Do you do laundry on Christmas day?

[Comedycook]

Sorry a bit of a dull thread!

Just wondering if other people stick a wash on? I always seems to have loads of laundry...if I have a day where I don't do any, I find it really piles up and I end up with a backlog. On the other hand, it feels totally shit to do washing on Christmas day! What do you do?

That’s to @Megan2018

I was told by my beautiful grandmother years ago that you wash your good luck away if you do x

@stealthninjamum

Yes I would do it and probably will. My washing machine has a timer so I can set it to start early Xmas day and finish by 7 so I’ll spend two minutes hanging it out and hopefully will be able to ignore it til Boxing Day.

Either your load of washing is so small it could wait or your minutes are shorter than most peoples.

Sometimes, when it's been very mild and it's worth pegging out.

@maddiemookins16mum Nope, they just need to dry properly after use. Why would they be wet and musty?

I've just told the kids to being all their washing down so I don't have to do any on Christmas day.
It's getting the stuff dry that's a pain- uniforms that can't be tumbled etc.

I'm busy sorting out my laundry today. I'm not washing anything on Christmas day!

No but the world doesn’t end if we don’t do laundry every day. I get that sometimes people have loads of children but for the most part I don’t really understand how so much washing is created. Even if ours (2 adults 1 child) was doubled that would be 6-8 loads a week, not enough to require washing on Christmas Day.

If it’s a sunny, breezy day I can’t resist doing a load and getting it out on the line otherwise I’ll save it for another day, because the oven and the dryer on in the kitchen while I’m running about like a blue arsed fly would kill me [menopausal]. 🥵

It’s more often than not a normal day for us, so yes. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Absolutely no way.
The thought depresses me.

I wash towels after every 1/2 uses couldn’t imagine 10 days

Nope. My last load is ready to go on later today once the load before is dry, they’ll be hung up tonight, and then put away tomorrow so that all signs of laundry are gone. The washing basket will be full but hidden from view, and we’ve got plenty of clean pants.

Towels are fine to go a week or so if they are hung up properly and can dry after use surely

It doesn’t feel totally shit to me to stick a loaf of washing on - it’s hardly like I’m scrubbing my clothes with rocks in a polluted river - it gets thrown in a handy machine with a scoop of detergent, I press a button and hey presto
Once it’s finished it then gets flung into the machine above it to dry.
If I need to stick a load on to keep it under control for a day it takes 30 seconds out of my day.
I find the constant kitchen cleaning and dishwasher loading and unloading far more of a hindrance to be honest.

Yes probably, we are two adults and two teens & all of us will have been to the gym/run either on Christmas Eve or early on Christmas morning. Rather wash gym stuff when I get up about 6ish than have it festering in the laundry basket until Boxing Day. Literally 30 seconds to chuck it in and less than 5 to hang it all out.

@MaryAndGerryLivingInDerry

Change your towel every 10 days.

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Get a grip, it’s a towel that’s been used to dry something clean, it’s not going to kill you 🙄

I'll sometimes do a tea towel and table cloth wash just to get it out of the way once we've finished eating!

Get a grip, it’s a towel that’s been used to dry something clean, it’s not going to kill you

Nor would licking my fork and putting it back in the drawer ten times before washing but I’m not going to do that either.

I have done and will do again if I need to.

One year we had had a washing machine breakdown and the new one was delivered on Xmas eve. At the time Ds who has SN was getting through about 3 or 4 sets of clothes daily plus at least one set of bedding a night so the washer was going solidly over the while christmas period.

No. I point blank refuse.

Why bother washing towels at all? They won’t kill you if you don’t 🤷‍♀️

Why is 10 days the “right” number of uses?

I'm lazy in winter and tumble dry so I would as such a quick job. I have lots of laundry. 4 messy children. Who seem to be reguarly covered in muck, we live rurally. In winter there is extra layers which means more laundry.

No because that means taking it out and hanging/using dryer, or rewashing it the next day as forgot about it

My mum considers this totally unacceptable! She has always had a big thing about it.

My grandmother would do washing on Christmas day when she visited, and it would really piss my mum off. There’re some great photos of us all eating xmas lunch with the whirly with washing on it through the window in the background.

My dad is full on about laundry/ironing, he can’t leave it, but daren’t do it on Christmas day. I too find it hard to leave it but will as I too fear mum’s wrath!