How big was your biggest laundry pile ever?

[thomasortega]

Guys, a last Friday I decided to start getting rid of old clothes that my mom insisted to keep during many years.
Started by her closet, obviously, opening door after door, making her try garment after garment and sorting in three piles: Donate, fix and keep.
Today I did the guest bedroom, that has wardwobes on every wall, including over the bed and drawers under the bed.

Again lots of clothes. dozens of sheets, including bed linen, towels table clothes and napkins my mom made before she got married, with beautiful delicate embroidered details and she never used.
Got rid of a huge pile of clothes and I'm sure i'll have cleared at least 50% of the space when i start putting everything back on it's place. Specially mom's closet that's HUGE!

I still didn't finish sorting, but I'm sure I have more than 60 loads waiting for me. many of them with one or two items that can't be mixed, but at least 20 full loads, specially with the linen and towels. I'm going to wash everything here, from blankets to socks, except the curtains because i'm not on the mood to remove them yet. The pile in the middle of my living room was 3x2 meters (the size of the mat) and 1.5m tall.

I'm sure I'll have fun for many days and also lots of ironing to do but it made me curious... How big was your biggest laundry pile ever? I mean, home laundry, not considering professional laundry members, that obviously handle piles much bigger than mine day after day.

By the way, I'm going to bed now and the first two full loads of towels are already in the aqualtis and the ecoturbo washer-dryers and will be ready when I wake up.

 

[cleanteamofny]

My machine was in Avocado green

Um-mm Thomas, you've got me thinking when doing the family laundry back in the late 70's using this one speed, three cycle washer for a family of 6!
On a Friday, my wash start with 3 loads of jeans/pants, 2 loads of casual shirts, 2 loads of towels and two loads of whites double washed with bleach and 2 loads of delicate (mom and sis clothing) all dried in a 110 v Kenmore electric dryer. I'm still amazed that mold did not take over the bathroom or the laundry room during the years of living in Brooklyn!

 

[thomasortega]

Hi Larry!

With a machine like that, i bet it was really fun.

Talking about fun, today was great!

I decided to start by the bed linen because they were too bulky after unfolded and as they were clean, but needing only a refresh wash, I started using 6 machines at the same time (including pillowcases in the chinese mini TT). Quick wash, cold water for everything.
After two loads on each machine, I started a load of whites (yellowed) at both Ecoturbo (washer and washer-dryer) using sanitary cycle, and one more load of sheet on each of the other machines.
As I wouldn't be able to iron so fast and the sheets would be wrinkled i didn't iron them immediately after drying, i stopped washing using all of the machines and started to wash only at both ecoturbo, making longer cycles to have some extra time to finish ironing.
I wish I had a rotary iron. I can iron sheets fast, but the dryer was faster. lol.

There's nothing better than IRONED bed linen. Now they look fabulous!

3:15 am here, one load in the washer dryer and one load in the ecoturbo washer. More fun for tomorrow morning.

By the way, I'm using ariel liquid with a touch of downy and matching downy fabric softener. Everything smells great!

It's exausting, but I'm having so much fun and my apartment is starting to look so "new" that I decided to wash the curtains too, as soon as I finish the pile.
By the way today my bed is wearing "new" vintage linen. I'm sure I'll wake up with embroidered flowers stamped all over my body LOL.

 

[thomasortega]

Luckily it's impossible to grow mold in my region. weather is hot like an oven and dry.

Since I was a kid, a big bucket is part of my bedroom's decoration. It's always full of water to try to keep a decent moisture level.

 

[alr2903]

There will be large washings in the eastern U.S.

Im afraid that many of our members in the eastern United States will have answers.  I still remember entering our duplex after katrina, while  all of it was paid for by insurance after all was said and done,  it's a terrible thing to live thru.  We washed at peoples homes that had power.  In the beginning you had to wash what was in your home,  there was no where to buy anything.  As usual I overpacked for our evacuation, now I am glad I did.  alr

 

 

[thomasortega]

Oh Lord. That's terrible to hear and I can't even imagine the chaos.
After reading this I started wondering what would I do if something like that had happened here.

Here in Brazil we don't have tornadoes or hurricanes, but in the south there's a whole state (Santa Catarina) and part of a state (Rio Grande do Sul) Suffering a lot with strong rains. Whole cities are completelly flooded and images on TV are desperating.

whole neighborhoods, specially the streets near the beaches were simply washed away.

I hope you and your family escaped from these disasters ok. I bet there was no fun in having to do those piles of laundry and all the hard work to fix everything but in a situation like that who cares about piles of laundry or even if the washing machines survived or not? nothing can't be more important than saving human lives and it's great to know you're safe.