4 Quick Tips for Making Putting Away Clothes Less Dramatic

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I don't know what it is about laundry, but the process of putting it away takes far too long! Wash, dry - no problem. Fold and hang clothes? Takes a week.


Or maybe it did before.


Hopefully these tips will help speed up this unwanted chore we all have. And these tips are especially great for young moms with multiple kids. icon

Tip #1 - Stop folding stuff that will be hung up later!


If you are hanging up shirts, lay them flat in a pile. This will also make it easier to put hangers in them later (see below).


Tip #2 - Fold pants according to owner.


Make piles for each person in your home or at least for each room. Makes it so much easier to put away when you just got to plop a stack of clothes into a drawer.



Tip #3 - Throw all the socks in a pile. Match them up last.


Socks have a way of getting stuck in pants, so just throw them all in a pile and save them until the end and you'll *hopefully* have a match for everyone. icon

Tip #4 - Enlist Your Spouse & Kids to Help


Using my age-by-age guide to teaching kids how to do laundry, get your kids involved in the laundry process, starting as young as age 3. They can turn clothes right side out, fold them, and match up socks. Eventually, they can even wash, dry, and do it ALL themselves!


Tag-team with your spouse that someone puts away the shirts, and you'll put away the socks, underwear, and pants.


Just make it a family affair. You know those clothes aren't all yours.

Tip #5 - Load Baskets with Items to be Hung on Top


After you have all your stacks of clothes, piles of shirts to be hung, and matched socks, put them into baskets according to destination (which person's bedroom).


Load the bottom of the baskets with folded items, then lay the shirts to be hung on top. This will help prevent wrinkles and make it easy to hang the shirts.


I like to place the stack of shirts on the bed, or changing table, or even the floor. Then I do the next tip.

Tip #6 - Hang shirts all at once.


Grab all the empty hangers from your closet and then lay them down in front of your pile of shirts. Gently insert the hangers through the necks of your shirts, one by one, flipping down the hanger a little ways so you can get to the next shirt's neck, until all the shirts have hangers in them.


Then grab as many hangers as you can at once and then put them away! Easy peasy!

Then just put away the folded clothes in their drawers, enlisting your kids help for their clothes, and you are done!


That wasn't too bad, right?


See the rest of the post and my tips for speeding up laundry here: https://www.whatsupfagans.com/how-to-do-laundry-fast/

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  • Sara Sara on Dec 09, 2019

    What is your opinion on the best clothes hangers to purchase?

  • Denise Denise on Dec 09, 2019

    what about ironing when do you iron hanging clothes up from dryer is good for some clothes like PJ but nothing looks awful than that dress or shirts that hasn't being ironed

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  • Diane Diane on Dec 21, 2020

    With 7 kids each child had their own day to wash and dry their clothes. if they needed help folding I would help. one of my sons never got to the folding part as he got older so when he was a teenager I said just grab the collar of your T-shirt shake It out good and lay it that way in your drawer and that worked for him

  • SONIA MEIER SONIA MEIER on Dec 16, 2022

    This will stretch the neck on T-shirts. Not good.

    • Patti Patti on Jul 22, 2023

      Agree! I always go from the bottom up to hang T-shirts. Nothing worse than a T-shirt with the neck all stretched out! Ug!

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