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?

Good grief.

I thought I was an extreme laundress but I do 10/week max. I have 1 load a day on average of clothes and another 3 of sheets/towels/dog bed/whatever.

About 7/8 washes. 2 adults and 2 teenagers.
What's the deal with all the flannels Is this one of those odd mn things. We have a flannel in each bathroom (2) and they get washed with the towels, once a week.

There's me, DP and 1 year old DS, I do 5 loads a week.

Dark load of mine and dp's clothes
White load of mine and dp's clothes
Dark load of ds's clothes
White load of ds's clothes
Towels/tea towels and sheets go in together on a Sunday

The only reason I wash ds's clothes separately is because I have eczema and can only use 1 brand of washing liquid and it happens to be the only brand that brings ds out in a rash otherwise I'd only do 3 loads a week.

17 loads is crazy.

Washing towels after each use is crazy.

Washing bedding every week is crazy.

We do 2 loads a week, sometimes 1. Two of us. We tend to rewear outer clothes and change underwear rather than wash everything that ever touches skin for more than 5 minutes.

5 of us and I do average of one wash a day. Have a big machine and bedding fortnightly towels twice a week.

To reduce volume:

I make mine check hoodies - they are not usually dirty and thick cotton ones take a lot of volume up and are long in the drying.

Towels they hang on hooks and I wash them weekly or a bit sooner if the weather's good. ( no tumble dryer.)

Bedding approx every 2 weeks. They strip their own beds and need cajoling- if anyone wanted them done weekly they are welcome but they never mention it!

School uniform weekly or as necessary, white shirts one day or two, mostly every 2 days.

I think it's very dismissive to day that a certain number of washing loads per week is crazy. Some children are cleaner than others - my DD gets longer out of clothes than either of her brothers. Some kids play more sports/do more activities. As a result they need to wash/shower more, so the towels don't last as long. Some kids are sweaty little things, others aren't. Not everything is a one size fits all.

3 of us; h, dd and I.

I do
2x darks
2x colours
1x whites
2x bedding
1x towels

So 8 on average. Sometimes a couple of sports kit quick washes on top.

We do at least 20 loads per week- family of five. How on earth do people manage with five loads per week?! Our bedding alone is three loads plus two of towels, one of tea towels, one of swimming stuff before we start on clothes. HOW can a whole family have one load per week of bedding? Are you all in one bed?!

Are the '5 loads per week' people the ones who make their kids wear rewear worn uniform?! And who only change beds fortnightly? Or the ones who wear one pair of pyjamas for a week?! Yuck.

I do more than 17 loads per week, but after reading some of the comments here I'm too scared to say how many.

5 of us plus dog. 2 washing machines.

You can't leave it at that. How many do you do that you need two washing machines?

There are 6 in our house, plus two dogs.
The DC are all under 8, they each have pjs, uniform/nursery clothes, every day, plus a brownie and cub uniform a week. 4 sets of swimming stuff. usually two sets of clothes a day at weekends. Coats/jackets all washed at weekends too because we tend to go tramping over castles and stuff. then Dhs work stuff every day. bedding for 6 at least every week (dc sometime more often), towels at least once a week... but we have, and use lots in that time. I live in Pjs if I am in the house so I create the least washing.

I do all mine at the weekends usually, and only separate light/white from dark... about 30 loads, at least, which is why we don't iron anything but school stuff!

Three loads a week. Two adults and one DC on the way.

One light
One dark
One that is either bedding/towels with tea towels and flannels. Unless flannels are being used on your bottom or genitals (the latter to me raises hygiene issues - I use only toilet paper or the shower head down below) they only really need washing every second use.

Tip - make all towels and bedding white cotton. They can all go in on the same cycle (boil wash). Life is too short to sort that stuff into colours. All towels and flannels get hung up to dry on pain of pain.

Bedding only needs doing once a fortnight as do towels.

Ironing is for best clothes or uniforms you're physically given to wear only.

3 lots of single bedding is one load in my machine. Our bedding is another. Towels take 2 loads. Then do 2 darks 1 whites 1 coloured washing per week. Kids always have fresh tshirt/shirt each day. Skirts and cardigans do 2-3. Small dude has clean trousers each day ditto jumper cos he is a dirt magnet. I couldn't even get to 17 washes...

The washing I can cope with, the drying and putting away seems never ending.
I've almost given up ironing, I give clothes a good shake and hang them on hangers in the airing cupboard to dry. I still iron OH's shirts, but apart from that, very little

If the uniform is clean it is fine to rewear it. When they are playing football on the field it doesn't work out but that seems to happen in phases.

One pair of pyjamas a week after an evening shower as my kids have is fine.

As a result they need to wash/shower more, so the towels don't last as long.

When clean people come out of the shower/bath, they are as clean as the towel itself...the towel does not immediately need a wash after each use.

Oh dear! There's me, intern and flat ate in our flat (just invested in a washer dryer as got a hanger from ceiling in lean to but not ideal).

The intern is 21 and just gave me a full load of washing but that is once a week. The flatmate and I do our washing together or separately usually 2-3 times a week but I don't mind her doing it separately as she pays me rent.

Usually 3-4 times a week for 2 of us, including bedding sheets etc 1 x a week, make it 4-6 x a week including intern so 3 of us.

I thought you were going to say 2 under fives or babies!

Some people do crazy amounts of washing.

We are 2 adults 2 preschool DC.

I do on average 4 loads a week.

I use the sight and sniff test before washing clothes, don't just automatically throw everything in the laundry basket after one wear. Obviously excluding underwear. I don't see why towels need to be washed too frequently as they are only used when your body has been cleaned.

Towels - twice (but we have two sets which can't all be washed together, otherwise they'd all go into together)
Bedding - once
Whites - twice a week (mostly school shirts though)
Darks - 3/4 times a week
So 9, maybe 10 at a push

There's 3 of us. I have got a 9kg machine.

I do 7- 10 loads of washing a week. 5 of us living in the house. Ds1 plays a lot of sport so is always muddy!

I genuinely don't understand how people get through so many loads in a day. We've just acquired a newish washing machine as part of a house move and the standard synthetics cycle is 2hr 30 and the 'quick' cycle is 2hrs even with a smallish load!
I am seriously considering bringing my old machine from my old house when it sells - that was 1hr 45 mins for a synthetics cycle. If you are fairly on the ball and there changing over within 15 mins surely you can't get through more than 5 or 6 loads in a weekend day or 2 in an evening and that means not leaving the house for more than a 2 hour stretch.
I'm starting to regret the decision to have kids if being chained to the washing machine is my future

We put bedding in with the general wash so I might put pillow cases and the sheet in with the white load and then the duvet cover in with the dark wash if there's space then the bedding/towel wash isn't such a big load.

My DD's school skirts lasted at least a week between washes, unless she'd got them dirty playing. She was generally a clean child and wore pants and tights underneath. What on earth is yuck about that?

I always separate whites, colours and darks, and change bedding once a week.

I probably do a wash every other day. If I don't have a full load of anything, I just don't wash them until I do.

I put flannels and towels in together, also at 60. Everyone gets a clean towel once or twice a week, and a new flannel every other day or so, so we have usually 4 -6 towels and 14 flannels in one load, which fits fine. I don't wash towels immediately after use, I wait until we have a full load. We have enough in the cupboard that we can wait without running out.

I do all the bedding in one wash - one set of king size, two sets of single.

The DC have enough school uniform that I only usually need to wash it all once a week, and it goes in with other clothes - white shirts with whites, the rest is navy and goes in with darks. I wash them on the same night that DH does sport, so his kit can go in with it.
DH does sport twice a week. He rinses out his kit immediately after use, then it can go in with a normal clothes wash. He has a white set of kit, with a white towel, and a dark set with a dark towel (I am totally anal about whites mixing with colours!)

4 people here all adult size, so they now do there own.

I do for myself 1 dark, 1 light, 1 towels and 1 bedding per week - DH does 2 washes per week for his clothes plus 1 for his sportswear.
The DC (adult/teen) wash when they run out of clean clothes, but if they did it regularly not in batched it would be 2 or 3 washes each a week including bedding and towels.

When I used to do all the washing, school age DC, I'd have 3 normal loads, 1 delicate load, 2 towels, 1 bedding and 1 sports a week - all done at the weekend.