Keeping on top of the washing!

dingdongavoncalling

I think this is more of a rant than a plea for help.

Only two of us live in our house and yet it still seems impossible to keep on top the the mountain of washing and ironing! I try to iron as little as possible but as we don't have a tumble drier a lot ends up creased. We have an maiden and radiators to dry clothes and I am fed up of seeing clothes everywhere!!!

Even though there are only two of us we have a bedsheet wash, towel wash, uniform wash, dark and colours per week to get through. I think the answer may be a tumble drier.....

I will get off my soap box....:o

CH27

Waits for the influx of posters listing their washing routines :rotfl:

newgirly

I can sympathise! There are 5 of us with a drier and a large heated airer and a rotary and various other airers and I still am never on top of it all.

dingdongavoncalling

newgirly wrote: »

I can sympathise! There are 5 of us with a drier and a large heated airer and a rotary and various other airers and I still am never on top of it all.

But I feel you have an excuse, there are five of you!!

LOVE your post too CH27!! :T

Maddie

Now that the weather has worsened I've taken to putting clothes out on the line just to get most of the water out then bringing them in in the evening to finish off inside. That way the house shouldn't get so humid. We also have a dehumidifier as the house has damp so that helps with drying the washing.

WantToBeSE

I wash all of my bedding and towels on a Sunday. Both get tumble dried (what can i say- i'm a sucker for soft fluffy towels).
I do a clothes wash 3 times a week (its me and my 2 dirty children). The forst gets done on a Monday, then put on an airer which is placed in front of a radiator. I have the heating on for 3 hours a day, and this normally is enough to dry that load by Wednesday morning.
Then on Wednesday i do the same, and again on Friday.

Any emergencies (school uniform covered in cookery/paint stuff) gets put on a quick cold wash and tumble dried.

DollyDabbler

Do you have a launderette near you - ours lets you just use the driers and is brilliant as all the towels, bedding, socks etc can be thrown into one drier.

fannyadams

there's 4 of us (two Adults and 2 mucky boys) and 2 large dogs, plus we live in the coutryside so mud is a semi permanent fixture in our house.
washing machine goes on every night (overnight on E7 leccy) dark wash each night with a white wash once a week (usually Thursday evening) to wash DS#2 school shirts and DS#1 indoor PE kit.
each load goes on clothes horse/airer thing with dehumidifier on O/N on E7 leccy.
I have to ask OP how many outfits are you wearing/day? only reason I ask is DS#2 decided to wear everything just once and put it in the wash until I had the planet conversation with him
Sustainable or Gross
IMHO unless the clothes are filthy or had 'pits and bits contact' they don't get washed after one wear.
I change the kids sheets etc one week and ours the next week. they are clean when they go to bed so sheets etc should stay clean, right?
there is never an evening that the machine doesn't run and it can take a 7kg load but I usually use the thumbs up method to make sure it's not overloaded.

Tiglath

I confess to not being able to break the tumble-drier habit and there are only 2 of us. I'd rather pay the electricity costs than have wet laundry hanging round the house. For most of the year, it's not really feasible for us to hang laundry out in the garden in the dark and bring it back in in the dark, not to mention the rain problem.

midnightraven3

5 adults in our house
tumble dryer is a must
it may not be terribly MSE but what price on my sanity:o
having clothes drying around the house would drive me nuts, literally nuts

if you are at screaming point, perhaps something to consider OP?

i never use it spring/summer/early autumn, i dry outside, my whirly is under a garden gazebo thingy (looks ridiculous, works a treat, £10 in the sales)

so yearly running costs of the dryer are well worth it to me

jenhug

launderette service wash. my elderly friend does this for his washing and it costs him about seven pounds per fortnight. Its washed, tumbled and folded for that.