To think laundry isn’t the easiest chore

I'm just here for the "one load every fortnight" debate. 😁

Not grim, every two or three weeks is fine for one bed sheet used by clean adults to sleep on in pyjamas.

(The 'how often do you wash your towel/bra/sheets' threads appear so often on this site)

I don't need to use tea towels as I have a dishwasher, and haven't used a flannel since the 80s.
As I said, if the duvet cover doesn't fit in with the rest of the load it can wait till the next one, I have several.
Just the cheapest machine Argos sold at the time I bought it.

I mean, a machine does it for you, so it’s not as though you are down the banks of a river washing your clothes 🤣

So, you don't wash your bedding or towels often....grim ,but okay .

But you can fit 2 weeks of clothes, a bedding set, at least one towel (hopefully more...) and any sundry items such as tea towels, flannels etc in less than 2 loads?

How big is your washing machine???

I fucking hate laundry with a passion.

I’m fine putting it in the washer. I’m fine putting it in the dryer.
But folding and putting away?
No.
Absolutely hate it.
I keep telling my husband that I’m going to hire a cleaner of sorts. Not to actually clean anything in the house…..simply to fold the laundry because I hate it so much 🫠🫠🫠

It’s not exactly rocket science. Sort it, shove it into a machine, dry it and put it in a wardrobe.

I have a love hate relationship with washing. My dh has a dirty job and sometimes mine can be, plus two kids means a lot of washing - somehow 2 loads a day ish. I feel like a champion when the washing is up-to-date. It was a lot harder before having a proper clothes drying space (we have one of those ceiling mounted airers), a tumble drier and a surface accessible for folding clean clothes. Without a well designated space it's a really shitty chore.

Given your update about the potential adhd playing a big factor, it's time for dh to be in charge. Think of a task you can swap with him, if you think that's necessary.

I stopped doing husbands laundry and it got a bit easier 🤣🤣 he does his once a week

i do mine and the kids - what I find makes it easier is having less clothes - the baby only has about 7 vests and sleep suits and some leggings and jumpers - and I’m doing a load every day so he always has clean stuff but it’s being worn almost immediately so there’s never big loads waiting to be put away etc and it can’t really get out of control

I don’t particularly like it as a task - but I like to manage it as have a good system 🤣

YABU.
I'd take laundry over almost any other household job.
The machine basically does almost all of the work, whilst I can get on and do something else.

A childfree home, the bed sheets get washed every two or three weeks, combined with clothes it might be more than one load, but not enough to fill a second load, so the remainder can wait until the drum is full.
Towels don't need washed after each use, and no sports clothes or whatever else generates loads of dirty stuff.
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I don’t do any of the laundry. DH does it all. Thankfully.

Yes. How the fuck do you only do one load of washing every two weeks? How do you fit it all in to the washing machine? Like all the clothes, bedding, towels, kitchen cloth etc... how?

I don't iron but the hassle of the sorting, the washing, the drying, the folding, the putting away drives me insane! Hate it!!!!

But then I never iron. Ever. My life is too short for that.

Its the socks for me. I fucking hate sorting them. So they all go in a basket and everyone has to find their own every morning. Every now and then I might match them up. I hate having to put it all away. I do 6-7 washes a week and it never seems to end!

Did you have a question?

Any day, every day.

I do a load once a week.

I quite like it as chores go, but agree it’s relentless and a lot more time consuming than just shoving it all in the machine and pressing start.

I have worked hard to train DH and the DC that just because they’ve worn it once, it doesn’t have to go in the laundry basket!

I don’t even think about doing it but I keep ok too of it.

You must be a washing expert if you’ve picked the exact easiest part of it all and said what’s so hard about that.

does doing the washing mean you change all the beds too op? No way to that! I would be leaving your dhs washing from now on, because ‘it sounds like you find it much easier than I do so it should be one of your jobs’

I hate it, but then I have chronic illnesses and find hanging things up causes me pain and exhaustion. And the having to think about which needs doing next gets on my nerves. I separate it all into piles that go into the dryer and those that don’t (hardly any actual clothes go in because I find everything shrinks). We have a load that needs to go on the airer most days. Then there’s towels, bedding (two of the beds take two loads as the mattress protectors are quite thick), whites etc. Our bedding is thick cotton and comes out of the dryer creased so that has to be hung up somewhere.

Then there’s the ironing. I don’t know how people manage with not doing it! That said, I manage to get away with not ironing some things like hoodies, jumpers and joggers.

Do none of you have teenagers??!

6 of us here with adult sized clothes and it's a nightmare getting everything dry in the winter. All the socks go into one big basket now so I don't have sort them.

Then don't get me started on the towels!! At least 3 extra loads a week!

I love doing laundry but it's a thing you have to do regularly otherwise it gets overwhelming.

I do a load every morning whilst my DD is having breakfast and hang it out asap. Bring in as soon as its dry and put away immediately or fold and put on the correct beds for recipients to put away.

Will be harder once I'm no longer on maternity leave and can't bring the washing in if it starts raining etc.

My initial question was asking if they are including the ironing as part of the laundry. I agree that with ironing it takes longer but lots of people don’t bother anymore.