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?

As a family of 5 I do easily 15 loads of washing a week between bedding, towels, swimming stuff and clothes. How people do so little amazes me.

I do mine one week day evening so it doesn’t take up valuable weekend time. Wash and hang out one day, then fold iron and put away the next. I tend to have 2 loads one dark one light.

But then again i only do my own washing as childfree and my partner does his own! When we were young my mum put one load on every evening before bed on a timer, so when she got up she could hang it on the maiden. The dry clothes from the day before were then folded and put in the airing cupboard or put on the ironing pile for dad to tackle at the weekend. Seemed like a good system! A little bit every day.

Well, they might do! And I can just imagine all the critters that come out at night having a high old time playing with the laundry!

Me, adult DS and child DD who is with us 50% of the time. DS generates the most washing as he goes to the gym a lot/plays a lot of sports. Probably do around 3-4 loads a week, 1 light, 3 dark. Use a tumble dryer for most of it but DS has quite a few fancy non tumble dry tops which are annoying. Seem to wash a lot of towels. Wash my bedding once a week, DD’s every two weeks & DS whenever he can be bothered to change his bed.

I live alone and I do an average of 2.5 loads per week!!

One load of cottons and delicates at 30 degrees, and one load of towels, bath mats, flannels etc at 60. And every other week I wash bedding.

My washing machine doesn’t hold a huge amount, and I don’t have a dryer.

Maybe your friend doesn’t wash towels or bedding very often? Maybe they wear clothes several times before washing?

Night-time critters you say?
Any excuse to send out the bat signal

I don't have a washing machine but my work does, so I do it there, once a week. It takes me like 2 minute to load and start the machine, then come back during break and take 2 minutes to transfer wet clothes to dryer, then come back during next break, take dry clothes out of dryer & put them in bag to take home. Every couple of weeks I do a linens and towel wash as well. I would be genuinely astonished to find it took me more than 15 minutes a week to do my laundry, maybe 20 in a linens and towels week.

Skirts absolutely don't need a wash because they've touched cafeteria chairs! Our immune systems are built to withstand everyday germs like that, and you're not letting their immune systems develop by washing everything!

Germs are GOOD for us!

LOL!

We do once a day at least , more Fridays and Saturdays as I wash all bedding towels and throws

It did sound like that from the post! I use unscented Ecover or Surcare on pants but nice smelling detergent and conditioner on clothes

FIFTEEN! I appreciate there are five of you, but that's an average of three loads per person per week. I am a single person and there's no way I do three loads per week.

I think I saw one of those in the garden the other week.

Your teenagers each have a king-size bed? Blimey, talk about spoilt! They'll get a shock when they go to uni and have what most young unmarried people have - a single!

I’m the same, sort of.

I have to have a routine. Bed linen changed on Friday night and washed and dried. Then on Saturday morning load one, washed and into the dryer, load two is washed and hung up (this is none tumble dryer stuff), load three washed by which time the dryer has finished, load four (whites) on to wash and into the dryer with load three. Towels on after that and into the dryer the next day. Ironing done on a Sunday. Heat pump dryer which doesn’t cost nearly as much to run as people think. Only two people though.

Kitchen linen and sports clothes are done every other week at some point in the week.

We must do at least 2 loads a day sometimes 3.

Takes four loads just to do the bedding for the whole house.

I only iron school and work clothes regularly though everything else is if required.

Assuming she’s not sitting in front of the machine and watching it wash, that’s very achievable. I’ve just put on a massive load of bedding and towels, it will wash for about 3 hours, then I’ll hang it out. Total time about 20 mins max, including putting on another load to dry overnight. I between I will take DD to her friend’s, do the shopping and have a Sunday chillax.

my washing machine is so big I could rent it out as. Spare room - if I wasn’t fussy about how I treat different fabrics I reckon I could easily do 2.5 loads a week.

🤣🤣

I know! Crazy.

Because with 5 people in the house all using bath sheets they can’t all hang on the towel rail. And I’m not having towels littered around the house drying so they’re not damp going into the laundry basket. We all use a towel twice then wash it. In between washes they go into a drying rail in the hot press but once deemed used they go into the laundry basket to get washed. And not up to me as chief washing machine operation to deem others towels as clean or dirty. So they’re used and into laundry basket damp where they’ll be out that day/next morning for a wash

if you can line up your washing day with your weekly towel use more power to you.

But you don't need to launder swimsuits after one use! Just make the swimmer rinse their suits in cold water to get the chlorine out, since it eats fabric! Then put all the swimsuits in a wash with other things once a week.

A family of 4, washing clothes, bedding, towels etc frequently enough to be clean is more than 2 loads of washing a week, so not to my standard you're not. If you have lower standards, that's your choice, but don't pretend it's the same thing.

2.5 loads sounds about right to me. Two adults and one baby and we do two full loads per week PLUS one load for bedding and towels monthly.

You take your dirty washing to work, wash and dry it there @Mapletree1985 ? Do your colleagues?

Standard sized UK machines are between 5ish and 13ish kg per load.

So ‘I do two loads per day’ etc is meaningless. A half filled 5kg machine, or a slightly overstuffed 13kg machine?