and come the time when it gets
warmer, I find I pick up other random neighbourhood children, sometimes as
many as 4 or 5 at a time, and yes, all boys.
As far as the laundry goes... Yuck. I absolutely hate doing laundry. It
gets backed up like there's no tomorrow. With 2 babies, there's more than
enough laundry to go around...
I found a fairly simple system for doing laundry...
I picked up 6 laundry baskets at the Walmart (and at the time, there was 6
different colors to choose from, so I went with one of each lol) I then
moved a big, unused computer desk into the laundry room.
I normally haul all the laundry down to the basement into the laundry
room... I dump it all on the floor - all mixed and out of sorts. I then
toss the laundry baskets on the desk and go through the laundry one item at
a time, tossing them into whatever basket. Sometimes I do it on colors
(darks, whites, lights, sheets, baby blankets, pinks/reds, etc) and
sometimes it's so out of control that I just sort it in order of what it
is - shirts, jeans, pyjamas, socks/underwear, etc.
I then leave the baskets where they are and toss a basket in the washer.
Wash that, put it in the dryer, grab another basket off the desk and throw
that in the washer. I leave the empty basket at the door of the dryer, just
for convenience. I then fold the clothes downstairs before going up, and
then head straight upstairs to put it away before it can get mangled by pets
or kids (or spouses!!) This seems to be one way that actually works for me,
once I get it going. The problem is getting it going, however, but it's
something that has to be done. I would rather do something I dispise - like
laundry - than send the kids to school in grubby, dirty, disgusting clothes!
As far as being a pack rat... I could really go on about that... The first
step is to see and admit you just might be a hoarder! For me, if I have not
used it in 6 months (with the exception of holiday type stuff - like the
giant roaster that is not used except maybe Thanksgiving or Christmas, or
Christmas themed dishes, Easter cookie cutters, whatever) it goes and I sort
through everything.
Here's where I really would recommend alt.recovery.clutter... VERY helpful
with ideas, as well as offering much inspiration and motivation!
"Ron Cliiborn" <Roncliborn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:p30rm25osdjutka0n1o5mag65q35hv4rgt@4ax.com...
> Hello,
> I am a new Mr. Mom and finding it difficult to go from being in charge
> of several dozen people to being in charge of just a home with no one
> to boss around.
> The biggest problem is clothes. We have 3 kids and my wife has
> clothes everywhere. They usually go from the dirty hamper to the
> washer/dryer to the couch, never to be put up. This seems crazy to
> me.
> My problem is that I am a pack rat and over the years I have acquired a
> lot of stuff - mostly useless - that I can't bare to toss out. I am
> trying to toss it out if I've not needed it or used it in over a
> year, but it is hard. Any suggestions?
> Maybe a book on house keeping for dummies?
>
>
> Thanks
> RC
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