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Simple trick to stop you hating laundry so much

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  • 23 Jan 2018
Simple trick to stop you hating laundry so much
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Anyone who tells you they love doing their laundry is lying.

To help make this task more bearable there’s one simple swap worth trying. 

According to Apartment Therapy, the size of your laundry basket affects the manageability of your washing. 

"Nothing quite screams You're behind on laundry like a hamper that's too full," says the publication. 

RELATED: This is how often should you be washing your bath towel

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Switching to a smaller basket means you are forced to do smaller, manageable loads more frequently instead of wasting your Saturday slaving over piles of dirty laundry.

RELATED: Why you shouldn't always use the quick wash setting on your washing machine

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