Your Laundry Room
Ten Tips to Help with Doing Laundry
Ten tips- Make sure you have adequate lighting for reading dials, sorting clothes, and other tasks in your laundry room.
- Mark the settings you use the most on your washer and dryer with bump dots or a 3D pen (also known as a Hi-Mark pen). See labeling section.
- To measure laundry detergent, most liquid detergents have a cap that when filled has the proper amount to do a full load; by the same token, half a cap is normally used for half a load. You can also use a cup that has tactile or large print markings.
- Put a rubber band, large print, or tactile label on the detergent bottle to distinguish it from other cleaning products.
- Consider applying slip-resistant surfacing to flooring that might become slippery when wet.
- When purchasing new clothing, pick items that have distinctive features such as buttons, trim, lapels, etc., which can help you identify the item by touch.
- Hang matching tops and bottoms on the same hanger as you take them out of the dryer.
- Have a hook or rod nearby to hang clothes on when removing them from the dryer.
- You can pin your socks before washing, or keep them together with a sock lock (also known as a sock tuck). (Amazon has if we want to link: Amazon.com : sock lock
- Dirty laundry can be placed in two different baskets, one for dark and one for light, to make laundry day easier.