How many loads of washing a week?

Rainy-Days

totallybored wrote: »

I remember growing up in the 80s and my mum would only do the washing on a certain day of the week. I don't recall a washing machine like we have now when I was young and seem to think there was some sort of strange one.

I bet it was a twin tub. My mum had one in the 1970's and through the 1980's she said she "wouldn't give you a thank you for an automatic machine if it was free". Then when I got my own place and the first thing I had was an automatic well she started to think again. When she had an accident at work she was laid up for a couple of months (broke her neck of femur - it's in the ball joint to your hip) I used to take her washing home with me, do it all then bring it back the following evening, she always said how nice everything smelt. So when she had her kitchen redesigned the space for the twin tub went and an automatic came in. She just couldn't get over how she could load up the washing machine, switch it on, go up town and do some shopping and when she got home all she had to do was peg it out on the line. It was a sort of revelation for her she even used to watch it go through cycles when she first had it, but that novelty wore off :rotfl:I asked her a few years after she had the machine "so whatabout going back to the twin tub then" I got a reply back along the lines of oh no I am quite happy with what I have got thanks it's a pity she couldn't have got one for free in the first place :rotfl:

Cat2011

Wow there's a lot of washing going on! It's just me, and I do 1 maybe 2 loads a week. Everything goes in together and is washed on the Cotton setting at 30 degrees. Occasionaly do a seperate "handwash" load in the machine if I wear one of my 3 things which needs a handwash.

PolkaDotsAndLace

Two of us (adults) here, probably do about 3-4 loads a week. Am trying to bring that down a bit more though to 2 loads, with the exception of doing bedding once every fortnight or so. We don't have a tumbledryer so I have to be able to hang it all on the clotheshorses!

FarmersWife_2

Just been reading a few posts with interest....

At the moment I wash once and sometimes twice a day....

4 of us. OH, me, DD1 (18) and DD2 (5)...

DD1 is the worst culprit... going to definately look at the towels once a week idea and I am also going to remove her washing basket from her room as I find she saves it all up.

I come down on a morning and there is one load on the floor.. one in the washing machine and one on the airer :mad:

DD2 isnt too bad, weekends are worse because we live on a farm and she loves playing outside so you can imagine the muck lol

OH not too bad.. even though he a farmer he has overalls so jeans tend to last 2 or 3 days with him.

Me... by the time I have walked the dog, done the chickens I am usually covered in mud lol

C x

Meadows

Rainy-Days wrote: »

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!

Two Adults and about 4 - 5 loads on average per week.

Sambucus_Nigra

totallybored wrote: »

I remember growing up in the 80s and my mum would only do the washing on a certain day of the week. I don't recall a washing machine like we have now when I was young and seem to think there was some sort of strange one.

Me too; our wash day was Mondays and I would have to help if I was off school. Flipping nightmare. 7 washes a week :eek: it was one twin tub load for whites [and that included bedding] one for coloured and one for darks and that took the whole day up. And that was for 2 adults, and 3 kids.

Flibsey

for some reason my washing seems to breed. I do a load every day an still end up having to do washing all day on a saturday or sunday!
2 adults, 1 child. bedding done once a week. towels not too sodden get dried out and used again. husband's Gi needs washing after every karate class, which is generaly once a week on average but if he's off work he does more. it's hoooooorrible but if I leave it to him to do it, we'll get to the next class and it'll be mouldering in a pile where he's forgotten it.

natlie

I do about 14 loads a week this includes my baby's reuseable nappies and wipes. I think its mainly towels.

dibuzz

At least 4 loads a day and I'm still playing catch up
2 of my kids play rugby and their shorts are white, I've already washed them but they need another.
Seriously, it must have been a man who designed the kit!
Doesn't help that they can only be washed on a 30 degree wash so it's a nightmare getting them clean just to be covered in mud again the following Sunday.

peachyprice

I can't believe the volume of washes some people do :eek:

There are five of us, me, OH, DS 16 X 2, DD 10

During the week I do 1 dark load and 1 light load, at the weekend at this time of year I do 2 dark loads, 1 light load (reversed in summer), 2 sheet loads and 1 towel load, 8 in total. Perhaps I have a larger drum?

merlot123 wrote: »

Do you think it is manky to dry the said towels my daughter has used on radiator and then shove them back into cupboard to reuse, she will not use a towel which is out, incase her brother has used it, but then again neither would I, hygiene is not his strongest point. He hasn't discovered girls yet, he thinks if he sprays a ton of Lynxs on, he's clean!

Can you not put her towel on the rad in her room and let her keep it in there? We all keep ours separately and never use each other's.

A clean towel for every bath is way OTT. If you can't let her keep it in her room, then yes, put it back in the airing cupboard, no need give her a hotel level of service at home