What do you wash daily (clothing etc wise)

dotchas

Interesting thread!

I have a friend who used to wash a outfit even if she had just tried it on:eek: :eek: :eek:

The laundry basket could be full before she went out on a Saturday night!

She now has 3 boys ,I hope her ways have changed a bit:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

savingsara_2

Stompa wrote: »

There are only two of us, so 3 wash loads a week is perfectly sufficient.

You and me both!

maverickangel

Sugar_Junkie wrote: »

Please don't think I'm being rude but all that washing is also a horrific cost to the environment. All the power you use, especially if you use a tumble dryer as well, and the water being used, it's really not good. Can you imagine doing that much washing if you didn't have a washing machine to chuck it in? You'd never be away from the sink! Think of all the free time you'd have as well if you cut it back a bit. Then you'd be able to do much more fun stuff and feel good about helping the environment

You are absolutely right. The pathetic thing is, that for 3 months last year I didn't have a washing machine, and i STILL did just about the same amount of washing by hand!

I just couldn't bring myself to make an outfit do more than one day, especially not for the children. It was pretty desperate though - I used to do two washes a day, wring it out and onto the line it went. Thankfully it was summer time, or I really don't know what I would have done.

I couldn't cut back on the washing - I'd rather do without the car, the fridge, the telly, flying...anything to reduce my carbon footprint rather than doing without a washing machine again.

iceicebaby

I wear everything just the once and then wash it!

Bedlinen once a week

Towels use twice then they all get washed together once a week

Penny-Pincher!!

Over the past 12 months I have been trying to cut the washing down.

There are 3 of us. DD (12)is in her uniform m-f and keeps it on till she has a shower after dinner then puts Pj's on. She wears pjs for 2 nights. Her shirts are washed daily and her skirt weekly (doesnt get dirty)..obviously all our underwear is washed after one wear (apart from bra). Bedding is done weekly and we all have our own towel and these are washed roughly every 4 days. I am in my PJs if Im at home as they are comfy:o and OH goes through jeans, tops, shirts etc.

On average we probably do 5-7 washes a week. 1 bedding, 1 towels, 1 white wash, 1-2 dark washes then 1-2 mixed. We have a 7.5kg WM. 18 months ago I was doing about 15 washes+ a week:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

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Mr_Proctalgia

I do wonder about sleeping in a bed for say 7 hours a night and washing it once a week and using a towel once or twice and washing it? There seems to be a certain amount of "perceived" dirt and the actually of it all.

Wiser words have been previously spoken about the costs to the environment and the purse. I would suggest that things need washing when they are dirty. It is quite likely that the electricity costs of a wash on normal electricity are approaching 50p a time not to mention the water and detergent.

There are more important things to do in this life and washing and ironing do not even merit a mention - Single bloke - A wash load every 10 days or so and struggle to make a white hot wash once a month.

As a point of interest. I normally shower and feel clean but recently I had a good old soak in the bath, after a good scrub with a loofah I was amazed at the amount of dead skin that came off, so just perhaps in my case it is time to make sure that It is my stuff that is getting dirty from the outside not the other way around.

arnie&caseysma!

Am I the only person that has read this thread open mouthed? I am shocked at the amount of time people spend on this!
There are 2 of us in this house and at the very most I will do 4 loads every 10 days, only doing a load in between if there is something that is needed, otherwise it waits til my days off.
Underwear, socks and work t-shirts changed every day (t-shirts need it cos of the material and stuff we have to wear on top of it), work trousers get stretched out for 3 days unless they get dirty.
Normal t-shirts and vest tops every second day unless dirty/sweaty in summer, jeans and other trousers can be stretched out to 4 days or more if need be (hardly worn after working the long hours). Bedding changed when I reach days off - it is usually first load. Towels after every 3 showers.
I don't do hand towels and teatowels get thrown in the machine ready for the first load with the bedding when they are dirty!

I do iron but only because work stuff needs doing so I carry on with a load then but most of my stuff doesnt need ironing.....saying that I have a HUGE pile waiting the now as I have just moved house and cant fit the stuff that needs hanging in the tiny built in wardrobe!

Softstuff

Wow, can't believe how much some of you guys wash.

I'm in Australia, and do 2-3 loads a week for the two of us... but we have very severe water restrictions, so this much is frowned upon, and I'm trying to reduce it!

Justamum

All clothes get washed after every wear. Tea towels, dishcloths and towels in the kitchen are changed daily, put in a bucket, then when it's full get put on the hottest wash (about once every week to 10 days). Bathroom towels get washed after each use. Bedding is changed weekly. Up until recently I was using washable nappies, but have now gone on to disposables as I can find them quite cheap at the moment, and I now don't have to have the washing machine on the hottest wash, or the td on as often - which must be cheaper. I iron very little.

My son (age 7) would happily wear the same socks until they could walk on their own!

I'm sorry, but the thought of only changing when clothes look or smell dirty is revolting. There's nothing worse than the smell of the unwashed - and people obviously don't notice if they smell because I often get a waft of it when I walk past people! As my husband always says - a hyena doesn't smell it's own den (which stink - I've been in one!) I've lived in Africa where people are dirt poor, but they are fastidiously clean and even the rags they wear don't smell like some people in the UK. I never got a waft of unwashed clothing in Africa. The really poor people, or those living in rural areas, have to wash clothes in the river.

Washing these days isn't such a hassle as in the old days when people had a "wash day". Just bunging it into the machine and pressing a button is hardly difficult, and hanging it on the line doesn't take very long. In Africa when I didn't have a washing machine I still washed everything after one wear even though I had to wash it in the bath.

Iona_Penny

Underwear yes, everything else maybe. OH shirts yes but trousers and jeans NO. There are 4 'adults' plus a lodger in this house and my machine is on once a day and maybe 2-3 extra loads at weekend for bedding and towels (my bed every week)
20 year old son puts everything ooff his floor in the wash and some jeans and T-shirts I just shake and fold and put back!! They are not dirty! I iron hardly anything (shirts are all ironed) The smoothing and folding straight away from the line (never leaving in a heap) really does work and I dont see the point (well I don't think we are called the crumpled family ) Oh and I don't have a tumble drier which I think seems to make ironing!