I'm new to this particular forum. Actually, I'm not quite ready to figure out the housework thing. I've got some priorities with my kids before I tackle the house. However, I wanted to share this with folks here.
I bought a laundry sorter a few months back. What a difference it has made. Our large hamper got broke so our family of 4 was trying to use a too small hamper. Clothes were everywhere. And the time I had to sort was when the baby was napping. Except the baby is such a light sleeper I was always afraid of waking her.
So I bought this laundry sorter: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ef=oss_product
Each bag is the right size to fill my washing machine. We sort the clothes as we take them off, throw them in the correct bag, and when the bag is full I do laundry.
Of course, getting the laundry put away is a different story, but at least the dirty clothes are properly taken care of.
It sits in the hallway and kind of narrows our walking room, but it is so worth it to not have dirty clothes everywhere or to even be sorting clothes.
I bought a laundry sorter a few months back. What a difference it has made. Our large hamper got broke so our family of 4 was trying to use a too small hamper. Clothes were everywhere. And the time I had to sort was when the baby was napping. Except the baby is such a light sleeper I was always afraid of waking her.
So I bought this laundry sorter: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ef=oss_product
Each bag is the right size to fill my washing machine. We sort the clothes as we take them off, throw them in the correct bag, and when the bag is full I do laundry.
Of course, getting the laundry put away is a different story, but at least the dirty clothes are properly taken care of.
It sits in the hallway and kind of narrows our walking room, but it is so worth it to not have dirty clothes everywhere or to even be sorting clothes.
I love being able to see what bin was full and needed washing 
It lives in our master closet and everyone (including DD from the time she could walk and the "highly intelligent" husband 
) tosses their clothing in as it comes off the body. We do whites and darks (at either end) and "mediums" in the middle (the spectrum of color varies by season). Rags and random towels get added to these bags. (I don't mind washing them together with regular clothes. I tend to treat them differently at the drying stage instead.) Regular towels get washed all in one load and don't need a holding spot in our home. Sheets and other bedding is the same as the towels.
This used to drive DH nuts, but it also drove me nuts to spend twice as long as necessary on laundry fixing everything for everyone for proper washing. We compromised. He learned to make those changes BEFORE putting laundry in the sorter. (He was on his own for a decade before we met, so he was used to doing his own laundry just fine...it was the timing that needed adjusting. He did it as he was tossing things into the washer when he was on his own.) I learned to turn his collared shirts back to right side out when hanging them up. Why he takes those off inside out is still a mystery to me, but whatever... I hang my shirts up however they come out of the washer and they dry in the closet and I flip them the right way as I dress. I flip his before I hang them in the closet to dry. DD (age 8) is on her own flipping clothes right side out. 
