Laundry loads - what loads (whites, wools etc) and how many a week do you do?

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I'm curious what loads you all separate your laundry into, and how many loads a week do you do?
At present I do one or two whites/towels loads, save up woolens and handwash til there's a load, do DH jeans separate and then do everything else together. Loads and loads and loads of clothes.

I'm considering washing each persons clothes separately which will make putting away easier, but will also make it easier to wash my few items frequently, so I'm not resorting to tracky pants when all my clothes are buried amongst the mountains of everyone elses.

Any other strategies?

Whites, lights, darks, towels, sheets.

I do bloody loads of loads...

whites, darks (including jeans), mixed colours. I never hand wash stuff. The 2 kids share a washing basket and me and dh share a different one. A wash may consist of just kids stuff, just adults stuff or it may be a mix of both if I need to make up a full load.

Lights/towels/sheets (60), blue/black(40), other colours(40), delicates (wool wash).
About 4 loads a week.

Two loads of sheets
One load of towels
One load of wool/delicates
Probably 2 or 3 other loads per week which will be whites or darks just depending what we've been wearing.

That sounds like quite a lot when there's only two of us in the house!

p.s. some days I just do 1 load and others I will do 2 or 3 - today I am on my 3rd load as I have just cleared the dry stuff off the clothes airers!

White clothes
White sheets, towels, flannels and tea towels
Coloured bedding, towels flannels and tea towels
Bath mats
Pastel coloured clothes
Bright coloured clothes
Dh's casual shirts
Dh's work shirts
Dh's gym gear, undercrackers and socks (they are all dark)
Denims
Dark coloured clothes for me and the dc (like to keep ours separate from dh)
Bath mats
Light coloured woollens
Dark coloured woollens

I do a load nearly every day but have a 6kg machine

At weekends I do school and work stuff needed for Monday which is
one whites,
one darks and
one reds (the latter is the colour of DDs school dresses / tops etc)

During the week I do a load of towels on Mondays and Fridays (hand towels, dishcloths, bath towels etc)

Bedding comprises two loads and then probably a load of darks and a load of lights during the week.

It feels like mountains and mountains

Weekly:
One of whites
One of coloured towels
One of bedding
One of coloureds
One of dog bed covers
One of dog bean bag throw
One of cotton rugs

Once every other week:
Machine wash knits
One of sofa throws

Once every month;
Big throw off bed

I tend not to hand wash anything.

Far too many! I am thinking about buying a second washing machine!

Me too only have one ds but i am always washing! I quite like it though and am religious about sheets linen etc

Pretty much like most people - I do a pink/red/purple wash about fortnightly between DD and myself (and we're not even very pink girlies!). This stems from the time when a red sock got in with DHs white work shirts on the day I'd decided to treat them to a hot wash.

5 of us in the house and don't tend to discriminate between bedlinen/towel/clothes; just according to colour.

So, usually a couple of white washes a week, a couple of very dark colours and maybe 3 middling colours. Tends to be one wash a day.

Oh, and I do a big woolly sock wash about every month. I got fed up with pairing DHs collection of similar but not identical socks and left the basket on the bed for him to deal with. It sat there being gradually depleted for a couple of weeks, after which he binned the lot and bought 35 pairs of identical socks, with the stipulation they all have to be washed at the same time so they remain identical. He has a few pairs of clearly different socks to wear while they are being laundered. It really does make life easier!

2 darks
1 lights
1 brights

There are 5 of us. I shove it into the machine until it is full to bursting. All washed at 40 degrees.

1!

Alternate weeks do whites and coloureds/darks. It's only one persons washing tho.

I take my duvet cover and sheets to wash at my mums and tumble dry. I have no balcony/outside space and can't think of how I'd possibly dry it.

OK. So there's 6/7 of us depending on who's where for the weekend.

I do loads as follows;

Pants socks vests and pj's
Towels
Bed linen
T shirts
Jeans and heavy jumpers
Fleecy stuff (Jumpers/occasional blankets)
Uniform white and tea towels
Uniform (the rest)

woollen stuff and delicates obviously separate as required.

I do it like that because it keeps all uniforms together (hubby's duty on Sunday) and cross matches the 'same drying time' and 'needs ironing' piles so I can bulk block the rest of the ironing and have more time for :o

It also means that DS1 gets to sort and put away pants socks pj's

Two of us in the household (well, 3, but DP and I don't do our lodger's washing).

We do
underwear hottish
other clothes and delicate things (bras etc) cool wash
towels and tea towels hot hot hot

once in a blue moon we do a whites wash, hottish.

oh, and I normally do 2 loads every other day with the uniform's done together on a Saturday wow I need a life

Whites, coloured, dark - 1 or 2 a week, towels, bedding once a week or so.

There are 2 wash bins:
1 for lights
1 for darks

Whenever one of the bins fills up a wash goes on!
Total washes per week around 7

Most loads are 40 degrees but if they contain bedlinen I will usually whack it up to 60 degrees

This is pretty easy imo. Things are normally washed within 2 days of going into the wash bin.

Usually have to do a load a day.

If not it backs up into a mountain.

So lots
whites
brights
darks
wool
towels

probably some more there

Interesting variations thank you.

I don't think I put enough in each load. I've been using the same basket to transfer loads for years despite having a much bigger machine.

Right now it feels like I do loads of loads every bloody day but that's because we have 2( yes, two) puppies sleeping in the kitchen. Makes me heave but it's too cold here to sleep outside.

Under normal circumstances I do 2 white washes on 30 degrees, with pre wash, one darks on 40 and one darks on 30 and then 1 lighter coloured on 30. I try to do bedding once a week, so that's 2 washes, ours and DDs. Towels, oh loads. I change tea towels and hand towels frequently, so keep lots of them, and the DDs take towels to school 4 days per week in addition to showering at home. Probably do towels twice a week do to the volume used. Currently the shabby old towels that the puppies sleep on are getting a 95 degree wash daily, they have four so I can get them dry and still give the pampered puppies a cosy place to rest.

I tend to do all the washing at the weekend - usually 5 loads:

1 Whites
3 Darks (including towels)
1 white bedding / dark bedding on alternate weeks

Hmm in a week:
2 x whites
2 x darks1 x pink/red/purple
1 x towels 60 degrees
our bedding which is 2 loads

less frequently the dc bedding

Huge husband and 3-4 dc though