Wash the bedding

#bedding#laundry#washing machine#sheets#chores

Bedding gets changed maybe every other week, which is exactly why the routine never settles into the body the way daily habits do. The steps below follow the whole path from the sheet on the bed to a freshly made bed, so no part looks too big.

A man loads white bedding into a washing machine with a bottle of detergent on top.

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Load the bedding

A man loads white bedding into a washing machine with a bottle of detergent on top.

About this visual support

What makes bedding tricky is how seldom it happens. Chores that come back every single day eventually teach themselves to the body, but something that turns up once a fortnight never becomes automatic. Every time feels like the first time, and the opening move, pulling the sheet off a bed covered in soft toys and duvets, looks bigger than it really is.

A visual schedule breaks the change into parts that are each small: take off the pillowcase, pull off the sheet, move the duvet aside, carry it all to the laundry basket, start the machine, fetch clean linen, make the bed. Seven pictures instead of one large task. A practical trick is to lay the clean bedding out on the bed before you start, so the end of the routine is already in sight while the old sheets come off.

In Routined you can set the bedding up as a routine that returns every other week and appears on its own when the day comes. The pictures here can be downloaded free and pinned up in the child room.