Laundry is one of those dreaded chores in my house that never seem to get finished. I finally, finally make my way down to the bottom of Mt Washmore, and the next second, more things get dirty and get dumped into the laundry basket. And even once the laundry is washed, sorting it all and putting it all away… yea, that’s one of my big challenges when it comes to housework. So yes, I’m always falling behind in laundry. In my house, at all moments of the day, there is always either something in the dirty laundry basket that needs to be washed, or something in the clean laundry basket that needs to be put away, but usually both, and usually mounds and mounds of it.
This post is meant to also inspire you, but more importantly, to try to motivate me to be on top of laundry more.

Hence:

How Keeping Up With Your Laundry Saves Money-
Or, conversely-
How Falling Behind On Laundry (aka being lazy with laundry) Makes You Lose Money
Or a little more to the point-
Stop Being Lazy With The Laundry, Penny!

• The more on top of the laundry you are, the less clothes you need. If you don’t stay on top of the laundry, and instead the dirty laundry stays in the laundry basket, you’ll realize you “don’t have enough clothes” and end up buying more clothes… when if you just washed the laundry in a timely fashion, you wouldn’t run out of clothes as fast, and you would be able to save that money for other things instead of buying more clothes.
• The more clothes you need because of not being on top of laundry, the more space you need to store it all, and the more money you need to spend on rent.
• Laundry that has been washed and sits in the washing machine for too long, because you don’t feel like hanging it up to dry, ends up smelling and stinking, which means you have to wash the laundry again, which means electricity, water, and soap down the drain, not to mention the wear and tear on the clothes.
• Wet, dirty laundry that is left alone for a while and not washed… starts molding. Don’t ask me how I know. Molded clothing because stained and unusable, even after washing, which means you have to go and buy replacements. Just washing those clothes on time instead of leaving them wet at the bottom of the laundry basket would prevent that from happening, and that money could then be spent elsewhere.
• Stains set the longer you leave them in the clothes. Unless clothes are washed in a timely fashion, what originally could have been an easy to remove discoloration eventually becomes a gross stain, which makes the clothes unusable and needing replacing.
• The longer laundry sits on the washing line outside in the sun, the more it gets bleached from the sun and faded, eventually making it look ugly and unwearable.
• Falling behind on cloth diapering laundry makes you pull out those disposable diapers from your stash far too often, when those disposables should just be for emergencies and not every day use…