Beth and littermates, Thank you Beth for sharing your system! I'll share mine as well. I don't mind doing dishes or laundry. Actually, I find them both relaxing in a way. They are kind of mindless activities, you don't have to think really hard while doing them. I could fold laundry all day (my mom loves it when I visit on laundry day). The dishes are done each night before I go to bed. I actually have gotten to the point where dirty dishes in the sink drive me nuts. Well, I should correct that. The dishes are loaded in the dishwasher each night, I usually run it every other day. I do what few handwashed dishes we have every night (coffee pots, sippy cup valves, apple corer, ect) in addition to any pots or pans. I don't like it to build up. My biggest problem is that dh doesn't rinse stuff and it gets crusty (cereal bowls, sugar in the bottom of the coffee cup, spaghetti, ect). Then he complains that I run too much water. He is getting better, he rinses 40% of the time now (up from 10%). Laundry is an every other day thing. I try to take the basket down to the dungeon (laundry room. Why are they usually in the darkest part of the basement?) each day. That way if I have enough to do a load, I can get it done and it doesn't pile up. Dh also tends to sneak dirty work clothes (coveralls, work coats, and generally funky stuff) into the laundry room as a special surprise for me. :) Aren't I lucky? I am trying to break him of the 55 gallon trash bag habit. He tends to collect dirty clothes at work until they fill up that HUGE trash bag and then brings it home. 14 hours of laundry is not fun, I know. I actually have 2 of the same laundry basket stacked together in the bathroom so if one is down in the dungeon there is one for dh to put his clothes in. My dd (3) is better at putting dirty clothes in the basket than her daddy. She actually will say 'poor daddy, he can't find the basket'. Dh has the 1 foot by 3 foot pile next to the bed of clothes that he says can be recycled. The work clothes are always washed but the clothes he wears for the hour after his shower before bed evidently can be worn again. I have yet to witness him wearing them again. :) The bathroom trash can is lined with one of those blue bags from Walmart and emptied into the diaper pail bag on trash night. I wipe out the can with a Clorox wipe and then re-line it. The blue bag doesn't stop all of the funk from getting in the can, but it helps. Of course, if we didn't have the diaper pail...it would probably build up. I also wipe down the bathroom vanity and the flushy handle of the potty before I do the trash can each time. The shower is a different story. I am bad about that. I really like to clean to music and the acoustics in our bathroom aren't that great. I really liked cleaning the bathroom in our apartment because my portable cd player sounded so good in there. It does get cleaned, but I put it off as long as I can. I like my system if you can call it that. But I am always looking for better ideas. It all depends on what works for you. I have found that what other people just do as normal are like giant lightbulbs to me. I would never think to do it the way that some people do it and then wonder why I didn't think of it because it makes so much sense. Does that make sense? Hope this helps someone somewhere. Julie
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