Buy new clothes?

It seems like yesterday that I was way, way, way behind on my laundry. I'm talking carpet is gone, clothes replaced it. So, it took me a couple of days, but it was finally done. But then BAM! It was back in full force! My daughter does not even have a hamper anymore. It's just clothes. A hamper overrun by clothes. A big mountain, bigger than my 20 month old. I just don't get it. It seems to accumulate so fast, faster than I can keep up. So again, I just have to start plugging away at it. Ethan's is now done. Andrew's is getting there, so is Morgan's. Ours is almost beyond repair. It's piles and piles all over our room and bathroom and closet. Earlier in the year, I had actually set myself up with a pretty good system. Every Monday was kids laundry day. Wednesday was Mommy & Daddy laundry day and Friday was sheets and towels. and this actually worked well for a few months. But then, I get distracted, life seems to get away from me and then BAM! It's a cluster f*&# again! Plan for today? Just keep plugging away at it. I have a load in the dryer drying, another in the washer, patiently waiting to be dried and about 50 million loads waiting in line behind that.

It get's so frustrating though. When we built this house, I made sure that the laundry room would be big enough so that I could have plenty of room for cabinets and a countertop. My theory was simple. Have a place to fold it, right after the clothes came out of the dryer and I would be all set! It seems like I have the right tools in place for organizing. It's just utilizing them to their full abilities. But, how can I train myself into this? Someone once told me that it takes 6 weeks of retraining yourself to get into a new habit. Ya know how long it takes to get back into your old habits? About 6 seconds! I was doing really well on laundry and then just fell out of the routine.

Soooo, after all this rambling. Goal for today is to get about 5 loads of laundry done. Now, to make it easier for myself, I need to clean off the counter in the laundry room of all the crap that is on it. always makes it easier when I have a clean counter to fold on. Now, whether I actually do it, who knows? Would it be easier to just get rid of the dirty and buy new clothes? It would be fun, it would be good for the economy...well, maybe not the Tracy economy...