Young mum aims to fold 1,300 laundry baskets to buy family car

Danica Slack, a mother of four from Toowoomba, has embarked on an ambitious goal: folding 1,300 baskets of laundry within three months. This challenging endeavor is her strategy to pay off her car finance and purchase a seven-seater vehicle, essential for her growing family, which includes 10-month-old twins.

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It's just chockers, full of baskets in here.

Ms Slack charges $10 for each basket of folded laundry. In the two weeks since she shared her goal on social media, she has already folded 200 baskets. She needs to raise approximately $13,000 to afford the larger car before her twins outgrow their current car seats, which will not fit in her current sedan.

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There's actually some mornings I wake up and there's already a few baskets on my front step.

The side hustle has unexpectedly "blown up," as Ms Slack puts it, with demand coming from various clients, many of whom are other busy parents or carers. She noted that some people have even paid for their laundry to be folded simply to support her challenge. Ms Slack's determination stems from her own past experiences with postnatal depression and homelessness, motivating her to assist other mothers.

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Our twins are upgrading from capsules to actual car seats, which won't fit, so I need a car big enough … otherwise we'll be stuck at home.

Her friend, Georgia Strohfeld, described laundry as a "never-ending cycle" and praised Ms Slack's determination and "arms of steel." Ms Slack finds folding jeans her favorite task, while G-strings are her least favorite. The community's response highlights a shared understanding of the pressures faced by busy families.

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The majority is just busy mums that have lots of kids and then there's people with sick children or sick partners or disabilities.