Having a laundry routine helps make doing laundry much more efficient.

There are different options:

- wash certain items on certain days - towels one day, whites another, jeans & darks another

- one load a day - quantities never become unmanageable.

- Heart of the Matter suggests having certain days of the week for laundry and then only washing on those days.  Determine on the set days to get through as much as possible.  This plan allows you days off - so you don't feel like you are constantly doing laundry.  

One client told us her method years ago, and we have passed it along to many busy moms.  They love it!!  Consider washing each person's laundry in a separate load.  Don't worry about sorting by colour.  This way it goes into the wash together, comes out of the dryer together, goes back into the basket together, and gets returned to the owner's room together.  Time saved on sorting and quick and easy to put away!  Obviously, certain dressy items would be excluded from the load.