Daughter paying for laundry

[Starbonnet123]

My daughter is 19 and still lives with us at home and will do for quite a while I think . She doesn't pay rent as we don't need the money and we'd rather she saved as she does want to buy a house . She works and gets well paid for her age .
The question is what should I charge her to do her laundry? She wants me to do it as she "hasn't got time" and doesn't want the hassle and i won't do it for her as it's taking up my time , I work full time , and me doing it brings me no benefit whatsoever so my husband thinks I should charge her to do it if I want to .
What do mumsnet think is the going rate for laundry ?

@TopTabby

Completely agree that older teens & young adults should be capable of doing their own laundry. But 10 year olds? Seems harsh although I'm sure you've got your own good reasons...

Not harsh at all.

Laundry is such an easy job for children to do. Put clothes in machine. Turn dial. Add detergent. Press button. It's so straightforward and quick.

She needs to stop treating home like a hotel. I wouldn't charge her to do it- I wouldn't do it at all! See how long she lasts without clean clothes- she will soon start doing it herself.

My two DDs had a laundry basket each from about 14 and have done their own since then including when they started to work full time!

Charge her?? That is one of the most jaw-droppingly stingy things I've read on here.

If you don’t want to do it then don’t do it. But personally I just do my dds washing when she’s home as it’s no hassle to me (she’s 19 and regularly comes home from university). We have a communal washing basket so whatever is bunged in there I just sort and wash. That works better for me than dd doing her own and me finding I can’t use the washing machine because she is and doing 2/3 loads for several peoples washing when I could do it in one. But that’s just me, you do whatever you want to do and if you don’t want to do it that’s all that should matter and she will have to do it.

I could never imagine charging anyone let alone my daughter to do her laundry
It would just get bundled in with everyone else's. I don't see how it's any more hassle to do hers if I am doing mine and DH. It sounds like more hassle trying to sort out hers from ours. Sounds rather petty considering you don't need the money.

Don't you just put her laundry in with yours and your husband's? I can't see that it takes any effort to do.

So you work and run a home and your adult Daughter wants you to do her laundry ! Tell that part of being an adult is taking care of your own clothes. Yes ok it wouldn't take much for you to do it but your daughter needs a lesson in treating others with respect, you are not her skivvy.

@DoWhatYouLike

Don't you just put her laundry in with yours and your husband's? I can't see that it takes any effort to do.

Isn't it obvious that that increases the amount of laundry by 50%? So instead of 2 loads a week, it's 3? Plus folding and putting away time

So you don’t want her to pay rent but yy I think she should pay for her laundry?
That doesn’t sound logical at all.

As for asking her to pay when it’s clear you’ll be resentful doing It…. You can see this was an idea from your DH who won’t be making the extra effort…

My DC live at home (22 and 19)

We have a 10kg WM so a full load of whites/light colours/dark colours or black would be a whole load from 4 adults . ( I don;t mix the colours )

I am not going to make DS or DD put their own load on, it goes in the basket , it goes in the wash.

Thinking about how much it costs to run a machine why would I want more cycles done ?
If I;m doing a wash anyway how much more time does it take to put in another person's laundry