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 you are in work all week then it’s not an option to do it during the week just because it’s nice weather.
I did mine yesterday. It was raining most of the day here. So yes, I use the dryer, mine is a heat pump though so not that crazy expensive.

and yes ours is family four and I have two loads per week.

My mind is blown at the amount of washing. I have a friend who claims similar amounts and I don't get it. We definitely have more washing than average because dh, dd and ds all do a lot of sport and dh has an actice job, plus we are a family who all use those ridiculous bath sheets as towels and i live by thr mantra my mother taught me which is "always buy bedding a soze bigger than the bed itselff"🤣🤣 but 2.5 loads a week? I cant even begin to get my head around that.

We do at least 10! Plus dh does a couple of separate smaller loads for his work clothes.

Of course it's an option if you work. I work and am out the house 7-4ish most days as I said if it's going to be a nice day you peg a load out and then bring it in when you get home. Isn't that what most people do?

I do similar once a month as it's just me alone these days.

I have three loads a month to do (clothes, towels, bedding) and have colour coded baskets for each. They all tend to fill on the same day so I get them all washed and dried in one go and then put it away so I don't need to think about it for another month. You just need to start first thing and set timers to remind you something's done, and motivate yourself to do it immediately otherwise you run out of time.

I don't buy anything that would need ironing though. I can see how a family could easily do the same with once a week.

I do all the laundry in a day too. 3-4 loads. We don't have a dryer so it either goes outside or on the clothes horse, and as we have limited space I'd rather get it all done at once. Washing Sunday, still drying Monday, ironing and putting away Tuesday.

I’m surprised at the 2’5 loads. I generate that just myself - my uniform is a mix of colour and white, then my towels and bedding. Any casual clothes.

add the girls in, that’s another minimum 3 loads.

thats the only bit that gets me. If I could be bothered I could do the washing, drying and ironing in one day easily. But I get distracted or my energy runs out. So the ironing is usually done as needed.

No. I have other things to do in the morning. I just couldn’t fit that in before leaving at 7:30/8
Getting dressed, sorting lunches etc.
I also live in Ireland where I don’t trust the weather 😅
When is the washing machine being put on? When you are asleep? That would freak me out tbh.

2 disabled children and a large family here. I have an 11 kg washer and do at least 2 loads a day ! Often more.
So I do the equivalent amount to your friend most days . You just get used to fitting it in though I admit to never ironing! That would be a step too far.
If i ever win the lottery I am getting a laundry maid !
@SalmonOnFinnCrisp didn't mean to quote you. Sorry. Edited to try to delete

My dd does it this way.

no tumble dryer - she has lots of airers and hangs on the line or in the airers.

honestly I can see the attraction - only one day a week.

i do mine when I have a full load.

Maybe she is of the "wash it when it's dirty" approach rather than wash it just because it has been worn for a short time. Or is happy to use towels for a week rather than washing every day.

Yes I’m this way inclined. Washing towels after one use is ridiculous imo

I'm constrained by drying space - I've a couple of clothes horses (that I've just realised I've had for over 20 years, since I was a student 😂). I also have a good clothes line in the garden but that's no use for much of the year. I don't iron. We're a family of 3 and there is always laundry in the baskets, on the dryers, in a pile ready to put away - it's constant. I probably do 4-6 loads a week, most at weekends.

I don’t see what’s so amazing about doing 2.5 loads in one day, once a week. We easily do two loads a day, every day.

To leave the house at 7, you'd have to be putting on your washing at 5 am surely?

We're in a semi so I would never put the machine on that early.

Yep same, I wouldn’t dare tbh. Mine has a timer and sometimes I set it to come on at 7 o’clock on a Saturday morning, but that’s because I know I’ll be up

I'm glad it's not just me! Is that really what some people do, wash a towel after using it only once, to dry a clean freshly washed body??

My work do nearly 3 loads a day. 2 adults, 1 9yr old and twin toddlers. We line dry it all, no drier though

Waaait. I always thought that the excessive towel washing was an MN joke! 😱

I do, if I can get it dried outside in one day. It’s over two if it’s winter. As I don’t have a tumble dryer.

I really don’t think two loads of laundry is a big job! Minus the ironing - that might take a bit of time. I don’t iron, but I can easily shove a load each in the washing machine, turn it on, stick it in the tumble dryer then fold and put it away. It probably takes me a total of half an hour. It’s not like you actually have to do anything while the washing machine’s on. Imagine Victorian women reading this scrubbing away on their scrubbing boards, they’d be absolutely fuming!

I sometimes do all mine in one day, but the weather needs to be on point. I get up around 6am and have it done by 6pm can be anything up to seven loads.

This will horrify many, but especially the one towel use brigade. I recently lost my towel in the gym, so I dried myself with my t-shirt and then asked reception if someone had handed in a white towel “no, but someone has handed in a biege one” ah, that’ll be it! It has its own ecosystem at this point.

Are you washing clothes by bashing them with rocks in the river or putting them in a machine and pressing go?

Between that and changing multiple times a day I can see how people are aghast at the possibility of 2 loads a week.
when I come home I change into tracksuit pants and a top (if I was wearing a shirt to work) and I could wear that every evening for 3 evenings. I’m not going anywhere so it’s not a big deal. On the days my dc have clubs I stay in my work clothes. My ds doesn’t normally change out of his uniform unless he has a club. He wears approx 3 sets of uniform a week. He’s not messy. My dh gets a week out of his jeans, he showers daily, sometimes twice.
yes my dc do clubs but they are on a weds, Thurs and Saturday mornings so the kits can wait (they have more than 1 kit)

The planet really is doomed.