If you really do three loads of washing a day....

[Clary]

That?s 21 a week, right? What are you actually washing? I?m not having a go, just interested (following ?how many times? thread) in how many people claim to do this much washing.

Yes, some days I might do 3 loads (if one of the kids has a night accident eg) but the next day probably none.
Are you mega washers really doing 21 washes a week? Are you all really dirty? what?s your laundry list, come on, I need to know if there is laundry I am failing to do.
(I have three DCs btw)

Love the way these laundry threads get so many posts.

I do about 7 washes a week. Some days I do 2 loads then skip a day. I try to fit in with the better weather for drying outside.

I absolutely dread doing towels and let them pile up massively before doing them. This is because I have a stupid hoover washer that comes apart inside on the spin cycle of a towel wash. It costs me £10 every time for a new fin inside.

Hence, I try to build up massive load of towels and take to laundrette.

Also, depending on how the rest of the washing is, I will wash DD's nappies with other things.

What temperature(s) do people wash their washing at?

I am finding myself worrying fascinated by this now .

"There are lots of hygeine reasons why you shouldn't really share towels unless absolutely nesseary - lots of skin infections/bacteria/nasty bugs which can survive on towels long enough to be passed to the next person.... "
Do you think I should stop sharing the bathwater (between all 4 of us sometimes)? F* it, I might as well stop all physical contact with any of my family.

re environmental impact:
we all do what we can. We don't have a car - havn't for 7 years now. I think everyone who does have a car is a wasteful envirohog (joking)
I'm on th eside of the twoel and sheet washers. Its a personal preference thing. I like things to be clean. We all tend to shower together so mornigns are 3 towels, an old one for the floor and two for drying the 3 of us. The least wet one stays in there on the radiator to dry off.
The floor one goes in the wash and the wettest one goes on the floor for splashes.
Then there's a hand towel which will usually get changed every day.

DS goes through two sets of clothing each day, sleepwear lasts 2 nights usually.
DH changes his workshirt every day, no way would either of us put a shirt I had rushed from meeting to meeting in over a 10 hr day back on the next day. YUCK!

I usually get away with one set of slightly messy trousers each day, with a cleaner 'good' outfit on standby for playgroups.
But i go through two tops a day due to DS sharing his muck and often two nightshirts a nights due to medical condition.
DH changes when he gets in from work, fresh tshirt every day but keeps trousers/jumper for a few days.
Socks, changed twice a day, knickers changed twice a day. (health reason)

bedsheets once a week - again cos of night issues
DS sleeping bag changed 2x a week

then teatowels about 2 a day, I rewash cloths instead of using 'wetwipes'

I must have a small washer cos a double duvet plus fitted sheet fills it!

Um, who said they didn't shower every day?

Sorry there's no way I couldn't wash all over each day. Not commenting on other people but I would SMELL!

Am I the only person who sees a windy day, and decides this is the day to do the bedding so it can air dry.
I detest using my tumble drier - I see it as a personal failure YET I do need it at times.
Also if it is windy and intermittent rain (as it is today) I calculate in my own non scientific - licked finger in the air, air temp - as to whether the effect f thw ind can succesfully counter the effect of the rain
And thus far it has
I have too much time on my hands...

I don't always shower even if I do smell! What's wrong with a quick wash and air dry? TBH my ds and I have fairly dry skin which gets worse if we bath/shower everyday.
Plus if you shave your armpits, use Mitchum and don't do much exercise you can get away with it longer

I rinse the school unifirms everyday because my kids are dirty little people lol I do it on a 30 Degree 20 minutes fast wash. I have a A rating washing machine and dishwasher. I use the washing line as and when the weather permits (love the summer) and use the dryer in winter, its a condeser dryer so I use the water to water the garden.

Idris, I never do anything hotter than 40 degrees & I do dark colours on 30 or even cold.
All my whites are white - but I am religious about keeping whites separate from coloured.
As for the weirdy business about towels, just don't get all the paranoia about skin cells. We shed skin all the time. Does this mean all the daily towel washers are washing their carpets, matresses, cars daily too?

riab I would be pissed off with my DH if he was wearing a work shirt and a clean t-shirt every day. I would expect the t-shirt to last the week TBH. It is only 3-4 hours.

This is still interesting! I do colours on 30 and whites on 60. Used to do them on 95 but am persuaded now it?s not necessary (courtesy of mn). I dry stuff on a clothes horse but do use the dreaded tumble drier to take the edge off the towels - mn tip from pervious thread that a few minutes is enough to stop them being crispy ? I used to do them completely. My new pledges are that I am going to get a washing line; I?m going to start using the quick 40 minute wash much more often; and I?m going to stop washing swimming towels each week ? so what if they smell of chlorine. My other top tips: if, like me, you do lonesome early morning exercise when you?re not going to meet a soul ? wear yesterday?s undies and t-shirt - even if the t-shirt looks ludicrous with you running shorts; and dhs who change when they get home from work only wear this new set of clothes for about 3-4 hours ? so can be worn at least 3 times before it?s equivalent to a day?s wear.

bozza just made the same point about after-work wear

Sparkly, you just rinse them? What, with no powder or anything in?

i am the least enthusiastic house-worker of all time. bores me to tears. and i must be seriously bored to have even looked at this thread (procrastinating and avoiding 'real' work actually, but amounts to the same thing)

BUT: wanted to comment on the top tips passed on by hatwoman (only post i read, i told you i hate this stuff!!) and will make the following changes:
whites were at 95, will now be done at 60.
if i have time/space/weather to air dry towels i will and just put in condenser for a few minutes to stop crispiness (i never knew that would work!)
i will still intend to, and not actually do, exercise (but at least i wont be making sweaty washing)

Karate kits 4 times a week cause they get really sweaty.

Nappies 4 loads per week.

Dh is a mechanic his stuff has to go in seperatly at least twice a week.

Bedding once a week unless dd has an accident then they have to be done a bit more often.

Towels every other day so thats about 4 a week

1 load of clothes every other so anoher 4

Thats 19 loads a week

Nope, sorry refuse to get PIssed off at Dh because he likes to be clean and not smelly for evening cuddles!
each to their own but I honestly can't stand the feeling I get if I havn't showered every day and I adore having clean clothes, towels and bedlinen.
So shoot me - its my indulgance!
re drying, in the summer its on the line, in the winter its in the dryer.

I must also be bored have read through this thread thouroughly! lol.

There is only 3 of us and I honestly have no idea how much washing I do.
I have to empty the washing basket fairly reguarly though as I live in a house with no garden/space for a washing line and have no tumble dryer and can't have loads of laundry every where as it drives me mad!(dreaming of owning a washing line...ahh) My machine does have a 'half load' option so it uses less water and is quicker cycle, but generally I try to do full loads.

I change our bed once a week and the cot 2 or 3 times a week as ds has a cup of milk in bed each day and can make a mess. Dh wears a suit to work so have to wash shirts often.
Change my towels probably every couple of days.
Hmm think I do one load every 2 days.
Potty training isn't too far away so this is going to change!

Question: those who do extra laundry because they like everything clean all the time, do they have the right to complain about how much housework they have to do?

I luuurve this thread. (and I started it!)

Lol at Piffle finger in the air/weighing up equation between wind and rain.

I wash towels separately as do them at 60, I know that's not so green but I want em clean (they've been out a week y'know ).

Me and DH share bathwater too - no shower adn the bath won't fill twice in a morning, I go first and I am very clean really

ShinyHappyPurpleSeveredHeads - does it matter what peoples individual cleaning habits are or their own beliefs in how to run their house? Also if people choose to defend JARM then it must be with good reason. I'm sure she is capable of 'fighting her own battles' but whether you think she has 'ocd tendancies' or not comments like that could be quite hurtful, how do you know she hasn't got ocd?? give it a rest please and stick to the nature of the thread. Rant over.

"does it matter what peoples individual cleaning habits are"

Well,it does if you're remotely interested in hanging on to the environment for a little while longer.

"Do you think I should stop sharing the bathwater (between all 4 of us sometimes)? F* it, I might as well stop all physical contact with any of my family."

No - I didn't say that - but there are plenty of skin/fungal infections where using towels ISN'T recommended - athletes foot, thread worms spring to mind immidiately.

sugarfree - obviously that is important. What i was getting at was the whole ocd issue.

im amazed at how many people feel it necesary to shower each day (tho this is obv. better than bathing each day) can you not just clean yourself in the sink each day (sponge clean face, neck, armpits etc.) just wondering, not slagging anyone off who does this, just cant see unless you are a very sweaty person or do a mucky job any real reason for showering every day.

i have the same feeling about lo's i dont feel they need to be bathed every day, obv if part of routine it can be useful but routine can be obtained without this. dd is quite a clean toddler so this prob affects my judgement on this matter!