To ask what your laundry routine is?

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I've two medium sized wash baskets which I can just never get to the bottom of! It honestly feels endless and it's driving me nuts. There is 3 of us, me, DH and a 4 year old so it's not like we're a big family either.

I usually try and do one load washed and put away each day. At least one anyway, as I know if I leave it a few days the pile will be even bigger and the baskets will literally overflow.

I have a tumble dryer and a maiden. I try not to use the tumble dryer constantly but it takes hours to dry on the maiden so I'm thinking I might just have to start using it and possibly have a day of just doing washing.

Please share your tips! I dream of an empty wash basket 😭

Whilst we are on the laundry topic what temp do you all wash everything on? Does anyone actually use the 60??

Laundry is my nemesis. Me, DP and baby, baby doesn't even share our washing basket but it's still constantly overflowing. No schedule here, usually 2 or 3 loads a week?

It's difficult as we're in a chilly flat so during the colder months things take much longer to dry on the clothes horses, even though I put them in the bathroom with the towel rail on. No outside drying space and like you I try to minimise use of the dryer for costs. Plus I've shrunk DP's things in the dryer before so now never put his in...I take the chance with mine and baby's at times 😂

One thing I have started doing to try and cut the overflowing pile a bit is do a normal load (jumpers, trousers etc) to hang on the clothes horse, and then straight after that's been hung up I fish out a load of stuff that can go in the tumble dryer (socks, pants, T-shirts, pyjamas) and wash those too. So I have one load hanging up to dry and one in the tumble dryer at the same time. Then the dryer one can be put away on the same day (except the times when I just leave it sitting in there for ages...which is most times).

I do sympathise though because it's SO hard to keep on top of when you're working and looking after kids. Sometimes I'll still have stuff on the clothes horses for days even though it's dry, because the basket is still full of the last clean load I haven't yet put away...need to do washing but the washer-dryer is full of the last load I've dried....can't unload that because, as above, basket is full of previous dry lot....feels never ending when you're not keeping up with each job on time.

People always say to me 'you'll have loads of washing because of the baby' but the ironic thing is that the baby has so many clothes that I probably do her washing once a fortnight, if that! It's me and DP causing the overflowing basket🙈

I don't. I usually use 30, 40 for towels and bedding.

Four adults here. I have a Lakeland electric dryer with a cover, and it’s a game-changer after using unhealed clothes dryers.
We have a communal basket, one for towels and DD has her own as she prefers control over her stuff.
When the communal basket looks full, every couple of days, someone does a load and hangs it on the dryer, when it’s dry then it gets sorted. Only person obsessed with ironing is DH, so if anything really needs ironing, it’s dropped into his ironing basket.
Summer we line dry, use the Lakeland dryer unheated.

Honestly he could help, but he's so haphazard putting clothes away and folding that it really annoys me and I'd rather do it myself

He lacks practise, that’s all. He needs to do it more often.

I've got a really bad routine at the moment. I don't wash anything for about 10 days and then suddenly go "omg there is so much washing!" so I fly through about four loads in 24hrs. The washing machine and tumble dryer are on pretty much all the time. Once things are dried, I put a pile of clothes on the sofa with the intention of folding them up, but they just stay there for... too long.

I need to get out of this rut. At the very least I need a laundry basket so when that's full I can just shove it in the wash 😆

4 of us, plus live on a farm and have horses, so quite a few mucky work clothes.

I put on a wash first thing, go outside to sort the animals, shower, have breakfast, then laundry finishes and I hang it in the airing cupboard and clothes horses before taking the children to school.

General clothes wash every other day. Linen/delicates/work clothes get done on the other days as required.