How many loads of washing a week?

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lostinrates wrote: »

yesterday I wore yard clothes am, then changed in to clean clothes, then yard clothes again PM (same ones as the mornign) then pjs. The yard clothes are now in the washing pile. The jeans and jumper I wore yesterday I'm wearing again today, but clean t shirt, vest and underwear and socks. Plus I wore yard clothes this morning which I'll wear again tonight.

I was jeans as infrequently as possible, and jumpers only when needed.

I get through between 4 and 14 changed of yard clothes a week (depnding on weather). I wear 2-3 pairs of pjs a week (I tend to wear these not for sleeping in but in the evenings home alone). Then nicer clothes...whether smartish or relaxed clothes for going out of the house or staying in but notwanting to wear work clothes in the house IYSWIM.

Ok, perhaps better question would have been "what do you find to wash to fill the machine" - because from what you've just said, you have 3 items of clothes a day that perhaps need washing, so if there is 2 of you that is 6 items let's say and I fit perhaps...

10 pairs of socks
7 boxers
3 knickers (not that I wear them repeatedly, this was dark wash and most my knickers are light coloured:D)
2 pairs of jeans
3 t shirts
hoody
lounge pants
hand towel
1 set of pyjamas
2 T towels
(thinking what I was hanging up yesterday:D)

..into 1 load. To collect that will take 3 days at least. So 2-3 washes a week.

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Any wrote: »

10 pairs of socks
7 boxers
3 knickers (not that I wear them repeatedly, this was dark wash and most my knickers are light coloured:D)
2 pairs of jeans
3 t shirts
hoody
lounge pants
hand towel
1 set of pyjamas
2 T towels
(thinking what I was hanging up yesterday:D)

..into 1 load. To collect that will take 3 days at least. So 2-3 washes a week.

:eek:I don`t ever wash tea towels with knickers or boxers. They go into a hot wash with other non `stinkies`

jungle_jane

i haven't done any laundry at all for the past few years - for some weird reason my OH adores doing that. He also adores feeding the cats, but i find that slightly less weird than his enjoyment of doing the laundry. Some days he even hassles me to get changed so that he can wash what i am wearing...for example if we come back from the gym he gets starts circling me until i get changed so that he can do the laundry.

Sadly he isn't interested in other forms of housework...

borokat

There are 2 of us and I probably do 4-5 loads per week. One thing I am bad for is not washing the bed linen often enough but I think every 2 weeks is about right. We have lots of spares of towels etc so not a problem to change them twice a week (once a day for towels is madness!) My method is to empty out the washing basket when full, seperate washing into light, dark and colour and then wash whatever is the biggest pile first. If OH does it, he tends to prioritise his own clothes!

bigfatpig

bigfatpig wrote: »

Only 2 of us and one dog. Washing machine is small, only 5kg drum. I do a load nearly every morning on cheap rate electricity but mostly use the economy wash which lasts 30 mins on 15degree wash and everything comes out clean.

Dog washing goes on a 60degree wash every couple of weeks and sometimes hubby comes home with oily clothes which go on a 60degree wash too.

I've got a wash bag that the dog stuff goes in to stop hair staying in machine so no need to run rinse program after, bought it off ebay for a fiver and it's well earnt it's money, though probably could make one for a lot less but didn't have a sewing machine when I bought it.

Oops, meant 30 minute wash at 30degrees not 15 :rotfl:

nobodyspecial

Any wrote: »

Ok, perhaps better question would have been "what do you find to wash to fill the machine" - because from what you've just said, you have 3 items of clothes a day that perhaps need washing, so if there is 2 of you that is 6 items let's say and I fit perhaps...

10 pairs of socks
7 boxers
3 knickers (not that I wear them repeatedly, this was dark wash and most my knickers are light coloured:D)
2 pairs of jeans
3 t shirts
hoody
lounge pants
hand towel
1 set of pyjamas
2 T towels
(thinking what I was hanging up yesterday:D)

..into 1 load. To collect that will take 3 days at least. So 2-3 washes a week.

See there you have my problem summed up nicely. I would no way mix all those items in a wash. T towels are washed on a higher temperature wash with other whites, not knickers, socks and jeans. Of course everyone will have their own foibles about washing, nobody is right nobody is wrong. Even with just 3 of us I can't manage on 2 or 3 loads a week. Bedding alone is a full load once a week. Towels, t towels, dishcloths etc make another weekly load. I suppose if you have a very large drum size you can cut down a bit.

his_missus

There's just me and DH and I probably do 4-5 loads a week: 2 darks, 1 lights, 1 towels, 1 bedding/pet fleeces. I usually do half loads though as that's the quickest (40 mins + 10 mins spin) and more economical cycle on my WM (the only one that can be programmed to wash at 30C). I do two half load darks rather than a full dark to ensure we always have clean clothes for work (we both only have 3 pairs of work trousers each) Half loads also dry faster when I have to hang them up inside on the maiden

Any

nobodyspecial wrote: »

See there you have my problem summed up nicely. I would no way mix all those items in a wash. T towels are washed on a higher temperature wash with other whites, not knickers, socks and jeans. Of course everyone will have their own foibles about washing, nobody is right nobody is wrong. Even with just 3 of us I can't manage on 2 or 3 loads a week. Bedding alone is a full load once a week. Towels, t towels, dishcloths etc make another weekly load. I suppose if you have a very large drum size you can cut down a bit.

With having a dishwasher and letting everything else dry on side our T towels get hardly used-they don't need boil wash. And those specific ones are dark, so they went in with the dark.

Also I don't do any short washes, so I am seriously not worried about my T towels going in.

My washing machine takes bedding, 5 shirts and all my knickers for week at least.

And the 3 washes are for 2 of us - so if there is 3 of you it will obviously be bit more.

Any

kittie wrote: »

:eek:I don`t ever wash tea towels with knickers or boxers. They go into a hot wash with other non `stinkies`

If they still stink when you take them out you need new machine mate;)

nobodyspecial

Any wrote: »

With having a dishwasher and letting everything else dry on side our T towels get hardly used-they don't need boil wash. And those specific ones are dark, so they went in with the dark.

Also I don't do any short washes, so I am seriously not worried about my T towels going in.

My washing machine takes bedding, 5 shirts and all my knickers for week at least.

So you must have a bigger capacity machine than me To get that load in my machine would mean they were so rammed in, nothing would come clean. That's why half the time people are comparing apples and oranges.