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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Oh yeah and different coloured baskets for each person to sort into. I’ve given up on ironing just a shake out of the tumble dryer .

No real system here. I just keep on top of it. Do about 2-3 loads a day (we are a family 5) I separate whites and darks but that's about it lol

I start to do washing on a Friday by gathering clothes that have either made their way miraculously into the laundry bins - technically four, one each of dark/light for me and my husband, and another dark/light for my two daughters. Having looked at the children's laundry basket I then wonder why I bothered to get them one, and proceed to pick up all the clothes from their bedroom floor!

There is no set order to how things are washed, but it will generally be alternating darks and lights, or lights and darks, and ending with bedding and towels by Monday if I'm lucky as I begin to lose the will to live after a seemingly never ending line of washing. Having said that - I've just put in the last load of towels in today and it's Tuesday, so something's obviously gone wrong!

Ironing is something my daughter does when she has to wear her Blues for cadets!

Pretty much everything is washed at 40 degrees, unless it's a load of cleaning cloths which will get washed at 90 degrees (they used to be reusable nappies, so are definitely being reused!).

Tumble dryer gets used except in summer when everything goes on the line to dry, and I leave everything to my husband to put away - although it's amazing how many things end up with the wrong people and in the wrong places!

We don't have much of a set laundry routine - I do most of the washing as I'm at home and I just put a wash on when the previous wash is fully dry (we have to hang on an indoor airer, sometimes it takes more than a day for thick items to fully dry out) and if we know guests aren't coming around. DH and I share a laundry basket, the dc have their own baskets in their own room. I separate into dark washes and blue/green and pink/red washes, plus whites. Towels are done separately as I put them in a hot wash with no conditioner, and bedding goes separately as it needs a higher temp.

We rarely do any ironing here - only a few times a year really for certain items that get very crumpled, or for formal clothes.

We have a big laundry bag and the children have one each. I wash whites separately and the rest go in at 30 or 40 and dry on the line or on a clothes horse (tumble drier when necessary). I change all our beds every Monday and wash the bedding and I don't iron anything.

I have one basket for adults and one for the baby clothes. I prefer to have babies clothes washed completely separately.

I now use non bio for everyone

Everything goes on at 60 unless jumpers which goes on a cold wash. Bedding goes on at 90

No tumble drier in our current flat so everything is dried on a clothes horse in front of the radiators. On summer I take the clothes horse out onto the balcony

We have a laundry basket upstairs for me,DH and DS, then DD has one in her room downstairs.

Uniforms for DD and I get washed daily or as my shift patterns require (HCP so get washed a lot!) and I usually spend a day doing all the washing, drying and any ironing once or twice a week - great way to spend a day off!

I like my uniform in particular to smell fresh and feel soft as the material can sometimes be a bit coarse and it makes me feel normal on a shift if I get a waft of laundry powder

Do you have a laundry bag/basket for each member of your family?

One laundry basket for the family. Though having said that the children oh and the husnband need to be told to use the laundry basket rather than the floor (or the radiator if I am lucky!)

Perhaps you do all the whites on one day and colours on another?
I do exactly this and they are pretty equal in this house so is an every other day thing.

Do you iron as and when or all at the same time?

Used to iron once a week on a Sunday but found that it killed me as was doing that as well as going on days out, cooking a full dinner and every other chore. I now iron twice. Once on a Thursday the other on a Sunday (or sometimes the Monday!)

Or maybe you pride yourself on not having a set routine?

No. Sadly I quite like the routine!

I love laundry. I don't know why but it gives me a real sense of satisfaction!

I do two black washes during the week, a white wash, towels and bedding at the weekend, and a mixed coloured wash nearly every day. I keep woolen items and jeans until whenever I have enough for a full load.

I try to dry as much as I can outside as not only cheaper and more environmentally friendly, it also seems better for dc eczema.

No set routine here!! Lol! As and when needed - which is pretty much every day as lots of us and a few sporting ones amongst us too!(the rugby one brings much heavy dirt!) but always, always organise colours/whites etc. :)

All dirty laundry comes through to my basket or It doesn’t get done!
Basket has 3 sections dark, pale and bedding/towels
The only fixed things are a dark and a white load at the weekend to get uniform done for the next week.
A load goes in every night
Usually 2/3 dark,1/2 pale, 1/2 bedding and1/2 towels a week
Jumpers and delicates are saved until there is a load
It all goes on at 30 degrees on a one mixed hour programme. Use biological powder on pale stuff, no bio on dark. Sometimes use Vanish spray but now I only have a teen we are past the food spills stage. All loads have conditioner-whatever is on offer in Macro
Things are hung up to dry and taken upstairs by their owners when dry and put straight into wardrobes or I threaten to go on strike
I only iron if it is a special occasion, hardly anything needs it

We inherited a tumble drier 5 years ago and have never used it

We've got a laundry chute, a laundry bag in dc room and one in ours that has split bags for white dark and colours. I do light wash separately from dark washes but rarely white only- always stick in colour run prevention sheet and vanish in the white or light wash. Usually do washes on Monday, to get through bundles of clothes I do short washes followed by spins and then put on heated airer or pulley. I tend to do ankther wash midweek and beds at weekend. At times I end up with no routine and seems we always have things on the go but in theory we have a day or two with cleared feet!
Always use fairy as I and dc have very sensitive skin.

Laundry basket for each member. Every few months im on top of it and wash each persons stuff individually. Usually though everything gets thrown in last minute and im always playing the catch up game (since my 2nd son was born).

A Household of 6 I 2-3 washes everyday.! 4 linen baskets, A good Washing Machine and Tumble Drier.!
1 Bath towels and Tea-towels 60 Cycle.
Dark wash 40” Cycle
Light wash 40”Cycle
Only Tumble Dry Towels and socks and boxers. All the rest of my washing is hung on a BIG Airer to dry.

Each family member has a laundry basket.

DS has been happily sorting laundry and and running the washing machine whenever he's been asked to since he was 5yo, which helps! Now that he's started high school there is a lot of PE/rugby/football/cross-country stuff to wash that often needs to be ready for use again the following day, so he chucks it in a quick 14 minute wash as soon as he's home, and puts it on a radiator or heated towel rail to dry.

I work away a lot, so my weekends are quite focused on ensuring my work clothes are washed and clothes for the following week are ready.

2 dark washes a week, one light wash. Everything gets washed at 40.

The only things that get tumble dried are sheets and towels. In decent weather everything gets dried outside from March until about October.

I put the washing in and straight in with the liquid in the drawer. Other half puts it in with the ball every time and thinks I am wasting liquid - even though I've show I use less! We can't use the machine when we are both around as it causes 'friction' lol - we are all different and use our machines in different ways - oh and I've never read the instructions! Drying - I never thought a dehumidifier would help but after seeing a friends I now want one!

I can't believe people iron sheets! Why would you do that?
Four of us at home.One laundry basket upstairs and one downstairs.
Do a load most days separated into lights and darks and do whatever I've got the most of on the day.Wash on 40 and hang out to dry as much as I can or tumble dry if no other choice.
Change bed sheets weekly in the summer/spring and fortnightly in winter/autumn and wash at 60 along with towels and flannels on a Saturday,line or tumble dry and straight back on the beds no messing.

DH does all of the washing except delicates. We have two wash bins, one for whites, one for everything else- he takes care of most household chores as I work/earn more. He has a system for it, though tbh I don't know what it is :) I put clothes in the dirty bin, they appear on the bed for me to put away ( I haven't trained him on this yet)

3 loads twice a week, dark, white and brights. That's it. Never iron.

The washing in our house is non-stop. We have a laundry bin in the utility room. It is split into 3 parts - mixed coloureds, whites and delicates. Even though I've got a delicate and hand wash programme on the machine I find there is sometimes damage on lovely jumpers so I try to wash them by hand even though it is a chore. I'm doing usually at least a couple of loads each day of the week. I use a tumbler where I can to add fluff and to speed the drying process. Ironing tends to get done about once a week but I have invested time in teaching the kids to iron properly including mens worksheets. It's now paying rewards as I can ask them both to do a load of ironing, I tell them they can watch the tv at the same time and give good value to the household!! It works. We put the laundry into the respective bedrooms after ironing for everyone to store away themselves as they choose. The clothes horse is always out too for those items that can't be tumbled, it's a permanent feature in our home office (glamorous - not!).

I wash according to weather (if it's dry and windy, I am more likely to do so) and when our laundry basket is full (no wasting energy in our house).

I typically do 3 washes per week, darks (on 40 C), whites (50-60 C) and a quick wash (usually school clothes on 40 C), bedding every two weeks (on 60 C)
I hang as often as I can outside (even in winter, as long as it's dry) and leave it to dry inside overnight.

I try and do clothes washes in the week, normally a darks one day and whites the next then repeat...at the weekend I change all bed sheets and towels and that takes about 3 or 4 loads of washing over the weekend. Fun!

I have two laundry baskets one upstairs & one downstairs. The kids take their uniforms off & general clothes and they go in the laundry basket downstairs to be washed first. The upstairs laundry basket is used for mainly bedding, towels, pj's etc.
With three kids I usually do at least two loads a day on general clothes & around three extra washes a week with bedding & towels etc. I only use my tumble dryer for bedding, towels & underwear never for other clothes as they get hung out on the outside washing line weather permitting or on the indoor clothes airers and radiators. All in all I usually do around 15 loads of washing a week.

Okay we have a shared laundry basket in the bathroom and one in the hallway downstairs to catch stray socks and jumpers that the children leave on the floor 😡 I do the washing at the weekend as we have no dryer and I need to be around to hang it up to dry. I seperate whites from darks, delicates and jeans/towels. I don't mind the washing or the putting away but I hate having to dry inside at this time of year - washing is so much fresher when line dried 🙂

Family of 3 at mine. DS 4 and in reception and has 4x everything for his uniform so most of my laundry management is around ensuring he has uniform to last the week! (Next time I buy him uniform I think I'll make sure he has at least 5..)

DH runs theyre are smelly clothes in front of the machine more often than I can to admit.

Split into dark colours, then lights and whites. Unless there's enough whites to do a load of whites, then I'd split out the lights..

I have a utility room with a ceiling airer and dehumidifer which allows me to dry clothes quickly and keep on top of things - a dehumidfier is my top tip! I do a load every other day at least. The only things I iron are DS's school T shirt and the occasional shirt. Hate ironing!