How many machine washes do you do a day?

[Ahemhmm]

Family of 6 (and 4 pets) so I do 2 a day minimum and use the dryer unless it's summer.

Each person has a day for their weekly basket of clothes to be washed.
Then there's always another load to do, bedding, towels, pet bedding, cushion covers, coats etc.

per week I'm probably doing
2 x bedding
1 x towels
3 x dark loads
1 x white
average one a day I guess

3 adults and 1 teenager! Dog and 2 cats

Bed linen wash - 2 a week m
towel wash - 2 a week
Dark (pants etc) 1 a week
lights (pants etc) 1 a week
dark gentle - blazers/jeans/dresses - 2 a week
lights gentle - 1 a week

every couple of weeks will do dog stuff wash - toys/towels - but this means I always do a machine wash after

Scarily adding up to around 9/10 washes a week! I stretch them out often putting the washing machine on a timer so it comes on in the morning and I can hang it out before going to work.

2 adults, maybe 2-3 a week. We're careful to only wash where necessary. Never owned a dryer, never felt the need for one.

I’m single and do about 3 or 4 a week depending on bedding and throw. One lights, one darks, one towels and then possibly another one or two every couple of weeks

2 adults, 1 teenager and 1 preteen.

1 wash a day. Every week to 10 days or so, I need to do 2 in the one day. I do throw the odd couple of things in on a 14 minute cycle if urgently needed.

2 adults and a 5 year old, one wash every 5 - 7 days. Then bedding when I remember! Sometimes I have to do a 13 minute quick wash if somethings been spilt or my dd's school uniform is wet. We have a 10kg loader and I don't separate colours/whites/towels, just chuck it all in. We don't have a dryer, I hang clothes up to dry on the curtain rails upstairs and put non hangable things on airers, normally put in the spare room.

2a and 2c (one at school one at nursery) Husband wears uniform to work and has to wear home clothes both to and from work. We both of us go to the gym around twice a week and i probably do on average one wash a day sometimes two a day at the weekend to include towels/bedding and or swimming stuff after swimming lessons! Also use the drier in the winter as don't have anywhere to hang loads of damp washing inside!

5 people- 2 adults, 1 football-playing (goalie) teen, 1 autistic pre-teen who spills every meal down himself, 1 primary schooler who has swimming lessons once a week.

Roughly a load per day. No tumble drier & no interest in getting one. Do have a dehumidifier & hang washing outside when not raining.

Electric & gas DD just gone up by £18 to £160 per month.

Four people in the house, two washes on a weekend, once midweek.

2 adults and 1 toddler here. I usually do five a week. One for each of our clothes then also separate washes for towels and sheets.

It does depend on the size of your washing machine. Some are much bigger than others. Also adults here wear trousers and jumpers maybe three times (unless stained). They are bulky and would easily fill a load otherwise.

2 adults 2 kids.

It was 4 loads a week - one dark one light one towels one bedding. Plus the occasional delicates or coats, maybe one of those per month.

It’s creeping up to more like 5/6 loads a week, darks seem to build up quicker at the moment (sports kit and winter related). Expect it to drop back down in summer though.

We have an 11kg machine so all loads are large - eg can fit all the bedding for our king size and DC singles into one load.

5 household here, only one under ten years old. Plus a dog. We do 1-2 loads a day on average, although I do it over the weekend so I don't feel like I'm constantly washing.

6 of us, I do 2-3 loads a day. I have two washers and two dryers so it’s really easy.

This is going to be hugely affected by the size of your washing machine. I was impressed by a PP saying they only did 4 washes a week for a family or 4, until they mentioned "bedding and towels" as one of those loads. No way would I get bedding and towels for 4 people into one single load!

If that’s me Calm I can’t get both into one load but I can get all the towels into a load, and all the bedding into a load.

2 adults, 2 kids, 3 (and a half cats) and a DDog and I do around 3 or 4 loads a week. Use the dryer this time of year too.

@minipie No, not you - someone further up who mentioned it as one load out of their weekly four. I'd love to have a machine that big!

3 x bedding
1 x towels
1 x dark clothes
2x kids clothes - lights and darks (she has sensitive washing powder so her clothes are washed separately)

And then fortnightly
1 x underwear
1 x light clothes
1 x additional sheets (our machine will only fit duvet cover plus pillow cases so sheets are washed in a separate load)

How is this possible? Surely with 4 people you have at least 2 washes of clothes, lights and darks. What about bedding, towels, cloths, delicate items, any other random things thaat occasionally need doing like coats ?

About 4 a week, 2 adults, I use the dryer in the winter generally but as it has been fairly mild and windy lately I have been hanging washing out

Family of 4, 4 a week.

Are you farmers or similar??

I'm washing by person because I have ADHD and I really struggle with washing.

If I tell 6 people to all put their washing in one room/basket there's no way I'm going to organise it all by denim colour etc.

Then when it comes out I have to sort it all out by person again (which isn't easy with 3 teens all in similar age range so I have to check labels for ages etc)

Then sort it back into their baskets.

So for me it's easier to say 'on a Tuesday X. drops his basket and bedding into the laundry room, I wash it, fold it back I to his basket and he gets if from the room after school and puts his washing away.

It just works better for me as when I tried to do it the other way I would just shut down feeling overwhelmed until there were bags and bags of dirty washing and it felt like too big of a job.

2 adults, 2 kids, probably each week its 4-5 loads of clothes, 2-3 of towels, bedding only every 2 weeks, but thats 4 loads as we've got a superking and 2 kids beds, and another load if we go swimming which we do often, so that's like 11 a week.

We don't have a dryer, so its a constant process of putting on loads as soon as the dryers are free. We do have a woodburner so when its on we'll get 2 loads dried overnight, that really helps!