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 do one wash load each day, there are 7 of us.

2 of us at home, usually a load a day.

Family of 5/6 (me, dh, 3 dc's with step-dc every other weekend)
I put a wash on daily. The machine isn't full but if I don't then the next day I can't quiet for everything in so its easier to do daily to keep on top of it. Then a bedding wash when needed. Towels and tea towels get put in the main clothes wash.
When it was just dd and I, I only needed to do one wash a week of clothes and a second with bedding and towels. I can't see how some people do so much!

Two to three loads per week - just two of us here.

We wash multiple bed sets together ie not as soon as they are dirty and towels go in with the normal wash.

exconstance I'm intrigued as to how you do a load a day with just two of you. I'd cry I really hate the texture of wet clothes.

WAY too much. There's 3 of us (me, DH and DS) and I could easily do a load a day.

I only ever wash clothes that are dirty or smelly. I wear trousers for days if they are clean. I wash my bedding once a fortnight at the most. I am not someone who washes clothes just for the sake of it. Everything except my work uniform and chef whites get washed together. Towels get re-used, I never wash them after one use. They are often used multiple times. I don't have tea towels.

I still have to do 1-2 loads a day with 7 of us. If I didn't it would pile up and most of those loads are pretty full.

So for people keep saying life is too short to do all this washing etc, well if you only wash what you need to wash and that still equals 1-2 loads a day there isn't much we can do about it, is there?

I am not a germaphobe by any stretch of the imagination. I wash clothes down with a damp cloth if I can get away with it, but I can't get my washing load down.

U2 same here I don't wish stuff unnecessarily at all but with seven of us, including two teens, one pre teen and little ones there is a lot of washing. The elder two boys can only wear tops once, even with deodorant as they are at that teen boy smell age... Ds4 and dd can wear their school shirts a few days if they keep them clean, if something is a bit grubby ie school trousers I will just wipe them down. Towels are Def not washed after only one use... And though I try to do bedsheets weekly it's more like ten days or so...

I don't do any - my DH does it all :D

That does sound like quite a lot for 2 people OP. When it was just dh and I we did way less than that.

There are 5 of us now (4 of whom do quite a lot of sport) and I do about 5 loads of clothes, 1 of bedding, 1 of towels each week. (I change bedding on alternate weeks - do ours 1 week, the dcs' the next)

2 of us at home, usually a load a day

Are you changing clothes like, 3 times a day or something? This is unnecessary and completely OTT.

2 adults and 4 DC, and I average one load a day. Bedding fortnightly, kids one week, us the next. 3 in uniform including 2 in KS1 where they get more on it!

6-8 loads a week, more dark than light due to uniform and DH work stuff.

We do about 3 loads a week, there are 4 of us, but dd clothes are washed at school.
Sometimes it builds up and we have 4 loads, but never any more, it costs a lot if you start looking for it

Usually no more than three loads per week. Today, however, I have done two loads to take advantage of the wind and sunshine. All done and dried by 2pm (just as well as it started to rain).

How does everyone get it all dry? That's the biggest pain.

AW. If I can't hang the washing outside to dry then, quite simply, it dries inside. Things like t-shirts and jumpers can be put on a hanger and hung on anything convenient. Everything else goes on the airer which I stand on my bed during the day and move to the front room at night. I'm fortunate in that I'm two floors up and southwest facing so I can take advantage of the sunshine's winter warming effect from now until the spring.

thinmint I wash at night and hang in the house in the AM. The house is warmer during the day so by evening it's dry. About 75% of what's washed in the house goes in the dryer. We have an electric dryer now which takes 40min to dry a load. The gas dryer was much cheaper to run. I think once you have 2 or more kids under the age of 5 you need a dryer. Otherwise your house would look like a launderette! At least mine would.

4 of us here, I am a hospital doctor so need a clean shirt daily, Ds(11) also has a clean shirt everyday and dd a polo short. Dh will wear a shirt 3X a week. That's one 9kg load at 40. Underwear including socks, tights and vests with my t-shirts I wear after getting in from work plus 8 pairs of pja (2 each) is another. Then there are work or school trousers/skirts for me, dh, ds and dd (8 pairs) which usually go in with jeans (4 pairs) +/- sports kit (ds x2, dh X1 ,e X2 and dds jodhpurs. There is usually a woolens wash for school jumpers, my work cardis and 4 hoodies.Then a wash for bedsheets and another for towels both at 60. That's 6 9kg washes as a bare minimum, how could a family of 4 do leas ?

I dunno but I've solved lots of the problems by having two machines side by side in the garage and a massive dryer. So I chuck 2 loads on at a time.

Family of 5 and a dog and 2 cats - probably 8 -10 loads a week

Fwiw the shirt load goes on 1st thing on sat am, then is hung out outside if at all possible, otherwise on hangers. The trousers load follows it and is hung up inside sat night into Sunday am. The underwear/PJs wash goes in Sunday first thing and hangs out as the darks come down.The woolen wash is last and gets hung out Sunday night, if the school jumpers aren't dry by Monday am, I will use the dryer.

I am astounded at the amount of washing some people do - how on earth do you dry it all? Two people here and 2-3 loads a week depending on bed changes and washing of dog blankets.

I live alone and usually do 2 loads a week in a 7kg machine.

Alternative weeks either bed sheets or towels
Alternative weeks either dark or light clothes

I only do more if I'm doing a couple of jumpers on a wool cycle or the cat bedding etc.

Scooping my jaw,off the floor "I have to have a clean shirt every day because I'm a doctor". You really do think we're all the great unwashed then . Oh my that really explains a lot about the bedside manner

Op I think that's a lot of washes just for a couple, are they full loads or you separate it due to colours hence lots washes?

why cant he pile up his work shirts do once a week, that's be one good load of his shirts which are usually lights or whites?

There are 8 of us in total, 4 kids, 4 adults I usually do 3-4 washes a day everyday. sometimes I get fed up you can imagine drying all that too, then putting it away? I can't cope with the ironing no more so just hang it all,Iron items which are really bad only. That's big leap for me because I am a perfectionist so I feel like crap but I cant iron 3 loads everyday ive got too much to do

Binky - believe me I have asked. Uniform is like gold dust so that's why I only have one pair

Projection much ripening ? I can think of loads of jobs where you wouldn't need a laundered shirt everyday.