I have found the most amazing tips for Ending Laundry Chaos at the Unclutterer!

These will help me restrain my laundry–that’s right RESTRAIN! You see, in my house, the laundry takes over the whole house. Laundry is more like a roommate than a chore.

I plan to (attempt to) implement these suggestions immediately, with one modification.
This tip:

Have a table in your laundry room so that you can have a space to immediately fold clothes as they come out of the dryer. Do NOT allow it to become a clutter table — keep it clean and only use it for folding.

would NOT work in my house. All empty surfaces are immediately consumed by the mail and scrap paper gods (we’ll work on this problem later!), so in myhouse, I’m going to install a fold-down surface, like an ironing board, to use to fold laundry.