1.   Buy extra sheets, towels and underwear on sale so you can skip an occasional laundry day.

2.   Desperation, maybe, a last resort on laundry day.

3.   The biggest improvement was in laundry day, which actually used to use up two days a week, one for washing, one for ironing.

4.   Woe to the absentminded mom who hangs a jersey in with the dress shirts on laundry day.