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?

6 in my house, 2 adults, 2 teens and 2 little ones. This week I've done 10 washes, 5 on Tuesday and 5 today. Whites, darks, reds/pinks, blue/greens and towels/bedding.

Oh yes - we only iron very occasional items (about once a month for 10 minutes) and 'putting away' = putting them in piles on the stairs and getting tough about people taking them up and doing the putting away themselves.

I would guess I do more than that a week. I've just put wash load number four on and there will be at least one or two more depending on if I change my bed.

Thats 2-3 washes every DAY. How do you have time for that? And how the hell do you get it all dry? I don't see how its even possible, tbh.

If it's a heavy day then mine has a timer so one load can finish at 7am, bung another straight in, finishes before I go to work, set the timer for a third load to finish when I get home.

Mine has a 9kg capacity but that takes almost 3 flipping hours to run so almost all of mine are 4-5kg loads which run in an hour for 40 and 60 degrees. Comes out perfectly clean.

Never got the hang of low spin speed + dryer = no ironing though. Made more faffing than just doing the ironing, I clearly don't have The Knack...

Grief.

Most weeks I do 5-6, for 2 adults and 2 teens. I do them all on Sat / Sun because it gives the most efficient loading: all the below will be full loads,

1x white shirts + white sheets
1x 'almost whites' - striped shirts, pale T-shirts, things like the DCs' school sports kit that is white but doesn't fit in with the shirts, and light coloured duvet covers
1x medium-coloured towels (all of ours are mid green or mid blue) + clothes of the same colour.
1x very darks / blacks
1 x red / purples, which will include DS's duvet covers because they happen to be dark red.

The 6th could be an extra of any one of these - cricket whites in the summer can sometimes push one of the whites / almost whites over the edge; the blacks / very darks can also be more than 1 load.

I handwash leotards (DD dances daily), any costumes from dance productions / festivals; any wool items such as DH's or my jumpers, and all tights. A quick basinfull, except after major competitions.

We don't smell. We do have relatively few clothes, by modern standards, so we wear 1 or at maximum 2 outfits per day, and for example if DS changes into jeans + T-shirt after school to go to jazz band, he will re-wear the jeans, and often the T-shirt, again the following day or for a weekend day, because it has only been worn for an hour or two.

1 Adult & 2DC in a 10 day period (9kg load machine):

1 whites
1 lights
1 brights
1 dark colours
1 blacks

That includes 1DC's school uniform (often needs a new one each day - he's a mud/paint magnet) and swimming kit for all of us once per week.

Towels and bedding go in with the relevant colour wash. Towels are done every week or some times a little over and bedding around fortnightly.
Flannels are put on towel rail to dry and reused a few times before washing.

We (five of us) just got back our holiday on Thursday. One large suitcase and two hand luggage cases and iv done seven loads since Friday. What size is your drum? We have a 12kg.

General weeks I will do two loads a day so fourteen a week but that's not getting to the bottom of the basket so I suppose seventeen would be about right if I was too.

I probably do that many but I only work pt.
I do ds1s football kit X 2 a week, pe kit X 1 per week
I alternate washing bedding but do one bed per week (unless it really needs it!)
Add to that 2 lots of school uniforms - clean one each day (1 young one so quite dirty each day and 1 tween so quite smelly each day!)
Then add in Dhs work stuff - shirts and trousers, my stuff and towels and delicates and I would say I do 2 loads per day.
We only use towels once - Dh and ds1 have excema
It's a pain 😞

I do around 12.
Three adults and two teens. I go to the gym and run, DS runs, DD dances 18 hours a week. I change the bedding only once a fortnight. Lots of towels, lots of school wear, gym wear, dance wear..

I dry outside and I don't iron.

We have a cleaner who does towels and bedding, but on average I would say 5 washes a week, including the bedding etc.

There are 3 of us.

So: how many of your washes this week were bedding/towels? How many were therefore clothes of other people. If you're contributing very little to the pile of clothes, then someone is creating a huge amount of washing. You need to have a chat with that person and make some changes.
OR
If you're doing about 10 loads of bedding/towels then I'm afraid it's your aversion that is causing the problem and you need to think about how much you can/want to change that, which I appreciate may be difficult.

Two of us here...I do about 10 loads a week, including towels and bedding

We've brought up 3 children and at the height of their 'dirtiness' for want of a better word, I would be hard pressed to fill one load a day let alone two! I wash once a week - 2 coloureds, 1 white, 1 towels, 1 bedding. The thought of all the water and electric being used up and down the country is awful! There's no need for it honestly! Water definitely needs to be metered

17 loads is ridiculous. Why are you creating so much work for yourself and then moaning? You can surely stop doing this if it's getting to you.

This ^^

And there's no such thing as 'being a little bit OCD'. You either have the disorder or you don't.

If you do, help is available. If you don't, then your fussiness is what's creating so much work for yourself.

Good grief. Your washing sounds like a full time job in itself.

Here we have one dark wash a week......boys don't have new uniforms every day.
One white wash a fortnight.....don't seem to have much.
Bedding changed fortnightly.
Towels.....as and when.

2 adults, 2 boys of 14 and 11.

I know how you feel,there's 7 of us.I do 3 loads of washing a day,6 days a week and 1 day a week I strip all 6 beds and do the bedding as well and that takes it upto 6-7 loads that day.So I do 24-25 loads a week at least.

I do all the laundry every day,all done yesterday,washed,dried and put away,today I've done 3 loads and I still have at least another 3 loads because oldest DS has tidied up his pit aka his room and found loads of dirty laundry for me the little shit.

Today:
A whites wash (I don't separate towels etc) wash at 60
A bedding wash (ds1s bed)
Ds1s football kit
Tomorrow I will have another whites wash and a colours wash

2 adults and 2 children here, I do a load every evening (each persons clothes from the day, pjs from night before and towels from each persons shower, kids sometimes share a towel). On Saturdays I wash any random things like flannels or coats that might need doing, fabric bags, scarves and such. On Sundays I do bedding. Curtains and, pillows and duvets once a month. So on average 9 loads a week (although I have a tiny 5kg machine).

I have a massive capacity washing machine so can get away with perhaps 7 or 8 loads a week. Theres 2 adults, 3 dcs. I wash the towels weekly, the bedding fortnightly, everyone has clean clothes every day, and clean nightclothes every day, with the exception of DH who will wear his jeans for a few days at a time before washing.
I also have a large capacity tumble drier, an airer inside, a rotary airer outside and a dehumidifier - so everything seems to be manageable. There is always washing waiting to be done/drying/hanging etc around the house though which makes me tetchy!

CM - of course people still use flannels? .

4 of us, and I probably do about 7 loads a week - 2 dark cottons (including towels), 2 light cottons on a hot wash (including bedding), 1 light delicates, 1 dark delicates, 1 school uniform.

. Not ?

Ditch the flannels, hands do the job better. Wash towels once a week, you're using them on clean bodies after all.

6 in our household and I do around 14-18 loads a week. DD is at college and does her own, around 3-4 loads a week not including towels/bedding as I do hers with ours. Clean uniforms every day for 3 x DC and DH's workwear. 5 x beds changed weekly and towels/bathmats washed every 2/3 days.

I do actually have diagnosed OCD, it's not just being a clean freak, it's much worse than that. IMHO you can't be 'a little bit OCD'. You've either got it and go through absolute hell everyday or you just like things to be clean. HTH!

5 of us, inc 3 dc who each do 2-3 sports.

In an average week, I do the following loads:

2x darks
1x colours
1x whites
1x delicates
1-2x towels
1x bedding (alternate changing adults/kids beds each week)

That's ridiculous. We have 2 adults 2 little dc. I'd say 5 loads a week, give or take. And I think that is a lot.