Tweak: Laundry Routine
I’m passionate about travel, and in the past few years I’ve been fortunate to be able to travel and live abroad, which is a dream come true. When I weighed 350+ pounds and lived in the midst of clutter and chaos, this dream was out of reach. Now we’re able to see the world, I have so much gratitude! Incorporating a good laundry routine will help give you the freedom to follow your dreams.
Something that unites us all, no matter where we live, is that every single one of us has to deal with our laundry one way or another. Maybe this is why it’s so fascinating to travelers to see how people in other parts of the world manage their laundry. (The photo here was taken in Venice.) Read more
Dealing with Clothing Clutter
A couple of days ago I mentioned my own personal Mount Washmore* from back in my days of extreme household clutter. Mount Washmore was an 18-inch to two-foot deep pile of dirty laundry that covered our laundry room floor and spilled into our bedroom and the hall.
It’s not that I hadn’t been doing laundry, mind you. A couple of times a week I would wash three or four loads in a panicked laundry marathon. (Sunday nights were popular because it would dawn on me, “What the heck are we all going to wear tomorrow??!”) But since I was doing laundry under pressure, I would go through the huge heap trying to piece together enough outfits to get us all through a couple of days. I couldn’t just wash everything because there was so much dirty laundry. Read more