Nakedness. Ideally find a work from home situation. Careful answering the door.

I used to dislike laundry in the past, until I figured out that the part that I disliked was the monotony and lack of mental stimulation. This could be solved by listening to podcasts or audiobooks while doing the laundry. Now I no longer dislike it, because it's really only an opportunity to listen to podcasts for 30-40 minutes (hang-drying/folding time)

Become a nudist.

As an adult with a family, this won’t be accepted anymore.

Says who? Like if it's your clothes your room your life, do it your way.

Signed. A couple who hasn't folded clothes in months

Become a nudist.

No clothes = no laundry.

As an adult with a family, this won't be accepted anymore.

This right here is the real problem. Can you explain what''s unacceptable about it and why you're not asking, "How do I convince my spouse to accept this?"

become a nudist

This is called a Haberdasher Stand. When you undress you hang you clothes on it. Wear the same clothes as many days in a row as you can. Much less laundry per week.

I do all menual labour tasks like that while listening to podcasts, makes it far less annoying.

Single type of socks so you don't need to pair them.

Dry shirts/t-shirts etc on hangers, then just hang up the hangers. You can extend this to trousers etc if you have the hanging space.

Maybe consider not washing things so often? Underwear, socks and t shirt I wear one day, but an outer shirt I might wear twice, pants or shorts for a week, towels last one to two weeks.

Live out of a laundry basket. If anyone questions it just curl yourself around the laundry basic and scream like a possum protecting its nest of young. Maintain solid eye contact throughout. Defecate if necessary.

They’ll never mention it again and probably warn others. you can then live out of that laundry basket free of judgement.

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Invest in merinos and wool / hemp / tencel-lyocell clothing . They retain less odor, evacuate sweat better, plus, more adapted to heat/cold regulations. Even wool can be cool in summer. Avoid cotton first layer like t-shirts, you almost need to wash them after one use. They tend to smell quickly. A merinos shirt can be used Monday, be hanged Tuesday, used Wednesday and so on. Invest in a good pair on denim jeans if wear this kind of pants and remember that it doesn't need to be washed unless it's stained or smell bad. Denim should just be hanged on reverse side outside from time to time to take fresh air. Use merinos socks too. Work the same as tshirt. You will still need to wash, but less often.

The cons are merinos and other wool need to be hand washed at best (there wool program on machine, but I don't risk it). And merinos is more fragile than cotton or synthetic fabric.

And if you don't like folding, use hangers. That how I do.

Produce less dirty laundry. Depending on what you do for a living, and the climate, some clothes can be worn more than once. The main ones that come to mind are pants, but your discretion on other items. Just don't be gross and stinky

Lower your standards. Half-ass fold things. Don't use hangers. I drape over the drying rack and have gotten pretty adept at a quick lift and couple of shitty folds into a stack. Another tip is to have clothing that don't care about wrinkles (synthetics, sports clothing). Then you can just throw them into a drawer. I have pretty homogeneous clothing (all the same featureless t-shirt in black, white, grey, same underwear, etc). This helps with the organizing on to the drying rack. I know exactly how many of each goes where and it is trivial to color coordinate so the half ass folding naturally collates the stacks.

I wait to do laundry every couple of weeks. It all fits in one load most of the time (bought largest high efficiency machine, 12kg capacity). Some clothing gets more than one use before washing, and it entirely depends on how active I am in that clothing.

All of this helps me personally mitigate my extreme disdain at the task. Oh, and getting absolutely stoned out of my mind. Put on some tunes, it ain't so bad either the draping (largest things first), or the shitty folding.

I wear the same clothes two days in a row, sometimes three. This alone cuts laundry in half, or by a third.

When I take off my clothes I don't bunch them up or turn them inside-out, so they come out of the dryer ready to hang with minimal fuss.

All of my socks are the same, black Dickies, so I don't need to match them.

I hang everything, because I hate folding. Also, when it's folded, it's stacked somewhere, and you need to dig through the stack to find anything. Socks and underwear go in a bin.

Find a partner who doesn't mind doing laundry.

If there’s a system that works for you and isn’t impacting others why not do it? My entire family basically lives out of laundry baskets and chaos drawers. We don’t fold our clothes. If something gets a little wrinkled we toss it in the dryer for a second before we wear it.

I don’t know, I just think for me at least, as someone with Audhd I grew up being told there were “rules” to keeping a clean house like only run the dishwasher full, or sort your laundry by color… but they are sort of old dumb rules.

A full dishwasher means I’m literally out of dishes for my small family, laundry can be washed on cold and be fine for most things, just find systems you can live with and follow… screw the rules.

You can probably get away with socks and underwear just being tossed in a drawer. I actually find button-up shirts easier to deal with than t-shirts because hanging is easier than folding.

OK, so I have ADHD and absolutely hate tasks like laundry. I have found a few different solutions which have worked at various points in time depending on my available means.

When I was drying clothing by hanging I started hanging my t-shirts on hangers to dry. This meant I could get them out to dry in one handful and that once dry they could all just be put into the wardrobe with no extra fuss. Underwear and socks were handled by hanging on a little clothes horse and then just thrown in together into a drawer. I make sure to only have one type of identical sock so I can not pair them.

Now that was all good and fine but my means have increased and life has gotten better, so my methods have changed. I can now afford a heat pump dryer. This is an absolute game changer. I put washing on, when it is done I move it from the washing machine to the dryer, then when it is done I put it away.

The dryer is super efficient, using way less power than a traditional dryer and hurting the clothing way less. It uses the same system as an air conditioner to pull moisture out of the air while it throws the clothes through the warm dry air.

Because I have enough clothes now I can also do a smalls load and a separate load for just t-shirts and then all the other clothes like pants and jumpers. Because of that I can sort the smalls much faster and then put them in my new storage.

I have an 8 cube shelf. In each cube I have a fabric box which has one type of item. I have two for t-shirts, two for pants, one for underwear, one for socks, and two for anything else. I just dump items in with no folding or sorting. If I want a shirt I can pick the colour but because all the shirts are the same brand and model that is the only difference I have to deal with. My pants are basically all of a type and are really only summer or winter gear, so I just have long pants on one box and shorts in the other.

The great thing is the simplicity. Shirts are never folded, rolled, or in any other way managed. They are just thrown in. I try to empty one first and then fill that one first from the dryer so they all get rotated through, otherwise they would go musty after a time, but apart from that it is super low effort.

I also have the same for towels and bedsheets, but for bedsheets I put the full set inside one pillow case with the fitted sheet as the last item in so when I use them I pull out and apply the fitted sheet, then the flat sheet, then the second pillowcase to cover the pillows. My kitchen stuff is also similar with a single basket on top of the fridge with tea towels and microfibre cloths so I can just replace them daily or more as needed. I really should put a mini basket in the kitchen for the dirty ones but for now I just throw them into the laundry.

Overall I spend less electricity washing clothes and drying them in the dryer than I did rewashing clothes I had put off hanging. I think it is a worthy trade and saves me from avoiding the washing too much.

I genuinely love laundry so I'm not sure I'm the best person to comment but here are a few suggestions:

• as others have said, get a set of drawers so that you can just chuck different clothing items in different drawers. If there's no space for that you could get some storage containers/baskets for smaller items in your closet.

• Try rolling up your clothes rather than folding them. This is often recommended for packing but I always do it. It saves space and you can roll a bunch of clothes quickly and they're easy to move from where you're folding to the wardrobe. This image gives a rough idea, but you can find tonnes of videos as well:

I often put on a podcast while folding laundry to entertain myself...

why won't it be accepted any more? Does your family care more about the state of your closet than you being happy?
Seriously, talk to them about it, tell them how you feel.

I have a dryer. All clothes go in the dryer because outside is wet and inside is tiny. If clothes don’t like the dryer, they shrink and we can’t wear them, therefore all clothes are dryer-safe. After dryer, clothes are piled on couch. When clean clothes are needed, they’re on the couch.

Clothes don't have to go in the closet. If they're your clothes and they don't get in anyone's way, your family doesn't have a right to complain about you storing them on a pile on your bedroom floor, if putting clothes away is making you so miserable.

Alternatively, maybe strike up a deal with another household member for them to do your laundry in exchange for you doing some other household chore for them (e.g. you'll take out the bins when it's their turn to do the bins, you'll cook all their meals, etc).

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Dresser. Little boxes called drawers that hide your lack of folding. They’re great for things like underwear items.

Of course, you’ll look like like child or homeless person walking around in crap that’s wrinkled to that degree. Depending on your job, you may get pulled aside for a talk regarding your appearance.

The dresser will remove roughly half this onerous task for you, reducing clothes on hangers in a closet, but you’ll likely still need clothing that doesn’t look like it came from the dirty floor pile.

The definition of adulting is accepting a list of tasks you never really want to do. Until you’ve done that, you haven’t really grown up all the way yet.

I find listening to audio books or watching a favourite show or chatting with a friend on the phone helps my brain while folding so I'm unaware i did it.

I find my struggle is tasks like this gets so monotonous. Repeat boredom is the part that bugs my brain. it's all like "cant we just do something else?" So i make sure to have prepped a secondary activity for my brain to be distracted by while the body goes through the motions.

I have a big cedar chest in my closet I just throw all my clothes in when I don't feel like sorting.

i have a touch of the autism and i can tell you what has made a huge difference for me. especially with socks and underwear but also shirts and shorts and sweatpants, always buy the same exact brand and style. find the best option for each member of your family and stick to it across the years. laundry day will become MUCH less of a task. 👍

I just threw my clothes into various shelves based on the type and considered that good enough

That's too much effort for me. If it's clean it goes into the clean pile inside the closet. It's kinda fun hunting for correct piece of clothing in the morning. Matching socks is a bonus.

Rip off clothing, makes undressing also a lot more fun.

I think there’s unavoidable costs to doing laundry.

But I try to minimize them by doing stuff like rolling my t-shirts instead of folding them.

Also, you mentioned UX design. Well, I do a bit of Lean, if you want to call it that. In particular, I minimize switching costs by focusing on one type of item at a time. For example, first I get all the boxers out of the pile of washed clothes. Then I check they’re not inside out. Then I roll them. And then I place them where they have to go.

I adopt a production line mindset. And it can become a game. How fast can I do it this time?

Can you dry your clothes on the hangers that go into your closet & just move them into the closet when dry? Or dry them in the closet with the door open? Do you need the rack at all? I dry my air dry stuff on hangers a lot.

I was going to say merino & silk, because I don't have to wash mine often, until I read that it's the putting away you don't like.

Or maybe get nice baskets on a shelf, or a dresser with drawers, and go back to your sort-and-toss.

ETA: or trade chores. Everyone in my house does their own laundry, but my husband washes the dishes, I put them away, because he doesn't mind washing dishes, I hate it. I cook because he can't. If there is something else you can do for your spouse that they don't like, maybe they would put away your clothes in return.

Next time I'll just roll a die to decide who does the laundry.

During the summer months, you can just get away with wearing a swimsuit most days. Just get used to going in the pool pretty frequently after workouts and voila, your laundry and shower is taken care of. I used to ride my bike to the pool every day then do this, but I was like 10 so nobody raised an eyebrow

Try getting a little bit victorian with it.

Back in the day, washing machines didn't exist. Mass manufacturing didn't exist. Clothes were very expensive so people couldn't just wear a thing once, then put it in a machine to wash it. So they had other solutions that worked.

They would protect their clothes from getting dirty by wearing full coverage undergarments. Linen was quite common. This layer protects your actual clothes from the gross oils and stuff from your body. You have to wash the undergarment but your main clothing is kept clean and only rarely needs washing. Reduces the laundry to the minimal level that could be done by hand.

As an adult who has just sacrificed a box room for a Boaxel system with a bunch of open boxes to toss my clothes into (similar to your shelf system but visually less messy), I don’t understand why you can’t go back to a system that worked for you before.

Laundry is also my mortal enemy. The folding mostly, so now I’ve done away with that. Little basket things on each shelf for various clothing items, it’s much more aligned to my natural style. Use it, don’t fight it.

The only way for it to never bother you is to pay someone to do your laundry. Other than that it's a chore that will always be there no matter what. You can also have a deal with your partner, make her/him do the laundry and you take care or something else.

I have a clothes drying rack. I layer shirts on one side and pants on the other, so I really only have to put away socks and underwear.

I work two jobs, so this is what I do. Hope this helps.

honestly I find hangers the best option. shoe caddies are nice for things that just can't go on hangers like socks.

Mine get folded as I take them off the line and then mostly sit on the dresser or in a basket until the next week. Yes, we could put them away but also we have other crazy messes we need to work on too and it's the least of the problems (2 kids, 2 pets, both work, no family help etc.)