Laundry - all one day a week or daily load?

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Which is better? I think this only applies to SAHMs really as working mums not really time to do it all in one day.

I have usually done washing as and when but get fed up with piles of clothes around all the time etc.

I let it pile up recently due to illness and spent 9.30 to 2.30 on Monday basically doing 8 days worth of clothes all the washing and ironing (and looking after 2 year old and 2 month old). It was quite satisfying to get the last lot put away before the school run. I did all the ironing except shirts.

I didn't manage the sheets or towels in this time. Just clothes for 5.

Shall I dare to leave it all to Monday again......

Full time student...2 loads everyday and i iron each night for what we need the next day...though will sometime iron evertything if not really busy. ps there is only me and DS so i sometimes wonder how we produce more than friens of mine who put a wash on every tother day and these are 5 of them!

I wash most days, god forbid if I left it to do all at once, I would go insane

I wash on 3/4 days a week, but do several loads per day when I do. Ironing happens 1/2 a week (but lots of ironing gets sent out).

I do one load a day there are 5 of us soon to be 6

I have to wash according to dryer availability iyswim. So usually every other day or every third day.

It all goes on the airer on the ceiling and is dry within a couple of days - no heating in that room atm, once the heating is in it should be dry within 24 hours.

If I do more than one load in a day I have to use the floor airer which isn't so good.

Do a load a day, the socks are hideous otherwise.

We don't have enough clothes to do it once a week. ds had to go to nursery in dirty trousers today because his other 3 pairs were still wet. I usually do it every other day, then towels and sheets once a week.

Family of 5, I work 3 days p/w.

Washing machine loaded and programmed at night to come on in the morning. Emptied that evening and reloaded. Clothes put on Victorian airer contraption that is hauled up to the ceiling and everything is dry by the following evening. I have a laundry/drying room on the first floor of the house which is great because it means I'm not constantly carrying piles of dirty/clean washing up and down stairs. Also means I can close the door on the piles and the ironing board and not look at it

I iron for 1 hour before bed on sunday/monday/tuesday evenings. All DH's shirts are sent to the ironing shop on a fortnightly basis. Beds and towels changed at the weekend.

How anal am I about this!

DS is 3 and gets through two lots of clothes on many a day (getting messy at nursery, park etc). Newborn DD gets through 2 or 3 babygrows and vests a day, plus various muslins/towels/bedding that get milky or sicky. I don't have many clothes at the moment, so need to wash what I do have regularly. I probably do a load a day, sometimes two. hang most stuff on an airer near the radiator,but tumble dry baby clothes and bedding/towels.

Oh, and rarely iron stuff. If I do, I do it as I go along - so I'll put slightly creased things away in wardrobes and drawers, and then iron before I wear.

I do a wash Every other day, iron and put away next day so in effect laundry every day, but at least it never builds up

Work full time. There are 3 of us. So 4 loads on a Saturday: darks, whites, brights & lights. Some in the drier some on the rads then dh does the ironing on Sunday...which is lovely.

As there's 5 of us, 3 of whom need a clean shirt every day, we end up doing a load each day - unless the washing basket is suspiciously empty, which means that the ds's dirty clothes are on their floors/under the beds/down the back of the desks - and when they are finally coerced into tidying up, we'll end up with three loads of washing all at once.

I do 2 loads on monday,wednesday and friday.

Mainly as this gives me enough to fill my airer and so i don't have to use the tumble dry.

I do a load a day, otherwise I have nowhere to dry it.

My dad does it all in one day but he is a real slave to it so even if it is really sunny one day and forcast rain the next he will still do it on the wet day because that is his "washing day".

I couldn't wash on one day only, I'd have nowhere to dry it all in winter. I wash most days, as soon as I have a full load of whatever type.

Daily. Load up the machine in the evening, switch it on when I stagger downstairs in the morning. It's done by the time I get back from the school run. Then I put away all the stuff that has dried from yesterday, and hang up the new stuff.

Some days I do more than one load - that goes in the tumble drier.

I don't think I could get through 10 loads of washing in one day, and it would all have to be tumble dried.

Family of six - I work 9hrs per week over three days.

I do washing most days and still get left behind and have to catch up with a whole day of washing! I couldn't possibly do everything in one day but I love the concept.

I line dry most things in the summer but in the winter most things go in the tumble, except for heavy things like jeans, which go over the stairs and then in the airing cupboard. Luckily I have an aga so getting things dry in winter isn't too difficult. Ironing goes into a basket, stays there for a few weeks, and then gets worn un-ironed. I have little stacks of washing everywhere and it really drives me insane!

I started a crate system with a crate for each child. The idea is that I fill the crates with clean washing, then the older children empty their own crates and I empty smaller DC's crates when I put them to bed. What has actually happened is I've ended up with crates everywhere in various stages of emptying. One is FULL of odd socks and is now affectionately known as 'the sock box'. I hate the daily trawl through the sock box trying to pair socks up. I am probably the most useless housewife EVER!

I do all the washing on friday, and iron the lot over the week end watching tv! Family of six here as well but SAHM. I do not have a tumble dryer so on laundry days, in the winter, my house is more like a launderette than an actal house!

{smile]@ the sock box, I just got rid of mine !just in time before the nervous breakdown! does anyone actually know what happens to socks?????/

SAHM and 5 of us. I have the machine on once or twice a day about 5 times a week.

I try to keep at it all the time or it piles up into horrendous threatening mountains. The ironing can get a hold too so I attack it in chunks.

When the weather is bad I hate trying to dry it. My tumble dryer is old in inefficient and takes aaages.

If I left the washing for one day, it would certainly take more than a day, I think. I would face what I have to after we've been away on holiday. That involves ropes, pulleys, a miners lamp and a canary in a cage to sort out.

A really good washing machine and a really good tumble dryer make a huge difference to the ease of laundry .

SAHM 5 of us in the family

I have a "system" wash once a day, twice on bed day, first thing in the morning washing on, take clothes off airer and tumble dry for about 30-40m as they are only slightly damp, load out of machine and hung up on airer, load from tumble drier sorted and put away, iron only things people will see and things that really need it, DP does his own iron, I iron Weds and Sundays.

I have to wash every day. Would be a nightmare to catch up otherwise.