50 Ingenious Laundry Hacks to Make Busy Mom’s Life Easier

41 Properly Clean Your Washing Machine

41. Properly Clean Your Washing Machine: From time to time, your washing machine-the machine responsible for cleaning not only your cloth diapers, but your entire family’s laundering needs-can be subject to build up. After all, you are putting soiled and dirty things into it to be cleaned on a regular basis. Why and how does buildup happen? Residue from laundry detergents (via Lil Bums Cloth Diapers)

42 How to Whiten With Lemon

42. How to Whiten With Lemon: See our Homekeeping Solutions galleries (via Martha Stewart)

43 Repurpose your old socks to become swifter covers

43. Repurpose your old socks to become swifter covers: If you run out of sheets for your wet/dry mop (think Swiffer), just dampen an inside-out sock with your favorite cleaning solution,… (via First for Women)

44 No more sound of banging shoes

44. No more sound of banging shoes: No matter how many times you tell them, kids just cant resist walking in knee-deep snow. Then it takes forever for shoes to dry once they’ve gotten wet. Instead of putting them in the dryer to clunk around here’s what I do Thanks to everyone for helping me clean out my basement by buying my (via 4 Men 1 Lady)

45 Ladder Laundry Rack

45. Ladder Laundry Rack (via Little Lucy Lu)