Would you rather do a load of laundry every few days or 2-4 in a row over a day- or two

We don't have a tumble dryer for environmental reasons. I do one load a day.

There are five of us and that didn't use to be so bad but I am fast becoming the smallest person in the house and that is making a big difference. Plus we have an array of sports clothes.

Before it sounds like I have my tiny violin out, DH does all the cooking and I <whispers> quite like ironing.

Wash every other day. There isn't enough space around the house to dry 2 or 3 loads all at once.

We have no dryer so even if I wanted to, I couldn't do more than one load a day unless in the height of summer. Bit either way, I don't think I would elect to spend the entire weekend at home doing my laundry. I hardly wash by hand, now, do I. It takes 5 minutes to load the machine, 5 minutes to hang it and another 5 to fold. I'm fine doing it every couple of days.

I find doing several loads back to back more stressful than one a day. I tend to stick to roughly the same weekly schedule, eg towels on Mondays, bedding on Tuesdays etc. But I have outdoor space, a dryer and a utility room so I don't have permanent laundry hanging around the house.

Ideally I like to get my washing all done in one fell swoop but the problem is that I can end up with baskets of dirty laundry in the bedroom as well as the bathroom (I'm a single OAP living in a flat) also I don't have a tumble dryer so at this time of year I can end up with baskets of damp washing waiting to be dried. When the weather isn't dry enough for long enough to dry a lineful of washing in one day then I have to drape my laundry over a clothes horse in front of the gas fire in the living room or over the cntral heating radiators.

If I had the space to put a tumble dryer in my flat then I could get all my washing done and dried in one day; I'm just waiting for the fine spring weather to arrive so that my washing can be hung outside to dry regularly.

Wash every evening. Usually a load. It dries overnight on clothes airers. Never use the tumble drier unless it’s for coats that need fluffing

We’re not in the UK and have a laundry room. Since washing doesn’t take much time anyway, dh or I just put on a load most days. Then either of us hangs it up (mostly dh tbf as he thinks he is an expert in hanging up washing and load the dishwasher..) or fold it quickly during the evening.

We do sheets every weekend, but it doesn’t really take much effort or time.

Wow how many of you are there?! I imagine your water bills are nuts, i’d be getting granny’s washboard out 😭😂

We don't have a tumble dryer so I try to space laundry loads out enough to not have airers covered in wet laundry in every room, every weekend 😆

That said we all do sporting activities several times a week so usually it's sports kit washed and dried on weekdays, other clothes and underwear at weekends, things like towels and bedding whenever there's the opportunity.

I can't imagine having any freedom to choose really.

We are a family with 3 dc and dogs and everyone is very active and sporty - I wear uniforms for work, the dc swim/dance/football, one is doing PE GCSE and coaches other sports for dofe, we have guests really often so always have extra towels and sheets.

We do one, if not 2 loads as standard every single day and there is no way leaving it to build up would work as we'd then have to do back to back washes with no way of getting it all dry. (Plus everyone's sports kits would stink/go mouldy)

We are lucky to have quite a roomy utility though, so have 2 airers up all the time getting stuff dry on rotation.

We have a Kallax unit in the utility room and the washing gets sorted into that. Unless one of the tubs is full earlier in the week, I tend to do all the washing on a Friday or Saturday. I have a heated airer plus a long airer and a dehumidifier and I don't want to put the heated airer on for just a few items. I only use the tumble dryer in the winter for towels and bedding or if it's wet for days on end in summer. I dry outside when I can.

Same😂 i don't have a dryer so have to get it out of the way as fast as possible. Can't afford a few days worth, there'd be nowhere to put it😬

If I could afford/could find a cleaner who also did all my washing etc I'd be buzzing and would sign them up in a heartbeat.

😁 guilty.

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No did you not read my post?! I do all the washing and drying on my 3 working from home days. My cleaner cleans one of the other days and then we just do the usual tidying of the kitchen/dishwasher etc as needed. I don't iron a thing.

I can’t stand it when it all piles up so I do a load or 2 every 2-3 days
ETA- I use a dryer except if it’s hot enough for stuff to dry the same day outside hanging.

Edit: lazy arse who didn't read the message properly.

I dont want to waste my weekends doing housework of any sort!

So I have a cleaner who comes once a week when I'm working from the office and I do my laundry on my working from home days. Then I enjoy my weekends. We have enough uniforms/clothes etc to do this without worry though.

I do it as soon as I've got enough for a full load because 1. I try not to use my dryer and use a drying rack to save money and so need to have space, 2. I'm disabled and need to pace myself.
In the summer I do it slightly differently in that I try to dry it all outside on the line and so do it around the weather forecast.
I have enough school uniform etc to cover the full week if need be.

All done in one go
Can't bear washing hanging indoors drying all the time-looks so messy

Wash on Fridays, hang on airer, finish in TD Sat am
Done

We have a little utility cupboard/room with the hot water cylinder in - I can dry one load in there on a clothes horse at a time without resorting to the tumble dryer, so I do a wash every couple of days or so.

What's an empty basket lol 😆 No matter which strategy I use it makes no difference, always another pile! Xx

I hate doing laundry back to back, load after load, it’s too much in one go. I tend to do a load every few days.