How many loads of washing for a house of 2?

[catfunk]

We usually have 4 ...

1x darks
1x lights inc 2 bath towels
1x bedding
1x socks pants boxers which get tumble dried
In winter a wool wash every other week.

Is this excessive for 2 adults in one house? All done on eco setting but lights are 60 degrees eco.
I keep seeing posters saying they only do one load a week - how ? My bedding and towels would be an extra load!

One towels,
One bedding
One delicates
One basic stuff

3 of us 3 loads a week, lights towels and polo's, darks x2 includes bedding

1x towels and bedding
1x everything else

Got rid of all the whites, made everything a lot easier.

Not enough woollens to justify a once a week wash and real wool doesn't need washing that often anyway.

1 lights and 1 darks each week.

Bedding and towels once a fortnight or so, but bedding is 2 loads because the high thread count king size duvet cover is a load on its own . So 7 loads per fortnight.

A load a day. Always something that needs washing

i do bedding less often, say every two weeks and huge duvets twice a year and even duvet covers less than monthly.
i have a small basket and when it's full i do laundry, i'll walk around collect bath and dish towels and dish rags to top it up.
soooo how many times a week?

2 times unless i'm doing the bedding.

i wash in cold and don't bother separating stuff.

When it was just me and DH I did about 6 to 8 loads a week but we went to the gym etc.

@AnnaMagnani

1x towels and bedding 1x everything else

Got rid of all the whites, made everything a lot easier.

Not enough woollens to justify a once a week wash and real wool doesn't need washing that often anyway.

I’ve never understood this about wool, everyone says it but I’ve always found mine still absorbs cooking smells for eg so even after airing it I end up washing it! What am I doing wrong?

Teenage daughter and me.

1 x bed linen
2 x colours
1 x whites

Weekly.

1 x towels fortnightly.
1 x delicates fortnightly

Probably.

Can easily do 4 a day tbh

DH and I usually do three: one normal clothes, one sports kit (we do a lot of sport/go to the gym very regularly) and one towels/bedding.

I feel like I’m doing an excessive load of washing now but I end up doing about one each day.

Two adults and a toddler
Bedding x 1 week
Towels x1 week
Darks x 2 week
Lights x 1 week
Gym/swimming stuff x1 week
Cleaning cloths/ tea towels etc every couple of weeks.

DH works out daily, sometimes twice a day if part of work. We both have uniform for work, and DH’s is quite bulky taking up room.
When he is away for work I probably do 6 loads across a fortnight for me and DS.

1x lights
1x darks 40 degrees
1x gentle 30 degrees
1x towels or bedding (alternate weeks)

That’s for me and one (attracts grub) DC

@peboh

I do find it a bit odd you're doing socks, pants and boxers on their own instead of just throwing them in with your other loads.

@peboh it's because my dryer is a crappy washer dryer one so it's a nice small ish load and dries well. I don't like having loads of boxers and pants hanging around the flat so prefer to tumble dry them.

@pradavilla

When it was just 2 of us we usually did 5-6 a week so I'd say ur on low side. My dh work stuff wld take up 2 loads and towels one and bedding an another then j guess all my stuff and dh from wkend would make up the other 2 loads.

I have 2 young kids now and I think we must do about 12-14 a week 🙈

Eh??? Really!

@Clairefraser amazed that you get away with one a week. Does this include all clothing, towels, bedding etc ?

Two adults plus a dog here. We both work mucky, physical jobs so it's fresh clothes daily.

We have a small washer dryer and we do:

1 x bedding
2 x towels (won't fit in one load)
2 x dog blankets
3 x clothes (we don't separate, just wash whenever needed)
1 x waterproofs (on their own as they need proper tech wash and cleaner).

Maybe don't need to do bedding every week as we don't sleep in the nip. but I would still Chuck the pillow cases in. Hair wax and head sweat

Averages at 3x a week, very occasionally twice a week. Although, some of our coats are washed if obviously needed in the winter, I do wash all the washable ones during a hot week - we have quite a few, so washing machine will be on most days then.

[quote catfunk]@Clairefraser amazed that you get away with one a week. Does this include all clothing, towels, bedding etc ? [/quote]
Very occasionally I'll need to do two but yes, that's everything. Since DH started wfh he gets through far fewer clothes (when he was in the office he wore a fresh outfit daily). I don't work and rarely leave the house so I don't get through a lot either. A couple of towels a week and bedding every other week.

2 adults here. We do 3 or 4 loads a week. Change bedding every 2 weeks, launder towels every 2 weeks. 1 darks 1 lights every week.

[quote catfunk]@SheWoreYellow I could but I hate having loads of pants abs socks hung around everywhere so I tumble them separately 😂[/quote]
A waste of electricity though.

Can you not just buy one of the hanging leg dryers? They're great, I hang it up in the morning in the bathroom and dry by afternoon even in winter. Also great on lines.

I do: whites Inc towels , darks, lights every 10 days, and then the bedding fortnightly.

I did 5 or 6 loads a week when it was just DH and I.

One a week.
I don’t separate darks and lights, bedding washed every 2 weeks and goes in with clothes.
Towels set aside till there’s enough for a towel load (no fabric softener)once a month or longer.

2 a week when there was two of us.
1 lights/bedding
1 darks

Now there's 4 of us probably 5 per week average. Some weeks it's 3 and in the summer it can be more as I tend to wash betting and towels more often when they're easier to dry.