As I've  been looking at many homes recently, I've begun to evaluate some of the strange things that are done in homes.

The number one strangest thing is a laundry room tucked between the garage and the kitchen (or other entry location). How dumb is that? Where do you put the clothes? Who wants to stumble over laundry on the way into the house with all the groceries? Why can't they just make...a hallway for people to hang up their coats or put away their shoes?

Speaking of laundry....Why isn't there a hookup in every closet in every bedroom? Now wouldn't that be nice. I was watching HGTV a few days ago when I was sick in bed. Isn't it too bad that the only time you get to relax is when you're too sick to enjoy it? The mom designed her home and had washers and dryers in all of the bedroom closets. She said, "It makes it easy for the kids to do their own laundry and get it easily put away." I wonder if my clothes would be all put away if I had a washer and dryer in my closet?

I would love to hear your thoughts.....What is the "dream" laundry room like?  Do you have any laundry tips?

Here are a couple of mine...I may have some of them in my book, I"m Going to be the Greatest Mom Ever...Even if it Kills Me!

With eight kids it is easy to get overwhelmed with laundry. I was fortunate in Iowa to have a laundry room that was big enough for four large sorting bins. We had one for dark (cold) light clothes (warm) whites (hot) and towels and sheets. We also had a place for "others." The laundry room was multi-functional. In the winter it frequently served as a nursing room for mommy cats or new baby chicks. ..back to the tips.... We had to do at least two loads of laundry every day. It was easy with the bins...I would just see which one was the fullest, and do two loads from that. I was not interested in always being "done" with laundry. I didn't require all the bins to be empty. I just knew in order to keep up, I had to do two loads a day. So each day, one bin was emptied. Kids weren't allowed to have dirty clothes in their rooms.

I'm beginning to wonder what has happened....Can a large laundry room really make that much difference? Our current laundry room is a small room, but the space is now shared with a very large ferret cage. Hmm..maybe if we sell the ferret....the kids' rooms would stay cleaner?  Ferret anyone?????