Laundry Lessons

I wash all the clothes and the kids then put their own clothes away. I spend my time, money, and energy to wash the clothes properly and they are responsible to for putting them away properly. I personally hate folding so all the kids have mostly closet space. Even the 2yo can hang up a shirt. I have demonstrated how it is to be done and when I find things not done correctly (clean clothes shoved in the dirty hamper, under the bed, back of closet, etc) then I give them a warning and show them again. If after the warnings (usually 3) I am still finding things out of place on the rare occasion I venture into their rooms then I know that they need more practice putting clothes away. This is the case today.

It started this morning when Mr. Edward complained that he had no pants left in his closet. I thought this was very strange since he got 5 pairs for Christmas and it was only 4 days of dirty clothes in the hamper but it's not the first time his pants have gone AWOL and I have yet to find his hiding spot. On the same note all last week Mr. Mann kept telling me how he had no socks even though he got 20 pairs for Christmas.

Then, while doing the laundry I spotted clean socks still folded together in Mr. Mann's hamper. Into their room I traveled to dump all of Mr. Mann's socks out for him to practice putting them away correctly. In the process of that I discovered more socks behind his bed and his pants and even more socks thrown on the top shelf of his closet. I then began to remove all his clothing from the hangers for him to practice.

Once a few pieces of clothes were out of the closet I discovered three pairs of Mr. Edward's jeans shoved on the middle shelf behind his brothers shirts. 

Three!!!

 I went on to find more socks under the bed, random shirts shoved in drawers, and 4 broken hangers. There is now one closet filled with very empty hangers and two beds hidden somewhere under a mountain of clean clothes. Good time to remove the outfits that are too small. Two birds, one stone, love it!