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Jan '23 | Ugh. Laaaundry. What are some things you do to make it bearable? (Patreon)

Published:
2023-02-09 19:01:51
Imported:
2023-02

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You groaned when you saw laundry didn't you? 

It's ok, I groaned writing it. 🤣

Laundry is one of the common big bads people might struggle with when they have ADHD. 

So, we ask you Patreon community, what are some ways you've made laundry a little more bearable? What strategies, tips, or tricks do you use? 

Let us know in the comments below! 

Comments

Anonymous

For hanging shirts, I heard of this genius idea to stack all shirts on the bed and then take all the hangers and put them in the holes of the shirts while they're all stacked on the bed. Reduces the number of steps from 3x the number of shirts (get shirt, put hanger in shirt, hang shirt) to only 3 steps overall (stack shirts, put hangers in shirts, hang the stack). It's way harder to get distracted because you're no longer repeating a *set* of tasks and instead you're grouping the similar tasks, making it way easier to remember what you're doing instead of getting lost between the steps you need to take for each shirt.

Anonymous

For clothes I want to re-use before I wash them, I recommend using a blanket rack or door with hooks. Hangers and folding are a bane to me, so reducing my nighttime steps to "throw on hook" or "throw in laundry" is really helpful for making the room feel less cluttered, because without those hooks or a rack, those not-yet-dirty clothes are going in a pile on the floor!

Kalkail

Laundry hyperfixation person here: Honestly the biggest thing that improved my laundry was upgrading my W/D setup. I went from 7-12 loads a week (7 people, all manual laborers plus farm laundry) to 3 (whites, lights, brights, darks, farm, and linens not every category is washed weekly). Sorting is so important! I never realized just how much crossfiber contamination was dulling my brights and tinting my whites. We are slowly excising synthetics from our apparel which also helps on multiple levels — sensory, durability, environmentally, etc. Lastly, learning to blue my laundry (to brighten my well water yellowed whites), resuming line drying, learning how to grass dry (for free oxygen brightening) have improved my laundry too.

Anonymous

I actually LOVE doing laundry. The sorting, the cleaning, it's all amazing, but where I completely fail is in folding and putting away, and I end up with a mountain of clean clothes on one or more surfaces just getting wrinkled and I absolutely hate it, feeling discouraged. Then, when I do fold, and no one puts their clothes away, it's worse. So yeah, very much a love/hate relationship with laundry.

Anonymous

I wanted to come back as I just did a load of laundry. This is usually my wife's OCD job however she's working 12-hour shifts this weekend. I have added one rule to my doing laundry on account of previous mishaps: if I don't know for sure, it gets hung up. This was added when I got married because all of my laundry is dryer-safe but some of my wife's stuff needs to be hung up. Since dryer stuff can be hung up BUT hanging stuff cannot go into the dryer, I default to hanging anything that isn't a t-shirt, jeans, scrubs, or sweats.

Anonymous

I tend to wait till it's a have to do 😅 but then I'll call someone or have someone with me in person for company, or listen to YouTube informational stuff while I'm working.

How to ADHD

It's been super cool to see so many different ways of handling laundry! Some I hadn't even considered before. 😊 Did you see a tip you liked from someone else? If so, do you plan to give it a try?

Anonymous

I keep a clean hamper and a dirty hamper. Folding works... sometimes. Having a clean or dirty pile that aren't actually on the floor helps way better

Anonymous

Let me husband do it 😂

Maria James-Thiaw

Shhhh. Don’t make a sound…laundry is blind… if you don’t move, it can’t see you.

Anonymous

Laundry is meh but, I absolutely loathe doing dishes! And, I have no dishwasher.

James Chalmers

I live in a small apartment so there isn't much room to dry stuff so instead I use the local laundrette. It takes about two hours to wash and dry, meanwhile I read a book or sometimes leave it and pick it up next day.

Daphnée Vézina

I live alone so I must deal with it. My policy is wait until you have no more underwear :-) Seriously, I take pride in dealing with it once a week, at night when nobody is around in the building’s laundry room. This way I do not have to « fake socialize » (I hate small talk). Then I take 2 machines and do my whites and others.