Unnecessary Laundry

I have a heat pump tumble dryer. It’s a game changer.
I admit being home a couple of days on average during the week really makes it easy.

I guess I could work FT and wash towels etc after work every day. But I think I would find it exhausting.

I’m hybrid- few days on various sites and a couple of days at home.

Poppins21
I bet you dread your electric bill.

That's mad

@SugarandSpiceandAllThingsNaice and @Poppins21 do you both work full-time outside of the house?

With four kids I check the hoodies for a smell or visible dirt. It's it's OK it goes back in the kids wardrobe and so far, 10 years plus no one is any the wiser.

Yes shower 1-2x a day.
No, don’t have a manual job or work in a dirty place.
They aren’t clean after 1 wear because we all sweat, excrete oils and slough off dead skin cells.
Energy bills are low. EDF just lowered our monthly direct debit to £46/mo for gas and electric because we were building up a credit balance paying £155/mo

You’re probably nose blind at this point.

Bras get washed when I have a space in the laundry queue but I would like to know how often they should be washed as DD will soon need one and I'd like to instil some good habits! How many/how often do you wash them?

If worn for 4+ hours, so pretty much daily. I wear comfortable cotton Tommy Hilfinger sports type bras. So they just go into the laundry with everything.

Some of this is insane!!

I have a baby and toddler, anything stained gets washed. Clean stuff is sniffed and then either washed if milky or worn again.

i wear tops 2-3 times. Jeans for months. Towels and bedding every 2 weeks. Pjs every 3 nights.

only socks and underwear and gym kit after 1 wear

@Bananalanacake

A woman after my own heart 😊

This is insane how do you find the time? Do you have a job? Kids ? Hobbies? I have so many questions

People washing things after one wear, I imagine you are also showering regularly (I won't open that can of worms too wide though!), so unless you are doing physical manual work or in a very smelly environment (chip shop? Abbatoir? cheese dairy?) why do you need to wash clothes which are essentially clean? What are your energy bills like?

I fold DS's non dirty items and put them back on his bed with a reminder that I am not the laundry fairy and unless something is visibly dirty or smelly it's not going to get washed.

Get them to take turns at doing laundry. They will soon come round to your way of thinking!

This is exactly what my kids used to do. I gave up ironing when they were all small because they used to throw their carefully ironed and put away in drawers clothing all over the floor in search of what they wanted to wear. Then they'd stomp all over it, and I needn't have bothered, so I stopped. Then they started with the 'tidy the room by putting ALL clothes in the wash basket, even the stuff that mum has just washed and dried and stacked on the bed for putting away that I couldn't be bothered with and just threw on the floor'.

Oddly enough, they are all adult now and immaculately turned out. Probably because they have to do it themselves. I am sometimes filled with the desire to go into their houses and throw all their clean and ironed clothes on the floor and then stomp on them. But I wouldn't.

I have even been known to wear my running kit more than once before washing.

Please don’t put clothes that have already been worn but not washed back into
your wardrobe or cupboards. It will make all your clothes pong, even though there may only be the slightest trace of smells on these clothes.

Anything that can be worn again is fished out of the washing basket, folded and put back.

On the occasions that he was doing laundry, he could do everyone else’s laundry as well.

I launder underwear and usually vests after every wear but pretty much all other clothing gets used at least twice before being laundered and wool jumpers which are usually worn with a vest or t-shirt under them can get worn more than that.

Before menopausal night sweats, I laundered bedding every fortnight but now it's generally every 5-7 days - and some nights I actually sleep with a bath sheet under me and a hand towel on the pillow because the night sweats can be so bad!

I probably do towels after 4 or 5 uses. Tea towels and napkins are usually done after each use.

I wash all my jumpers in the spring/summer. Then they may get a couple of washes through the winter but not often.

School uniforms get washed most often here. And endless swimming stuff (although that's sometimes just a cold rinse).

My 18 year old son doesn't do his own laundry, it just ends up with the washing machine running more often🤷‍♀️
I wear things once and wash them, pjs maybe every second night, towels after 1 or 2 uses at most and everyone's bedding once a week.
I don't feel like I'm overly hygienic, my house certainly isn't a show home but I definitely think a lot of people should be washing their clothes and bedding more often going off the smells wafting from the general public every time I go out!

I have stopped doing my DS15's laundry after I found yet another pile of clean clothes in the laundry basket. He'd dumped them in front of his wardrobe and when I asked him to tidy his room, dumped them still partially folded in the laundry basket!

Underwear, T-shirts, socks after 1 wear. Jeans, hoodies after a week, unless obviously dirty. Bedding and towels weekly.

Bras get washed when I have a space in the laundry queue but I would like to know how often they should be washed as DD will soon need one and I'd like to instil some good habits! How many/how often do you wash them?

oh and the DC each have a coat stand in their room to hang worn but still wearable clothes!

The kids see the laundry basket as a magic device that gets their clothes folded and back in a drawer. So a lot of the laundry is in fact taking out their worn-once stuff and chucking it back on their bed for them to (eventually) hang up.