How many loads of washing do you do a day?

[LadySlatternly]

I am a Mum of two young girls, with a husband who works away during the week and brings home minimal laundry but creates a bit when home! (Running gear etc).

He says I make my life harder than need be by doing too much laundry.

I wash beds once a week (unless girls wet the bed), towels about the same, or twice a week but bath mats and hand towels more...girls uniforms daily. I do, on average, 2 loads of laundry (big machine though) a day. Often more though if blankets or sofa covers need doing.

How much do you do? Trivial issue but bugging me as my husband constantly bangs on about it.

I do loads of laundry by the way but the house is in perpetual chaos and mess!!!

DS is still pre-school age though, he comes back from pre-school covered in muck from the garden/paint (at least they use washable paint)/lunch splatters. Everything has to be washed daily for him

I don't understand why everything has to be washed daily. Does he only have one outfit? Even if my boys have clean clothes every day, I still only do 1 load a week of their clothes.

We are 2 adults - I run, DH cycles and gets grubby with his work. We do not wash everything after a single wear.

1 14 yo = school shirts, muddy kit, things going straight from clean pile to dirty laundry pile in the name of room tidying, chucking things in wash when only worn for a couple of hours.

1 4 yo = school uniform as and when, mud on everything

I think it probably averages out as 1 load a day.

We re-use towels a lot (hang out on line inbetween - they're fine).
Bed linen - whenever I see a good washing/drying opportunity!

NO idea how large my drum is!

Imagine how much money, electricity and water we could save if the whole of MN committed to reducing their laundry by just 2 loads a week per household.

family of 6: 2 adults, 3 teens/young adults, 1 10 year old. Two girls, four boys.

I do one load a day - sometimes two on the weekend (large drum machine). OP your husband is right - you're just making unecessary work for yourself.

Blimey and I though we overused the washing machine running it 3 times a week! Mind you, no DCs here. And I change bed sheets about once a month. Or less.

Minimum of 2 sometimes 3 loads a day.....

Wash towels and bath mats twice a week and bed linen once a week.....

There are daily sports kits too (usually caked in mud!)

This means I can keep on top of everything through the week and not spend all weekend ironing!

I am always horrified by these threads. people are so wasteful! washing things after one use, creating a massive industry of cleaning clothes.

I have 2 under 2 one in cloth nappies, a dh who does sport and we do 3-4 a week tops. I'm trying to reduce it. there is no way I want to spend mg hard earned cash on water and electricity, and more to the point - I've got a lot more interesting things to do than play with clothes.

1 load set to come on at 4am, taken out to dry when I get up
1 load set to wash at 3pm, taken out to dry by whoever gets home first
1 load on at 7pm.

That's mon-fri. Sat/sun prob another 2 per day.

Me, DH, dd(15) and 2 DSs who have football training every night between them.

3 washes a week between me DH and dd. I thought we overused washing machine too!!
2+ washes a day? Ridiculous. How are u drying these clothes

2 a day. Roughly breaks down like:
Bedding weekly ( 2 loads)
Towels (2 loads) white towels
Clothes ( 1 load a day)
Dog towel, running, gym clothes. (. 1 load)
Children's /my school coats,hats gloves etc. ( 1 load) filthy they get
Swimming stuff. Twice a week. (1 load)

When I lived alone I did three loads a week. As there are 4 of us it's about right I think.

At least 2-3 a day, and at the weekend sometimes 6 on Saturday.

In winter or if it's raining, 1 load. If it's warm & breezy out, up to 3 loads a day in summer. We've no tumble drier, 2 airers & a Lakeland heated airer, plus radiator racks. And a damp house.

I need a washer/drier.

Saturday to Friday I'd say it goes:
3/2/0/1/1/0/0
So that would average out at 1 a day. One of which is just swimming kit.

There are five of us.

I have no clue what you are all doing to get so dirty.

I agree with some others on this thread, people are washing to much. I mean do you really wash coats every week! And towels after every use! Such a waste of water and detergent.

We average probably 1 load a day, but some days I have a day off so do 2 another day. this includes DH gym stuff which is twice a week and him swimming twice a week to. change sheets once a fortnight ish and towels when I think they need it.

oh and there is 4 of us, one lot of school uniform for DD as she doesn't seem to be able to keepit clean and clean cloths for DS everyday as he's a toddler who gets very messy at preschool.

Me, dh and 11y dd

3-4 washes a week

I never understand these threads with some people washing so much. I simply wouldn't have time to wash, dry and iron so often. And it is such a waste of energy and resources to wash stuff after one use in the vast majority of cases. Even when dd was a baby I didn't

We do about 6 loads a week, me, dh , 3 yr old DS but I'm due dd any day so it'll prob be more soon.

Bath towels once a week, bed linen once a week, dark and light loads as they pile up. Dh wears same work trousers 4 days a week and new shirts every other day. DS has clean clothes every day if his are visibly dirty or smell!

Just got a tumble dryer but going to try not to overuse it!

We average 1 load a day, but I often don't do any washing over the weekend so I'll do more on a Monday. There are four of us- Dh and 2 dcs (aged 2 and 3)

We have a new 12kg machine but I don't really have enough drying space yet so the machine isn't usually full. Most stuff is washed at 30 degrees.

Dh goes to the gym, runs and cycles; his kit gets stinky so needs washing after each use. The dcs are still young and messy so they often get through more than one outfit per day, and I end up covered in unidentified child-related substances so my stuff usually needs to go into the wash after one use too. Bedding is washed fortnightly, unless there's a reason to do it more often (ie vomit ); towels are washed when they start to smell but I wash hand towels and tea towels more frequently.

Towels: after every use, but I have enough so I can wait 5 days for there to be enough to make a load

Bedding; once a week

Bathmats: once a fortnight / three weeks

Work cloths (so like a uniform)- skirts / trousers when they're grubby, certainly not everyday! Shirts get put in laundry basket each night until there's a full load (again I have enough of them to wait for this)

Other stuff as and when the basket is full

Maybe one load every other day?

I'm another one who can't believe people use clean towels every day - what a waste of time/energy and detergent. And a hassle to dry in this weather.

We are a family of three, probably have 4-5 loads a week.

I don't understand why everyone seems to need clean clothes everyday (socks/underwear excepted ) - unless you are really much children surely most things can be worn a few couple of days? I don't put on clean jeans ever day and no one has told me I smell .

1 most days. About 5 loads of clothes a week (one delicates/wool), one of towels and one of bedding.

No need for clean towels daily and if we're going swimming I take the towels from the bathroom then they go in the wash afterwards: the only extra washing is the swimming costumes.

DH cycles to work up a muddy (at this time of year) track. He wears the same clothes for this all week. I try to only wash underwear/socks after each wear but as I'm at home with a very sticky toddler don't always manage it. DS gets a full set of clean clothes daily. Unless they are actually soiled or sopping wet I ignore minor stickiness and staining until bathtime.

We do 3 washes/day:

• I have a clean towel every day ('tis my only real luxury)
• Clean towels every couple of days for everyone else (everyone in my house showers every day)
• Clean clothes every day for me & DH
• Clean shirt every day for DCs
• Clean bedding every 2 weeks

You do have to consider the multiplication effect of more children (we have three teenagers) and also their ages. We are a family of effectively 5 adults. Clothes, towels and bedding are all a lot bigger (and sweatier) than when DCs were small.

Any road up, I dont see why, as a resident of a cold wet island, I should worry about water consumption. Last time I l;ooked there was a lot of it about.

I'm gobsmacked some people only use a towel once before washing it, wow.

Wow. People do a lot of washing. . We do about 5 loads a week of clothing and that includes a load of muddy sports kit. 2 adults, 2 preteens.

Towels. Once a week.
Bed linen. When I remember

I remember when we had the twin tub delivered. .. exciting times , before that it was the washboard. A friend of my mom's had an ancient machine with a mangle (is that right? ). That was in the 70's.