Why is laundry literally impossible with kids

I swear I do like 8 loads a week and we're STILL out of clean clothes somehow. My wife and I just looked at each other yesterday like 'where does it all go?' and neither of us had an answer. Do other people just... accept defeat? Or is there some system I'm missing? The kids aren't even old enough to do their own laundry yet which is probably when I'll finally lose my mind