Wash Day Blues

Jet

Son wears polo shirt for 3 or 4 days, school jumper the same and school trousers the same. Cubs uniform gets washed once a month, unless it's obviously mucky. I don't make DS get changed after school unless he's going to do something messy.

My jeans / trousers / skirts get worn 3 or 4 times, tops are usually worn twice in the winter and sometimes only once in the summer.

Underwear gets changed every day - sometimes twice, apart from bras which last a couple of days.

Bedding gets washed once a week, towels get washed once a week. When I was with ex, his trousers would last a few days, but he needed to change his shirt every day.

Nobody has told us we smell yet, so I presume we're doing OK.

As for the routine, in the summer, I always put my washing machine on in the evening, so I can hang it out the next morning before work. In the winter, I put the washing on in the morning and then hang it up when I get home from work in the afternoon. If you do it at a set time every day, it just becomes part of your life - like cleaning your teeth.

emilyt

Your definately not on your own spendless.
I usually have 2 or 3 wash loads a day.There are 4 adults in my famly.
Just don't know where it comes from.
I always bring all the washing down with me first thing in the morning.
The first job i do is put the washing machine on. Then through out the day it goes in the drier and gets folded up. I then take the wash basket up stairs with me in the evening and put all the clothes that don't need ironing away. Usually most of them as i fold them as soon as they are dry. It is a never ending job.

Aril

I load up the machine the night before with the powder in and then switch it on first thing when I get up. I know how long a dark load and a white load takes so I've timed it so that it's ready 10 mins or so before I leave for work so I can get it out on the airer [don't have a TD]. Every morning I move the stuff to be ironed across from the airer into the airing cupboard [OH has put some lines up for me across the back of the door] and I move the dry stuff from the airing cupboard into the ironing basket. School uniform takes priority so it's dry and ready to be ironed at the weekend or incase of an unforseen mishap. Small person has a clean school shirt and sweatshirt every other day and school trousers once a week unless he's spilled something down them. I change all towels and pillow cases once a week and the rest of the linen is changed every fortnight. When I'm at home at the weekend doing jobs and if I'm not seeing anyone I have a delicious outfit I wear which I call my housewife's outfit which is a horrible old pair of joggers. I do find that saves my work clothes and gives me a chance to keep up.
Hope this of help

Aril

THIRZAH

I leave the basket with the dirty clothes in on the landing to remind to bring them down and put them on first thing in the morning-after the hose came off the back of a friend's washing machine and soaked her entire kitchen I don't like to go out and leave the machine on.

My grandmother only used to wash clothes on Mondays but she must have had quite a lot to do .My Grandfather was a farmer so clothes got pretty dirty.She used to boil things in a copper and put them through a mangle-it must have been exhausting.I can remember her telling my mother off for not using a Blue Bag in the rinsing water .

Uniscots97

Sorry but don't understand, why a blue bag in the rinsing water?

whatatwit

unixgirluk wrote:

Sorry but don't understand, why a blue bag in the rinsing water?

To keep the whites looking white.

Mr_Proctalgia

The Blue Bag was "Dolly Blue" which is northern dialect for washing blue (I.E. Dolly Tub for washing tub and just Dolly for ponce) it was used to whiten whites. This is done by making them slighty blue.

HTH

melt71

I do
my sheets and any other bits of whites with them - once a week
2 dark washes a week Which includes my dd's uniform, my clothes and my partners washing which seems to be dark.
1 mixed wash a week (most of dd's clothes are pink/lilac/brown but not dark so they all go in here along with my work tops)
1 towel wash a week
dog bedding once a week/every 10 days (basically when it pongs!)
my daughters bedding about every 10 days - 2 weeks (hers never seems dirty like our bed!)

Basically I never do a wash that isn't a full load as there is always something that needs washing I would be washing stuff all the time if I did!

taplady

there are 4 of us, all adult sized and I do a load or 2 every day. I get it ready the night before and put it on first thing in the morning or in the night if I get up for the loo! I do towels twice a week and all bedding once a week. I hang it on the airer, banisters, picture rails and then finish off in the TD. I iron about every other day to keep on top of it, I'd rather do several 20 mins worth than an hours worth at a go! I have to admit its like painting the forth bridge!:rolleyes:

inkie

Why not get one of those washbins that sortes washing once you have taken it off - it has 3 conpartments - one for whites, one for darks and one for errr, those in between. This will save you a job and the chuildren will quickly learn the art of clothes sorting.