How many loads a week in your household?

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We are 2 adults 2 children no pets. DD 4 and DS 15m
DD starts school Tuesday so I forsee my washing machine being even busier.
I do per week...
3x darks
2x lights
1x whites
1x cleaning clothes tea towels etc
Bedding every other week is another 2 loads.

So school uniform will make that around 10 loads a week for 4 people. How is this possible?
Tell me your washing woes?

2 adults 2 lo's
2 loads a day ,1 light - 1 dark
day of week i wash my bedding would be 5 loads that day .

I do three loads a day

Can't believe some of you use a clean towel every time you have a bath or shower - no wonder some of the threads on elec/gas costs are so high - and mine was one of the lowest!

There are three of us in our family and I do 4-5 loads a week

Am I the only one who doesn't do separate dark/white/colour washes? It all goes in together on a 40C wash, never had any probs with colours running.

There are 4 of us, it's on most days once so I reckon I do 7 washes a week roughly. Beds are changed on Weds and Thurs, towels at weekends, it all goes in the laudry basked together and I wash whenever the basket is full.

Couldn't do more than 1 load a day, nowhere to dry it.

But if you don't separate whites then they go all grey and manky

I generally shove everything in together but may do polo shirts separately as last year's ones did end up a bit less white than ideal. Definitely don't wash towels after one use either. Am trying to remember when I last did a load of washing - was on Saturday I think.

3 of us, 2 adults one baby. We have lots of riding, cycling, general outdoor muddy kit but are hugely skanky so only 2-3 loads a week :)

2 adults, 2 boys (3yrs and 14mth)
I try to limit washing but husband runs or swims every day (darn triathlon training!) and use washable nappies, but have loads of those so can go ages between washings!
2 light
2 dark
1 towels
1 sheets
1 or 2 nappies a week.
I'm probably being conservative there! Barely any of it is mine, I know that!!

2 a day here if I keep on top of it, so 14 a week. And there is me, DH and 2 DC

shitloads

Neither greyness nor mankiness are a problem in the Bleurgh household. If you wash at a low temp (40C) and use a washing powder for colours (no bleach) you can mix colours with whites and save money on electricity. If stuff is turning grey you are doing your washes waaaaay too hot! Mankiness more to do with leaving it in the machine too long aftr washes.

2adults, 1 DD (7), 1 DS (9). 3 loads a week, one blue, one other colours and one White or delicates.

We're a family of four (2 adults, 2 kids aged 7 and 9) and do about 2-3 loads per week (one whites, one darks and sometimes a pink/red one). I do wait until I have a full load though (means having enough spare uniform etc).

2 adults, 2 kids....one wash a day - dark or white depends on what's in the basket.

2 adults, 1 child - we do a wash every other day or so. Probably about to be more with baby expected in cloth nappies!

Wait a minute, you can't compare at all without knowing how big the loads are. Or the machine capacity for that matter.

I have a cleaner (don't hate me ). Older lady than me, mother of adults. She did four loads of my laundry one day (unbidden) Her loads were so small, I weighed them to be sure, dry weight about 1.2-1.8kg each.

The machine max is 4.5kg; she was literally doing nearly 2-3x as many loads as I would do. Not because the colours clashed or it was anything other than mostly ordinary cotton. She clearly judged 1.5kg as about the right amount for a single load of laundry.

That's why I can now understand how other people (with relatively conventional size families) can talk about doing 3-4 loads every day.