"Well,it does if you're remotely interested in hanging on to the environment for a little while longer."
Please tell me how I can reduce the number of loads of washing I do then.
DS1 - school uniform, everything except the polo shirt usually stretches for 2 days (if I'm lucky). Plus wet sheets every morning. Already wears his after school clothes 3/4 times before washing.
DS2 - Typical 2yr old - needs a clean set of clothes everyday. Trousers sometimes need changin 2/3 times a day as we're doing "baby led toilet training" - whereby we're going at his pace which unfortunately some days means 3 accidents, then none for a week.
Me - Have my work clothes need washing at least every 2 wears, should be everytime but I 'cheat'. I make my jeans last for several wears, and most of my tops 2 wears., some days I don't actually get dressed if I'm working 2 nights in a row - just lounge around in my dressing gown. Even with shaved armpits still can't wear tops more than twice (they're usually dirty from DS2 by then anyhow).
DH - needs clean work clothes daily, wears all his T-tops and trousers multiple times (I sometimes end up removing them from his drawers as they really do need washing but according to him he hasn't worn them enough times...).
Towels - yes we have one each (well 2 for me as I use a seperate one for my hair.....I save money and don't blow dry ) my hair. DS's have to have seperate ones as I don't think it's fair to make one get dried with a wet towel - they bath at the same time (share one). DH often suffers from Athletes foot - I don't particularly want it - so prefer to use my own towels.
Sheets - DS1's daily (won't wear nappies but isn't dry at night, even with bed mat still soaks all his bedding). DS2 likes to strip his cot on a daily basis and 'clean' the bedroom with his sheets/grobag (we have to use both as sometimes he decides to get out the grobag and sleep under the sheets - so we put him under the sheets only for him to climb back in his grobag). So they usually need doing once a week. Our bedding usually gets done roughly once a week, usually fornightly in the winter. I can't fit all our bedding in one load because of a small washing machine capacity.
Curtains - ermm think I've washed curtains 3 or 4 times since we've been married . Shower curtain, bath mat etc get done when they need doing (usually every few weeks).
When I average my number of loads done a week out it does work out at roughly 3 a day........