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"xkatx" <katmagicate@remove@footbag.org> wrote in message
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> "Gini" <gini@verizon.com> wrote in message
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>> "Donna in Texas" wrote
>>> We have a three-compartment free-standing mesh hamper from the Container
>>> Store in our closet, so we divide our clothes as we take them off. Easy
>>> for us, but we have no children at home anymore.
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>>> If it were up to me, I'd never fold the clothes. We would just use
>>> them out of the laundry baskets. But my husband cannot stand that. He
>>> puts away his and then shames me into putting away mine.
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>> I keep a chrome clothing rack in the laundry room and hang things up
>> right from the dryer. The kids
>> tote their laundry to the basement and take their hangered clothing from
>> the rack when it's finished.
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> Mind if I ask at about what age you started this with your kids? I know
> ours are still a bit young for carrying and putting away their own stuff,
> other than socks and underwear, but I'll get them doing their own
> laundry - or at the very least, helping out with it - as soon as they're
> tall enough to reach the dials and soap without making a huge mess! I
> just do not know when would be a good time to start getting them into the
> habit.
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My boys started carrying their laundry to the basement when they were about
6.
They are now 13 and 11 and I've taught them how to use the washer but
have not
yet insisted they do it. Won't be long, though :-)
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