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?

A general wash in my machine takes about 45mins-1hour. We live in a semi and have a quiet machine. It's never been a problem to get a load done and on the line before 7am.

I can do a load of laundry in 15 minutes on a quick cycle. Get up, put laundry on, do what needs doing and hang it out before I go. I can get two loads done before 8am if I’m really on the ball 🤣

That’s not washed! 15mins! No way!

Of course it is - 15 minutes on a quick cycle at 40 degrees.

People have forgotten how to spot clean, I am still a big advocate of that. DH dropped chocolate on his jeans that had been worn for about 3 days, spot cleaned. There is dirt and then there is dirt dirt as I call it, that was just dirt. We had to do washing by hand till I was about 10 when my Mother got a twin tub.

I have never washed my sheets or towels weekly. We shower before bed and a towel is used when you are clean. Every other week is fine by me.

It’s not a competition to get to the largest number of loads! Poor planet. Finding a way to avoid laundry taking over your whole week is admirable.

I do all ours (although more than 2.5 loads) on a Sunday as most months EDF give free electricity then (dependent on how much we've saved during the week). I try to do the ironing then too, but don't always get it done, as I'm also using doing a batch of bread baking (to maximise free oven electricity).

Would the noise disturb your neighbours?!

Who remembers the poster many moons ago that used to have clean sheets every day?

15 minutes wash on my machine is only useful on items I probably don't consider to be dirty enough to need washing at all.

We are a family of five I do probably 5 or 6 loads a week including towels and bedding. I put a wash on first thing then put it out to dry before work if time if not I stick dryer on when I get in and I try to put it away that evening so it doesn’t build up. But everyone puts they own laundry away so it’s a case of only putting mine, towels and bedding away the rest is left in each persons room to sort themselves. I don’t iron anything.

We all have different washing machines 🤷‍♀️

I work outdoors and so does DH - all our stuff comes out perfectly clean on a 15 minute cycle. Putting it on for longer just seems like a total waste of time to me. It never comes out any cleaner.

Possibly, the spin would definitely wake me up. It's not super loud but when everything else is quiet I don't know how far the noise travels.

Very considerate of you.

I'm old enough to remember my mum doing all the washing on a Monday. And probably ironing it all too as she watched Coronation Street.lol.
All the laundry for 6 people in a non automatic washer.

Family of 5 all done on a Sunday about two loads sometimes 1.5. All washed hung on the line and put away. Children pitch in. No one does ironing though none of us wear shirts or anything that needs ironing.

This ⬆️. She's not taking it down to the river and beating it on rocks 😊.
I often do it when I'm watching tv, loads/unload during the adverts.

The 15 minutes cycle on my washing machine is really only for refreshing clothes and also for optimum use should not be a full load

The average cycle on my machine is about 2 hours, eco is longer

I do the same. 2-3 loads. All on the same day. I don't iron - anything. I dry everything in the dryer so it goes from washing machine to dryer then folded and put away.

You must not have kids!! 😆

Yes, my 15 min programme is great.

We are a family of 4 and I do two loads a day at least. Sometimes one member of the family wears per day: pyjamas, school uniform, swimming kit, football kit and Beavers uniform.

I bet they don’t do grassroots sports as players or coaches. In the winter my dc can wear 20 items of clothing for one training session.

I can understand people being organised enough to put clothes away straight away, and maybe doing the ironing straight off the bat. She must use her tumble dryer a lot which isn’t very green.

Only 2.5 loads for a family of 4 though?! I do a load a day usually and then hang it on the airer.

How do people fit a household of bedding or towels in one single load?

That’s crazy - even a standard wash on our machine is only 59 minutes. What on earth is taking two hours? No wonder basic laundry seems to take some people forever 🫣