Of all the time-consuming household chores out there, laundry is one of the most frustrating. You can only avoid laundry for so long, and when the piles of clothes keep growing, so does your stress level.
If you’re an overwhelmed mom at the end of her rope, there are some things you can do to “lighten your load” and manage your laundry with fewer headaches.
Why Doing the Laundry Is So Challenging
No matter the size of your family, laundry can be a tedious chore—and one that never gets permanently crossed off your to-do list. The moment you think you’re done, there’s more laundry ready to go in the washer.
For many moms, the whole process of sorting, washing, folding, and putting clothes away is exhausting. When life gets extra busy, it’s not unusual to have clothes sitting in the dryer all day or clean clothes that never make it back to the closet.
If doing laundry eats up a lot more of your time than you’d like, you’re not alone. Research has found that the average mom spends an estimated 3.5 hours on laundry each week, totaling five months of her life spent on laundry by the time her child reaches age 18. Imagine what else you could do with five extra months of time!
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5 Tips to Help Overwhelmed Moms Stay On Top of the Laundry
Though laundry is necessary in every household, full-time working moms are too busy to spend more time on it than is necessary. Between your career, family responsibilities, and other household chores, you have more than enough on your plate.
If you’re wondering how to keep up with laundry and avoid feeling paralyzed by a messy house, take the stress out of laundry day with these practical tips:
1. Set a realistic and repeatable wash schedule.
Depending on your family size and lifestyle, it may be easier to have set days for doing laundry rather than making every day laundry day. For example, you could set aside a morning or afternoon and finish all the laundry in that time frame.
Alternatively, you could set up a weekly schedule in which you commit to doing a specific number of loads on specific days. There are also apps, such as Todoist or Home Tasker, that can help you create and stick to a laundry schedule that fits your family’s needs.
2. Don’t wash after every wear.
Many clothing items—such as undergarments, socks, and T-shirts—require a wash after every wear, but others do not. For example, you can wear jeans and some sweaters more than once before washing them. By washing these items only when they become soiled or stained, you can reduce your weekly washing load and avoid the premature wear and tear of those items.
3. Fold clothes as soon as they’re done in the dryer.
Taking clothes out of the dryer immediately often provides the satisfaction that one more load is done and off your to-do list. But folding and putting away clothes right away does more than give you a sense of achievement: It also helps you cut down on wrinkles and save some ironing time.
4. Sort laundry throughout the week.
If you’re already an overwhelmed mom, you’ll likely become even more distressed at the sight of an enormous pile of unsorted laundry. However, if you pre-sort dirty laundry right after you wear it, you can quickly grab a load for washing without having to sort it first.
There are different ways to sort: You can place hampers for whites, colors, and delicates in a central location, or you can make it easier for everyone to chip in by placing sorting hampers in bedrooms. The next time you need to throw a quick load of whites into the washer, the items will be sorted and ready to go.
5. Enlist some help.
Of course, all the laundry needs to get done, but it doesn’t all have to be done by you. You can split laundry responsibilities among household members—or save time for everyone by outsourcing laundry duties to a household assistant. A household assistant can do the laundry, put all the clothes away, and keep your laundry room tidy and stocked. A reliable assistant can also make dry cleaning runs and tackle many other household chores for you and your family.
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Get More Hours Back in Your Day
Household laundry is too time-consuming to manage without the right help and an efficient system for getting it all done. By outsourcing chores to a trusted household assistant, you could say goodbye to ever doing laundry again and go from being an overwhelmed mom to a content and unstressed mom.
At any point in time, you have a lot going on. Between your career, kid-related activities, and household responsibilities, you sometimes struggle to ensure it doesn’t all collapse around you.
But just because you aspire to have it all doesn’t mean you have to do it all. With the help of a household assistant, you can cross everything off your to-do list and fit quality family time and self-care into your schedule.
The Challenges of Balancing Work, Family, and Personal Time
If you’ve ever felt there’s too much to manage and not enough time to do it, you’re not alone. A recent study found that most working parents are stretched too thin, with 66 percent saying they feel burned out. Working mothers have a particularly hard time because they shoulder many household responsibilities without help. More than one in four (28 percent) working moms in the study reported managing family responsibilities alone during weekends, and 41.3 percent said they managed them alone during the week.
The weight of family and household chores leaves most working moms with little to no personal time. According to a 2023 Motherly study, 62 percent of moms get less than an hour to themselves each day. If you can relate, you know how frustrating it can be to lack time for yourself and the things that matter most to you.
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How a Household Assistant Helps
Time is one of the most valuable yet scarce resources we have. However, for working mothers who feel pressure to be a supermom and do it all, it seems there are never enough hours in the day.
If you’ve ever felt paralyzed by a messy house or like you’re on an endless hamster wheel of trying to be a great career professional, mother, and friend and make time for yourself, there’s a viable solution! Getting much-needed help from a personal assistant provides the freedom you need to focus more on what you want to do and less on what you have to do. Research shows outsourcing household chores can even feel more rewarding than a salary increase.
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Here are three key benefits you can enjoy by making this time-saving (and life-changing) investment:
1. More Time for the Things That Matter Most
Instead of spending the bulk of your evenings and weekends on draining household chores, such as doing laundry, washing dishes, or making appointments, you can outsource these tasks to a household assistant. Think of all the time you’ll have for family and personal activities when you have someone to take ownership of completing all those chores and clearing them off your plate.
Your assistant can handle the following tasks for you:
Doing laundry
Shopping for groceries and preparing food
Making returns and running other errands
Paying bills
Walking the dog
Making and rescheduling appointments
Supervising repair technicians and taking deliveries
Planning travel, including packing and unpacking
2. A Less Stressful Life
Carrying the mental load of everything on your to-do list is draining enough. But spending hours on chores while you feel guilty neglecting the things and people most important to you is also stressful. However, you can remove those stressors with a personal assistant who can bring more organization and order to your life and household.
When you work with Pepper’s Personal Assistants, we take the time to understand your household needs and match you with the ideal household assistant for you and your family. Once your assistant is up and running, you’ll need only a 15-minute weekly check-in with them to gain the peace of mind that comes with knowing all the chores are getting done the way you would do them yourself (or better!).
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3. Household Help Without the Administrative Headaches
Working with a household assistant doesn’t have to include the added responsibilities of managing payroll, taxes, and labor law compliance. When you hire a Pepper’s personal assistant, you get experienced household help, and we do all the rest. We manage everything from your assistant’s pay and payroll taxes to their health benefits and performance reviews.
Work with Seattle’s Trusted Source of Personal Household Assistants
Life is too short to spend on household chores that rob you of precious time with your family and other passions. By delegating those chores to an experienced and trustworthy household assistant, you can enjoy more of life while keeping your household running like clockwork.
Even the most put-together, successful person can always use a little help. At Pepper’s Personal Assistants we believe in finding the perfect assistant for your specific needs, one that will help make your life easier. We also believe in communication—learning from feedback and sharing our success stories.
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Read on to discover how a personal assistant (PA) from Pepper’s helped one professional woman reduce her mental load and focus on what’s important: being present with her family.
Client’s Challenges
Our client, similar to a lot of us, was used to taking everything on herself.
Part of a professional family with one parent traveling a lot for work, she was in charge of managing their multiple households, parenting the children (all attending different schools), being involved in her community, and battling an ever-growing to-do-list. Our client was overwhelmed and exhausted, and constantly spent her time on tasks that prevented her from being present, relaxed, and confident as a woman and mother.
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While adding extra hours to the day wasn’t an option, Pepper’s was.
Pepper’s Process
At Pepper’s Personal Assistants, we believe that support isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. We know firsthand what it feels like to try to do it all, and worse yet, fall short of your expectations.
As experts in home management, we were able to help this client get countless hours back in her day by taking care of the unexpected and managing the everyday tasks that pile up. Our client’s personal assistant continues to be thoughtful, dedicated, cheerful, and always one-step ahead of the family’s needs.
“We are grateful to have found Peppers and our personal assistant…things are better in our family and home because of you all.”
Expecting the Unexpected
Beyond being there for everyday support, our client’s PA has jumped right in to support her through performing the following duties:
Managed a backyard remodel project
Helped the client set up their second home
Planned themed parties for the kids and helped out onsite
Assisted in helping to plan trips for for unexpected family events
Put together gift bags for an event the client was hosting
Being Reliable for the Everyday
Not only is our client’s assistant ready to jump in during unexpected projects and events, but maybe most importantly she can reliably take care of everyday recurring tasks. Our client is confident that nothing is falling through the cracks.
This PA handles the following duties for her client:
Pays bills
Handles cleaning schedule and tidying of client’s homes
Gathers and sorts items for recycling and donations
Organizes kitchen/laundry room/storage rooms
Makes home purchases
Does laundry
Manages family calendar and scheduling duties
Cares for dogs with walks and grooming
Establishes monthly home vendors
Takes part in holiday prep, including cards, decorating, gift purchasing, and wrapping.
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A Pepper’s Success Story
Because of Pepper’s Personal Assistants, this client was able to reduce her mental load and finally get ahead of her tasks. She’s no longer torn between what she has to do and what she wants to do—thanks to her PA, she has the time.
“With our personal assistant on our team,our lives are more manageable and less stressful, and thus we have time to better prepare for our challenges and joyfully celebrate our victories. She contributes daily to the success of our family! We wanted you and everyone at Peppers to share in our appreciation of our personal assistant.”
Our client and her assistant are partners in managing her household, making life easier and less complicated, and allowing the family to focus on the more important things.
Contact Pepper’s Personal Assistants Today!
Pepper’s Personal Assistants was able to give this client the ultimate gift: peace of mind and freedom that comes from having the help you need, when you need it the most.
Interested in learning more? and let’s get started.
When you hear the term “personal assistant,” you might immediately think of someone in an office, taking notes, forwarding phone calls, or bringing coffee to the executive meetings. Similarly, the title “household manager” could inspire grandiose thoughts of large estates where the household staff includes chauffeurs, personal chefs, and maids.
These are accurate connotations, but the tricky thing is that these are also words used to describe who we are at Pepper’s Personal Assistants. While personal assistant, household manager, and concierge are all titles our team can proudly claim, Pepper’s Personal Assistants is a service designed for the average individual during their busy day-to-day life.
Here’s What Pepper’s Does Differently
The goal of Pepper’s Personal Assistants is to give professional individuals their personal time back, whether to indulge in self-care, catch up on some well-needed sleep, spend time with loved ones, or simply take a moment to themselves. We are made up of a team of thoroughly vetted, trained, and talented individuals who all have one thing in common: we thrive on providing excellent service.
When you hire a personal assistant from Pepper’s, you can delegate certain household tasks and assignments to them to help you get organized, tackle projects, and get ahead of the game. Think of Pepper’s Personal Assistants as the additional pair of hands you always needed, or the solution to wanting a few extra hours in the day after you get things done to relax.
After you choose from one of our two service packages, a dedicated member of our personal assistant team will come to your home to support you with a variety of tasks depending on your specific needs and the time allotted.
From grocery shopping and meal prep to bill paying, pet care, and laundry—we can handle it. Our goal is to know what you need before you do, to help you reclaim your time, and bring you peace of mind.
Our Service Packages
Pepper’s Personal Assistants offer two different service packages depending on your unique needs and time requirement, the Task Assistant package and the Personal Assistant package.
Whichever service package you choose, we’re happy to help you get some things off your plate and free your time up for what’s more important.
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Successful People Need Support
We get it. You’re a hard-working professional who might be struggling with balancing work, tasks at home, your social life, and the ever elusive “me” time. Asking for help can be hard, but with Pepper’s Personal Assistants it doesn’t have to be. We care about your wellbeing and health, which can be negatively impacted by stress and a heavy mental load.
Contact Pepper’s Personal Assistants Today
Find out more about our unique service packages, the types of tasks Pepper’s can take care of, and our onboarding process on our service page. Reclaim your time and get back to living your best life. and find your ideal assistant.
Personal household assistants aren’t just for CEOs. The Seattle area is full of families with working parents who need an extra set of hands. Believe it or not, personal household assistants can do more than just get coffee, take phone calls, and remember to send anniversary presents.
Whether you’re a single working mom, a stay-at-home dad, or simply a couple that’s doing their best, it can be difficult to parent your children, run a household, and still have time for yourself. The 2023 State of Motherhood Survey reports that over 60% of moms get less than an hour to themselves each day.
It’s sadly understandable. With work, meetings, school, after-school activities, helping with homework, going grocery shopping, and prepping for the next day it’s a wonder parents get any free time at all.
This is why hiring a household assistant can be so beneficial for busy parents.
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Asking for Help Is Okay
We know asking for help can be difficult. It’s almost ingrained in us to try to take care of everything ourselves, and to view reaching out for assistance as a sign of weakness. We’re here to tell you that asking for help is okay — even encouraged!
Outsourcing tasks to a personal household assistant can help you focus on and be engaged with what truly matters, time for yourself and your family.
Imagine Your Life With a Pepper’s Personal Assistant
Pepper’s Personal Assistants can help you get some time back by taking care of that pesky to-do list and streamlining otherwise chaotic tasks and organizational duties.
For example…
While you’re at the office working, your household assistant can be taking care tidying up around the house.
When you’re in meetings, they could strip the beds, run a few loads of laundry, and fold everything neatly.
While you’re sending emails, they could load the dishwasher, take out the trash, or make lunches for the kids.
You don’t have to take time out of your day to run a pet to the vet or take your car to the shop because your assistant can do it for you.
When you come home in the evening, your dog is happy and relaxed because your assistant took her for a walk. And forget about the pet smells! Your kitty litter is freshly changed.
Your home is clean and tidy, and the fridge is full of groceries.
Instead of returning to a long to-do list, you’re coming home to a place where you feel comfortable. Now you can relax and focus on the things you want to do, not the things you have to do.
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Personal Household Assistants Can Relieve Stress and Improve Your Happiness
Having a personal household assistant is about more than just getting all the chores done. The peace of mind we bring can be a huge stress reliever.
When you’re dreading going home to all the dishes, it impacts your productivity and happiness. Instead, leave your home in the hands of someone professional, trustworthy, and eager to help. Life is too short to fight about who’s going to do the laundry.
Contact Pepper’s Personal Assistants Today!
If you’re a working mom or dad who needs a little help, to meet your new house manager and ally!
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