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What’s the laundry routine in your household? Share with Fairy Non Bio - chance to win £300 voucher! NOW CLOSED

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JustineBMumsnet · 18/01/2018 15:40

Doing the laundry is one of those chores that can seem never ending; every time you think you’ve completed the load, the cycle begins all over again. Cue the laundry routine. With that in mind, Fairy Non Bio want to know what the laundry routine is in your household.

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Do you have a laundry bag/basket for each member of your family? Perhaps you do all the whites on one day and colours on another? Do you iron as and when or all at the same time? Or maybe you pride yourself on not having a set routine?

However you organise the laundry routine in your household, share it on the thread below and you will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

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What’s the laundry routine in your household? Share with Fairy Non Bio - chance to win £300 voucher! NOW CLOSED
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Sarah516 · 02/02/2018 15:00

I tend to wash when the laundry basket is full with the exception of school uniform. My daughter is in reception and recently had a growth spout so we only have 3 dresses that fit. Depending how messy she has been that week depends how many extra washes I need to do. I also collect all her white polo shirts and do a long wash in a Saturday morning with whitening stuff to keep them gleaming white.

Blondeshavemorefun · 02/02/2018 15:04

Quite anal and as I work I keep on certain days so know it will be done

Mon 10mth daughters stuff
Wed darks
Fri bedding and whites
Sat df work stuff. Muddy etc so wash alone

Doodygirl2009 · 02/02/2018 15:07

I wash everyday and still manage to get a basket full!

hotchocforme · 02/02/2018 15:42

I have no routine. I do washing when I have to, which sadly is most days. Husband does some too. Wish we had a naked day once a week to cut down on this

tillymint21 · 02/02/2018 15:47

Wash bags in every bedroom and big baskets downstairs for whites, colours, darks. A tumble dryer for underwear, shirts and bedding and a pulley clothes dryer in the utility room which gets the other wet clothes up and out of the way and dries it all fast.

Sugarhouse · 02/02/2018 20:20

I make it as easy as possible by chucking everything in together and just put a colour catcher in every load. I try and do a load every morning to keep on top of it. I hang everything up to dry and don’t iron unless something really needs it but I will only do it before I wear it most stuff doesn’t really crease to bad I find and it saves so much time and effort

katfje · 03/02/2018 01:04

I do about 5 washes a week. Two laundry baskets; one darks & one lights. Dry outside in good weather, otherwise on airers. Don't have (or want) a tumble dryer.

michael888 · 03/02/2018 02:31

Laundry is separated into delicates, woollens, hand wash etc and by colour. The machine is loaded as and when needed. Simple.

GloGirl · 03/02/2018 11:51

Keep kids clothes dirty downstairs (from where they fling them off) and adults upstairs. Wash and tumble kids clothes, bedding and underwear. Hang up all adult clothes and leave to dry naturally on a Lakeland Hangaway and then put away in cupboard.

Ruth361 · 03/02/2018 12:21

3 washes a day dark light and whites.

oliveoyl72 · 03/02/2018 16:22

Thankfully the teenager is trained to do his own now - if he doesn't do it regularly, he has the dilemma of either smelly or last resort clothes, as he's got his eye on a young lady at the moment, he does it weekly at the mo :)

I always try to get the washing out of the machine the minute the cycle has finished - I've found that if give it a jolly good shake before hanging to dry, and it cuts the ironing down by a huge amount - brucie bonus!

My routine is darks and coloureds all together, probably 2 loads per week, then whites, delicates and woolies when there's enough to make up a load.

SuzCG · 03/02/2018 16:52

Daughters washing is always on a Friday, sons on a Saturday (means all school uniform gets washed at the end of the week for both of them).

Wednesday is bedding day, Thursday is towels day.
This leaves Sunday, Monday, Tuesday for mine/hubbies washing - split into colours/darks/whites.
Laundry is non stop in our house! Ironing - never ending...

mumpetuk1 · 03/02/2018 21:30

Big family of 6. I do at least 4 washes a day.

andy16k · 04/02/2018 08:59

Well when I've run out of clothes I seperate what's in the basket and pop it in the machine!

WutheringFrights · 04/02/2018 10:56

We all bung everything into the laundry bin.....and then the laundry fairy (DH) sorts it, washes it, dries it and bung it in a pile on our bed, I put it on the floor when I crawl into bed and as the week progresses the pile gets smaller as we each run out of clothes....

cocochips · 04/02/2018 15:10

Two loads a week- Weds and Sun helps us keep on top of it

purplediva · 04/02/2018 15:59

one basket on the landing that everyone uses - on a Friday night or Saturday morning it gets emptied and washed. Ironed on a Sunday. repeat

rocketriffs · 04/02/2018 22:31

No routine. When the laundry basket is full it gets loaded into the machine. No set laundry day. Not even a chore. The washing machine does it.

squigglepants · 04/02/2018 22:40

Me and three kids in the house, DD 10, DS 9 and DS 18mths.
Baby's clothes go in a wash basket under his change table and get washed when it is full, usually once a week. For the rest of us I have a sectioned basket in the bathroom (lights/darks/colours) and wash each section when it is 2/3 full because that is how much roughly my machine takes. Towels and bedding get fitted in on days when the machine is empty, usually towels once a week and bedding on a rota of one bed a week (smallest co-sleeps so three beds to be done) also a load of flannels/cloth wipes/bibs from mopping up little hands, faces and bottom once a week. Non bio liquitabs for baby stuff, colour liquitabs for me and the big two, fairy softener for all of us, non bio powder for towels, bedding etc and no softener on non-clothing items.
Anything that can get tumble dried does with leftover bits hung on an airer. High hopes of hanging on a line this summer now I have a garden with rotary at long last.

Dixiestampsagain · 05/02/2018 00:12

I’d be lying if I said we had a routine! My kids seem to produce a load of washing almost every day- I don’t know how they do it. We try to put the clothes outside (at least to air if not dry completely in the colder weather). Sunday is very much ironing whilst watching the football day (not for me, though, DH is a star in that department!).

Dan35 · 05/02/2018 03:39

One big laundry basket, and always do darks on a Wednesday night so they're ready for the weekend and following week. On the weekend I'll do whites or sheets/towels as necessary.

KJ1986UK · 05/02/2018 03:41

We have one laundry basket for all.

We do a load of darks most days (or at least every other day). For whites it's probably every 3-4 days but we tend to wear a lot less white/lighter clothing.

Ironing is usually a Sunday afternoon job unless there is anything in particular someone wants sooner.

user1485629191 · 05/02/2018 11:42

Every Thursday unless there is a need to do a wash in between.

thisone2 · 05/02/2018 18:09

My routine is to avoid routine. I arrange my washing so that I usually only wash when I have a full load such as whites or darks to avoid the waste of running the machine more often but partially loaded.

Millipedewithherfeetup · 05/02/2018 18:10

Wondering when this competition is ending ??? Seems to be going on for a while now.