to take a bundle of dirty laundry on holiday with us (to do there) because I cannot get the whole lot done before we go?

[eekamoose]

We are taking car on ferry over to France.

Its self catering, so have to take all our towels and sheets as well as clothes.

In RL I do a load of laundry every day. There's just no way I can get 14 days worth of clean clothes, bedding and towels done before we set off.

Cottage in Brittany has a washing machine. Am I the only Mnetter who has ever contemplated doing this or actually done it?

pmsl

Tell me the 14

List, list

Seems I have the same categories as LittleBella, lol!

When I go on holiday I take stuff that lasts me 5 days. We look scruffy sometimes but I wash while on holiday. Last year we were camping in Europe for 5 weeks, couldnt possibly bring 5 weeks worth!

yes you are INSANE

Although me and DP do wash stuff on holiday, every couple of days probably

onepiece - those are my indeterminate don't fit anywhere, should really be handwashed but I can't be arsed, so stay at bottom of laundry bag for weeks and then I eventually put them into the washing machine by themselves and feel bad about the environment.

Simplify, you see. The secret of good laundry.

lovely tune for all you laundry mentalists

what about stripes then? socks which are mostly white, but have coloured or dark stripes? or...dd1 has some checkerboard white and black socks...equally black and white....am now trying to do nearly all at 30, but that makes me feel even more I should sort the colours...why...?

DCs clothes washed in non bio powder:

Warm whites
Pastels
Bright colours
Darks
Hard fabrics (like denim)
Coloured towels and flannels and sheets
Hot whites towels and flannels and sheets

DH and mine washed in bio powder:

DH work shirts (hot)
DH casuals shirts (50 deg)
Pastels
Bright colours
Darks
Hard fabrics (like denim)
Hot whites (sheets, pillowcases, tea towels, DH white work shirts)
Hot colours (coloured bedding, towels, tea towels)
(My warm whites get washed in with the children's)

Dark wool and delicates
Light wool and delicates

Bath mats

Sofa covers

(just totted them up, that makes 19 ).

LOL

You are a nutter.

I'm so pleased, I was beginning to think I was insane.

You do know you're not supposed to wash a whole load of towels together, don't you, because they get too heavy and it puts a lot of strain on the drum? (At least that's what my instruction leaflet, which I read regularly, tells me. )

Why do you wash your DC's clothes in bio?

Why not use just one non-bio powder for all? It would simplify...

I know.

My house is a bomb site.

But my laundry is lovely.

Am so lucky I don't find it a chore. I even like doing it on holiday - trying out a new machine and recklessly mixing loads in a way I'd never contemplate at home.

eekamoose-you need to get out more

i might have done this before......