AIBU to be amazed my friend does all her laundry in one day?

We must do at least 2 loads a day sometimes 3.

Takes four loads just to do the bedding for the whole house.

I only iron school and work clothes regularly though everything else is if required.

I’m the same, sort of.

I have to have a routine. Bed linen changed on Friday night and washed and dried. Then on Saturday morning load one, washed and into the dryer, load two is washed and hung up (this is none tumble dryer stuff), load three washed by which time the dryer has finished, load four (whites) on to wash and into the dryer with load three. Towels on after that and into the dryer the next day. Ironing done on a Sunday. Heat pump dryer which doesn’t cost nearly as much to run as people think. Only two people though.

Kitchen linen and sports clothes are done every other week at some point in the week.

Your teenagers each have a king-size bed? Blimey, talk about spoilt! They'll get a shock when they go to uni and have what most young unmarried people have - a single!

I think I saw one of those in the garden the other week.

FIFTEEN! I appreciate there are five of you, but that's an average of three loads per person per week. I am a single person and there's no way I do three loads per week.

It did sound like that from the post! I use unscented Ecover or Surcare on pants but nice smelling detergent and conditioner on clothes

We do once a day at least , more Fridays and Saturdays as I wash all bedding towels and throws

LOL!

Skirts absolutely don't need a wash because they've touched cafeteria chairs! Our immune systems are built to withstand everyday germs like that, and you're not letting their immune systems develop by washing everything!

Germs are GOOD for us!

I don't have a washing machine but my work does, so I do it there, once a week. It takes me like 2 minute to load and start the machine, then come back during break and take 2 minutes to transfer wet clothes to dryer, then come back during next break, take dry clothes out of dryer & put them in bag to take home. Every couple of weeks I do a linens and towel wash as well. I would be genuinely astonished to find it took me more than 15 minutes a week to do my laundry, maybe 20 in a linens and towels week.

Night-time critters you say?
Any excuse to send out the bat signal

I live alone and I do an average of 2.5 loads per week!!

One load of cottons and delicates at 30 degrees, and one load of towels, bath mats, flannels etc at 60. And every other week I wash bedding.

My washing machine doesn’t hold a huge amount, and I don’t have a dryer.

Maybe your friend doesn’t wash towels or bedding very often? Maybe they wear clothes several times before washing?

Me, adult DS and child DD who is with us 50% of the time. DS generates the most washing as he goes to the gym a lot/plays a lot of sports. Probably do around 3-4 loads a week, 1 light, 3 dark. Use a tumble dryer for most of it but DS has quite a few fancy non tumble dry tops which are annoying. Seem to wash a lot of towels. Wash my bedding once a week, DD’s every two weeks & DS whenever he can be bothered to change his bed.

Well, they might do! And I can just imagine all the critters that come out at night having a high old time playing with the laundry!

I do mine one week day evening so it doesn’t take up valuable weekend time. Wash and hang out one day, then fold iron and put away the next. I tend to have 2 loads one dark one light.

But then again i only do my own washing as childfree and my partner does his own! When we were young my mum put one load on every evening before bed on a timer, so when she got up she could hang it on the maiden. The dry clothes from the day before were then folded and put in the airing cupboard or put on the ironing pile for dad to tackle at the weekend. Seemed like a good system! A little bit every day.

As a family of 5 I do easily 15 loads of washing a week between bedding, towels, swimming stuff and clothes. How people do so little amazes me.

Yes, I separate by colours, not clothing type. So in my darks load there will be socks (mine are all black), dark jeans, dark T-shirts, dark undies, and dark tops. And my colours loads will have undies, tops, T-shirts, and pale-blue jeans too. I do have a delicates load.

I also separate by temperature, so I have hot darks, hot whites, and medium colours. (No hot colours, as they will fade.) The hots are for the things that need to be washed on a hotter temp, like towels, pants, socks, bedding, and pyjamas. Everything that's either slept in or worn on your feet or undercarriage, basically. So a hot darks wash will include my black towels, dark undies and socks, and my dark bedding. Medium darks are dark jeans and tops. Hot whites includes the white bedding and underwear. But low or medium whites will be things like tops with lace - actually, the delicates wash.

I'm single. It's still complicated!

P.S. My categories are:

Hot darks
Hot whites
Medium colours
Medium darks
Dark delicates
Coloured delicates
White delicates

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yes 2 disabled children who do just that. And sometimes more than once. And thank-you.for putting it so compassionately !
Anyone who is aghast at a family doing more than 4 loads of washing a week must have a v poor imagination imo !

The stats I can find now all lump washing machines and dryers together.

The information I'd seen reported had tumble driers as highest/high risk but then washing machines, dishwashers, fridges and freezers all at the same level of risk.

Ovens and microwaves were the lowest risk.

I don’t know how people get laundry done in a day. It’s a never ending story here, I don’t think it’s ever really done except in a heat wave and then it ends up hanging round waiting to be ironed and put away for days.
We seem to have a lot of time sensitive sports kits that require immediate attention, DH for example has one pair of running shorts he prefers and likes to wear them three times a week, one teen has training kit that is required twice a week, one teen has swimming 6 times a week, I have two sets of gym kit but it’s needed 5-6 times a week.

My MIL (mother of 7!) used to do all washing in one go on one day. If your washing wasn't in the pile by, say, Thursday, then tough you'd have to wait another week!

I find laundry the only household task that we haven't yet got a good system for. We are a 'wash when it's dirty' family, and we have an ironing lady who comes every other week, but still it's always the task that's left until last to do!

Yes, I remember that old thread. Also your undies will fill up with insects if you leave them on the line overnight 😁

that's brought back a memory, my Ted & I doing that when I was little. I think I must have been about 3, nearly 4 when we got our first automatic machine & the twin tub went. I lived watching the clothes & all the soap bubbles splashing around 🤣

Darked on. It's a silly MN joke from an ancient thread.

Being darker on? What does that mean?