9 year olds CAN do laundry
I was catching a commercial (accidentally, lol, I tend to fast forward through them) all about some “color catcher” you put in laundry so you don’t have to separate your colors from your whites. And I realized I haven’t separated clothes in years!
As soon as I had my oldest two children started doing their own laundry and the Ex moved out, I no longer had enough to separate into 3 full loads. I had the choice of either buy them more clothes (soooo NOT going to happen!) or let them do one load of combined colors and whites. Its kids clothes, so who cares. But I also realized I’d started doing the same thing with MY clothes.
And guess what. NONE of the colors bled into my whites. Part of that is the clothes that I buy, I think. I DO NOT buy clothes made of a material that bleeds color. I wash ALL my clothes in hot and my white stay white (or white enough for me!) and my colors stay colored.
Plus the best part is my kids do their own laundry. And sometimes they do mine! I sometimes wonder at people who jump into the obsession for extreme high standards. Isn’t it just advertising convincing us all we have to live up to some crazy form of THEIR perfect lifestyle?
Practical instead of perfect is much less stressful!