Seventeen Loads of Washing... I'm not am I?

[RedRainRocks]

AIBU in the slightest? Seventeen (spelt out so you're sure it's not a typo). 17 loads of washing this week I have done and put away. (As well as working 72+ hours) I accept I am a little bit OCD about the sheets and towels being on a hot wash alone and that only white things go in the white wash but I do not understand how this household can make so much damn washing!?!!! These are all full loads.

AIBU to ask how many loads you do on an average week, if towels and bedding are done at least once a week and if 22 flannels are an average weeks usage in your household?? I probably am but please ...tell me they are not going to put "now we have no clean clothes to wear" on my gravestone?

There has to be an easier way than this... Surely?

We're a family of 2 adults and 2 DC, 2 and 5.
We do
1x White wash
2x coloured wash
1x football kit
1x towels
1x bedding

It would be lovely not to have to wash towels after one wash but as I said my dh and ds1 suffer from excema and dh is prone to impetigo
My ds1s bedding gets very smelly - he is 12 and going through puberty and is also a drooler so his pillows are usually a mess after 2/3 nights.
Always amazes me on these threads that others cannot understand that sometimes people do things they don't for good reason!

I will be honest. I might do more laundry, but where we live the electricity is charged based upon 'time of use'. So... if I haven't finished the laundry by the time the prices go up, I have to wait.

I prioritise instead. Make sure the linens and towels are last, then try to catch up through the week when I can find the time (at night, when the prices drop).

It is a royal pain.

Family of 6 here (4 kids). I do circa ten loads a week. Feel like I've got it easy

2 adults, 2 children. Average would be 7 loads a week. We change towels and bedding every 2 weeks, flannels once a week. Do have quite a big machine though.

Family of 3 here. 1 bedding, 1 towels, 1 whites, 1 baby, 2/3 colours. Don't use flannels. Max, 7 loads a week. Bedding and towels changed weekly.

We have five children at home, even when we had six I don't think I ever topped 17 loads??

Bedding is indeed a pain and we do the kids once a week and ours twice a week. Big machine though so two sets can go in at once. Five washes max. Two washes for school uniforms. Two washes for mine and my husband's clothes. One wash for towels (no flannels). That's ten and enough for us-generally a wash goes on before work/school and one goes on after during the week most days, not all. I say 'it goes on' because everyone does it, not just me. If the kids can use an X box they can use a washing machine X

I do at least 3 loads a day, more at the weekends, so over 25 a week. However I am a foster carer with 4 children of my own. No washing machine ever lasts more than a year. It's the one thing I hate about there being so many of us.

I use unscented washing liquid and fabric conditioner so nobody would be able to tell if my clothes were fresh or not if they were judging on perfume alone. Dh would rather I washed in awful scented crap but it's so bad for you. Incidentally I use flannels for wiping dd bottom in morning instead of wipes so we go through a load of flannels. People seem to love talking about their washing, it's quite funny.

I quite enjoy doing it as well as talking about it. Funny as it doesn't extend to any other housework

Do the people who enjoy doing three loads of laundry per day also work full time?

What does the "cheekyfinger" part of your username allude to AKissAndACuddle?

2 here in a 2 person house. One clothes one linens

We probably do 7 loads a week. Towels once a week, bedding fortnightly unless the weather is drying and then I ramp it up to weekly. Vests, socks, pants adult tops only get one wear and everything else is worn again bar food spillages, mud etc. The only single thing I do that may be unnecessary is school shirts. Because I won't use bleach they stay white if only worn once. Because the sun was out I did 3 loads today. I don't have a dryer. It's been a long winter.

We're a family of 5 and I reckon we do around 20 loads a week. Clean uniforms every day, sports kits etc - it all mounts up. DC and DH all pitch in though, it isn't just my responsibility.

3 in the house, roughly 1 wash per day, separated in light/dark clothes, undies + towels, and bedding.

Family of 7 here.. DH, 5DC & me and our washing machine rarely stops! 8kg drum.
23-25 loads of washing a week and yes, mostly tumble dried.

Bibbity It's a Gavin and Stacey reference....

2 of us in household.
1 x bedlinen
1 x towels inc flannels
1 x bathroom mats
1-2 dark washes (clothes)
1 white wash.
Total = 6 washes.

Before DD moved out recently she did 1 x bedlinen and 1 x clothes, making 8 altogether.

3 of us. 2 adults and one toddler DS. Both of us need business dress every day.
2 X hot white clothes
3 X bright colours
3 X dark colours
1 X hot white bedding
1 X colour bedding
1 X towels and tea towels

11 loads here. Thank goodness for the better weather and the washing line!

I am a laundry obsessive though and need things washed, dried, ironed and away within 24 hours of being taken off. We each have our own towels. Bed linen changes once a week. It does seem an awful lot when I write it down, especially as I iron 'show' tea towels

We are scutty in our house and I love it. Clothes are worn until dirty. Sheets changed once a month. Towels washed once a month. 1 load of colours a week, I load of lights. That's it! For 2 adults and 2 kids. That's enough for me as it is.

Got massively behind this winter because our new flat just couldnt get anything dry in it. Over winter have done bare minimum t9 keep us going and nowhere near enough towell or linen washes but now its summer i will be doing a load a day once caught up on my huge backlog!

We do about 8 I'd say with a sticky baby!

I split them into piles towards the end of the week

1 x Dark and can be tumble dried
3 x Dark to be hung up
2x Whites to be tumble dried
1 x Whites that needed to be hung up

Plus Towels bedding etc done whenever

At the minute I am doing about 14 washes a week, it does fluctuate but that is the average at the minute. I don't change bedding weekly, (except baby's) maybe every 2-3 weeks so those weeks there are more washes. We are a family of four, 2 adults, 1 teenager and a 15 month old, she is in cloth nappies. I only have a small drum washer (5kg) and tiny drum dryer (3kg).

Roughly one a day (3 adults, one teen). We did a lot of stuff on the environment when I was in secondary and that has influenced my ideas of what constitutes skanky: from how I feel now, it is not any less skanky to go filling the local waterways with unnecessary detergents, so I do try to keep a balance.