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

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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?

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Do it as soon as their is a full load. I can’t cope with the laundry basket being full.
I only sort into lights and darks.
It is tumble dried in winter and line dried in summer and folded immediately.
I can’t cope with ironing.

Keep it simple.

We have one laundry basket. Every day I do a load. Whichever is the biggest pile; lights, darks, handwashing. It gets done on a quick wash, unless it's really bad. I used to iron everything but now it's only the occasional thing that needs ironed, so I do this when I need to.
It's washing, not your life!

Ours all gets done at weekends as working full-time means we just don't have the energy to wash during the week, although I wish we did! It's a shared chore, we put laundry in and out as and when it's done on a 40 degree fast wash. Then non delicates get tumble dried and anything shrinkable or expensive gets line dried or put on airers in front of the radiators in the winter.

We always use fairy non bio liquitabs as I am allergic to biological washing powders apparently. I recently bought the new tub with the child proof lid which is great as my dds (6&4) are quite keen to help and I wouldn't put it past them to try and put some laundry on for themselves!

We all have a separate washing basket and I do daily washes. I split the washes in to white, dark, pinks/reds and towels. I like to hang out my washing when I can but it is mostly tumble dried in the winter. Unfortunately, ironing has to wait till I have time!!

I’m on maternity leave at present and the laundry is insane but I have a routine. Dh is banned from washing as he’s ruined too many things (mostly his so it’s not an on purpose ruin so he never has to do it again)

Bedding gets changed on a Sunday and washed at 60. Towels also get changed on a Sunday as well as a Wednesday or a Thursday again washed at 60.

I am trying to get 2 loads done each day. No set pattern just whatever needs doing. Things are separated out as follows:

Bedding
Towels
Sports (dh’s gym kit and my riding gear plus gym kit)
Whites
Lights
Darks
Jeans

When I have enough I also do a separate wash of reusable micro Fibre cloths (used for baby wash cloths make up remover and kitchen/bathroom cleaning cloths (different colours for each area))

Baby small things (bibs socks mittens) get washed with the relevant colour but in a mash zip up bag to stop them going missing. Same with our socks and my bras.

We just chuck everything in together and hope for the best!! I don’t have time for seperate washes. Usually do a load a day to keep on top of things.

One midweek wash of kids uniform.
Towels done on Friday when I'm working from home.
Adult darks and light coloured done on a Saturday
Kids on a Sunday.
All left in a huge pile in the utility room where I end up every morning semi naked riffling through the piles for clean knickers.

If the basket is full I put a wash on. Generally do one load a day!
Saturdays DD washes her school shirts.
DS tends to sort his own washing when he needs clean clothes!
I don't separate darks and lights except for DDs school shirts.
What is this 'routine' you talk about?????

Three loads a day except Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Every bedroom has it's own dirty laundry bag. Whites get separated. Everything goes in the dryer otherwise we get massively behind.

Two massive laundry baskets for clean folded stuff - one gets filled with laundry for the middle floor, one gets filled with laundry for the top floor.

One ironing basket - Sunday night is ironing night.

Every day the same rhythm:

• Everyone's laundry goes into one basket upstairs.
• Put a load of washing on every night on timer to start at around 5am.
• In the morning before school run, hang up washing/put in tumble dryer downstairs.
• In the afternoon when DC playing, fold dry clothes.
• In the evening while DC in bath, take clothes upstairs and put away in drawers/wardrobes.

That's it!

I do what's needed. School uniform, work shirts, towels. Then the rest of the week I get through the laundry bit by bit until there is none left. I iron every other day, but mostly try to fold straight away so there isn't much ironing.

Nothing scientific here - summer on the line, winter often and smaller loads. The winter loads also go into tumble drier to soften the dried clothes. When clothing dried and tumble drier all packed into a laundry basket which I leave at the bottom of the stairs ready for my DH to bring up. I iron when necessary. Bed linen is tautley folded so does not require ironing. Nothing like crisp clean linen to aid a good sleep

My husband is ridiculously particular about colour sorting, so laundry is mostly his department as I don't do it right apparently. Not content with darks and whites, he has to separate each colour - so we have greens, reds, blues etc etc as well as the usual .
He will wear something according to what pile is the smallest so there's enough for an economical wash!
School stuff is put in a separate laundry basket so I can do it Friday night and iron it Sunday night in front of the telly ready for the coming week.
We don't have a tumble dryer so it's line drying whenever I can, and clothes horse drying the rest of the time so I have to be fairly organised about washing times!

Everyone just puts it in the laundrey basket/bin. When that is looking a bit full I generally take a coloured load- full out and wash/hang/tumble it. Every now and again I am aware that there must be enough to do a whites or delicates or boil load so I do one of those. No stress, no ironing.

We are all responsible for getting our laundry to the laundry room. DH and then sort and wash as appropriate and we have bought s bigger machine which means our loads are larger but the washes are longer to save energy. We all are responsible to return clothing to their rightful place, it works and as the dc have their responsibility and laundry baskets they have realised they need to be proactive to get things washed.

There are 3 of us and on average I do one wash a day. Preferably in the morning so it's got the day to dry outside. It's a bit trickier this time of year and I have to plan it around the weather but I love the outdoors smell that it has! I seperate washes into dark, light and colours with the occasional white wash. Most things are done on 30, except for towels and bedding which is done on 40. I have a tumble dryer but avoid using it, it's main use is fluffing up my towels.

I have twin boys so my laundry "routine" is pretty much CONSTANT WASHING

Definitely no ironing. Wash things on a low wash if they're not soiled.

As a family of five with two children under 4, I do several loads of washing a day. I sort the loads into coloureds, whites, towels etc and wash on the appropriate cycle/temperature. I only iron the essentials, the rest gets dried on coat hangers, or hung out in the garden when the weather's good, or tumble-dried when the weather isn't so good. Doing laundry and putting it away takes up far too much of my life

I do one load of laundry almost every evening after work. Usually whites 3 to 4 times each week and coloureds twice per week. Handwash only items I do at weekends. I am hopeless at ironing so things which really must be ironed are done by a local service. I dry most items on radiators and a rack rather than use the tumble drier

We have just one laundry basket. We do 2 or 3 dark washes a week and one lights load. Plus a separate one for bedding and a hot wash for towels. Since the arrival of our baby 3 months ago, ironing has dropped down the list of priorities!!

Hubby banned from touching the washing as I weirdly love doing it. I love the smell of clean washing and have a bit of a weird addiction to fabric conditioner 😂

Ours differs depending on the time of year, as we don't have a tumble dryer. So in winter I have to make sure that I only put in an amount that will fit on airers/radiators, and that I leave enough time for loads to dry before doing the next one.

My last working day of the week is Thursday, so a white wash (with my tunics and DC's school shirts) goes in early evening and is put out to dry that night. Friday night a coloured load goes in with the rest of the school uniform and as much other stuff that will fit. A third load goes in Sunday afternoon, and then a fourth on a Tuesday after the DC's swimming. In winter I do bedding fortnightly, towels get chucked in with the other loads a few at a time. In summer towels and bedding washed weekly and I can do 2-3 loads of washing a day at weekends and less in the week. Sunday night is ironing time.

4 kids, 2 adults. 2 wash bins, 1 for 60' washing and 1 for 40' washing plus anything else.

I put one wash on a day, every day, in the morning when I get up. I tumble dry as much as I can get away with, anything else gets dried by the dehumidifier...expect in the summer when everything except towels dries on the (very long) washing line.

I don't iron except for weddings or job interviews. Instead I fold everything the instant the dryer finishes or dry things flat.

Bedding gets washed every week or so, each bed has 2 sets, I'm not dedicated enough to get it all washed, dried and back on in a day.

I had 4 DC is 6 years so to save time I stopped separating my white and coloured towels, I found this horrific at first but soon got used to it as it saved so much time. If I won the £300 I may well treat our house to some new white towels, since I now have a bit more time and could wash them separately once more.

One laundry basket for 2 adults and teenage DD. Do puts on wash when full and chucks in dryer. When ready I fold or iron and put away. No stress!