To wonder why other people's homes don't have huge washing piles?

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Do you remember the pictures in Ruplestiltskin of the rooms filled with straw? Well my house looks like that - but with washing instead of straw. I feel like it's a full time job just managing it, and I don't even iron!

No one else I know seems to have the same problem. They all have lives, spend time with their kids and have full time jobs? What do they do with it all? What secret to they know that I don't?

My problem is that I don't have enough capacity to dry enough stuff. Have splendid huge washing machine but then just piles of wet stuff waiting for home.

No space for washing line outside

Inside we have stupid crappy drying racks, clothes hanging over bannisters, off chairs, over doors. Drives me nuts.

Problem here is we have 3 x little kids, so quite a lot of mud and wee with relatively little payback in terms of putting away clothes. PITA.

Sensible thing of course is not to do washing til there is capacity to dry it but somehow I don't seem to do that.

Are you a hygeine freak with that much washing, or have as many children as the old woman in a shoe? Some people get a bit ocd about endlessly washing bedding/ towels etc and even wash skirts and trousers after just 1 wear. I do about 3-4 washes a week, and just put stuff in washing machine as soon as there's enough and then hang it out. If you have enough washing to do several loads a day then it sounds as though you're washing stuff that I'd wear again, or have the kids wear again. If my skirts get crumpled after wearing I just iron them as they're not usually dirty or smelly after 1 day and frequent washing fades the colours and thins the material.

Also, I do think some people make too much laundry for themselves.

Lots of people on MN insist on new clothes every day, clean bedding more than once every 2 weeks, clean towels daily, etc. It isn't necessary in most cases and it just makes more work for yourself. It is also not good for the environment, nor for the fabric being washed so often.

we have bare minimum clothes too. Except dp whose mum likes to buy him about 2000 work shirts a year (they do mainly go straight to the charity shop, am afraid).

Around half my huge pile of laundry is non-clothes stuff, more if the day has been especially shit.

Don't iron though, god no. DP has one of those travel irons at work for if things get bad. But really. Hang the stuff up when damp and give it a good shake, no-one would know, as long as they are a bit short sighted.

dd2 also loves ironing and will voluntarily iron everything for me, problem is that she is 3yrs and her iron is a toy. But in 10yrs or so my ironing will be sorted

think my name says it all.... it's bucketing over here and the rads are covered with stuff. have to do DH's work stuff so might throw them round to MIL to dry cos the drier died

YOU MUST HAVE CLEAN SHIEETS ON FRIDAYS

its the law isnt it?

Spec in the summer

ewwwwwwww

fillyjonk you need a pulley.

Honestly, I love mine more than is quite decent. Best if you have quite high ceilings though I suppose.

I would have two if it didn't seem like overkill in a quite tiny flat. My gran had three and was queen of laundry (also had a twin tub and a mangle but that's probably excessive harking back to the old days).

My 180cm one holds 1.5 loads of washing from a 7kg machine.

am interested in the big washer.

is it physically much bigger?

other thing about having little kids is that, IME, YOUR stuff gets dirty faster. Just because you are DOING stuff with them, playdough, mud, and the rest. I am pretty strict about kids not wiping crap on me, but still.

Both dp and I have "going out" clothes for being presentable in (ie adult type stuff), and clothes for being around the children, we change as soon as we get home, this seems to help too. If nothing else it means there are always clothes to escape in.

Couldn't have sheets on the bed for 2 weeks. I would itch.

Jeans, trousers and junmpers get worn more than once, however anything next to the skin gets washed after wearing.

I want a pulley SO MUCH.

Friend has one, am not sure how helpful it actually is but it looks fabulous.

In fact I want about 17 pulleys

How hard is it to install? Do I need to get someone round? And are there issues of load bearing ness?

No my bedding lasts a fortnight and towels get washed weekly, more if grubby, but as you should be clean when using a towel they don't tend to get that grubby. Towels get hung on line/ put on clothes horse/ in dryer in between washes.

btw I have a miele 6kg thingy. Or pos 7 kg, can't remember. Anyway, drum is big, but washer fits into normal washer space.

Ladygooga - my dd has always been fascinated with ironing , the loon.

DD would do all the household ironong for me, however the cheeky so and so has requested payment for it (huh).

When mine got really bad I was to the launderette and blasted it all used about 6 washers, then you just ahve to keep on top much easier.

Easy peasy to install. I did it myself but it's just locating the joists in the ceiling and drilling two holes.

My ceiling is a bit holey now because of a spot of trouble locating the joists mind

noooo unless you are using flannels/pos sponges towels are where all shite go

you loosen it and so forth by using soap and water

then you rub it off with a towel.

eeew.

but so good idea to wash towels quite often. I don't though.

at Fillyjonk and escaping clothes.

ah joists eh...hmm...

I like the sensation of getting into clean sheets, hence changing them nigh on every day in the summer and couple of times a week in winter.

Plus if you don't wear bedclothes think they do get dirtier.

I

AM

GOING

TO

BURN

IT

ALL!