>>>My other invention would childrens clothing cupboards with a door in their room where they can take the clothes out and a door outside in the corridor where I can push the clean clothes in at the back.
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>>Great idea! Then of course, you need one more item ... a laundry chute door in each kids bedroom so they can just throw their clothes in there (instead of on the floor) and the dirty clothes automagically ends up in the laundry room!
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>>~~Bonnie
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>Additional sorting is needed to identify items that have been got out, looked at, not worn and thrown on the floor.
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>I usually apply the nose to see if something is worth washing first.

You joke but my daughters amaze we sometimes with their ability to know what is what on their bedroom floors. Just to look at it you would think everything had fallen from a great height and landed at random. They somehow keep track of what's clean, what's dirty, what's for that party next week, etc. Oh, and a subcategory in a house with more than one sister: articles of clothing artfully hidden to thwart sticky-fingered sisters.

I suspect the sniff test is a mostly male phenomenon. I have been known to do this sometimes and the girls give me a look that says, "Dad, you are SO unevolved."