I do my laundry a little oddly. Instead of doing all the laundry once a week (full loads or not), I have Monday as my laundry day but only do the loads that are full. For example, when Erik is getting down to his last undershirt, I do a massive single load of socks, undershirts and other whites (we have a front loader conducive to this). I feel like this saves water and time (less sorting). What I have found very helpful is using clothes pins on Grace's clothes because she is the dirtiest member of our household with stains on everything. When there is a stain on her shirt (when isn't there?) that needs to be re-treated before the wash, I put a clothes pin on the stain and put it in the laundry basket. When the time comes round for me to wash her clothes, it is much faster to find the stains this way than having to hold up every shirt in the darkness of the laundry room and hope I caught them all. Obviously remove the clothes pins before you wash the clothes. 
P.S. I guess it is never to early to start teaching them responsibility using chores! Here is Grace helping unload the washing machine. She loves to do it and it teaches her the concepts of "empty" and "full". I plan on keeping it as one of her chores because the machines are the perfect height for kids and adapts to any age.
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Note to self: put pretreat in the bathroom so when you undress her for her bath, voila! You can pretreat as you go!
I betcha Erik is happy that he no longer holds the designation of "the dirtiest one in the house". How about a video of Grace and her Auntie Sara?
xoxo S
YOu underestimate yourself! YOu have LOTS of things to teach us that work for you, and I, for one, love hearing them. Great tip!
Ashlan is sitting here looking at Grace's blog with me wondering how she will possibly be that grown up in such short time! I think I met Grace when she was about Ashlan's age, maybe even younger. And now she walks, talks and does laundry!??! What an amazing little human being!
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