I didn’t know about executive dysfunction at that time.

When we moved into this house, we didn’t have an outside washing line for over a year, so had to come up with another option to hang out the washing.

Thankfully, we have space in our laundry for a clothes rack and a hanging rack, so I hang any tops and dresses on clothes hangers and anything else on the clothes rack. I put sheets and towels in the dryer.

One thing I noticed with this process is that hanging the clothes directly from the washing machine has meant that things are put up right away. Removing the step of putting the wet clothes in the washing basket then taking them outside to hang has made the whole process so much easier! Not to mention that it doesn’t matter if the clothes are left there for days as they won’t get rained on.

Even after the landlord installed an outside washing line, I continue to hang the washing in the laundry. The process works much better for me and my brain, not to mention days when I am in pain, I don’t have to lift my arms above my head, causing more pain.

Currently, the only washing that tends to go on the line is when I wash things like the mattress protectors and dry them in the sun, partly because they don’t fit on the lines inside, also because they need airing outside.

As this is working so well, next time I move, I want somewhere that has a decent sized laundry so I can continue to hang clothes like this.

An added bonus is that I fold clothes directly from the rack and put it away in stages as I get around to it, so I rarely have baskets of clean washing that needs to be folded and put away!

Honestly, I wish I had thought of this sooner.

This is one of the little things I’ve been doing to change the way things happen so it suits me, not some notion of how things ‘should’ be done.

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A number of years ago, I was listening to a discussion on the radio talking about how often people wash their towels, and I couldn’t remember the last time I had changed the towels in the bathroom! My kids towels got changed fairly regularly as they would get dirty with cleaning up after muddy football matches or other games, however that wasn’t consistent. The discussion said that towels need to be changed at least once a week.

At that time, we had a cleaner who came every Friday, and this started the routine of changing the towels on a Friday that has continued since then.

Every Friday, all the towels and bathmats are washed, regardless of how often they have been used in the week. Then fresh towels and bathmats are put out. This includes the mats in the toilet. Recently, I added the tea towels and dishcloths to make sure they are changed regularly too.

There are some towels that aren’t used very often, but that doesn’t matter. If needed, they are changed more frequently, but always changed on a Friday too.

By having the trigger of our cleaner coming and making sure the task is done on the same day every week, I make sure our towels are changed at least weekly.

The towels are washed and dried on a Friday, that doesn’t mean they are always folded up and put away on the same day… but they are clean and ready for use the following week when they will be needed once more.

Do you have any clever tips for making sure your towels are changed regularly?

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