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)

I am officially a housework sloven. Will not be reading any more of these threads as I'm now riven with guilt at not washing everything in sight and hoovering instead of sitting on MN in my precious 1/2 hour free a day...

I do diff colour washes to stop light colours getting all grey and horrible from dark colours! have two wash baskets on landing - one marked light and one marked dark and as each has a full load I wash it. Very easy!

I'm quite suprised how much some people do. the other thing to remember is that the more you wash things the quicker they wear out. I do sheets probably about once every 10 days and towels once a week. I can quite often stretch school uniform to a whole week's wear, though sometimes some bits need changing mid-week. I think in total I do 5-6 loads a week, for 4 of us. Both my mum and dh think it's too much.

I separate but still have full loads. Never ever have a half load in there.

In a week I would say we probably do about 15-18 wash loads. However I have a 10mth old in cloth nappies and a 3yr old who is a mucky pup. Then there is myself and Dh when db arrives dont expect the loads to increase that much[she says hopefully]

I couldn't possibly do 3 washes a day, as no tumble dryer, and nowhere to dry it all. Try to do one a day, and only separate into 'whites' and 'everything else' for clothes.

I do 3 loads a day. And obviously I am washing clean clothes a la Dame Washalot out of Enid Blyton's Faraway tree... (Just for the bl**dy fun of it).

Sheesh. Do you think I want to be doing 3 loads a day??

(I love your name Jackie )

screamand etc - I always seperate my colours - dark, mid, white and, omg, red/pink. and I never put on half-loads. as long as you're not obsessed with having an empty laundry basket it can be done

(I'll quite miss it once I have to change back after Halloween - JackieNo is much shorter to type though)

Swimming kit,karate kit,running kit,football kit all make loads extra.

(Why are you called JackieNo?)

Mine is always full and we do about 3 loads a day!

We have myself, dp, ds and my mum living here. We all change our clothes once a day, ds has clean pj's on every night, dp changes twice a day in fact as he has to jobs to go to which need different clothes for.
I seem unable to stay clean fromds covering me in food or what ever so sometimes i change in the day, then it's mostly towels, sheets ect.

And we have another baby due any time now so more washing ho hum!

no need to get tetchy

it is just trying to understand that's all - I can understand if people's dh has grubby job etc

but I have two kids, one in cloth nappies, another one who always gets something down her, including her pyjamas, and I do a load a day

so three does make me think what on earth are they washing?

do people change all their clothes every day? including jeans etc?

(shinyhappypurpleseveredheads, Dinosaur came up with it when I was just stopping being a lurker - wanted to be JackieO, or something, but it was taken. This works - and is good for coming up with 'seasonal' variations, too, I've found)

I was born tetchy Cappucino

Well the kids need clean clothes every day and I have 3 kids. Altho on school days I try to drag the odd item out for 2 days (re uniform) but I won't send them in, in grubby stuff.

I wear my clothes for 2 days where possible (I wonder if that makes me a minger.) And so does DH. (Not underwear obv! ) We use towels several times, dead skin cells ahoy. DS2 (SN) often needs clean bedding.

I seem to use a lot of cleaning cloths even tho Anthea Turner I aint.

And all that becomes 3 loads a day on average, it really does.

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(thanks Jackie, oh decapitated one )

DD and DS change most of their clothes every day. I stretch things out where possible ie DS's trousers.

DH and I don't change all our clothes every day as then I would be washing all the time. I also feel that a few splats are character forming.

We don't change sheets or towels as often as possibly we should, but I think we are hygenic .

We do all have clean underwear every day.

Occasionally I have caught DH trying to put on yesterday's socks though .

I do AT LEAST one load a day, either darks or lights. DH is an engineer, so very grubby clothes at the end of every day. Our bedding gets washed every 2 weeks, the kids bedding once a month (on the basis that they don't sweat/smell the way we adults do, and yes dh and I shower every night...)

I do two loads of towels per week. I do one load of dogs bedding every two weeks.

Plus swimming kits every saturday morning after dc have had their swimming lessons on Friday eve.

All this lobbed together makes on average one load per day, some days two loads, and very very rarely there is a day when I do none.
I never run a half-full machine, always full to bursting....

Georgina how come if you change towels once a week (as I do too) you have three loads? We have a mega machine too and I can get all our week?s worth of towels in one load.
Intesrting what you all say. lulumama I hear you with yr dirty DH.
I sort coloureds and whites but I never do half loads. Well, maybe in the summer when DS1 has run out of white school shirts, DD is wearing coloured school dresses and no-one is in a vest, might struggle then to fill a white load but have to do what there is. Not as a rule tho.
lol at spidermama ?assess for marks?. Must say I like to get 2 wears out of DS1 and DD?s school jumpers, not always easy with ultr0messy DS1 tho.
at those of you who have to change kids? clothes 4-5 times a day (potty training is excepted here, but that?s hardly going on month after month, is it?)
Cappucino, yes, you put it very well. I also used to do cloth nappies but even then never got to 2 loads a day even.

sorry ludaloo with the dirty DH, not lulumama.

(I'm sure he's not that dirty either, just his job )

Clary - I don't have a mega machine, it's a small machine.

We have in the dses bathroom: 2 large bath sheets, 1 hand towel, 2 face flannels and a bath mat.

In our bathroom: 2 large bath sheets, 1 hand towel, 1 face flannel

Downstairs bathroom: 1 handtowel

Kitchen: oven gloves (for the sake of the wash load, this goes in "towels"), 2 teatowels (one is used for covering bread after baking), 1 hand towel, 2 dish cloths (one for surfaces, one for dishes) - the last 2 get changed quicker if they get icky.