How many loads of washing do you do?

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I need to do at least two loads of washing a day to keep on top of it.. A girl at my nursery does washing on the weekend and only has three loads(same family of 4 -2 adults and 2 under 5's). I wonder if its because I wash towels after i've used them. How many washes do you do a week/day and how do you keep you washing loads down??

20 a week! If you do so many in a day, how come you need half loads? (Curious, not criticising)

I only wash at the weekend but I have a black load, a white load, a navy load, a red load, a pink load and a generic blue/ grey/ yellow load every week. Sometimes I have a brown load as well, and a jeans wash. There are only 3 of us, but DD always comes home from school looking like she's been in the mines all day

I think its seriously sad (let alone environmentally questionable) to do 20 loads of washing a week. What kind of a life do you lead? How do you survive on holiday? I thought I was fussy about my washing until I joined Mumsnet!

About one a day would work for us, although I tend to save it up and then have a mammoth session!! Say 7 loads a week.

I send all bedding and towels to an outside laundry to do. It's not very expensive for me as I do it through work, and it's more environmentally friendly (plus get hotel pressed bedding!). It all goes once a week, and unless people have been dragging the towels around the floor, we all make our bath and shower towels last the whole week. Flannels, two a week each normally.

Strongly agree with bibbitybobbitybloodyaxe.
Family of 3 here, although DH works away in the week, so just me and DS, aged 9. Here's what I do:
Monday: towels on 60 degrees cottons (also tea towel and every now and then oven glove).
Wednesday: clothes on 50 degrees synthetics.
Saturday: bedding on 60 degrees cottons or synthetics, depending on material ( I alternate, so DS's gets washed one week, then ours the next. Only started doing this a few months ago when the dryer was broken, but it works so well.)
Sunday: clothes on 50 degrees synthetics.
Whites: probably about once a month, as we deliberately don't own many white items of clothing. 60 degrees synthetics, but very, very occasionally, a boil wash.
Woolies: approximately once a fortnight in winter. Most aren't 100% wool, so I tend to do them on a 40 degrees synthetics setting.
Bathmats and rugs: I aim for once a month on 60 degrees. I use bio powder for this wash and Ecover for everything else, which is why I can justify at least to myself! washing on higher temperatures, as I don't think Ecover works very well on 30 degrees.
I only ever separate whites from other colours, and I never have anything that runs, so don't really understand the need for whites/ brights/ darks etc.
I never use any stain removers, so if anything comes out still stained, I just wash it again and 9 times out of 10, that will do the trick.
I never buy anything that's handwash or dryclean only either.

Hope that might be helpful for some of you who seem to spend your lives doing laundry.

2 a week, just me and dd.

About 12 a week, two adults, two teens, two tween, one dog....

1 white wash, 1-2 dark wash a week.

About 3 a week. Maybe 4? Two DC and me. Towels hang around until they need washing which in this house us definitely not after one use. Don't have a plan - just wash things when they are dirty (and I have enough for a full load).

If I do one wash load a day, I can sort of keep on top of things. Washing a towel after using it once is insane, surely? What is the reasoning for that?

My god there's some serious washing freaks on here. Clean pj's and towels daily???

Towels washed once per week (more if dirty hands wiped on them) - 2 sets = 1 wash
Bedding washed once per week - 1 double and 2 single sets = 2 washes
Clothing maybe 3/4 loads per week - maybe more during school holidays (I only wash uniforms if visibly dirty/smelly)

2 adults and 2 children.

Ha! If you think this thread is scary, go on AIBU and look at the Only wash towels once a month one!

About 5 a week normally...although due to recent colds/tummy bugs/threadworms/DD1 removing her own nappy at night I have been doing A LOT of washing in the last few weeks

DC wear PJs 2 nights before washing (now with pants under due to my threadworm paranoia), have clean clothes every day but older 2 keep uniform on after school so only one set of dirty clothes are created, my jeans last for a few days but almost always have a clean top every day.

My bed covers changed once a week, DC every other or less (they spend half the night in my bed anyway!)

DC towels washed once a week, mine twice, they only have a bath every other night, strip wash the other so towels don't get used as much.

I use 2 tea towels a day because I wash my hands so bloody often when preparing food (again see threadworms paranoia!!).

I guess as DC get older I'll have to do more washes as I won't fit as many of their clothes in each wash...but hopefully by then they might be able to occasionally be able to put a load in themselves [hopeful emoticon]

I do about 15 - 20 a week and there are 4 of us.
Uniforms x 2
Sports clothes x 2 (muddy stuff that has to be washed on its own)
Towels x 1
Bedding x 3
Delicates x1
Whites x 4
Coloureds x 4

2 loads for ds and I.

I've just got a new washing machine with a ridiculously large drum so it takes all week to fill it! I do a darks and a whites/towels/bedding wash.

Towels get changed approx once a week, bedding every other week, pyjamas twice a week.

Probably 5 or 6 a week

We are a family of 4, and I do 3 - 4 loads a week, mostly at weekend. As I have an office-based job I haven't got time to do any more.

We are all perfectly clean and hardly ever ill. Kids' sheets and towels get done fortnightly (as they always bath before bed and wear pyjamas I don't think it's necessary to do more often).

Pyjamas and school shirts get worn 3 times before washing. School trousers for a week. Clean socks and underwear every day. I put muddy stuff in with less muddy stuff and there are no adverse effects. I use eco-friendly detergent and always wash at 30 (unless something is really grubby).

I have better things to do with my life than be a laundry slave.

For me and three kids I do at least one a day, plus bedding on Saturday and towels on Sunday. I have to wash at the end of every day to keep it manageable otherwise it becomes out of control and I put it off until the pile is huge and we have no clean clothes uniforms are usually dirty after a days wear (oldest seems to attract mud, the middle one is at nursery so always comes out filthy), similarly their out of school clothes need washed after a day more often than not. I tend to do the kids' bedding every other week and mine weekly, their towels get done once a week and mine get changed twice a week.

Actually the thread about washing towels once a month inspired this thread. I must be the other end of the spectrum. I could prob get more than one use out of them.
Thank you for your replies..glad to see that i'm not the only nutter person who has loads of washing. I hate washing..
Ended up with a bug on sunday and was out of action sun-mon so now Mahoosively behind..grrr!