How many full loads of laundry do you a week if you have a small household?

[Theboredpanda]

I feel like I’m constantly doing laundry! It’s just me and my 5 yo and I probably do a full load every second day. Or maybe that’s normal? I don’t know. I do go to the gym 4 times a week and always wash my gym clothes but I’ll wear regular clothes 3 or 4 times before I wash them. DD has clean tights & t shirt every day for school but the rest of her uniform she wears all week. I don’t know where it all comes from! How many loads of washing do you do (especially if you have a small household)?

Once a week for just me. Everything mixed together except blacks.
I re-wear everything except knickers, socks and tights.
Outerwear that doesn't touch my skin like jumpers get washed as little as possible.
Bed sheets every 3 or 4 weeks.

now that the dC are at uni so its just me and Dh we do 2-3 a week.

2 of us (both adults wfh most days). We do 3-4 loads. Towels, tea towels/hand towels/kitchen apron/napkins) = 1 load. Then a load for each of us I guess and then another random one (so fleeces, Oodies that we wear around the house, gym stuff etc). A person living by themselves would average maybe 2 loads a week so two people would average 4. Then we do bedding every 1-2 weeks, we don’t change our actual duvet cover much in the winter - only monthly really as (they are the thick brushed cotton ones and we don’t have a tumble dryer so we use a king size flat sheet between us and the Duvet so we change the bottom/top sheet and pillow cases instead.

How much are you squashing into your machine in one go? Is the stuff really getting clean?

Pretty simple. Only wash things that are dirty.
A single person probably doesn't need to change the sheets every week.
Were you using a different towel every day?
Not much you can do about gym kit...

Ok maybe I’m not as unusual as I thought then! Just feels like a full-time job sometimes!

5 of us, 1 or 2 loads a day, so yours sounds about right

4 here

I do an average of 1, 11kg wash daily.

Its never fucking ending.

3/4 dark washes
1 whites wash
1 towels
1 bedding
1 odds and sods (blankets/cushion covers/throws/oven gloves all the bits that don't need weekly) once a month or so.

We aren’t a small household but I only wash for 3 of us (older dc do their own). Probably put a load on every day but it mostly works out that I do one or two on a Monday, one Wednesday, one Friday and then maybe 3 over the course of the weekend.
I do a lot of gym/swim/cycling so go through a lot of clothes that way, dh and ds have a clean set of clothes most days. When I’m wfh I tend to wear my house comfy clothes so I’m not wearing all clean every day but on my office I do wear clean daily. Bedding gets done once a week and towels probably get changed halfway through too. Then there’s Teatowels, dishcloths etc which get chucked in daily. Dunno, I do keep on top of it so it never seems like too arduous a job.

2 adults, 2 toddlers. 10kg washing machine but it's a cheap one so I don't overload it. I do a load a day generally, occasionally skip a day but then feel like I'm catching up. I don't separate anything, all clothes get thrown in together. Towels and sheets are washed in separate loads.

It feels like a lot but I genuinely don't know how we'd reduce it. We reuse towels, only change beds every 2 weeks (pillowcases weekly), DH and I re-wear trousers and house clothes unless smelly or visibly dirty. The toddlers do get a new outfit each day (and sometimes multiple trouser changes due to accidents!) but that's because they're filthy creatures 🤣

Every other day is only about 3-4 a week, which seems about right, especially if you have gym clothes to wash. Towels and bedding take up a load or two of their own if you change them regularly.

Towels
bed 1
bed 2
bed 3
shirts
uniform
my uniform
random 3

so 10 for a family of 4 who all school, work, pets , sports

2 of us plus 2 dogs. Rural so muddy. About 2 loads a day sofa throws muddy clothes etc

@Gwenhwyfarchange bath towel once a week, hair towel, hand towels tea towels..that’s one wash, one for sheets, one for darks, one for lights, one or two for sweaty gym kits, that’s 5 or 6.
overfilling a machine means the stuff doesn’t get washed properly. Sheets and towels need to go in at 60 degrees so you can’t cram in other stuff into that load. Add in a delicate/wool wash and there you go.

4 of us is 1 load a day, so 2 of you a load every other day seems fine

2a and 2c, at least 7 loads a week. DH and I run; kids do loads of sport and fixtures. Most weeks it’s actually more like 10 loads

2 -3 a week. One adult one teen.

A few others on here seem to do a similar amount.

I only wash pants and socks every wear - other stuff only gets washed when dirty/smelly. Washing machine copes fine, and everything comes out clean.

Well, we have 2 king beds and 1 double weekly wash, 10 sets of uniforms, towels washed after 1 or 2 uses, everyday 2 showers, so thats new uniform, new house outfit then new PJ everyday, plus my clothes are big so it fills the washing machine more quickly than a a small child or petite woman. Then the blankets on the sofa get a weekly wash too. I often can only fit 1 or 2 blankets at a time.
We almost never rewear the same outfit again before washing except maybe a jumper or hoody might get 2 or 3 wears before washing. New PJ every night. It mounts up.

In our house its usually 1 or 1.5 loads per person per week.

5 of us and I do one a day , 2 at the weekend. Lots of sport though

Why can’t gym stuff just go in with everything else?

Potty training so approximately a kajillion. When phase 1 is over then hopefully back to every other day. More washing in winter, more layers, more muddy walks etc

@Peass Im fascinated - how do your clothes, pjs, blankets etc get so dirty every day that they need washing every day?

Also, clean PJs every night? That is lunacy.