Are we gross?

[MaccaPacca81]

After trying to work out how our neighbours manage to run their dryer for 9-12 hours a day, 7 days a week (2 adults, 1 toddler), I had a poke around some old posts and I'm astounded to find out how often some people are using their washing machines/dryers.

It looks like it's common to be doing 2 to 3 washes a day which boggles my brain.

We (2 adults, no kids) do 1-3 washes a week.

How often do you guys wash certain items?

For us its:

Bedding - weekly / 10 days ish
Towels - weekly
Jeans - maybe 4 times a year
Shirts, tops, tshirts - every wear
Undies - obvs every wear
Hoodies, jumpers etc - whenever they smell or look dirty or out of shape

Do any of you wash everything after just one wear? Towels after each use?

Jeans 4 x a year!!? Wow!

Jeans 4 x a year? Yes, you are really gross! Ugh..

the rest looks not awful but Jean's..that's grim.

Jeans??? Really? How often are you wearing them

Haha I read jeans 4 times a year then realised, or hope you meant wear 😂

That all looks average to me. Because of environmental reasons I have actively tried to reduce how often I’m washing things and now with lockdown even more so as short of washing powder!

How often do you wear your jeans you only wash them every three months, do they not stink?

Because you have no kids. I have 3 and do a load every day or 2. You’re not washing your jeans 4 times a year when they’ve been snotted on, poo’d on, covered in mud from kids who have got knackered on a muddy walk.

So a towel wash, sheet wash and clothes wash - that’s three washes minimum. If you do all that stuff weekly, it’s never going to be one wash, is it?

1 wash a WEEK? There's only 2 of us and I could easily do 1 a day!

Today I've done 2 x bedding, 1 x towels, 1 x blankets and 1 x whites.

Yes you are grim for washing your jeans once every 3 months, that actually makes me gag!

Also, that’s for 2 people. Statement of the obvious, there are 5 people in my house so of course I do more than twice as much washing as you

We (2 adults, no kids) do 1-3 washes a week.

Yeah, no shit 2 adults do less laundry than families with kids

Kids are messy. Toddlers are horribly messy.

You could not believe how much washing children generate, honestly.

At least 3 loads a day every day.
More at weekends..
5 dc and pets with blankets!!

It's just me and DD, I have a machine with a large drum. About 1-2 loads per week is what I do. I don't separate anything, it all goes in together.

We are the same as you except jeans, 4 times a year is pretty gross, sorry.

2 adults and 2 kids here and we do at least 1 wash a day, sometimes 2 and occasionally 3.

Just dd and I.

I do one dark, one colours, one whites, one towels, one bedding and one gym clothes a week.

This tends to be Friday - Sunday as I don't like wet washing hanging up all through the week.

Jeans-maybe 4 times a year

Omg!

But really-surely you can see that a family with 3/4 kids will produce masses more washing than your house? Please tell me you understand that!?

I would say we do a wash a day and there are five of us. Only one sports wash though I’d say.
Your timings look fine except your jeans. I probably wear mine about five times.

I do know some people that wash everything after one use though, cardigans, pyjamas, towels. I think they like to keep busy.

Yes you are...

Me and 2 DDs.

I do 1 light, 2 dark, 1 bedding, 1 towels a week.

Basically every second day.

4 times a year must be a typo for "wear 4 times"

We're the same as you (apart from the jeans!) but when my children were at home it was only about 3 - 4 loads a week and I didn't have a tumble dryer. I honestly think some people must get changed a few times a day and wash everything they only wear for a few hours. I don't wash towels after every use because all I do is wrap one around me when I get out of the shower, I don't actually dry myself. I don't separate anything and don't have a laundry basket. Dirty washing goes straight into the washing machine and it gets switched on when it's full.

If you washing your bedding and towels on average once a week and tops/underwear after each wear then I don’t get how that equates to as little as 1 wash. Do you not separate your colours? Aren’t bedding and towels 2 separate loads just on their own? Unless you have an industrial size machine, share a single towel between you or sleep in a single bed then how does it all fit? The rest of it sounds normal enough though, aside from the jeans, which is pretty grim.

The jeans thing is gross. The rest seems okay.

We are 2 adults, a toddler who loves messy play and a baby (messy eater!)

We do 1-2 a day with clothes (plus changes for the kids!), School uniform, bedding, towels etc. We also use cloth nappies and wipes 90% of the time so they get washed over couple of days.

Jeans - after roughly 3 wears.
Work cardigans/trousers - I wear twice
Work top/blouse - after a wear
Weekend tops - after a wear
Pyjamas - after 2 wears
Towels - 2 or 3 times a week
Bedding - weekly
We are a family of 3, we do on average a wash per person per week plus one for bedding.