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Post by nesser01 on Jul 6, 2014 20:26:17 GMT
You are supposed to fold it? Right. Huh? Folding, what's that?
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Post by Butterfly Momma on Jul 6, 2014 20:32:53 GMT
All clothing gets folded on top of the washing machine and dryer (which is on the same level as the bedrooms, makes laundry soooo much easier!) and then each child is told to collect their own. I put my parents folded laundry on their bed for them and my oldest child puts my husband's laundry away for him, as he is rarely home. But in the summer time, my favorite things to fold are the towels and sheets - and no, I'm not crazy . We have a 2nd story veranda, with a couple of chairs and a small table. I take those things out there and fold them while watching my kids play outside. It's such a peaceful place to do such a mundane chore. In the winter, they get folded on my bed.
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Post by junebugz on Jul 6, 2014 20:36:55 GMT
If I am doing laudry I fold it on my bed. If the kids are doing laundry it gets folded on the couch.
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Post by donnatk on Jul 6, 2014 20:43:54 GMT
Whites are folded immediately out of the dryer (I HATE folding whites, they are the first load done so that I don't have to dread that load). All others are hung/ folded in our bedroom. But, I love laundry day! Always have. My daughters think I am nuts, but I just enjoy it. Now that it is warm out, most gets hung outside, and then put away when dry.
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Post by lillieleigh on Jul 6, 2014 21:09:05 GMT
Sometimes on the washer, but my laundry room is small and right next to my bedroom, so I have started folding clothes on the bed and towels in the laundry room.
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Post by cyndijane on Jul 6, 2014 21:15:01 GMT
I've repeatedly tried to get my DH to not fold laundry on our bed... But I figure if he'll keep doing laundry, I shouldn't really fuss about the where and how of it.
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Post by Lexica on Jul 6, 2014 21:23:32 GMT
I dump the basket of clean clothes either onto the couch in the family room or on the table in the kitchen. I fold them into room piles, put the piles back into the laundry tub layering with my bedroom on the bottom and then work my way around the house dropping piles off as I go. Anything to be hung is put on a hanger and hung off this little movable rack that I attach to the door frame in the kitchen. Once the folded stuff is put a way, I take the hangers up and put those away. Nothing fancy or exciting here.
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Post by seriousscrapper on Jul 6, 2014 21:59:34 GMT
Like so many others, I fold on my bed.
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Post by Merge on Jul 6, 2014 22:10:08 GMT
DH folds it in the upstairs TV room right next to the laundry room. But he leaves each pile of clean, unfolded laundry on the floor for several days first, to make sure the cats have ample time to sleep in each pile and distribute their hair over all the clothes.
So thoughtful!
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Post by TracieClaiborne on Jul 6, 2014 22:12:26 GMT
Mine comes out of the dryer, into a basket, onto the bar stool next to it (laundry room is in kitchen), then I fold on the kitchen counter while I listen to a podcast!
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Post by beachhappy22 on Jul 6, 2014 22:14:15 GMT
I sort and fold on my bed, usually while watching tv. This. But boy do I hate folding laundry!
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Post by eversograceful1 on Jul 6, 2014 22:40:57 GMT
On the couch in the living room mostly. Sometimes I use my kitchen counter if it's clean Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Post by Mary Kay Lady on Jul 6, 2014 22:47:12 GMT
In the laundry room as it comes out of the dryer. (Especially for clothes - towels and bed linens might sit in the dryer a bit until I get around to them.) This is what I do. I also hang the clothes on hangers as they come out of the dryer and hang them on a rod that has been put in the doorway of the laundry room just for this purpose.
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Post by Nink on Jul 6, 2014 22:59:46 GMT
The basket of clothes gets dumped onto the couch then I sit next to it, fold it and put it back into the basket where it may or may not make it into their rightful drawers.
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Post by Charlotte on Jul 6, 2014 23:00:43 GMT
I hang clothes right out of the dryer. Everything else gets folded on the bed.
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Post by paget on Jul 6, 2014 23:02:17 GMT
In the laundry room as I pull it out of the dryer. We have front loaders on pedestals, so I make stacks by person on top of the washer and dryer. I do this or if I haven't folded for a couple loads I take it all to my bed.
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Post by bluepoprocks on Jul 6, 2014 23:04:05 GMT
Sometimes in the living room and sometimes in my bedroom but always watching TV. The location depends on if I'm tired of the people in the living room.
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Post by KelleeM on Jul 6, 2014 23:04:21 GMT
I don't!! Dh does it on the bed then puts it all away.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Jul 6, 2014 23:12:36 GMT
On my bed in front of the TV. Odd, I can watch whatever I want because no one wants to be around when the laundry is being folded... Ha! That is too funny. To answer the OP, we installed 3 cabinets with a counter top in our laundry room , so all I have to do is pull the clean clothes from the dryer, turn around and placed them on the countertop and fold them. I did this because if I place warm clean clothes on my bed or on the couch to fold them they will quickly be claimed by my three dogs that love laying in warm clean laundry!
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Post by jayfab on Jul 6, 2014 23:14:01 GMT
I fold it right near my dresser drawers.
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Post by wonderwoman on Jul 6, 2014 23:43:21 GMT
Laundry room as they come out of the dryer..
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Post by queenofshoes on Jul 6, 2014 23:50:38 GMT
In my bedroom usually. I always have the intention of doing it in the laundry room as I am taking it out of the dryer, bit that never happens.
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Post by Pinky Zebra on Jul 6, 2014 23:52:34 GMT
I fold them on my bed. I stand. I get it done faster when I'm standing.
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Post by Miss Lerins Momma on Jul 7, 2014 0:10:52 GMT
Either on my bed or in the living room in front of the tv.
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Post by AN on Jul 7, 2014 0:29:17 GMT
Bed. I try to time laundry getting done right about the time dinner finishes up, that way DH will help me put it away.
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Post by peasful1 on Jul 7, 2014 0:29:29 GMT
Laundry room. I have lower cabinets along two walls as well as a clothing rack. I hang up everything I can right out of the dryer then fold everything else (shorts, undies, socks and towels) on the counter.
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Post by gina on Jul 7, 2014 0:35:40 GMT
Usually always on my bed (while watching Law & Order SVU!) Sometimes if it's really piled up, I will wait until a show comes on that I watch with the kids (most recently it was DWTS) and will do it on the living room floor. I figure that's 2 solid hours I have to sort, fold and stack into piles (I put it away during the commercial breaks).
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Post by ametallichick on Jul 7, 2014 0:52:31 GMT
My laundry room is ridiculously small. Has room for W/D and hamper and that's it. Right outside my LR is a hallway and a pony wall that looks in to my dh's office. I fold laundry there and put the clean clothes in piles for the family to take up and put away. I fold/roll towels on my dining room table. My next house will have a huge LR with a folding table, sink and big enough for me to do a cartwheel if I want!!
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Post by gotranch on Jul 7, 2014 1:30:11 GMT
I have a big laundry room that once was an extra bedroom. I usually fold towels and jeans as they come out of the dryer and hang up almost everything else. I have a table in there that clean laundry gets tossed onto if we are in a hurry to get something else dried. Sometimes the laundry doesn't go much further than that, but that is ok since it is in a room that that you can't see easily from the other house and the door can be closed if needed.
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Post by Linda on Jul 7, 2014 1:41:16 GMT
I have a 6ft banquet table (the white folding kind) in my kitchen that I use to fold and sort the washing.
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