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?

God I realise that makes me sound like a twatty brat.

Love the spreadsheet idea I did mean yo keep a note and forgot... I could start today I suppose!

It is a full load of a 9kg washing machine (and i often have to remove one or 2 items as i have overcrammed it. However, as i said it isn't a dull load everyday because things get seperated. But it's a full loads worth iyswim. So i do 3 loads every 3 days - 1 load = 6 pairs of jeans/trousers and pants and socks, 1 load 3 t-shirts, 6 jumpers (a couple are often massive fleeces), 3 vests, 3 long sleeved t-shirts. 1 load 2 sets of pyjamas, 2-3 sets of gym stuff, and other random things like oven gloves and cushion covers which get vomitted on and smeared with jam.

Honestly i don't look for washing and i do try to stave it off with spot cleaning but DH is so heavy on clothes (and yes his clothes get ruined very quickly). Before having dc i did about 5 loads a week now it's tripled. They are just mess monsters.

Admittedly in the summer it probably halves. As all light summer clothes and less wet mud about.

It's the one thing i just fucking hate doing. It's the putting it away that's the worst.

Is your washing machine actually full?

Lodger does probably 2 washes a week.
For us:
Set of sheets
Dn's bedding x2 (bedwetting)
Dark clothes x2
Light clothes
Workwear
Maybe an extra one of towels or something needed in a hurry, but generally there's enough clothes in laundry baskets that when I put a wash on I can grab some of MrNC's stuff or flannels to fill it up.

Used to have an extra couple of loads of nappies a week, but thankfully no more. Dryer gets used about twice a week when I can't manage to lift things, or when dcs need school uniform dry that morning.

Weekly wash load count so far

Monday - 1
Tuesday - 1
Wednesday - 1

My weekly so far

M- 0
T- bedding, darks, colours
W- whites, towels and one pair of kids trousers that got paint on them at nursery

^^that's for 2 adults, 4 DC's.

MrsKoala I heartily agree. The sorting and putting away is the pits. And the most time consuming. Loathe it.

My weekly wash count so far this week is 1 by the way. A load of towels on Monday.

M - 1
T - 1
W - 1
T - 1
F - 1
S - 1
S -

I've worked out today that my idea of a full load may not be the same as others. MIL is here helping me out post section as DH hasn't started PL yet and washing is driving me mad. She tends to be continuously doing it and when I mention make sure you do a full load she said she does.... My idea of a full load is a full washing basket, door closes fine on machine but it's definitly full, hers - well you can't put much more in if there are 2 towels in there already, it won't wash properly and you'll break the machine (funny I've had clean loads of washing for 8 years my way with this machine)
I must use more powder or they won't clean (don't need it very soft water area), I can't use the tumble dryer as its bad for the environment (but apparently doing 4 loads for every 1 I usually do and ironing everything - I barely iron, isn't)
I'm continuously biting my tongue as I know she is doing me a favour and we are very grateful but it's still driving me mad ( I also have little patience as I'm exhausted post baby so I'm probably being a little unreasonable)
I can watching her easily see how you end up with dozens of loads a week.

M - 1
T - 1
W - 1
T - 1
F - 1
S - 4
S -

Total so far - 9

We run a B&B on a bad day, so complete change over plus us we would do 5 washes, if it's just us, including bedding we would do 1 a day, for four of us

Oh and PPie10... most of my workwear is dry clean only and I change into Pj's when I get home as I'm so damn knackered after my day (which is over 12 hours) I never go anywhere to wear anything else!? I don't create the washing..

Admittedly, I didn't read the whole 19 pages of this thread, but ... you work outside the house for 12 hours, then go home and do those 17 loads of washing?

This is ... impressive, but also worrying. Is there no one else in the house who could help with the work? If everyone in this household except the 5 year old works as much as you do, then you should be rich enough to afford paying someone to do the washing ...

Perhaps you could change the sheets only every two weeks? Once a week seems a bit extreme, especially since you also work outside the house.

To the people who don't use flannels - what do you use?!

I use flannels, I love them for my face, gives a nice gentle exfoliation. I use them when I have a body wash- a clean one each time, then it goes in the washer- but they are tiny, I can't see them adding much to a weekly wash.

I actually did a tally for the last week. I can't be bothered to write the details but I did 23 loads. Dh is away so 1 adult, 2 teenagers and 2 dirty small boys. Machine is 6kg I think but its noisy if very full so loads are maybe small compared to others. Oh, and I wash three or four flannels a day...