Tom, I heard you mention in your live stream today that someone said they had recently watched this video you said, oh maybe I should watch it so I know how we do Laundry. I have not watched your channel that long, I found you through the wonderful Jamerrill Stewart. I hadn’t seen all these organization and reviews of the house videos, it struck me that what Andrea has done is left you with a complete “playbook” with great detail in these videos. Many of us think of the Dads as the “coach” , but in these videos I see Andrea as the coach of the family and she’s created an audio playbook, like a football coach creates for their team. I can’t even imagine how heartsick you and the children’s are. I am a Christian and I know that as Christians we definitely can and do find comfort in knowing that Andrea is in a better place, and is with your baby Cyrus. This doesn’t mean that there won’t still be waves of grief, sometimes more like a tsunami. Anyway, I don’t know if I’m explaining myself very well but it just hit me as I’ve binge watched all the organizational videos and all the room tours in the last 2 days and it just came to me , Andrea created created a “playbook” a “how to” for the Mills family. Most families are not as blessed, loved ones leave in so many unexpected manners, sudden illness, accidents etc, usually the family is left wondering, how did Mum, or Dad, do this, or that. Where did they put this, etc. Andrea being the extremely detailed oriented and extremely organized woman that she was has carefully and thoughtfully documented this all for you. I have nothing to offer except my deepest condolences and our prayers for you and your beautiful children to just be surrounded with Our Lords infinite grace and the wings of those giant angels wrapped around each and every one of you in the coming days and weeks to help you get through the toughest days, and help bring you out the other side of this incredibly sad time, and hopefully one day you will be able to look at these videos and know that your amazing wife, the coach, has left you all well prepared to be able to continue on in her absence. Blessings to you all. The Schlachter family. Ontario Canada 🙏🏻❤️
makeuplover 68 you worded this very beautifully. I have been rewatching her videos also and I think how marvelous for this beautiful family that their wife and mother left them such treasures. Through these videos the family will be able to continue on with order and the littles ones can get to know their mom.
@@melindabanning7707 , thank you for your kind words. I'm not really a football fan actually the only reason I know what a "playbook" is in foot ball is. Because of the movie "playbook" ..as I watched one video after the other detailing every single thing that she does, how she did it, why she did it, where it lived in the home, it truly hit me " she's written a complete and living playbook for her husband and children"...and then something else hit me...I have a son with special needs, he is 8 years old. I am retired so that I can be home with him 24/7 and my husband is still working, I have really taken care of all his needs almost in isolation as his dad works shift work, and while he loves our son he just isn't around much to learn what to do for him, or how, from everything from how he likes his cereal to every piece of clothing must have all the tags cut out or he will just cry and scream and run away ( he's on the autism spectrum). He is fully verbal and when he's not in distress he can communicate his wants and needs quite well, but when something is bothering him, he can't get the words out and then he just cries or screams...Andreas passing has touched my life so deeply for a woman I didn't know, and hadn't even watched her videos until just a few days before she passed. I have begun to chart everything I do for my son, from his supplement protocol to how he likes his food, which foods are ok, which foods are not, bed time routine, morning routine, the song we sing while brushing teeth, the song we sing in the shower so he can shower pretty much by himself, and get all the steps done. Andrea taught me that it's my responsibility as his Mummy is to be sure that if something ever happened to me his Dad, and others would know all the little things that help calm him. Loosing me would be devastating for him as he and I are attached at the hip, I don't go anywhere without him, ever. But, life is unpredictable, and while I'm a Christian and I hope and pray every single day that God will not allow for me to be taken from a boy who needs me, Andreas death has shown me that it is irresponsible of me to not be prepared, and so, for the past 2 months that's what I've been doing. Creating a playbook for my family. I pray that never need it, but if they do, it will be there, thanks to Andrea Mills.
I absolutely love how you're super organized but not ultra organized to the point of being regimented! You still allow life to happen, which it always inevitably does, especially with lots of kiddos 😊
She is just magnificent! Love watching her videos, she touched so many heart's. 💜 Tom, what beautiful person you are and such a wonderful husband and father. Andrea is looking down and smiling, she is so very proud. 👌💜 She too is and will ALWAYS be the most BEAUTIFUL person... Here for you if you ever need to talk. God bless!
You and your family are just such beautiful souls, I love the way all your children are so well mannered and are going to be great adults and parents too. Very happy children and never bratty and always have great attitudes. Thank you very much for your channel, do not know how it found me, but I feel BLESSED for it.❤️🙏🏽😊👨👨👦👦👩👩👧👦👏👏
Out of all the families I watch on RUclips your family is my favorite. I love how happy and humble your family is. Andrea was full of humility and love. I aspire to be as good as she was. I pray for your family after your loss.
If you leave damp clothes in your washing machine overnight, after they have been washed your washing machine will eventually have a mouldy smell in the drum. You should empty your washing machine as soon as it's finished a wash cycle and don't fully close the washing machine door that way your washing machine gets to air out and won't have a mouldy smell coming from the drum. Anyway it's good to see your kids helping you out. Well done?
I'm guessing Wyoming has a climate similar to ours here in northern Colorado. We don't have to worry as much about mildew because it's pretty dry. (We still worry about it, just not overnight.) Dionne Francis-Brown, is it perhaps more humid where you are? Also, when the washer gets used nearly every day, it doesn't have as much time for the bacteria and gunk that make it smell bad to grow.
@@TheMillsFamilyVlog I think that only happens when you leave your clothes for more than 3 days with the door closed. But since you do a load everyday I don't think that will happen.
I love the family working together, the way you have your laundry system is wonderful. You will never have laundry mountains! I also try to encourage my kids to wear certain clothing more than once, that is still hit or miss, but we keep practicing. Thanks for sharing your tips!
I got our kids into the habit of putting the clothes directly into the washing machine. Except for whites and towels, have two laundry baskets for that. Last one to put their clothes in the washing machine when it is full turns it on.
So refreshing to see kids that help out, help each other and are proud to be part of their own family. I'm young and never want children and I can't have them anyway but I'm aware of and around families semi often and the trend seems to be to 'shut them up' with a gadget or candy and never interact or teach life lessons! ,Anne it's just the area I live in but still sad to see, so when I see kids like yours it makes me happy to know someone is doing it right ☺️
When you said you wore pants for a couple of days I was horrified.....and then I realized, "OH! She means *trousers*" =D That makes total sense. I love how organized you are.
I'm so glad I saw this on my recommended list. I actually had this same exact idea of doing laundry (using individual baskets for each of us sorting,organizing after pulling out from drier and putting each basket in each room. .) BUT I had not purchased anything yet such as baskets etc.. because I wanted to find the right sizes and think of a system I liked. I hadn't put much thought into it after coming up with the idea. Well now that I see her video here I am going to look for these same baskets to buy for our family.
I don't sort our laundry....the game changer for us was buying commercial size washers and dryers...it washes and drys three "normal" size loads....it has been awesome....so now I do one load every three days and never have laundry back up....plus gives me plenty time to wash bedding.
I grew up with 2 brothers and our mom used baskets, too. Bathroom and each bedroom had a dirty laundry basket and she'd take the one in their room, go around to each of our rooms and empty our baskets into theirs and then take it all in the bathroom (where our washer and dryer were). After we went to sleep (I know this, because when I grew older I could stay up later than my brothers and noticed this) she'd sort and go through the laundry (emptying pockets and so on), then put either darks or whites on the washer, leaving the other in the bathroom dirty laundry basket. Then she'd go to bed. In the morning, usually before we're up, she'd move the laundry from the washer to the dryer, and then when the dryer is done and she has the time (if she had a day off work, it'd be around noon, if she didn't, then it'd happen in the evening after we're asleep) she'd take all our laundry baskets, fold all the clothes in them, and then either call our names to come and get the full baskets of clean clothes or take it to our rooms if we weren't home (like when she had a day off but we were at school). Then we emptied our clean clothes to our closets (sometimes she had to tell us to do so, if she was about to wash more laundry few days later and we hadn't emptied our baskets yet... happened a lot to me when I was in high school and we had a test week...) and take the baskets back to the bathroom. I started paying attention to this when I was in my late teens and about to move away from home. I live alone. I have a dirty clothes basket (on wheels) in the bedroom. On Fridays, I put all used-but-not-dirty clothes I have laying around, to the dirty clothes basket and change linens and towels to clean ones and put dirty ones in the basket (small towels in the bathroom and kitchen and pillow cases every week, sheets and bath towels every other week). On Saturdays I take it to the laundry room I share with my neighbors (I book my laundry shift on Tuesdays, when I usually know what time the next Saturday I have time to do the laundry... lucky for me, others don't seem to prefer Saturdays). I sort the laundry (dark colors and light colors), go through pockets again (I do that before throwing anything to the basket but I re-do it just in case), close zippers and buttons, turn all printed shirts and all jeans upside down and all socks the right side out, that sort of thing. Takes about 10-15min, since I've been doing this almost six years, since I moved away from home. After the washer is done, I take my clean laundry basket and take the first load off the washer (usually darks because I have more of those) and then wash another load unless it's very small (sometimes it's just like two small towels and a couple or underpants and socks). If it is very small amount, I just wash it with the next weeks' laundry. I don't use a dryer (unless I'm visiting my mom, where I do all my laundry myself and usually hers, too, to help out in exchange of being an adult and still, like, she doing all the cooking and so on for me, when I visit). I've just never gotten used to using a dryer. I hang my clothes on a drying rack in the room in the apartment that has the most empty space so it's not in the way, in this apartment it's the bathroom. I organize them while I hang them, putting all "bottoms" together, all "tops" together, pairing socks next to each other, and all linen in one part of the rack. I hang sheets on top of doors around the apartment, because they'd take up so much space on the rack. On Sunday or Monday I take the sheets down and put them in the clean clothes basket (not folded). On Monday I take all the drying laundry and put it in the clean clothes basket. Then I take that into the living room, dump it all on one of my two armchairs, sit in the armchair next to that one and put the empty basket on my other side on the floor. Then I usually put on music or tv or RUclips videos on my laptop and start folding my laundry. Then, after I'm done, I put the laundry away to my linen drawers and my closet.
Whew he works those laundry machines like a pro! the washer & dryer look like computers lol "sometimes the boys just take their clothes out because "they dont think they need help carrying their laundry" hah typical boys. "Traffic jam! They happen a lot in our house ." Same mama , same! :) I like to think of you and my husband in heaven watching over all our kiddos, praying, laughing, loving, guarding both all our kids all 16 total of them
I am absolutely in love with the simplicity and ease that you get these systems going. Thank you!!! Please tell me where you got a pump for your 5 gallon bucket! I dip a cup into mine and make a mess!
I don't remember where I got it, but it's sold as a 1 gallon pump. It still reaches almost to the bottom of the bucket though. It's something like this: www.amazon.com/Gallon-Bottle-Dispensing-Pump-Standard/dp/B00E8GGJUM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471305108&sr=8-1&keywords=one+gallon+pump
your kids are so cute :) I love how organized you are. I just moved and I see myself implementing your systems. 5 kids here and clothes all over the place are my nemesis
Rewatching this video. Andrea was so organized! Do you still do the basket system Tom? I know it has been so hard to do everything, you have done a great job!
Love this! We all have our own basket too but it doesn't run this smoothly. Usually I tackle the folding of Mt. Washmore once or twice per week :-/. I am going to try this!
Wow......you've left me feeling very inadequate doing laundry for only two adults!! (I know! I lack practice because I'm an only child.....lol) I always had hoped for a big family....maybe my total lack of organization is somebody's way of telling me something. :)
I'm not a naturally organized person, either. I used to have a GIANT pile of laundry all the time when it was just Tom and I. I think we all tend to be as organized as we need to be and if we don't need to be particularly organized, there's no reason to make the effort. I mean that sincerely. If you don't need to be, embrace it guilt free!
my family is a family of eight my mum dad 2 brothers nd 2 sisters nd i really love watching ur videos like i can relate lol bcs most people r like less than a family of 5
your sock drawer is so tidy, I love it. you made that right? the dividers? I should do that for my husband and myself. plus the girls! I finally changed my laundry system this week. my machines are in the garage. so I found something to hang the hangers on and do the hanging stuff right out of the dryer. I LOVE IT! next is color coding the hangers!
When I had to start sharing a drawer with Tom, I made those dividers following the directions from this video: ruclips.net/video/90clEk6hS-Y/видео.html I had made something similar for the boys' room when it was just my four oldest and they were in the room the girls have now. It was just plain foam poster board, not pretty like the one in our drawer. I did our utensil drawer in the kitchen, too. Everything fits so nice and tidy. I would love it if all my drawer were done that way, but I haven't got around to it.
I love this! I'm a mom of 8 (ages 8 months - 11 years), and doing only 1 load of laundry a day sounds amazing. Laundry and I are not on good terms right now! I may have missed it, but how does bedding and towels work into this system? Love the videos -- you have a beautiful family!
I didn't mention it, but when we want to wash the towels, we just throw them in the dirty clothes basket in the bathroom and they join the cycle. For sheets, I sneak in an extra load during the day. In the morning, I'll take the clean clothes out of the dryer, put the wet clothes in and start the washer with a load of sheets. When we do chores later, I fold the clean clothes I took out of the dryer earlier and the sheets get put into the dryer. At bedtime the sheets are dry and we remake any beds that had the sheets washed.
Another way you could do it is to pick one day to change all the towels and bath mats and only do those. Jordan Page talks about her system on her channel and she says on Monday she makes sure she has all the laundry:sheets, towels, kitchen cloths, blankets and the clothes. She then washes the bedding first because those need to be put back on the beds, her white towels that she bleaches, and then bath mats and rags. She then sorts by thickness level, with the exception of the whites unless it’s a towel.
I am with you Angel. I usually have at least 3 loads of laundry a day to do and sometimes many more. How I wish I could get the people in my house to be this organized. I have six kids and 5 adults and I have never been able to get their cooperation. I started out trying to watch you tube for organizational ideas and Andrea's videos came up. I can't stop watching her. LOL
Do you iron? I'm a nut about wrinkles. I finally quit ironing. If my clothes are left in the dryer overnight they wrinkle. I'll spray them with water and hang them and the majority of wrinkles are gone the next day. You've trained them well. Be proud😊
I iron sometimes, but I try to avoid clothes that wrinkle easily. It's about 2 weeks between wearings so any shirt that may have been a little wrinkled has "hung them out" by then. Sometimes the girls' dresses need some ironing around the hems, but I don't do that every time, just when they really need it.
I gave up on ironing most things. We do a load of “re-drys” where we take a full basket of shirts and put them back inside the dryer for about 10-15 minutes. Then we shake them out and hang them up. All the wrinkles are gone. Only business shirts need an iron for the most part. I used to spend hours every Sunday afternoon getting all our shirts ironed and one day a co-worker told me about this little trick. Saved so much time.
I use a powder bleach and a laundry liquid in my washing machine. it helps lift stains. Nappy San is a brand of bleach powder in Australia. It's color safe.
I love the little black skirt the girl was wearing near the end. How is the weather where you live? I am in Texas and we usually know when rain is coming (not often enough LOL) so I take advantage of the sun and we hang most clothes on the line outdoors, saves on electricity.
Yes, we do. What you see in the video is all that is done each day. Everything sits where it was left until the next day. Day 1, the load goes in the wash. Day 2 it goes into the dryer. Day 3 it gets folded and put away.
You must not shower or change clothes often I have a family of 4 and we go through 8 towels a day, 4 sets of clothes and 4 sets of pjs plus 1 sheets set a day so around 3 loads a day
so how many kids do you have? And what are their names? How did you come up with their names each time? I've been watching your videos videos I really love them. Thank you so much. I know it has to be a blessing to be a mama to so many children I know you never have a dull moment times are always fun but maybe a hassle.
We have 8 children. Thomas (14), Asher (12), Judah (11), Justus (8), Eden (6), Solomon (4), Sophia (2) and Claudia (1). Thomas was named after Tom, though they don't have the same middle name. The rest of our children have Bible names. We have a book that lists every person in the Bible and where they are found in Scripture. I got it for a dollar at a used book sale. We call it the Mills Baby Name Book. :) Sophia is the only one whose name isn't obviously from the Bible. When Tom first began learning Greek he discovered the Greek word for wisdom is Sophia. He said if we were having a girl (I was pregnant) that he'd like to name her Sophia. Obviously we were!
+Andrea Mills thank you for all of that that was so interesting to read I only had two sons both are grown now and I wished I would have had girls and more children I love children have even worked at a daycare twice in my life and love to each and every one of them and every day I was there thanks for your info and I adore your channel you are such a great mom.
How do you keep the socks sorted by child and also I didn't see you washing towels. How do you deal with towels? I know your family must use a bunch each day. Also do you all bathe every day etc or take turns every other day. When I was a kid bathing was only done once a week- but you sponged off every day. I know things have changed thank God.
Bathing everyday is actually not very good for skin. We schedule one bath/shower per week for each child, but they really hop in whenever they feel like having one or need one. We throw towels and washcloths in with the light laundry as needed.
It's Biokleen. I got it here: www.azurestandard.com/#/shop/product//laundry-liquid-free-&-clear/16882 The pump was a separate purchase, but the lid on the five gallon bucket is made to have a pump put into it. I think the pump was just a couple of dollars.
I always thought about using a system close to this but I was always afraid my clothes wouldn't be as fresh left in the washer over night . Do you guys ever have any issues w that ?
Overnight has been fine. Sometimes someone will forget to start the dryer so we can't change loads the next day. Clothes left for two nights do seem a little musty. On the rare occasion that happens, I just have the kids run the washer with fresh soap again and start the dryer to continue the cycle for the next day.
We kind of do the same. I'm the 2nd oldest in a family of 7 and I make it 8 we have a kind of big house and go by color. My color is Light purple because my walls is light purple. my older sisters is Orange and my oldest brother is Blue and so on. We have a huge laundry room. My job is laundry I do everyday because we have a list of things and I happen to be laundry everyday. so I go in my siblings room. it's the 2 youngest in a Red room but there boys with diffrent colors it's the 2 youngest sisters and Then it's my room purple and then my older sister then my younger sister a year behind me. I take the laundry baskets that were white but we had a painting contest and painted them. I take them to the laundry room and put them in washers. we have 5 washers and 5 dryers because it goes younger boys older boys older sisters younger sister and parents. it cost alot of money to have them and provide things for them but we all pitch in buying stuff for it and it works pretty good.
Our children are Thomas (14), Asher (12), Judah (11), Justus (turning 9 next week), Eden (6), Solomon (4), Sophia (2) and Claudia (1). If you haven't seen them, we have a playlist of Day in the LIfe vlogs that might help you get to know them better. Here is a link: ruclips.net/p/PLd2pt5YWp66AnrAHEdkE20oeZYNJK6ucn
Sometimes, but I try to avoid clothes that wrinkle easily. It's about 2 weeks between wearings so any shirt that may have been a little wrinkled has "hung them out" by then. Sometimes the girls' dresses need some ironing around the hems, but I don't do that every time, just when they really need it.
I think it's cool that you let them wear stuff with characters on it. I know with Duggars they have all plain clothes. Also do you allow your kids to watch tv.
I make matching socks a family game. All socks go in a pile in the middle. Everyone matches and balls socks, and whoever get the most balls wins. I hate balling socks.
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Tom, I heard you mention in your live stream today that someone said they had recently watched this video you said, oh maybe I should watch it so I know how we do Laundry. I have not watched your channel that long, I found you through the wonderful Jamerrill Stewart. I hadn’t seen all these organization and reviews of the house videos, it struck me that what Andrea has done is left you with a complete “playbook” with great detail in these videos. Many of us think of the Dads as the “coach” , but in these videos I see Andrea as the coach of the family and she’s created an audio playbook, like a football coach creates for their team. I can’t even imagine how heartsick you and the children’s are. I am a Christian and I know that as Christians we definitely can and do find comfort in knowing that Andrea is in a better place, and is with your baby Cyrus. This doesn’t mean that there won’t still be waves of grief, sometimes more like a tsunami. Anyway, I don’t know if I’m explaining myself very well but it just hit me as I’ve binge watched all the organizational videos and all the room tours in the last 2 days and it just came to me , Andrea created created a “playbook” a “how to” for the Mills family. Most families are not as blessed, loved ones leave in so many unexpected manners, sudden illness, accidents etc, usually the family is left wondering, how did Mum, or Dad, do this, or that. Where did they put this, etc. Andrea being the extremely detailed oriented and extremely organized woman that she was has carefully and thoughtfully documented this all for you. I have nothing to offer except my deepest condolences and our prayers for you and your beautiful children to just be surrounded with Our Lords infinite grace and the wings of those giant angels wrapped around each and every one of you in the coming days and weeks to help you get through the toughest days, and help bring you out the other side of this incredibly sad time, and hopefully one day you will be able to look at these videos and know that your amazing wife, the coach, has left you all well prepared to be able to continue on in her absence. Blessings to you all. The Schlachter family. Ontario Canada 🙏🏻❤️
@@junejune1031 I thought he is Cyrus too.
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June June it was Cyrus Grant.
makeuplover 68 you worded this very beautifully. I have been rewatching her videos also and I think how marvelous for this beautiful family that their wife and mother left them such treasures. Through these videos the family will be able to continue on with order and the littles ones can get to know their mom.
@@melindabanning7707 , thank you for your kind words. I'm not really a football fan actually the only reason I know what a "playbook" is in foot ball is. Because of the movie "playbook" ..as I watched one video after the other detailing every single thing that she does, how she did it, why she did it, where it lived in the home, it truly hit me " she's written a complete and living playbook for her husband and children"...and then something else hit me...I have a son with special needs, he is 8 years old. I am retired so that I can be home with him 24/7 and my husband is still working, I have really taken care of all his needs almost in isolation as his dad works shift work, and while he loves our son he just isn't around much to learn what to do for him, or how, from everything from how he likes his cereal to every piece of clothing must have all the tags cut out or he will just cry and scream and run away ( he's on the autism spectrum). He is fully verbal and when he's not in distress he can communicate his wants and needs quite well, but when something is bothering him, he can't get the words out and then he just cries or screams...Andreas passing has touched my life so deeply for a woman I didn't know, and hadn't even watched her videos until just a few days before she passed. I have begun to chart everything I do for my son, from his supplement protocol to how he likes his food, which foods are ok, which foods are not, bed time routine, morning routine, the song we sing while brushing teeth, the song we sing in the shower so he can shower pretty much by himself, and get all the steps done. Andrea taught me that it's my responsibility as his Mummy is to be sure that if something ever happened to me his Dad, and others would know all the little things that help calm him. Loosing me would be devastating for him as he and I are attached at the hip, I don't go anywhere without him, ever. But, life is unpredictable, and while I'm a Christian and I hope and pray every single day that God will not allow for me to be taken from a boy who needs me, Andreas death has shown me that it is irresponsible of me to not be prepared, and so, for the past 2 months that's what I've been doing. Creating a playbook for my family. I pray that never need it, but if they do, it will be there, thanks to Andrea Mills.
I absolutely love how you're super organized but not ultra organized to the point of being regimented! You still allow life to happen, which it always inevitably does, especially with lots of kiddos 😊
Rest well mama
i have 13 siblings. growing up the girls had white socks and the boys had black. no sock sorting :)
She is just magnificent! Love watching her videos, she touched so many heart's. 💜 Tom, what beautiful person you are and such a wonderful husband and father. Andrea is looking down and smiling, she is so very proud. 👌💜 She too is and will ALWAYS be the most BEAUTIFUL person... Here for you if you ever need to talk. God bless!
You and your family are just such beautiful souls, I love the way all your children are so well mannered and are going to be great adults and parents too. Very happy children and never bratty and always have great attitudes. Thank you very much for your channel, do not know how it found me, but I feel BLESSED for it.❤️🙏🏽😊👨👨👦👦👩👩👧👦👏👏
Congratulations! You seem to have everything under control. Love the mini basket idea as I had never seen this before. Have a good day.
Out of all the families I watch on RUclips your family is my favorite. I love how happy and humble your family is. Andrea was full of humility and love. I aspire to be as good as she was. I pray for your family after your loss.
If you leave damp clothes in your washing machine overnight, after they have been washed your washing machine will eventually have a mouldy smell in the drum. You should empty your washing machine as soon as it's finished a wash cycle and don't fully close the washing machine door that way your washing machine gets to air out and won't have a mouldy smell coming from the drum. Anyway it's good to see your kids helping you out. Well done?
We've been doing it this way for quite a long time and it's been fine. I suppose if the room was warmer it might be a problem but it works for us!
I'm guessing Wyoming has a climate similar to ours here in northern Colorado. We don't have to worry as much about mildew because it's pretty dry. (We still worry about it, just not overnight.) Dionne Francis-Brown, is it perhaps more humid where you are? Also, when the washer gets used nearly every day, it doesn't have as much time for the bacteria and gunk that make it smell bad to grow.
@@TheMillsFamilyVlog I think that only happens when you leave your clothes for more than 3 days with the door closed. But since you do a load everyday I don't think that will happen.
Jude has the most adorable smile!!
wow i have 8 kids and i will try that idea of a small basket for each kid. great video
Love how you have taught your children to be helpers!! I like so many of your ideas!! Thanks for sharing!😉😉
I love the family working together, the way you have your laundry system is wonderful. You will never have laundry mountains! I also try to encourage my kids to wear certain clothing more than once, that is still hit or miss, but we keep practicing. Thanks for sharing your tips!
I got our kids into the habit of putting the clothes directly into the washing machine. Except for whites and towels, have two laundry baskets for that. Last one to put their clothes in the washing machine when it is full turns it on.
"Usually someone tattles" haha your videos are always fun
RachaelH haha true
You’re amazing! 😊 So well organized and your children know exactly what to do!
Wow they are so disciplined this is awesome. All kids need to Be this way
Wow! I wish I had a helper like Judah! All of your children are so helpful and happy. What a good job, Mommy!!
So refreshing to see kids that help out, help each other and are proud to be part of their own family.
I'm young and never want children and I can't have them anyway but I'm aware of and around families semi often and the trend seems to be to 'shut them up' with a gadget or candy and never interact or teach life lessons! ,Anne it's just the area I live in but still sad to see, so when I see kids like yours it makes me happy to know someone is doing it right ☺️
Love the little baskets per person !!!
When you said you wore pants for a couple of days I was horrified.....and then I realized, "OH! She means *trousers*" =D That makes total sense.
I love how organized you are.
Lol. Just turn them inside out, it will be fine :P
I'm guessing pants mean underwear in your area?
Yes, not knickers.
me too
Simple and brilliant. Simply brilliant! ❤️❤️
I'm so glad I saw this on my recommended list. I actually had this same exact idea of doing laundry (using individual baskets for each of us sorting,organizing after pulling out from drier and putting each basket in each room.
.) BUT I had not purchased anything yet such as baskets etc.. because I wanted to find the right sizes and think of a system I liked. I hadn't put much thought into it after coming up with the idea. Well now that I see her video here I am going to look for these same baskets to buy for our family.
I don't sort our laundry....the game changer for us was buying commercial size washers and dryers...it washes and drys three "normal" size loads....it has been awesome....so now I do one load every three days and never have laundry back up....plus gives me plenty time to wash bedding.
I love this, it is filmed like a documentary.
That is a very efficient system! I have 5 kids and a mountain of laundry that drives me crazy!!! This video inspired me to do something about it:)
You are a star! Loved Judah and his smile. This was 2 years ago, has anything changed that you find works better that you can share? Thanks again x
I grew up with 2 brothers and our mom used baskets, too. Bathroom and each bedroom had a dirty laundry basket and she'd take the one in their room, go around to each of our rooms and empty our baskets into theirs and then take it all in the bathroom (where our washer and dryer were). After we went to sleep (I know this, because when I grew older I could stay up later than my brothers and noticed this) she'd sort and go through the laundry (emptying pockets and so on), then put either darks or whites on the washer, leaving the other in the bathroom dirty laundry basket. Then she'd go to bed. In the morning, usually before we're up, she'd move the laundry from the washer to the dryer, and then when the dryer is done and she has the time (if she had a day off work, it'd be around noon, if she didn't, then it'd happen in the evening after we're asleep) she'd take all our laundry baskets, fold all the clothes in them, and then either call our names to come and get the full baskets of clean clothes or take it to our rooms if we weren't home (like when she had a day off but we were at school). Then we emptied our clean clothes to our closets (sometimes she had to tell us to do so, if she was about to wash more laundry few days later and we hadn't emptied our baskets yet... happened a lot to me when I was in high school and we had a test week...) and take the baskets back to the bathroom.
I started paying attention to this when I was in my late teens and about to move away from home. I live alone. I have a dirty clothes basket (on wheels) in the bedroom. On Fridays, I put all used-but-not-dirty clothes I have laying around, to the dirty clothes basket and change linens and towels to clean ones and put dirty ones in the basket (small towels in the bathroom and kitchen and pillow cases every week, sheets and bath towels every other week). On Saturdays I take it to the laundry room I share with my neighbors (I book my laundry shift on Tuesdays, when I usually know what time the next Saturday I have time to do the laundry... lucky for me, others don't seem to prefer Saturdays). I sort the laundry (dark colors and light colors), go through pockets again (I do that before throwing anything to the basket but I re-do it just in case), close zippers and buttons, turn all printed shirts and all jeans upside down and all socks the right side out, that sort of thing. Takes about 10-15min, since I've been doing this almost six years, since I moved away from home. After the washer is done, I take my clean laundry basket and take the first load off the washer (usually darks because I have more of those) and then wash another load unless it's very small (sometimes it's just like two small towels and a couple or underpants and socks). If it is very small amount, I just wash it with the next weeks' laundry. I don't use a dryer (unless I'm visiting my mom, where I do all my laundry myself and usually hers, too, to help out in exchange of being an adult and still, like, she doing all the cooking and so on for me, when I visit). I've just never gotten used to using a dryer. I hang my clothes on a drying rack in the room in the apartment that has the most empty space so it's not in the way, in this apartment it's the bathroom. I organize them while I hang them, putting all "bottoms" together, all "tops" together, pairing socks next to each other, and all linen in one part of the rack. I hang sheets on top of doors around the apartment, because they'd take up so much space on the rack. On Sunday or Monday I take the sheets down and put them in the clean clothes basket (not folded). On Monday I take all the drying laundry and put it in the clean clothes basket. Then I take that into the living room, dump it all on one of my two armchairs, sit in the armchair next to that one and put the empty basket on my other side on the floor. Then I usually put on music or tv or RUclips videos on my laptop and start folding my laundry. Then, after I'm done, I put the laundry away to my linen drawers and my closet.
Your kids have grown so much since this video! Thanks for the tips :)
Whew he works those laundry machines like a pro! the washer & dryer look like computers lol "sometimes the boys just take their clothes out because "they dont think they need help carrying their laundry" hah typical boys.
"Traffic jam! They happen a lot in our house
." Same mama , same! :) I like to think of you and my husband in heaven watching over all our kiddos, praying, laughing, loving, guarding both all our kids all 16 total of them
i love the basket idea. definitely giving that a try: )
I laughed when one of boys just picked up there pile and left.
I would do that, too, because the basket is going back to the parents' room anyway, so why not?
love it. much more simple than mine. I am relearning how to do things. went from 13 kids at home to 1. absolute culture shock for me.
WOW 13!!!!???? I bet you don't know what to do with just one? Lolol I have 7 :)
I had no idea one was so hard.
I am absolutely in love with the simplicity and ease that you get these systems going. Thank you!!! Please tell me where you got a pump for your 5 gallon bucket! I dip a cup into mine and make a mess!
I don't remember where I got it, but it's sold as a 1 gallon pump. It still reaches almost to the bottom of the bucket though. It's something like this: www.amazon.com/Gallon-Bottle-Dispensing-Pump-Standard/dp/B00E8GGJUM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471305108&sr=8-1&keywords=one+gallon+pump
extremely organized wow! i guess when u have that large a family you have to be or itll be chaos! great video!
your kids are so cute :)
I love how organized you are. I just moved and I see myself implementing your systems. 5 kids here and clothes all over the place are my nemesis
Rewatching this video. Andrea was so organized! Do you still do the basket system Tom? I know it has been so hard to do everything, you have done a great job!
wow you are so organize :) Great tips, I have 3 children and our laundry seems never ending!!! I'm try the little basket method.
Nice idea and if it works continue but you can now assign larger children to supervise smaller ones on some chores.
Love this! We all have our own basket too but it doesn't run this smoothly. Usually I tackle the folding of Mt. Washmore once or twice per week :-/. I am going to try this!
Wow......you've left me feeling very inadequate doing laundry for only two adults!! (I know! I lack practice because I'm an only child.....lol)
I always had hoped for a big family....maybe my total lack of organization is somebody's way of telling me something. :)
I'm not a naturally organized person, either. I used to have a GIANT pile of laundry all the time when it was just Tom and I. I think we all tend to be as organized as we need to be and if we don't need to be particularly organized, there's no reason to make the effort. I mean that sincerely. If you don't need to be, embrace it guilt free!
Nice job, Judah!
my family is a family of eight my mum dad 2 brothers nd 2 sisters nd i really love watching ur videos like i can relate lol bcs most people r like less than a family of 5
Great job!!! Loved the little baskets. I have to start a chore system with my girls. That would be so helpful.
your sock drawer is so tidy, I love it. you made that right? the dividers? I should do that for my husband and myself. plus the girls!
I finally changed my laundry system this week. my machines are in the garage. so I found something to hang the hangers on and do the hanging stuff right out of the dryer. I LOVE IT! next is color coding the hangers!
When I had to start sharing a drawer with Tom, I made those dividers following the directions from this video: ruclips.net/video/90clEk6hS-Y/видео.html I had made something similar for the boys' room when it was just my four oldest and they were in the room the girls have now. It was just plain foam poster board, not pretty like the one in our drawer. I did our utensil drawer in the kitchen, too. Everything fits so nice and tidy. I would love it if all my drawer were done that way, but I haven't got around to it.
+Andrea Mills thank you. that looks easy enough.
I love this! I'm a mom of 8 (ages 8 months - 11 years), and doing only 1 load of laundry a day sounds amazing. Laundry and I are not on good terms right now! I may have missed it, but how does bedding and towels work into this system? Love the videos -- you have a beautiful family!
I didn't mention it, but when we want to wash the towels, we just throw them in the dirty clothes basket in the bathroom and they join the cycle. For sheets, I sneak in an extra load during the day. In the morning, I'll take the clean clothes out of the dryer, put the wet clothes in and start the washer with a load of sheets. When we do chores later, I fold the clean clothes I took out of the dryer earlier and the sheets get put into the dryer. At bedtime the sheets are dry and we remake any beds that had the sheets washed.
Another way you could do it is to pick one day to change all the towels and bath mats and only do those.
Jordan Page talks about her system on her channel and she says on Monday she makes sure she has all the laundry:sheets, towels, kitchen cloths, blankets and the clothes. She then washes the bedding first because those need to be put back on the beds, her white towels that she bleaches, and then bath mats and rags. She then sorts by thickness level, with the exception of the whites unless it’s a towel.
talk about organized!!! love it...
These videos are underrated
very nice!
I really wish laundry went that smoothly in my house
Lolol I think we all wish it went like that. I am usually swimming in my laundry asking for help before I drown in it. Lololol ;)
I am with you Angel. I usually have at least 3 loads of laundry a day to do and sometimes many more. How I wish I could get the people in my house to be this organized. I have six kids and 5 adults and I have never been able to get their cooperation. I started out trying to watch you tube for organizational ideas and Andrea's videos came up. I can't stop watching her. LOL
Very nice system!
all i can say is i like this vlog of yours teresa from philippines
Fantastic.
Great organization
Do you iron? I'm a nut about wrinkles. I finally quit ironing. If my clothes are left in the dryer overnight they wrinkle. I'll spray them with water and hang them and the majority of wrinkles are gone the next day. You've trained them well. Be proud😊
I iron sometimes, but I try to avoid clothes that wrinkle easily. It's about 2 weeks between wearings so any shirt that may have been a little wrinkled has "hung them out" by then. Sometimes the girls' dresses need some ironing around the hems, but I don't do that every time, just when they really need it.
Andrea Mills Me either😊
I gave up on ironing most things. We do a load of “re-drys” where we take a full basket of shirts and put them back inside the dryer for about 10-15 minutes. Then we shake them out and hang them up. All the wrinkles are gone. Only business shirts need an iron for the most part. I used to spend hours every Sunday afternoon getting all our shirts ironed and one day a co-worker told me about this little trick. Saved so much time.
Brilliant.
I'm the one who usually do laundry Dish towels , bath towels, regular clothes
Soooo cute!!! Loving your channel!!
I use a powder bleach and a laundry liquid in my washing machine. it helps lift stains.
Nappy San is a brand of bleach powder in Australia. It's color safe.
I love the little black skirt the girl was wearing near the end. How is the weather where you live? I am in Texas and we usually know when rain is coming (not often enough LOL) so I take advantage of the sun and we hang most clothes on the line outdoors, saves on electricity.
I have thought about putting up a clothes line, but we never have. It would be nice! We're in Wyoming and it's pretty dry here, too.
I kinda want to do it this way when I'm older because I get very overwhelmed by laundry piling up
Do you leave the wet clothes in the washer overnight? Thanks for another video and it was nice to see Judah! loved his serving heart.
Yes, we do. What you see in the video is all that is done each day. Everything sits where it was left until the next day. Day 1, the load goes in the wash. Day 2 it goes into the dryer. Day 3 it gets folded and put away.
You must not shower or change clothes often I have a family of 4 and we go through 8 towels a day, 4 sets of clothes and 4 sets of pjs plus 1 sheets set a day so around 3 loads a day
This is very AWESOME. YOu are so Organized!!! Question, what kind of laundry detergent do you use?
What are the organizer things in your drawers for your socks, etc. and where did you get those? I LOVE them!
I made them following the directions from this video: ruclips.net/video/90clEk6hS-Y/видео.html
This is genius!
so how many kids do you have? And what are their names? How did you come up with their names each time? I've been watching your videos videos I really love them. Thank you so much. I know it has to be a blessing to be a mama to so many children I know you never have a dull moment times are always fun but maybe a hassle.
We have 8 children. Thomas (14), Asher (12), Judah (11), Justus (8), Eden (6), Solomon (4), Sophia (2) and Claudia (1). Thomas was named after Tom, though they don't have the same middle name. The rest of our children have Bible names. We have a book that lists every person in the Bible and where they are found in Scripture. I got it for a dollar at a used book sale. We call it the Mills Baby Name Book. :) Sophia is the only one whose name isn't obviously from the Bible. When Tom first began learning Greek he discovered the Greek word for wisdom is Sophia. He said if we were having a girl (I was pregnant) that he'd like to name her Sophia. Obviously we were!
+Andrea Mills thank you for all of that that was so interesting to read I only had two sons both are grown now and I wished I would have had girls and more children I love children have even worked at a daycare twice in my life and love to each and every one of them and every day I was there thanks for your info and I adore your channel you are such a great mom.
this is great
How do you keep the socks sorted by child and also I didn't see you washing towels. How do you deal with towels? I know your family must use a bunch each day. Also do you all bathe every day etc or take turns every other day. When I was a kid bathing was only done once a week- but you sponged off every day. I know things have changed thank God.
Bathing everyday is actually not very good for skin. We schedule one bath/shower per week for each child, but they really hop in whenever they feel like having one or need one. We throw towels and washcloths in with the light laundry as needed.
is there a home tour I'll like to see one
Here's a playlist of tour videos I've done so far: ruclips.net/p/PLd2pt5YWp66Cm88KzsrrIL3qTiY9EYLe0
You said your kids wear their pants a few days before washing, do you mean underwear or trousers? (I learned Britsh English in school)
I mean their denim jeans, not their underwear! :)
God bless, it was really unnerving and kinda gross if it were about underwear!
we have 8 people living I'm our house and or washing never seam to go down
Good tips. Xoxo DeeDee
What kind of laundry detergent is that? I like the pump.
It's Biokleen. I got it here: www.azurestandard.com/#/shop/product//laundry-liquid-free-&-clear/16882 The pump was a separate purchase, but the lid on the five gallon bucket is made to have a pump put into it. I think the pump was just a couple of dollars.
I always thought about using a system close to this but I was always afraid my clothes wouldn't be as fresh left in the washer over night . Do you guys ever have any issues w that ?
Overnight has been fine. Sometimes someone will forget to start the dryer so we can't change loads the next day. Clothes left for two nights do seem a little musty. On the rare occasion that happens, I just have the kids run the washer with fresh soap again and start the dryer to continue the cycle for the next day.
We kind of do the same. I'm the 2nd oldest in a family of 7 and I make it 8 we have a kind of big house and go by color. My color is Light purple because my walls is light purple. my older sisters is Orange and my oldest brother is Blue and so on. We have a huge laundry room. My job is laundry I do everyday because we have a list of things and I happen to be laundry everyday. so I go in my siblings room. it's the 2 youngest in a Red room but there boys with diffrent colors it's the 2 youngest sisters and Then it's my room purple and then my older sister then my younger sister a year behind me. I take the laundry baskets that were white but we had a painting contest and painted them. I take them to the laundry room and put them in washers. we have 5 washers and 5 dryers because it goes younger boys older boys older sisters younger sister and parents. it cost alot of money to have them and provide things for them but we all pitch in buying stuff for it and it works pretty good.
Shyana Hemingway An 8 person family has 5 washers and 5 dryers...wow...did I read that wrong?
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Can you please do a get to know your children? Aka names and ages
Our children are Thomas (14), Asher (12), Judah (11), Justus (turning 9 next week), Eden (6), Solomon (4), Sophia (2) and Claudia (1). If you haven't seen them, we have a playlist of Day in the LIfe vlogs that might help you get to know them better. Here is a link: ruclips.net/p/PLd2pt5YWp66AnrAHEdkE20oeZYNJK6ucn
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I really disliked my lg washer and dryer.
I had a set also. Hated them. I could not leave stuff overnight as it would sour. So happy to have old fashioned ones again and not h d ones.
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i wish my son n husband would stop thinking im a maid
Do you iron anything? X
Sometimes, but I try to avoid clothes that wrinkle easily. It's about 2 weeks between wearings so any shirt that may have been a little wrinkled has "hung them out" by then. Sometimes the girls' dresses need some ironing around the hems, but I don't do that every time, just when they really need it.
I think it's cool that you let them wear stuff with characters on it. I know with Duggars they have all plain clothes. Also do you allow your kids to watch tv.
We don't have cable or even local channels, but we buy seasons of shows we want to watch, we watch movies and we watch LOTS of RUclips.
Andrea Mills That's still nice that they can watch tv. I also homeschool my little brother and I was homeschooled too
New subsciber here was wondering what is your oldest sons name?, does he have Facebook? You did a great job loved seeing this video
Our oldest son's name is Thomas. He's not on Facebook; I'm not sure if he does any other social media. Maybe Google Hangouts?
Andrea Mills is it okay if he can add me on there please
Andrea Mills I have whats app if he wants to add me on there or I could add him on there?
What laundry soap do you use
We use Biokleen because we can get it in the 5 gallon buckets.
Andrea Mills thanks!😀😊
Andrea Mills is it for HE washing machines.
Yes it is.
how old are your kids
Thomas (14), Asher (12), Judah (11), Justus (8) Eden (6), Solomon (4), Sophia (2) and Claudia (1).
Thx
Let me guess...Homeschooled?
Nancy Campbell Gibson correct
Madeline George My niece was, too.
Do you want to have more children?
We'd be very happy to have more children!
go forth and multiply. Why not when they are beautifully cared for
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I make matching socks a family game. All socks go in a pile in the middle. Everyone matches and balls socks, and whoever get the most balls wins. I hate balling socks.
Amazing.
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