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I read somewhere that "laundry experts" almost all wash things like underwear separately from other clothing. Since that clothing is closest to your body and in the most intimate areas, absorbing the most bacteria, it needs more rigorous washing than a pair of jeans or a top.

So, for us (married, no kids), everything gets sorted into two bins: mild washing and serious washing. The serious wash bin includes underwear, sweat-soaked workout wear, cleaning rags, etc. The mild wash is everything else that needs a wash but isn't soaked in bacteria. Serious stuff gets washed in warmer water than the mild stuff. Mild wash stuff all gets washed-rinsed cold, so it can all be washed together in one big load. We wash these two loads once a week. Towels (including dog towels and bedding) and pillowcases get their own load and sheets go in with these every other week. Once a month I wash the shower curtains.

Love the cobalt blue with white. We have this color in our bedroom and went for orange instead of the yellow to pop with it, but I love your accent color, too. When we're ready for a change, now I know we can swap in some yellow :)

I'd like to see the rest of the room, too -- mostly because I love what you've done here so much. This is easily my favorite dark room so far :)

@MadeCunningly: You might find Fridge Binz helpful. The Container Store has some of the larger ones: http://www.containerstore.com/shop/kitchen/refrigeratorFreezer?productId=10027634

We're in the packing part of moving right now, and we've been using an inventory app to catalog everything. We're moving to a low-lying area in Florida, so we wanted to have a full on-line backup of all of our stuff, in case of flooding or hurricanes. As a bonus, we can tag each item, so while we're packing we're tagging the box numbers. It's a lot of work, but since we plan to move again in a year or two, it should be a huge time-saver in the end!

We had them as kids without fighting over the bunks or growing out of them. However, when I was 8, I fell when climbing into the top bunk and got a compound fracture in my arm that necessitated several surgeries to fully repair. I'm not a fan.

Another set of schnauzers here, so we have no issues with fur and we clean their paws when they come in the house. One sleeps curled behind our knees, weighing the blankets down. The other cuddles with us at bedtime, then flounces off to sleep in her own bed overnight (humans move too much for her liking), and returns to sleep in the bed with us in the morning. She has her own pillow, dubbed The Princess Throne, that keeps her from waking us up when she returns in the morning.