To ask how often you do laundry (those with children particularly)

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It’s never ending. At least a full load every day. Sometimes more. Also do a white wash On a Friday for school shirts, towel wash, bedding etc etc.

Family of 4, 2 children with additional needs.

OH thinks my laundry habits are obsessive but what am I meant to do? Leave the wash basket piled up? Let Dc wear dirty clothes. OH how’s through his Fair share of clothes each day too.

Doing a load a day means I keep on top of it somewhat.

DC have additional needs who are incredibly messy. DS regularly comes home from school covered in mud and his lunch all down his uniform so needs a fresh set every day.

It’s exhausting but surely not out of the ordinary when you have children?

I have been staggered to learn on MN over the years how much washing people do..pj’s after one wear, towels after one use. Crazy.

we are now a family of 4 adults and I probably do 3-4 loads a week, if that. Unless something is visibly soiled or sweaty (or knickers), it gets worn more than once in this house

Family of 4 and I do 2 loads most day. I like to do towels, bath mats and bed sheets every week and the clothes are never ending.

Two adults, one 8 year old, and a dog. I wash about two loads per week.

I don't know how some people are going to survive in the climapocalypse (which is being brought on faster by all this washing!) if they feel they have to do so much.

Three under 6. I do at least one load a day, two loads on my days off. It feels relentless.

RandomUsernameHere

it's not as separated as that, but it summarises quite well:

• weekly beddings (2 adults, 4 kids, usually the spare bed too ) that's 3 loads already. I can't put more than 1 king size duvet cover, sheet and pillow cases in 1 load.

-towels: 2 loads a week -white: endless -black: at least 2 loads a week -light colour: same usually thrown into at some point are the swimming kits, indoor but mainly outdoor sports kits, content of PE bags...

I wouldn't send child, DH or myself to school or work with a grey shirt like a poster above.

so 2 loads a day at least during the week

@dementedma me too. So unnecessary to wash pyjamas and towels after only one use!

2 adults 1 toddler. 3 or 4 loads at the weekend, 2 mid week. But I don’t change towels etc at first use and leave bedding for a fortnight unless it’s obviously dirty.

I don't know how some people are going to survive in the climapocalypse (which is being brought on faster by all this washing!) if they feel they have to do so much.

I can't talk for Australia, but all we need in England is an outdoor washing machine working with rain water and powered by wind and we could do laundry all day if the weather of the last couple of months keeps on going. I am sure someone will come up with a brilliant design soon.

So unnecessary to wash pyjamas
why? They are to be worn instead of underwear in most cases, so you wash them after each use. I don't wear my underpants 2 days in a row!

Usually 3 loads at the weekend and one or two midweek. Household of two adults, 3 children age 9,12 and 13. I only do bedding every few weeks and towels go in with the whites. I have a 10kg machine but usually run it on a half cycle as I separate stuff.

2 adults and 3 children (2 at school and 1 nursery). Usually one white wash at the end of the week, the I do the colours/darks once the basket is full, so prob twice a week. It usually ends up with it all waiting to be sorted at the weekend though 😣 I made sure I had enough school shirts for the older two for two weeks, as I do shift work and sometimes don't get around to ironing more often than that.

I have a 6 year old and 6 month old. I've been doing a wash every day to keep on top of everything. This week I did a wash on Monday, wasn't able to put on a wash tues-friday and then had two huge loads to get through today just from those 4 days.

Laughing at all the people with one small child expressing shock at how larger families can possibly generate so much washing. More people = more clothes being worn. More people = more towels being used. More people = more beds being slept in. Older children = bigger clothes...

We’re a family of 6 and easily do
1 load whites
1 load towels
2 loads bedding
2 loads colours
2 loads darks

Sometimes more.

And no, we don’t wash everything after just one wear

2 adults and 14yr old and every day there is at least one wash load - trouble I have is drying in this weather as no dryer - I do have an aga like cooker which helps but it feels like a laundry most of the time

Pyjamas and underwear are not the same though. Pants are very tight fitting and in constant contact with the body. In a day’s wear of pants you probably go to the loo several times, move about a lot more, get hot or sweaty etc.
Pyjamas are loose fitting and not in direct contact, and you are just lying sleeping. They do not need washed after one wear.
There have been 5 of us most of the time (now 4). If we all changed pyjamas after one wear that would be 35 pairs of pyjamas to launder every week!!! Insane.

i probably do 5-6 atm with one child. i do religiously change our bedding every sunday but i'm less on it with towels. baby soon so yes i'll be joining you with 7+ then. i don't mind sticking a wash on though, or hanging. I'm not a huge fan of keeping the tumble dryer happy but needs must.

My 10 loads are despite...
...wearing clothes more than once (apart from ds, who often has accidents and gets filthy at school, spills food etc)
...changing bedding fortnightly
...using towels more than once
...wearing pyjamas more than once.
...washing full loads
I'm not sure how I could cut down more.

I do two loads a day and have a massive laundry basket full and currently a bin bag full there's 4 of us in my house and two kids. God knows how the hell I end up with so much

It might be possible to connect the washing machine inlet pipe to a water butt which collects rainwater so as long as rainwater has collected in there, the machine uses it to run a wash.
I know people who have their downstairs loo plumbed so the flush uses collected rainwater

I do a wash a day, sometimes two. If I have a busy week I might leave it a couple of days but then I have to run the m/c all say on Saturday to catch up. My kids are late teens now, though, so they have a load each they have to do which helps.

I live with my six children (all under five), and two of my brothers (twelve and seventeen, I'm closer to their school than our parents and they both work away a lot so it's easier for the boys to stay with us) and I do at least one wash a day. My eldest is three and is in nursery, she comes home absolutely filthy every day without fail. My twins are two and are both really into messy play so they always get filthy, and my triplets are nearly three months old and go through vests and bibs like there's no tomorrow. I wouldn't worry about it, if things need to be washed, they need to be washed

Two adults, plus a two and four year old in nappies at night and two year old for naps too.

Nappy wash every three days
Bibs and any wet pants (usually from weeing over the top of the potty) every three days plus pants are initially hand rinsed at time of accident

One light wash, one dark wash and one delicate/wool wash every Monday for other items.

We're a family of 2 adults, DD13, DS2.

I do at least one load per day. I'm limited by the ability to dry as quick as the wash can be done. I do use the tumble dryer a lot too.

My husband is constantly shocked at how quickly the washing basket fills up!

Every day here too.... 3 of us, 2 adults, 1 child. 2 x work uniform, 2 x swim kits, 2 x kickboxing kit, 1 x school uniform, 1 handtowel, numerous teatowels - that's just daily wear. Then there's pyjamas, bedding, pe kits, hoodies, jeans.....it would be a nightmare otherwise. I don't mind doing the washing though.

None! My cleaner does all he laundry. I’m a single mum with v little support working bonkers hours though, so that is one expense I gladly pay.