What is your laundry routine?

[Theoldwoman]

Was watching something on YT a few days ago, and it got me thinking about how others do their laundry.

Please share if you like!

Do you have a routine? Do you wash certain items on certain days?
Do you sort?
Hot wash or cold?
Line dry or tumble dry?

Do you have a favourite detergent?

Weekend is bedding and towels, every day during the week I Chuck a load on to wash. I don’t sort anything, it all goes in together. It then goes into the dryer. Then put away. In actual terms of how long that takes, I’d say about 8 minutes tops, from getting it out of the basket and down into the machine, put the detergent on - that’s less than 1 minute but we’ll call it a minute. Switching it into the dryer is about 20 seconds. Taking it up and putting it away takes about 5 minutes.
I know some people say they haven’t got time to be doing laundry every day but I can do it quickly inbetween other things - like walking about eating cake
The teens do their own washing, I do it for me, dh and ds.

Oh. No ironing here.

@qualitygirl

All of my laundry gets done on a Friday night or Saturday morning depending on plans...wash, dry, fold and put away! I don't drag it out over the week.

It’s interesting how differently we see it 😀 There are six of us and for me doing a load a day means I don’t have to give it any thought, I just put on whichever load there’s most of (there’s always a full load of something!) If I had to do all of those loads over one evening it would stress me out trying to get it all dried before the next load finished!

I don't even have a laundry basket; just stuff all dirty washing into the machine and when it looks like it's getting too full, I pull it all out, decide what the bulk of it is (darks, lights, delicates or whatever) and set that wash off.
Not bothered about brand of detergent and don't use softener.
Once the wash is finished I stuff everything I didn't wash back into the machine until next time.
Line dry if I can, or airer. Don't have a tumble dryer.

@TheChosenTwo

Weekend is bedding and towels, every day during the week I Chuck a load on to wash. I don’t sort anything, it all goes in together. It then goes into the dryer. Then put away. In actual terms of how long that takes, I’d say about 8 minutes tops, from getting it out of the basket and down into the machine, put the detergent on - that’s less than 1 minute but we’ll call it a minute. Switching it into the dryer is about 20 seconds. Taking it up and putting it away takes about 5 minutes. I know some people say they haven’t got time to be doing laundry every day but I can do it quickly inbetween other things - like walking about eating cake The teens do their own washing, I do it for me, dh and ds.

You are my kind of person, washing while walking about eating cake!

Individual baskets for different loads. This really helps us not get overwhelmed.

Towels and sheets don’t go into this system. They get a weekly change. Sheets are currently going to a laundrette for a service wash (£13 for 5 beds!).

We use different biological liquids for different washes. Particularly careful with coloured washes as the regular liquids may not contain bleach but they do contain optical brighteners which fade colours. Also usually pretreat stains, either rubbing in biological liquid and/or using Ace (particularly for cashmere which I use delicates liquid for).

I know some people say use powders not liquids for your machine. However having years ago seen a drainage person take lots of powder out of a pipe 20 feet from a washing machine I don’t subscribe. Anyway, as well as the occasional 90 maintenance wash (and associated cleaning out filter etc) we wash at 60 degree washes regularly for towels, as well as most lower temperature washes containing Vanish or Ace.

No routine - when I’ve got enough for a light load I do a light load and same for a dark load. Chuck the towels all in once a week in whichever day I remember and bedding usually at the weekend. Everything is washed on 30/40 with fairy powder. Sunny days hung on the line, wet days hung in the conservatory. Only use tumble dryer in the winter for towels and bedding.

Darks
Shirts /skirts (fab con and slower spin for less wrinkles)
Lights
Whites

Hang on airers or outside
Use Daz or surf lavender and fairy fab con (for shirts and skirts

No routine except Monday is bedding & Wednesday is towels.
Darks
Lights
Whites
Whenever they need it. I usually do at least one wash a day.
Use fairy non bio powder
Comfort strawberry and lily fabric softener
For bedding & towels I also add spring unstoppables

Everything goes on the line / airers except towels, underwear & socks which go in the dryer

Semi routine

Bedding always washed every Friday.
Towels every 3-4 days

Dark washes (usually at least 3 loads) tend to be Friday - Sunday
White wash once a week.

Love line drying and often check the weather forecast and wash around that. If the weathers bad try to use the airer. Often shove underwear and and socks in the tumble drier as cba to hang them on the airer.

Used Ariel powder and Lenor.

Wash everything at 30 except sheets and towels which go in at 40.

Love a good wash day

@WildLadyLucy

I don't even have a laundry basket; just stuff all dirty washing into the machine and when it looks like it's getting too full, I pull it all out, decide what the bulk of it is (darks, lights, delicates or whatever) and set that wash off. Not bothered about brand of detergent and don't use softener. Once the wash is finished I stuff everything I didn't wash back into the machine until next time. Line dry if I can, or airer. Don't have a tumble dryer.

This is quite an different way of doing laundry I must say! :)