How do you ‘do’ your laundry? Practical help

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I know this might seem like a silly question but still worth asking :-)

We have a washing machine and tumble dryer in our internal garage and do 4-5 washes a week. 23 are a family with 3 teenagers and everyone does washing. Generally kids do their own clothes once a week and I do mine, DH and any family stuff one or twice a week too.

Washing goes from washing machine to tumble dryer and then into laundry bags and taken upstairs or left in the garage.

In an ideal world, the laundry bag with the clean washing would then get put away…

In reality, because the washing machine is in the garage, sometimes we forget so the clothes stay in the washing machine for an extra day, or stay in the dryer for an extra day – even if they’re not fully dry!

What’s your washing and drying system? Do you put your clothes away straight away? Better to do full family washes instead of separate washing?

Thank you. 😊

I do my clothes and the Dcs clothes. DH is a total wierdo who thinks washing less than 90 degrees is unhygienic so I refuse t touch his stuff and I have banned him from touching the rest of the family's clothes.

I do a human wash once a day (human clothes), i do kids bedding and towels on Tuesdays and our bedding and towels on fridays. i do a pet throw wash once daily. we do not have a dryer. I iron once out of the machine (so wet) hang up and then put away what is dry (usually two days before clothes).

I usually mutter and swear to myself whilst dumping my ridiculously big laundry basket out onto the floor and sort through the pile (3 kids 2 adults) into whites, darks and colours, then put a wash on whilst still muttering and swearing to myself and wishing I lived alone. When wash has finished I usually am too lazy/tired/pissed off to hang it to dry or put it in the dryer. So for the next few days the same wash has to be washed again. Repeat a few times until no one has any clothes/boxers/socks then I hang it on maiden and put some in the dryer whilst muttering and swearing. Every so often I have a productive day (only in summer) when I get loads done and peg it on the line where it stays for 3 or 4 days at best. Leaving it till it gets overwhelming and then passive aggressively huffing and puffing and throwing it everywhere is my usual method though. Send help

Three adults and all gets done on one day here once a week, usually Sat while I cook for the week. No faff. Basket on the landing, washer and dryer in utility room. A load of towels, load of darks/ jeans, load of lights and then whites if there's enough. Everything on 30 with an extra spin. Flimsy stuff hung on an airer by the dryer while the rest is tumbled. I put the airer outside if it's reliably good weather. Fold and put away, only iron DH work shirts.

Min 3 loads a day. Plus bedding x 5 beds once a week.
2 adults 3 kids +dsc weekends.
DH work Uniform has to be washed separately die to nature of his job.

Wash, peg out unless raining. Then either on airer for the non tumble bits. Then tumble rest. Take out fold put away

If it's left in machine which is rare I'd re wash same for tumble if wasn't dry.

Put folded stacked on my bed. I then sort to the bedrooms and pack away. Except teens who I just put on his bed.
And the ironing goes in ironing basket. Ironing 2x a week.
I iron Farr to much but no where near what i used to (used to be pj's tea towels underwear the lot.)

I do all the laundry because I can't stand how dh does it. He mixes colors different to me. And it would mean he'd either have to have machine on at 6.30am and wake dcs or at gone 8pm again wake dcs.

I'm a saddo and enjoy it!

I do about 4/5 washes a week, family of 3 here. Usually two dark washes, one lights wash, then a towel load once a week, tea towels and cleaning clothes once a week, bedding fortnightly. Then every couple of days my sons 2 sets of school uniform are washed and tumble dried ready for the next 2 days of school. He can't wear the same trousers two days in a row as the school have requested that all clothes are clean every day because of covid (I don't even know if this makes any sense but I go along with it as it hardly requires any effort on my part). Live in an apartment so unable to hang clothes outside unless I wanted my knickers to end up on our neighbors balcony - no thanks!

Towels, bedding, tea towels etc get tumble dried. Rest of washing gets hung up by the window in our spare bedroom. Once dry I sort into piles on the spare bed- mine, husbands, sons and an ironing pile. I try to avoid putting too much in the ironing pile. Then it's up to the owner of the clothes to go into the spare room to collect their dry clothes and put them away themselves. Iron once a week. Spare bed is pretty much always covered in clothes - laundry never ends!