How do you do laundry?

How do you do laundry?

I drink a can of Monster, put on some heavy metal and then fold aggressively.

Can I get a folding robot?

Probably if cost is not a limiting factor. Baxter [1] and others could probably be taught how to fold clothes. Baxter is said to be around $22K. It's probably cheaper to hire someone unless one was folding clothes non-stop.

[1] - https://robots.ieee.org/robots/baxter/

Find and secure a partner who likes doing laundry and gets mad if you try to help.

I still feel guilty, even though I help in many other ways.

Reduce the laundry you need to do. I only own three outfits. Hand washing a single outfit every day takes less than 10 minutes. Costs nothing. Hang dry. No folding.

Try the Trofast Laundry System https://twitter.com/hellobasak/status/1646950403911589893

Robot folding is an active research area, see

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16898

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00323

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02832

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10149

I don't. My wife (a mother and homemaker) does it all. I should show her more appreciation for having clean clothes magically appear in my dresser.

Back in the day, you could take your bags of laundry to a laundry service and pay very little to have them washed and folded. If you're financially-comfortable, tip generously.

Laundry robots and lifehacks sound too complicated.

First world problem but I get the point, it's a chore but chores by their definition are supposed to be 'chores'.

Personally, it was the time sink that bothered me so I bought a washer and drier to put in my office. It is still a slight inconvenience but doesn't eat into my leisure time as it did before.

If you don't have a private office then, as comment below, you can simply pay someone at the laundry place to do it of you.

Wash clothes by type (delicates, light, darks, etc). Dry immediately after washing finishes. Fold immediately after drying is done. Repeat n-times until all laundry is complete. Scales moderately well with family size.

Adulting is hard, isn’t it? Yes, if you have more money than time you should just get a laundromat to do it.

Accept that it's a chore and it's ok not to like doing it, but also that you're an adult and it still needs doing. So promise yourself a reward when its done, then power on and jfdi.

Laundry is ok but folding and ironing... luckily remote work also helped with that!

You can just drive it to a laundromat and have them do it. It's not really that expensive.

I listen to podcasts while doing domestic tasks!

No laundry as a service app at your place?

I got a girlfriend.