How many loads of laundry do you do per week?

[gorenje]

... or how frequently you change clothes and home linens?

I read in an article that the average American family washes almost 400 loads of laundry each year.
Considering that washers has big capacity (well ok not always is a full load, but still...) that's an enormous amount of laundy.

Do we Europeans tend to wash less frequently or Americans tent to wash too much frequently?

I'm just curious to hear what you think about it.

I live alone, so I don't have that much laundry to do, so I'm not an average family and cannot be considered part of the statistic.

I change my hand towels every 4 days, not every day because I think it makes no sense to do it, because after one day they are still clean if I use them just to dry my already washed hands.

I change my sheets every week in the summer and every 2 weeks in the winter.

The clothes that come into contact with the skin are changed more often obviously.
Some daily or every two days.

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[abcomatic]

There ate two of us and I would guess 3 or 4 loads per week. We have 2 maytag automatics from 1977 and 1983. Happy washing. Gary

 

[bobbi]

Three to six for a family of three, depending upon the season.

 

[lordkenmore]

It has varied a lot over the years... At some points, few loads. At other points, many loads due to requirements of the time. Plus I recall doing a lot more laundry when I had a BD Kenmore to play with, er, use.

Sheets were often once a week, or a little more often, this last summer. Now it seems like about 2 weeks. Part of me thinks it should be weekly--that was the pattern when I was growing up, regardless of time of year--but it seems like I tend to let them slide.

General clothes 1 or 2 times a week.

Towels can be 1-2 times a week, depending on how heavily I'm using towels.

I currently don't have kitchen linens.

Other loads of special, non-routine items are as needed.

 

[miele_ge]

5 or 6

Miele 1986 which is a ~12 lb capacity

 

1 load of kitchen towels and napkins (at 190 degrees)

1 load of white clothing (underwear, socks, light colored tees) 120 or 105

2 loads of dark clothing (jeans, shorts, work pants, shirts) 105 with pre-wash and extended main wash for Scott's work clothes.

1 load of bed linens (we change the sheets every week and the duvet cover every 2 weeks)

2 loads of bath towels (at 140)   Towels get washed every 3 or 4 days.

 

There are 2 of us and neither of us wear things that need dry cleaning, even work clothes. We also don't use many paper towels so there are a lot more kitchen towels.  I don't like to leave them to sit for more than a week, so we use them with gay abandon and fill the machine since it is going to be run anyway.

 

I am a fuss-ass about separating things so most of the loads are not 100% full but that is the way I like to do it. 

 

On the days (every other week) Ana (the cleaning woman) comes, we do 2 extra loads ( one for the rags she uses to clean and one for the duvet cover)

 

Way too much info I am sure

 

 

[gorenje]

Thanks guys for the answers and sorry again for the double post.