AIBU to be amazed my friend does all her laundry in one day?

[Laundryqueen1]

I called over to a friend yesterday evening with my dc. She was just coming down the stairs with an empty laundry basket when she answered the door.
she took a few minutes to answer the door so as she opened the door, she apologised and said she was putting away the laundry.
I jokingly said oh no bother I must put mine away, It’s been sitting there all week I need to clear the basket for the next lot.
she then proceeded to tell me she does ALL her laundry on a Saturday- washes, dries, irons and puts away! IN ONE DAY! I nearly fell to the floor. She said she had two and a half loads.
I was even more baffled because she couldn’t have us round until 7ish because she had a crazy busy day. Her dd had training, her ds had a friend over for a playdate, her dd then had an appointment in the afternoon. Then she had to collect her dh from the train station. My mind is blown! She fits her laundry in between doing all of this…and she irons! 😅 where am I going wrong?

If she only has such a small washing load, yes do it on one day. But she must rarely wash her stuff, we have 2 full loads most days.

Me too. Towels and sheets alone is 3 loads. Throw in 2 sporty tall teens whose clothes are massive, uniforms and a DH who gyms every day - does your friend just not wash stuff very often OP? Ask hee how often she changes her sheets and towels.

We only change towels once a week and sheets once a fortnight but everyone has a king size bed so it’s all massive sheets etc.

I do it in front of the TV and I'd be watching TV anyway so no time lost.

My mum’s old twin tub used to dance round the kitchen with me hanging on to it for grim death

I'd forgotten about that! Yes, you had to get the clothes distributed evenly round the spinner or the machine would be out the back door in a trice.

😂There's no way 4 people can only have 2 loads of washing a week. Unless they wear the same clothes all week. Maybe that's her secret.

So there are 3 beds in that house yet she only does 2 loads of washing ? I had 3 children so 4 beds in our house, each bed changed weekly and at the very least 2 loads of towels washed every week so 6 loads before i washed clothes. One load of whites, 1 load of school uniform, 2 load of lights and at least 2 loads of darks, a grand total of 12, then every fortnight t towels and cloths. How on earth can she only do 2 loads for 3 possibly 4 people?

Agree with PP about ironing. Only done here when really necessary.. which isn't often..

My household is the same 2 loads and 4 people. 10kg washing machine.

You don't use detergent to wash your pants?

2.5 loads a week is super easy to keep up with in one week. Try getting through that ever single day if not more. I have a 14kg washing machine and can do 2 loads of that a day if not more if its bedding on top.

That doesn’t sound unreasonable in one day if you put your mind to it, although we only iron shirts in our house. It sounds as if she treats it like a job.
I’m more interested to know if she works full time and that’s why she does it on a Saturday, then whether her husband contributes anything in terms of laundry?

😂

Remember the threads about people that leave washing out overnight. It will get 'darked' on....

My newborn has created more than one load of washing this morning alone 😂.

That made me laugh, didn't realise rockets got operated on!

But for the 3 of us, it’s 4 loads, done on my WFH day. Dryer in full force and unapologetically so - yes, it costs, but is a lot less than I'm paid per hour. I don't iron, though.

My husband does the laundry. I just asked him how many loads per week. He said between 3 and 4 (family of 4 though eldest away at uni some of the time).

He is astounded to hear about those who do 2 loads a day. Are those families who soil themselves daily and piss the bed every night?

You forgot to mention that whatever water was left in the machine was drained into a mop bucket and the front and back doorsteps were scrubbed with a yard brush :)

And there was enough soapy water being sloshed onto the kitchen floor - that got a good clean as well

I do roughly 4 loads a week as a single person, how is someone with kids managing 2?!
I don't have a dryer so although at this time of year I can get a wash dried in a day out on a line, I can't generally get more done as I just can't get it dried to make space for the next lot.

2.5 loads a week is just sheets and towels. What about everything else?

Why did twin tubs need to be monitored?

Was par for the course when I was younger What do you suppose people did with twin tubs or even a wash boiler?i

Because you had to get washing out of the wash area and put in spin area. Loved them Would have one now if I could

I'm sorry to hear about your DH 😢. How are you (physically) coping without him?

what size machine do you have?

mine wouldn't fit all that bedding in one load. I love my machine (LG Direct Drive 7kg, it's old now (14)) & I dread the day it does its last wash 😢)

the 7kg suits me (I'm disabled too) & it's more than enough to peg on the line at once🤣

I don’t iron. But the washing and drying part isn’t very labour intensive. Putting items in the machine and taking them out is easy. The trick is to time it right - put the first load on first thing, then you have pretty much all day for it to dry. Then it’s only a few minutes to fold it and put it away. IMO this is easy to fit around everything else.

Changing pyjamas every day ffs . . .

Rocket surgery 🤣 Do you mean rocket science?