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To those that put a load of washing on every day

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TabithaTwitchEye · 02/01/2016 20:18

Do you not separate? Or do you just wait until you have a ful load of whites/darks/brights etc?

I'm drowning in laundry! Need to do something different!

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RandomMess · 02/01/2016 20:56

That's what I like about having the separate washing baskets for the dirty stuff you just grab what is fullest and wash that. There are always a few wrong random things in the wrong basket but generally it works well.

Probably wash dark, light, dark, light, reds and so on with the towels/bedding and delicates as and when.

DH job is to hang the stuff up because I can't bear that part of the job!

PinkParsnips · 02/01/2016 20:59

I usually do whites separately and DHs black work uniform. Any other colours and odd white bits like DDs vests go in together with a colour catcher!

sunnydayinmay · 02/01/2016 20:59

I separate as I wash. Whites, lights, brights, darks, towels, jeans, bedding. I do around a load a day, sometimes two.

SchnitzelVonKrumm · 02/01/2016 21:05

I do whites and pales, darks and mixed colours and have three laundry baskets. Plus towels every week and bedding every other slob

dementedma · 02/01/2016 21:05

I love a MN laundry thread and am always gobsmacked at how much laundry some of you do! 20 loads a week? Two loads every day? Really????
Sheesh, I must be a right minger.

stargirl1701 · 02/01/2016 21:08

I do at least 2 loads a day. Always separate. Cloth nappies, cloth wipes, reusable paper towels, etc. Towels, beds, darks, brights, whites.

onemouseplace · 02/01/2016 21:09

I do at least a load a day (3 children, DH cycles to work plus both of us exercise at least 3 x a week) and always separate. I can pretty much always make up a full load for a wash. I never, ever get to the bottom of the washing basket(s) though.

GunShotResidue · 02/01/2016 21:10

Mondays and Wednesdays I do coloured loads, Tuesday is whites (we don't have many white clothes but I change our bedding on Tuesdays and they're white which makes up a full load), Thursdays I wash towels and Fridays is whatever needs to be done.

I only have one DD, 2nd DC is due in may so I may have to start doing more loads!

BuildMoreHouses · 02/01/2016 21:10

I separate. Do about 7 loads a week. Most are dark. The whites 40° wash would takes more than a week to build up and is mostly school shirts. I bought extra school shirts to ensure we had enough for a fortnight.

stargirl1701 · 02/01/2016 21:12

I do at least 2 loads a day. Always separate. Cloth nappies, cloth wipes, reusable paper towels, etc. Towels, beds, darks, brights, whites.

hollyisalovelyname · 02/01/2016 21:12

I separate.
I do whites
Dark
Pink/ reds
Blue/ greens
It's a pita

GastonsPomPomWrath · 02/01/2016 21:14

There's 7 of us here demented, that's how.

I'm doing about 12 loads a week. Ish.

dementedpixie · 02/01/2016 21:16

Dh and I have gym kit most days and ds has football and rugby kit so we have a lot of washing

ICJump · 02/01/2016 21:16

The only I separate is the nappy bucket. Otherwise just in they go. I try to do tea towels separately but will chuck them in if need be.

I used to spectate but I got lazier

WinterBabyof89 · 02/01/2016 21:20

People don't separate their laundry 😮

I just leave it until I have enough to do a dark, coloureds, whites and towels (all white for ease). Get it all washed and dried in a day (tumble dry in winter)

NameChanger22 · 02/01/2016 21:21

I would hate it if my life was just washing.

I do two or three loads of washing a week, all on the same day. There are only 2 of us. I separate into lights and coloured/darks. I don't wash towels or sheets separately, they go in the light wash usually.

Sheets and bed covers get washed every 2 - 3 weeks. Towels (only one big towel and once hand towel) once a week. Jeans and trousers can be worn 2 or 3 times. Nightwear once a week. Coats and hats get a wash when they start to look grubby. Everything else gets washed after one wearing.

I have no delicates and no dry cleaning. I've never had anything dry cleaned my entire life, I wouldn't buy anything that required it.

Wolfiefan · 02/01/2016 21:23

I have a laundry sorter.
Dark load
Light load
White load
Kids sheets
Our sheets
Towels
Wash as wool

unlucky83 · 02/01/2016 21:23

Ok not what you asked ...but I find the easiest way of keeping on top of the laundry is to have a wash day. I do 5-6 loads in a day - each load takes about 1 hr - whites I sometimes put on for a hotter longer wash. Dirty washing goes mixed in 3 baskets and I tip them all in a big pile on the kitchen floor and sort loads into those pop up laundry baskets. (sometimes do sorting on Sat night - then have a load in the machine, powder etc in -just need to press start when I get up on Sun)
(Mine's Sunday - DCs have a mid morning activity so we can't go anywhere exciting until 2 pm anyway -if I start at 9am I've done 5 loads by 2pm) Unless really lousy weather - damp - I have a raincover for my rotary airer so they all go on the line. When it is full (after 3-4 loads) I take in the first load/driest and put it in the tumble drier to finish off. Things like uniform go straight onto hangers, rest gets loosely folded in a basket. Then Monday is my putting away day (I never iron).
Do beds alternative weeks (DCs and ours) and change bedding and wash on a Mon - and do any towels that wouldn't fit in with the wash on Sun -plus any other bits that will fit). Put the bedding away on Tue -and don't think about washing again (bar sickness/special things like curtains etc) for the week...
I find if I do it daily it is never ending - there is always washing waiting to be put away etc - as someone said up thread you are tempted to make up loads - add things in that don't really need washing. Making washing for yourself.... (Although when DCs were in washable nappies I did a rinse every day and a wash every two days)
And it never gets out of control - because it is all done and dusted once a week....

5madthings · 02/01/2016 21:33

I do a load a day I do all coloured stuff most days, I do a whites wash once a week, just made sure we have enough school shirts etc to get through a week. Then I do bedding and towrls together and that can be a few loads but I don't change all the sheets on the same day. One day I will do ds1 and ds2's bedsheets, another ds3 and Ds4 etc.

We are a family of seven, and madthing6 is due at easter.

chocolatecheesecake · 02/01/2016 21:35

I do at least one load a day - probably two white washes and 5 coloured washes a week. One delicates wash a week, one towels wash and one bedding wash (ours and kids alternate weeks). Bedding and towels go in tumble dryer, everything else on line/ clothes horse depending on weather. I find by doing a load a day and putting away as I go (I don't iron before I put away - just iron what needs doing before its worn which is very little) I keep on top of it. Two adults and two DC.

Ememem84 · 02/01/2016 21:40

I do a load every other day maybe. Depending on what there's most of. Bedding and towels get done at weekends.

CointreauVersial · 02/01/2016 21:41

I have two laundry days a week - Wednesday, and Saturday/Sunday. I'd rather do two huge bursts than a daiily wash, so everything can be folded and put away before the next wash.

I separate into whites, mediums and darks. There will often be two or three dark washes. Bedding, towels and clothes all in together.

Special washes (woollens etc) are done as and when.

WellyMummy · 02/01/2016 21:43

I'm a blitzer, usually a day or so at the weekend.
I have a laundry sorter, whites, lights, brights and darks, then separate piles on the floor for towels, bedding and tea towels!
My routine's gone to pot this holidays, I haven't done laundry in nearly 2 weeks, so today I've done at least 10 loads of laundry, with probably one or two more to do tomorrow! I would have started yesterday but then another thread here made me superstious!!

wallywobbles · 02/01/2016 22:33

It depends a bit on kids ages but 4 kids. 7 to 11

1 collects everything. Laundry baskets in both bathrooms.

1 helps me sort. Colours / pale and white together / delicates.

When all the baskets are full of clean dry washing everyone sorts and folds there own and there's an ironing pile.

Sheets are stripped 1 day and go in bit by bit with the other loads. Towels go in when they need to.

As kids we each had one day per week per kid to do our washing. There were 6 of us and by 12 we were responsible for all our own stuff and ironing bed changes etc.

We also have holiday lets and the turn around for sheets and towels for those is very fast.

Happily our cleaner does the ironing but she takes it home so it needs to be ready for her or you miss the boat.

We produce a load a day minimum but sometimes we do as many as 6. I used to have to 26 loads a weekend in high season but we now stagger our bookings more and use a dry cleaners for a 6 bed rental property a bit further away.

MiracletoCome · 03/01/2016 06:11

In a week I do a sheet wash one day, a towel wash one day.
With our normal clothes I do an hour daily wash cycle on most things, (5 days a week) we don't tend to buy hard to launder things
I separate white things but only wear white stuff in the Summer and not that much.
My woollens I do separately on a wool wash probably every couple of weeks or so.

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