Who is being unreasonable?

No I'm sorry - they're @JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon is right!

The waste IS sickening. Imagine, if you will, someone standing by a stream and just repeatedly chucking plastic bottles in it.

Or looking at a water source and chucking used toilet tissue in it.

Or looking at a water source and throwing chemicals in it over and over again, multiple times, every day.

That is what you are doing. Not metaphorically. Literally.

Ok but I never said anything that to you for you to be standoffish. Anyways.

We go through around 12-14 toilet rolls per week. OP do you have boys or girls? I think that's what makes the difference.

Family of 4 here, 1 works from home, 1 works nights, 1 in college other in sixth form. (1 male, 3 females).

Don't use kitchen roll.
Around 4 bottles of shower gel every 2-3 weeks. (We have our own individual bottles).
Shampoo & Conditioner - 1 of each every 1-2 weeks.
Fabric conditioner - 1 every 2 weeks.
Washing powder (I prefer powder over pods, it lasts longer). - 1 medium box every 2-3 weeks.
Deodorant - 1 per person every 2 weeks.
Toothpaste - we each have our own tubes ( different preferences) so they usually last us around 2 months.
Gas and electric - around £95 per month for both.

You are really standoffish and dismissive in your replies, not really sure why you posted as you don't seem to be able to take what people are saying.

I wouldnt wash jeans after 1 wear, or cardigans, jumpers, tracksuits, skirts, some trousers. Underwear, tshirts, dresses yeah, but the rest is wasteful. They are not exactly dirty after 1 wash you don't have toddlers.

Clothes that don't need washing daily - trousers, jumpers, hoodies, cardigans, skirts, bras. For a day at home, I'd re-wear a top unless I'd sweated into it or dropped something on it. My dcs own massive over-sized hoodies. The washing machine would be constantly on the go if they were washed everytime they were worn (barely any contact with naked skin!)

I don't use fabric conditioner and hate chemically made scented items. My dc spray themselves with all sorts but it's way over the top and at their own expense. A large bottle of shower gel lasts several weeks - it's not something I buy every week. You only need a tiny amount if you use a sponge or scrunchy. None of us wash our hair daily - every few days works fine.

Our fuel bill is through the roof but that's partly as we have a poorly insulated 3 storey end of terrace Edwardian house and also because my DH works from home and our DC are on appliances a lot - one makes money in this way.

I wouldn’t wash jeans/ trousers or jumpers after wearing them all day unless I had spilled something on them or been doing something very dirty. I wash underwear, socks and T-shirts after one wear but a jumper is fine to be re-worn a few times!

You say well if you’re doing the underwear etc anyway why not just throw in the jeans and jumpers etc? Well because then instead of doing 2 loads you can just do 1! So if you only have a half load of underwear/ T-shirts etc instead of throwing in things that could be re-worn don’t put the load on yet and wait until you have more things that actually need washing to add. You could easily reduce your loads of washing by at least a third if you re-wore things for a second day.

The waste on this thread is disgusting and sickening.

Five tissues for one nose blow, one toilet roll per person per day, towels washed each use when showering twice a day, clothes washed after each wear. No wonder the environment is a mess.

It is perfectly possible to be clean and hygienic whilst also being mindful of the impact on the environment.

I'm not sure why you started this thread, you seem very defensive, I also find it unbelievable that just by cutting down towel washing you will reduce to 2 loads per person per week.

You've also not considered what I said about over using products, if you have a 3 minute shower with a 10p sized blob of shower gel (as I did this morning, availed myself of gym showers last night) you wouldn't be getting through it at the rate you are.

If you overuse laundry products because you like the smell, are you also over using shampoo, handsoap, shower gel, air freshener etc, reduction of all of these things will reduce your spend. Equally 12 toilet rolls a week is crazy, we get through a couple so even doubling that it would only be 4 , 5 to be generous. Again are you excessive in using toilet paper because it links to your beliefs around cleanliness? These attitudes will have also been passed on to your children making them high consumers too.

I respectfully suggest that you are doing an excessive volume of laundry. Things can be used and worn more than once. This could be a very easy budgeting win if you dial it down a bit.

Family of 4 similar ages, we do 1 wash per day!! 25 washes a week, I suspect you all have too many clothes. Also, every item doesn't need washing immediately after 1 wear! Bedding twice a week wow! Do you have time for anything else in life other than the laundry??

I think the OP is on a wind up, quite frankly.

Good lord.

We shower daily. Change bedding + towels once a week. Fresh shirt/top/underwear every day (and other things if smelly). But we also..

• use maybe a loo roll a week between us (bum guns)
• go through maybe a fabric conditioner bottle every 2 months
• washing up liquid every 3 months
• dishwasher on every other day
• soap rather than shower gel
• shampoo lasts at least 6 weeks (wash hair every 3/4 days)
• refillable products wherever possible
• no kitchen roll/single use household wipes

Our house is definitely clean, as are we. I'm APPALLED by your usage...

Well you've got other people making the house look nice and the clothes and bedding all ironed so it's easy to feel joyful. When you've got an ironing pile like the leaning tower of Pisa you'd start thinking about cutting down on laundry.

170 washes a month seems excessive. Thats nearly 6 loads a day

Again there is your obsessive belief that any one saying you over consume or wash too much is unclean!!! It is so rude. Listen to yourself. Almost everyone is saying they also shower once a day and ARE clean but don’t feel need to use so much products. It’s not the personal care that’s the problem it’s the overuse of products! And I’m pretty sure as shit sure that the word shit is okay to use on MN.