Comments on: The (wash)-IN basket to empty: doing laundry with kids the GTD way http://www.gtdtimes.com/2008/06/16/the-wash-in-basket-to-empty/ The Hub for All Things GTD Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:27:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Godfrey http://www.gtdtimes.com/2008/06/16/the-wash-in-basket-to-empty/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Rob Godfrey Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:47:34 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2008/06/16/the-wash-in-basket-to-empty/#comment-427 Recently at home the family and myself implemented a laundry system based on kanban. This involved 6 plastic tubs, each of which full is one laundry load. 6 feels about right for our family (2 adults and 2 kids). Essentially laundry is rotated through the system along with the tubs. Laundry can only come downstairs from bedrooms to the laundry room in one of these tubs, and then goes back upstairs with a tub. Having 6 tubs in the system is our families kanban limit i.e. is the amount of laundry we're comfortable allowing to build up before it needs processing. Having the tubs tends to pull stuff through the system, since if there are no tubs upstairs clothes tend to pile up on the floor which is a visual queue that some ironing needs doing. Other benefits include a sense of completion e.g. I ironed 2 tubs, rather than I made a barely noticeable dent in the pile. You can also see at a glance how much stuff you have to process e.g. 4 tubs in laundry room. Recently at home the family and myself implemented a laundry system based on kanban. This involved 6 plastic tubs, each of which full is one laundry load. 6 feels about right for our family (2 adults and 2 kids). Essentially laundry is rotated through the system along with the tubs. Laundry can only come downstairs from bedrooms to the laundry room in one of these tubs, and then goes back upstairs with a tub. Having 6 tubs in the system is our families kanban limit i.e. is the amount of laundry we’re comfortable allowing to build up before it needs processing.

Having the tubs tends to pull stuff through the system, since if there are no tubs upstairs clothes tend to pile up on the floor which is a visual queue that some ironing needs doing.

Other benefits include a sense of completion e.g. I ironed 2 tubs, rather than I made a barely noticeable dent in the pile. You can also see at a glance how much stuff you have to process e.g. 4 tubs in laundry room.

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