Nobody prepares you for the laundry. Not the amount of it, which is obviously enormous, but the specific chemistry of it — the yellow spit-up marks that appear after washing, the socks that vanish between hamper and drawer, the sleeper you loved that came out stiff. I did about four months of this badly before I changed anything.
all free clear
Fragrance-free, dye-free, and it is the only detergent her skin has never reacted to. I keep one bottle for her and use it on our sheets now too, which was not the plan, but it turns out nobody in this house needed their laundry to smell like a meadow.
Miss Mouth’s Messy Eater Stain Treater Spray
The stain spray that actually earns its place. Milk and purée and the mystery orange stuff all lift with it, as long as you get to it while it is fresh. I keep one bottle in the nursery and one by the machine, because the one downstairs is never where the stain happens.
3Pcs Hanging Laundry Bags for Socks with S Hooks
Hanging mesh bags with hooks, and they solved a problem I had accepted as unfixable. Tiny socks and mittens go straight into the bag on the hamper, the bag goes into the machine as-is, and nothing disappears. We have not lost a sock since summer.
Molly’s Suds Wool Dryer Balls
Wool balls instead of dryer sheets, unscented, no softener residue on anything. Her sleepers come out soft rather than coated, the drying time dropped noticeably, and there is nothing to keep rebuying. They have lasted all year.
Baby Velvet Hangers 30 Pack – 11 Inch Premium Felt Non Slip Kids Hanger for Infant & Toddler Clothes – 0.2″ Slim Space-Saving Baby Felt Hangers for Children’s Closet with 10 Clips – Beige
Velvet hangers sized for baby clothes, which sounds precious and is actually just practical — adult hangers let everything slide off into the bottom of the closet. Thirty of them covered her whole wardrobe and her closet finally looks like a closet.
Two rules, and they did more than any single product. Treat the stain before it dries, and wash her things on their own. The second one felt fussy until I stopped doing it for a week and immediately went back.
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