With the school year back in full swing, many of us are facing even more  laundry than we tackled during the Summer.  I know my kids are always changing clothes for playtime and sports practice, etc.  If this sounds like you, here are 4 simple laundry tricks that will save you time.

1. Make a When to Wash it Schedule.  Not everything needs to be washed with each use.  Jeans for example can be worn several times before you wash them (assuming there are no messes that need cleaning ASAP).  In fact, jeans will last much longer the less you wash and dry them.
2. Reuse Towels.  This one is kind of on the same topic as #1, but towels don’t need to be washed after over and over again as long as they are hung dry after each use. We keep a hook for each member of our family in the bathroom and they hang their towel there for the next day’s shower.  I typically wash towels once to twice per week.
3. Have the kids help.  If your kids are old enough have them wash their own laundry.  I have been making my kids do their laundry since they were 10 years old and it saves me a lot of time and gets them thinking about whether or not they really want to just throw their clean clothes on the floor as kids often do)
4. Wash like laundry together.  I like to keep some laundry together when I wash it.  For example, I always wash towels together and it really does make the laundry go quicker.  I can fold a load of towels in less than a minute.  Maybe it’s just me and my hatred of laundry, but having a big stack of the same thing makes that stack of laundry seem far less intimidating.