Tell Fairy Non Bio how many loads of washing your household does a week - £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

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Fairy Non Bio is sponsoring the Mumsnet Talk App and in light of this they’d like to see what you have to talk about when it comes to your household washing schedule. Do you manage to get by on just a couple of loads a week or do four a day just to keep up with your kids? Perhaps you’re lucky enough to be able to send it all away to be done for you? Do you have a set day for each kind of washing load or just shove things in as they look like they might need doing? Whatever your washing schedule, let Fairy Non Bio know by sharing in a post below.

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So, alongside the Fairy Non Bio sponsorship of the Mumsnet Talk App, they’d like you to talk about the washing schedule your household has. If you avidly check out Mumsnet's talk boards, you should download the app for yourself. It's free, and allows you to be part of the conversation wherever you are!

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DH does all the laundry at Baddingham Towers after he complained once too often about how I did it . He does about 3 loads on 'daily wash' every weekend, with a couple of extras during the month.

i have no idea really...it feels endless!!! i guess about 6.

The washing rule in my house is, if it's not in the wash basket it doesn't get washed!

Not a hard rule to follow I manage it and I manage to sort my 19 month old clothes into the wash basket but my husband who supposedly did his own washing before I came along seem to have difficulty in doing this. I'm a wife and a mother, I'm not a clothes detector that roams the house looking for clothes to put in the wash!

I don't have set wash days, I tend to put myself and my son in either dark or white outfits and after 2/3 days a dark or white wash is done. If bedding and towels need doing then I try and keep the same lights or darks colours so I don't have a heap of either waiting to be washed when I've put a wash on.

My husband on the other hand like to dump his clothes here there and everywhere then at the end of the week when he has run out of vests or pants has a paddy like a toddler and moans he has no clean clothes. WELL if you followed the washing rules that have been in place since day 1 you'd have clean clothes!

The other day I walked in the bathroom to a pair of pants just casually left on the bathroom floor... I can tell you now they sat there for 2 days untill he decided to put it in the wash basket. He will learn the hard way! Goodness knows how many times he walked over them and walked past the wash basket within those 48 hours!

I love my wash basket rule, I do actually like doing the clothes washing and best of all my 19 month old little boy love putting the washing on the airier with me! I'm teaching him young so he behaves for his future wife and her washing rules!

Four in the house, two teens, probably do two a day, sometimes more if have something that needs a cold wash etc

Family of four here, and we do around 8 or 10 loads a week. Can be more. Towels take up around 2 loads, 2 loads of bedding and the rest clothes!

I can do between 2-6 loads per day! I consider myself very lucky if I only have to do 2 loads in a day - 9kg machine too.
Family of 5, youngest is disabled with toileting issues so usually have to wash a few changes of clothes, towels and bed sheets on top of the norm.

About 4 loads a week plus towels.
I just bung it all in together!

Two adults and a baby. Keeping on top of the laundry feels like a constant battle - my washing machine fits a large load and it's probably on every other day. I'm not that strict about separating the loads and seem to get away with it most of the time. I line dry as much as possible and the rest goes on an airer in the spare room with a dehumidifier on to speed up the drying process. Laundry skills should be taught at school!

2 adults and a very sicky baby! I do a load of my DDs washing everyday and do our washing 4times per week! So 11loads of washing per week!

4 to 5 washes a week but we have a machine with a very large capacity which is very useful! Me, DH and a baby

2 adults, 3 teens.
About 4 loads most weeks (one by DP, one by dd1, one by me for me and 2 dc).
Occasional laundry/towel binges so maybe it averages out to 5 loads a week.

We like to think we are environmentally aware, not just grubby.

DP DD(5m) and I, probably about 10 loads minimum as DD loves to poo the second her nappy is off!

2 loads a day, sometimes 3.

We are a family of six, myself DH, DD 21, DS 19, DD17 and DD10 - we average at least a load per day and probably three per day at weekends. That doesn't include when the bedroom my younger two girls share gets a proper sort out - they leave their clothes and bedding everywhere and so we an easily get 8 loads of washing just from tidying their room! I would say we do 4/5 dark loads, 2 medium loads, 1 white load and then 2 towels and 2 bedding per week.

There are 4 of us - 2 adults and 2 tweenagers - plus a ancient dog.

I do about 9-10 loads a week:

1 x school shirts (on their own to keep them white)
1 x other white stuff
1 x medium
2-3 x dark (me and the kids, depending on what we've been doing)
1 x dark (DH's work stuff)
1 x towels
1 x bedding
1 x dog bedding

My husband and I have 4 children including a 4 month old baby. The washing machine is on every day, at least once a day.

I reckon I get through 2x whites a week

3x dark loads

2x colours

Towels get washed weekly and so does bedding too.

We use fairy and love the stuff! :)

Me and DS who is six and stays with me for five out of seven nights. I do four or five loads a week - one whites, one bedding and three dark/coloured. I have to do the whites on Tuesday or Friday night so DS has a shirt to take to his dad's for school every other Friday/Monday. Bedding I alternate his bed / my bed every weekend and do it on whichever morning he is not with me as it alternates Sat/Sun. As a FT working lone parent, I have to stick to this routine - plus I am currently trying to sell my house and downsize so aim to have things drying overnight and put away the next morning. I'll miss having a spare room for the laundry but the stress of upkeep on a massive family house won't be missed!!

I couldn't even tell you how many loads we do per week! I have 9 messy kids, (one is long term sick and has special needs so extra bedding and extra clothes washes needed), Dh and a cat that walks muddy paw prints all round the house! All I know is that my machine runs constantly day and night and there is still an endless queue of clothes piles still waiting and I haven't seen the bottom of the laundry basket in months, but I'm sure it still exists...

Two adults, two children, one newborn. Clothes, towels, bedding and nappies all in, I would say one load a day. Probably one or two less per week in the holidays when they're not getting through uniform, work clothes and sports clothes so frequently.

Four in this household & we generally do at least one load per day, quite often two loads.

The great discovery for us this year has been buying an electric dehumidifier to put in a room with the washing, which uses less electricity than a tumble drier but also leaves the washing easy to iron...

An average load a day of colours plus towels/bedding/whites at the weekend, so typically two loads on a Saturday and a Sunday. Family of 4. Less than in the crazy ultra reflux/washable nappies days when 3 loads a day was average. Very limited drying space in my flat so the tumble drier is a necessary essential.

Two adults and one toddler,

1 x bedding
1 x towels
2 x cloth nappies
3-4 x light or dark clothes

Most of the washing is done over the weekend, tumble dried in the winter, on the line in the summer.
Seems like the washer is never off over the weekend though!

Probably about 7 loads a week which seems a lot for just 2 of us plus baby!

Two adults and three kids so it's everyday for us. Two boys who play football, we both do sports so lots of smelly sports kit! "send it away" do people really do this?!

I do one load a day, but no washing on Sundays as its a day of rest