6 Time-Saving Laundry Hacks to Survive Life With Kids

Front-loading washers and dryers can save a ton of precious floor space, an especially important asset for large families that need every inch of their laundry rooms utilized. Use the available square footage to set up organizational systems instead. You'll be surprised how much time being organized will save you.

Instead of wasting time digging through the laundry baskets in your home, make each child responsible for emptying their own dirty-clothes hamper into a laundry sorter cart you keep in the laundry room. This Simple Houseware Heavy-Duty 3-Bag Laundry Sorter Cart ($37) is an Amazon favorite.

Instead of folding the majority of your laundry, save yourself the time and hang as much as possible on a clothing rail in the laundry room. Make each person in the house responsible for grabbing their own clothes and hanging them up in their closet.

For anything that needs to be folded, consider installing pull-out baskets — like this Komplement Mesh Basket With Pull-Out Rail ($20) — and assign a basket to each person in the house. Have everyone be responsible for putting away their own folded laundry.

To make things even simpler, set up baskets that can pull out completely and be carried to bedrooms, like this DIY laundry basket dresser. When all of the folded laundry is put away, these pull-out baskets can slide right back in place so they're ready for the next load.

There's nothing more irritating than having to step around a large ironing board that's hogging valuable laundry room space while trying not to knock it over. This Wall-Mounted Ironing Board ($174) swivels and can lock into any position, making it easier to navigate while in use and to put away when you're done.

Save time chasing down socks by washing them together in a mesh laundry bag like this OPSP Wash Bag ($6). Give kids their own laundry bags to corral dirty socks; wash them in their bags, throw the bags in the dryer, and see how much easier it is to match clean pairs.