How many loads of washing a week?

hermum

pigpen wrote: »

I'd have airers that could go out in nice weather.. if they didn't like it.. tough..

Curtains.. I find if a room is smelly they are usually the culprit.. they get damp and musty next to the cold windows. I do mine when I can persuade someone to mountaineer and get them down for me lol.

There are now 11 of us here.. and I probably now do around 70 loads of laundry a week.. 3 or 4 of baby stuff, and now the children are bigger I fit less items in the washer but the same number of things get worn!

It's been great this week though with sunshine I've been whizzing through maybe 16+ loads a day and getting it dried and put away.

Duvets this weekend.

You have 70 loads of washing per week, jeez, I'm glad that I don't have to pay your bills.
Please tell me that you don't iron everything, in fact anything.

Forgot to say that it's only me, so do 1 load of clothes a week & 1 load of bedding towels, the bedding at least fornightly but sometimes twice a week depending on how mucky the dog is.

cyclingyorkie

trust me - pigpen is the master of fold and put away!

mummyroysof3

cyclingyorkie wrote: »

trust me - pigpen is the master of fold and put away!

i hate folding and putting away...feels like a fulltime job doing it just for the 5 of us

GreyQueen

For my 1 person household, I'm doing 9 loads most months but at certain times of the year such as September when I wash the curtains it goes higher.

I live in a tiny flat with no balcony/ outdoor space at all so I have to dry my stuff on a clothes airer. This means that one load must be dry before another can be done. So, I wash the bedlinen in sequence (sheet one day, duvet cover the next etc). I have 2 sets of identical bedlinen from a boot fair so this is easy enough.

One 3 adult household I know well washes 1-2 loads a day if that's any guide.

Norman_Castle

I live in a tiny flat with no balcony/ outdoor space at all so I have to dry my stuff on a clothes airer.

I have small hooks in the wall for a washing line indoors. Screwing them into door frames is easy. Coat hangers on curtain rails above radiators also works well.

missychrissy

I'm a one person household most of the time and I do one load of clothes a week on a 30 degree cycle that is quite quick using eco balls. I use some soda crystals or stain remover if I have grandchildren staying as their clothes are always much dirtier than mine. I do one load of bedding and towels once a fortnight on a 60 degree wash. As I live on my own I sleep on one side of the bed one week and then swap over the next so once a fortnight seems reasonable to me. I try to wear most of my clothes, apart from underwear, for 2 days.

About 4 years ago I decided to half my total expenditure and in the main have succeeded using steps as above.

Rainy-Days

I sat down last night and worked out that I average between eight to nine loads of washing a week. That is just for the two of us.

I do two loads of darks, two of whites, one towel load, dogs towels and covers, one bedding, a mixed load and hand wash for my bras. Sometimes it can go up to as much as ten or eleven loads easily especially when I am washing extra bits and pieces in the summer months.

That sounds like allot I know, but how do those cope when they have children who are making even additional amounts of washing - their machine must be at it non stop! I have three loads out on the line drying at the moment and I have managed to dry a woollen load in the house this week on the airer. I just don't know - couldn't even bear to think about it - what I would do without that machine!

cyclingyorkie

basically 2 loads a day....+ towels, bedding as required.

I'm way behind at the moment and nothing is drying in this weather..

ragz_2

I have 3 children and a husband, I do probably one load a day weekdays and two loads a day weekends with an extra one here and there or less depending on how lazy I've been about washing bedding. DH wears his work clothes all week and I wash them at weekends, then he wears one outfit both days. I only wash clothes when they need it, same with towels. They last longer that way. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, the kids will get two wears out of a school outfit or PJs, but not often!

PixieDust

one a day, usually, for a family of four, dog, two cats and three ferrets. One wash a week is a boil wash for ferret bedding (usually chuck the dog's pad in there too).

Not every wash I do is a full wash, some are half washes so that I can keep on top of it and get it dry more easily. Towels just go in with the clothes. I change one bed a week, on a rotation, so they get changed every three weeks. Usually