One of the things I learned during my hiatus from this blog is to make chores as simple and easy for myself as possible. I think this is a good way to live whether or not you had to have your shoulder fixed. Who wants to spend time and energy cleaning that could be spent playing? One of things I did to make things just a tinsy bit easier was replace my large hamper with two small hampers with bags. This way my husband and I just sort our laundry as we put it in the hamper. When one is full, I take the bag out, close it, roll it down the stairs, and wash it. This way I am not carting laundry up and down the stairs for a day. I do laundry more often but it isn't as big of a job.
I wanted to implement the same thing for my kiddo. We do have a laundry shoot from his floor to the basement, but his laundry was getting mixed up with the wet dirty towels from the kitchen and cleaning. I had to bend over repeatedly to sort it all out. Besides, I want to teach him a little about doing the laundry, responsibility, and independence. He didn't want anything that would take up to much floor space, and it need to have a bag so I could roll it down the stairs. (I broke my foot carrying a laundry basket down the stairs. Clearly I was scarred.)
Then I stumbled across this tutorial. This is a fantastic idea: laundry bags from a towel and men's pants hanger. Her tutorial says that you can just throw your lights and darks in the wash together. I can't quite make that leap, I still sort. I just made two bags one from a dark towel and one from a white towel. I did run a cord through the pockets so I could close them. They are ridiculously easy and I made two in less than an hour. I also washed the towels before I sewed them so that I can just throw them in with the wash to prevent them smelling. Right now they are hanging in my sons closet but you could also put them on the back of the door knob or the wall. I must say he is doing a great job with it, and it has made my life just a bit easier.
