My husband and I have been renovating our house for 4 and a half years and our most recent project is the main bathroom. We have gutted the room and borrowed space so now we have a large main bathroom, but in the process we lost our laundry chute. It was a great old laundry chute that went right from the bathroom to a holding area in the laundry room. It was the catchall for everyone’s laundry, clothes they didn’t want to put away, toys and lost neighborhood children. Every week (almost) we would do heaps of laundry and get the kids involved in separating, folding and putting away laundry. We carefully reviewed the separation of whites and colours, hot and cold, empty pockets etc. It was a great and often painstaking group effort.
What I have discovered in the elimination of the laundry chute is a huge reduction in my workload, less nagging (me), less groaning and complaining (kids and hubby) and a sense of real relief.
Here’s what we did:
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