How often should you do laundry? I have a surprising answer.
SlateThis is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. But I did adopt a different habit, from a blogger who said this was how she maintained a smaller selection of clothes, for both herself and her kids: Do laundry every day, and it’s actually way less stressful. Each morning, in the early hours, I make a smallish load out of my and my daughter’s clothes, as well as any household linens—dish towels, rags, bath towels, pool towels when in season—that need washing. By the time I’m ready to get the kid up for the pre-school breakfast-and-homework protocol, it’s time to switch the load to the dryer, after taking out a few selected items I hang-dry. Then, when we get home, one of the evening “turnaround” tasks—make dinner, unpack lunchboxes, load dishwasher—is folding and putting away that small load of laundry.
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