{"id":135,"date":"2008-03-06T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2008-03-06T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T02:13:00","slug":"dirty-laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/R9CkxG8KynI\/AAAAAAAAAHg\/jZ96Qf3bj0s\/s1600-h\/ist2_5367811_laundry_basket-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/R9CkxG8KynI\/AAAAAAAAAHg\/jZ96Qf3bj0s\/s400\/ist2_5367811_laundry_basket-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174817135432223346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>   I am often asked how I handle life with a busy household&#8230; that I should share my tips. Well like most of you, I have my meltdowns (not pretty)! and am thankful for a family that loves me despite of my craziness. <\/p>\n<p>Laundry is a HUGE factor that easily sends me over the edge.  As you can imagine&#8230; there is NEVER a time that there isn&#8217;t any laundry!  IT IS ALWAYS THERE&#8230; waiting, teasing me, overtaking me!<\/p>\n<p>These are some things I have found helpful to keep things somewhat under control&#8230;<br \/>Each of us has a towel&#8230;which I took to the engraving shop and they embordered each of our names on it.  This cuts down on a million towels being washed.  We wash them a few times a week and the boys have hooks with their names to hang them up. <\/p>\n<p>We made our laundry room into a family closet, so to speak.  Solutions ( an organizational store) sells these mesh metal crates which you can buy different sizes.  Each boy has a tower with 4  pull out meshy drawers.  Undies in one, PJ, tee-shirts, jeans, each in there own drawer.  This keeps the baskets of laundry from leaving the laundry room.  We have a huge basket of socks&#8230; and each fends for himself.<\/p>\n<p>We also hung up rods on the wall as a closet&#8230; and all the hang up clothes are by size. XS, S, M, L, XL&#8230;so I don&#8217;t have to keep switching clothes as they outgrow them.  Mind you, the three older ones share a lot of stuff too, so this makes it handy.<\/p>\n<p>Light at the end of the tunnel&#8230; Sammy and Tyler are on doing their own laundry for the most part..so there is light&#8230; I am seeing it&#8230; maybe it is just a mirage.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any helpful ideas, I am always looking to ideas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am often asked how I handle life with a busy household&#8230; that I should share my tips. Well like most of you, I have my meltdowns (not pretty)! and am thankful for a family that loves me despite of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}