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

I belive one of the top 3 are dishwashers as well. Fridges are top 6? If I remember top 10 correctly

I did 2 loads yesterday, washed and dried outside. I don’t really iron though and they do need putting away tonight- usually Sunday evening job so everyone gets their school uniform ready for the week
I have way more than 2.5 loads a week though so washing is done on weekdays too

& still sounds as stupid as it did the first time.

I've got a 10kg machine and do 2 loads a day as a minimum. Bedding would be 3 loads alone.
We're a house of 5 and aren't doing anything special to generate the amount of laundry we have, just normal uniforms, towels, pyjamas etc.
Is your friend a nudist?

Not according to the fire service statistics.

Sorry, is this daily washing? I'm getting that from the 1 x sox and pants. It sounds like you're washing everything you use every day. Have I read that right? If so, you don't need to wash bedding, towels, and jeans after once use. More like once a week. And most people save up their smalls and tops and wash them when they have a full load. It's not a case of just washing everything you used yesterday, today.

Sorry if I read it wrong!

I dried 3 loads outside the other weekend. I dont have a dryer.
Washing doesn't actually take much time. Put in machine and press start then 10min to hang out and take in.
You all washing a load of stuff by hand or something?

Obviously OP’s mate doesn’t do unnecessary washing like washing towels and pyjamas and tops after one wear. Good for her

Absolutely agree!

Why did twin tubs need to be monitored?

Because they don't work automatically. You have to manually fill it with water and transfer the washing from the tub to the spinning tub, turn the spinner on and off and manually pipe in the rinse water. You virtually have to stand over it the whole time. Pausing only to fill your wine glass.

I use my tumble dryer, unless it's sunny enough to dry laundry in 1-2 hours. I always tumble towels to keep them fluffy and my bedding because of pollen allergy

I enjoy ironing, and clothes definitely look better for it imo.

Bin off the ironing. Bin it off.

When I worked full time in the off blitzed the laundry at the weekend, but don’t understand how anyone with a family only does 2.5 loads! My bedsheets take up a load on their own.
I have been trying to convince the children that they don’t need clean clothes ( apart from pants and socks) every day, but DD is still at the age that she often spills stuff down herself and DS is a sporty teenager.

It really is. I once started a thread on another website asking how long people's showers are, and many, many people answered 40-45 minutes. 😱 Mine are 7-10 mins if washing my hair, and about 3 mins if not. I don't spend any more time in there than it takes me to actually wash. But it seems people stand there for ages under the running water. I had a friend to stay, and I couldn't believe how long her showers were. Twenty minutes if she wasn't washing her hair and forty minutes if she was. There was no water left for anyone else!

I can get all the clothes done by Saturday lunch and the bedding towels etc over the rest of the weekend and it doesn’t stop me doing anything else I want to over the weekend!
I then do the ironing Sunday afternoon watching trash tv when nobody is allowed to disturb me! It’s not a job I mind doing and I can’t stand unironed clothes

100% agree with this! We’re a family of 6, multiple outdoor sports activities and I don’t need to do a clothes wash every day even with only an average sized washing machine.

Whatever works for you.

i don't even remember if it was you or someone else saud it wasn't possible to do
laundry in the week because 'she works'. that's just not true she/you may choose not to, but many of us do (well 'did' until I became disabled & currently not working)

What I'm getting from this thread is that many people use things as single-use when they shouldn't be. The only things that are single-use for me are knickers, socks, and tops. Also, WFH in the winter means not much sweating so I might re-wear some tops once. I wear a bra for about three days, pyjamas for a week, jeans and trousers for at least a week, and skirts are lucky if they see a washing machine once a month! Towels and bedding are also a week. Swimsuits not very often, although I rinse the chlorine out with fresh water. Gym kit tops are single-use, and gym bottoms maybe 2-3 uses.

PEOPLE ARE DOING TOO MUCH WASHING!!!

So a white t shirt would go in with a red dress?

No don't separate anything

she then proceeded to tell me she does ALL her laundry on a Saturday- washes, dries, irons and puts away! IN ONE DAY!

That reads to me that the OP's friend does do all of her laundry once a week on a Saturday, wether it's 1 load or 7, how could it mean anything else? I think people are commenting on both the frequency and amount of laundry they personally do so lots of crossed wires on the thread now.

You don't "focus on laundry" though. You put a load in the washing machine overnight so you hang it up to dry when you get up and are doing morning jobs and then you put a 2nd load on. 15 minutes. you then get on with your morning. By lunchtime (or if you notice earlier) the 2nd load will be finished, so you bring in the first load, fold it up, hang out the 2nd load and put a 3rd load on. 25 minutes. By dinner time (or if you notice earlier) the 3rd load is finished, so you bring in the 2nd load, hand out the 3rd load and put the 4th load on. That then gets hung out (or inside dryer) before you go to bed.
So you've spent an hour(ish) in total doing the washing spread out across the day, in conjunction with other jobs you would be doing anyway.
And then the laundry is done for the week, so you don't have to constantly think about it across the rest of the week.

(I'm assuming a good drying day here, or it wouldn't be so many loads).

Fire service mainly.

Do you separate colours?