Laundry baskets

We have a number of laundry baskets in our house - I think it's about four. Most of them are up in our bedroom, on the floor, full of clothes. But, increasingly, it is getting harder and harder to determine if the clothes are clean or dirty.

This happens because Alison, our 15 month old, likes to pull clothes out of the baskets onto the floor. She loves emptying her dresser drawers, her brother's dresser drawers, and taking the pots and pans out of the cabinets in the kitchen.

We keep a laundry basket in our bedroom for dirty clothes. And sometimes, there are two laundry baskets full of clean clothes, waiting to be put away. The laundry problem wouldn't exist if we were better at doing this. But this takes time, even if it's a few extra minutes, and often, just bringing clean laundry upstairs is an accomplishment. Putting the clothes away is just another thing that we don't feel like doing.

We've certainly rewashed clothes that have been clean that we have thought we dirty, and we've also probably worn dirty clothes. The other day, I was trying to figure out if a shirt was clean, so I smelled it. Deodorant smell is an obvious give-away, but sometimes it isn't that easy.

The shirt I was holding didn't smell, nor did the others around it, so I wore it. It may have been dirty, who knows.

I wonder if anyone else lives like this, or are we truly slobs? Perhaps I don't want to know the answer.