to ask how much washing you do?

[Junosmum]

Just that really. There's 2 of us. OH has a shirt every day, bedding and towels once a week, my work stuff every 2/ 3 wears, plus underwear and tea towels etc and OHs out of work clothes - t shirts every 1/2 wears, trousers once a week or more frequently if dirty.

But this seems to add up to a washload per day (or 3 in the week, 3 on a weekend if I don't do it regularly. And I don't understand why, we have big machine. Surely 2 people shouldn't create so much washing?!

I will separate whites with colours. No dark washes for us here. Just whites and colours (usually on the dark or mixed load).

There's 2 of us and prob similar amounts of washing.

Cleaner does bed linen and prob one other wash (all my stuff crammed in at once) while she's here once a week.

We end up doing about 2 washes ourselves, 1 mainly DH's shirts, 1 mainly towels.

You can fit a lot in together if you really try So total 4 washes a week.

there was a comma in there also babe to point out the sort of things that go into a normal wash. Not necessarily that they go in together.

Although, indeed, they do.

Just realised I must be a dirty bitch.
2 adults, 4 year old, 1 year old
2 coloured, 1 white load a week
Towels done once a month
Sheets done once a month
Other random stuff done once a month
On the plus side it means I spend a lot of time NOT washing and ironing

On these threads there are always people who change their towels after every use and wash bedding every other day

Madness. Terrible for the environment and what a fucking waste of time

formerbabe what is the problem with tea towels and underwear together?

Literally makes me shudder!

My tea towels and oven gloves are washed by themselves once a week.

Tea towels and oven gloves get greasy and are usually in contact with cleaning chemicals. ..I don't want that mixing with any clothing.

On days I batch cook/bake (once a week usually) there will be a full load of tea towels alone

How...just how? Are you lining the baking trays with them?!?

I don't worry about separating lights and darks, but pure whites stay much whiter if washed separately with a whitener.

Another bit of compensating I think is that although my DParents are great and I get on great with them, my Dmum had major mental health issues when I was growing up and rarely to never washed and so i was teased a bit for being smelly. It is a serious issue for me now.... things 'smelling'. I have been know to spray our clothes with deodorant and febreeze even though I know they are clean.....

I don't wash tea towels and underwear together, but still only do 6 or 7 loads per week so hope that's acceptable.

Tea towels go in with bath towels or bedding on 60 degrees. I do one or two loads like that per week.

The rest is all just clothes on 40, separated into whites & very lights, pastels, bright colours, darks, denims and school trousers/skirts etc, woolies.

Yes but formerbabe they are being washed. In a machine. That removes all the chemicals, rinses, washes, multiple times using a cleansing powder/ liquid.. At a reasonably high temp.

Just me and DP, and we usually have one wash midweek, towels on a Friday night, bedding on a Saturday, then another wash on a Sunday. DP changes into jeans/jumper after work, I change into "loungewear", and both of us have fresh work clothes (usually a dress for me, at least a shirt for DP) every day.

I'm with you pirate - starting to realise I'm pretty skanky by many people's standards on this thread!

We are a family of four. To kept the pile down I do one load each evening, put it on the maiden to dry over night. Then a quick blast in the Trumble dryer the following evening so the maiden is empty for the new load. Apart from Wednesday's and Thursday's when the kids bedding and towels get washed then ours the following day, those days it's two loads each day. Saturday nothing gets washed and sometimes nothing on a Sunday either.

I'm also astounded at the amount of washing some 'standard' size families are doing...3 loads a day? How is that even possible?

I have a giant machine and do 3 a week...so would translate into 6 a week if I had a 'standard' 6kg I suppose.

But that's four people, two of which are dc heavily into sports, and includes 6 separate sets of fucking stinking sports kit a week (two football, two dance, two outdoor gym).

Just...I can't comprehend it.

Bloody hell. Me, DP and 15 month old here. I reckon I do no more than 3-4 loads a week (6kg machine)

Mixing teatowels and underwear?! Um... mine all tends to come out of the washing machine clean . I'm just not willing to spend any proportion of my time here on this earth (or the earth's resources for that matter) exclusively washing teatowels.

Family of 6. I do roughly 12 wash loads per week.

Mon - 1 load
Tues - 2 loads
Wed - 1 load
Thur - 2 loads
Fri - 1 load
Sat - 3 loads (bed covers)
Sun - 2 loads

Included in the above are usually 2 loads of towels. I also have a 16 month old who spills food/drink over herself numerous times per day along with 3 other children and a dh who needs fresh work uniform each day (postman so gets hot and sweaty walking around carrying heavy bags) then we end up creating a hell of a lot of washing between us all.

Erm , I don't even own a tea towel let along hundreds to wash! What do people use them for if they are getting dirty? I have been batch cooking for years, I use pots and pans and spoons for cooking, not a towel!

I have a 7kg Washer and I do 5-6 washes for 2 of us every week,
Bedding ×1 ( take it in turns to do mine and DS's).
Towels ×1.
Bathrobes ×1.
Whites x1.
Colours ×1 or 2/ wool x1.

I usually get a week's worth of clothing for the two of us into 1 load, but it is a squash.

I probably average ten loads a week but it can easily be two loads a day. Two adults, two tweens, both still prone to bed wetting so that usually accounts for at least a load every other day. They're messy with school uniform so that's a full change each every day making a full load every other day. Then there's the adult clothes, adult bedding, all the normal towels, and swim towels. Ten loads a week easily.

And I don't have a tumble drier!

No tea towels here, by the way.

Artandco - how can you not own a tea towel?!

Our house is me, DH, and our toddler. We use cloth nappies which get washed every other day, and I probably do another 4 washes a week. So 7 or 8 a week in total.
We change the towels and bedding once a week which I think is fairly normal, DH has a clean shirt every day, and although I only work two days my job is very dusty and dirty so requires a clean set of clothes for each day. By far the biggest creator of washing is the toddler: not only does she not seem to be able to ever get two days wear out of clothes, she also seems to have an overwhelming need to cover our clothes in gak too. I used to be able to wear jeans for 3 days, now I'm lucky to get one whole one!

Prob about 3 or 4 loads of clothes/week for me, DH & DD(2) and then 1 towel/bedding load - only do bedding every couple of week though don't feel guilty)

Do people who do 6 plus loads a week work FT? If so, how do you do it?!! We do 4 to 5 at weekends, and that nearly breaks us!