How many loads of laundry do you guys do per week?

[thomasortega]

Well...

Home clothes, average 8 to 11 loads per week, depending on what I have to wash, sometimes the bathroom mats, the sofa cover, etc.

I have a friend that doesn't have a washer in her apartment and she brings her clothes here because she's terrified about using the nasty washers in her apartment complex. She brings her laundry average once a month, something between 2 and 4 big trash bags filled up to the limit.

My record doing her laundry was 32 loads at once and probably one of the very few times i noticed i dont have enough washers but i dont have room left even for a WonderWash.

It also took forever to dry using only 9 dryers. It was the only time i used all the dryers (including three washer/dryer all in one combos) and praying to not start a fire with the overload on my circuit.

It was pushed so to the limit that probably it would need only a cell phone charger to trip the circuit breaker.

LADWP probably hates me.LOL

 

[moon1234]

Lol. You learn to tune out what you don’t want to hear, sometimes to their chagrin.

I have four boys. One is an adult and out on his own. The next is 20 and helps me on our vegetable farm. We do about 15 acres to supplement income. Next is 13 and then 10. We all work together on the farm so it’s nice that way. Sometimes causes issues, but that’s just family.

No real maintenance needs on the Miele appliances beyond the routine plinth filter or cleaning the trap on the washer. I bought Miele because we kept destroying other brands due to the high use. They are pricy, but are reliable. The automatic dosing makes it easier for the younger kids to do their own laundry without having spills or over dosing.

Once you get past 4-5 kids they sort of lean on each other for lots of things. It’s still a lot of work and expense, but we were just open to however many kids we had. God has blessed us along the way and money has always seemed to appear when we needed it.

The one thing I have learned is that paying money for GOOD, Reliable appliances is money well spent. I don’t regret paying the money for the Miele appliances.

 

[ea56]

There are two of us, both retired senior citizens. David and I both usually wear one pair of jeans each per week and colored tee shirts, in the cold weather I wear a sweatshirt over my tee shirt. We change our underwear daily. Because we don’t change clothes several times a day we only fill two large laundry baskets with clothes needed to be washed a week.

I wash 3 full loads a week:

-a load of whites, light colors, with 2 bath towels, 2 hand towels, 5 dishtowels,5 dish clothes, 14 cotton dinner napkins. using hot water Gain or Ariel detergent and Clorox Color Safe bleach.

-a load of medium and dark colors, with 2-3 pairs of jeans, 14 colored tee shirts, 3 crewneck sweatshirts, socks and other various colored items in warm water and either Gain or Ariel detergent.

-a load of cal king bedsheets (flat, fitted and 2 pillow cases) with either Gain or Ariel detergent with hot water.

As needed I launder blankets and bedspreads.

I wash the 2 loads of clothing on Wednesday and the sheets on Saturday. Each load is filled to capacity. If we have company, or go somewhere special I will wash an extra load of table linens or extra outer wear, but the typical weeks laundry is 3 full loads.

Eddie

 

[chachp]

Y'all are much more organized than I am....

 

<span style="font-family: helvetica;">I work from home so I can do laundry just about anytime I want but usually in the morning so its out of the way.  I generally do 5-7 loads a week for two of us.  Hubby changes sometimes more than once a day depending on his activity (working in yard, working out, etc.) and I generally don't change clothes within the day.  </span>

 

<span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have four hanging hampers on the wall.  When one is full I load up the washer.  No rhyme or reason just when a hamper is full I wash what's in it.  I seldom don't more than one load per day.  On the loads where I add a soak I'll put them in when we go to bed and when I get up I put them in the dryer.  I don't have the patience to sit around and wait for laundry.  </span> 

 

[maytaga806]

I only have one uniform so I have to do laundry at least every three days, towels go in a basket above the washer and dryer and get washed at least once a week and if have more twice, kitchen rugs get done once a week as well plus my roommates laundry so I’d say about 4-6 cycles per week because we also have a husky so lots and lots of dirty towels from wiping his paws off from being outside. We have 90s whirlpools so the laundry gets done very quickly where it’ll then take about 3-25 buisness days for me to fold all of it

 

[vacerator]

Maximum 4 loads per week,

one towels- 5 bath, 3 face, 2 to 4 kitchen, two garments, one bedding. Two adult home.

 

[seeitrun2006]

2 to 4 loads per week, sometimes 6

Depends if we wash rugs, sheets and dog bedding or if we’ve have guest staying with us.

 

[mattl]

Odd man out...

I guess I have too many clothes, bedding and towels.  I might do 6ish loads a month. It's just me, and I have no issues wearing a shirt 2x so I wait to do laundry till I can fill up my Duets.  Funny thing is I have a number of machines and I like doing 2 loads at once, go figure.

 

[matthewza]

2 Person Household,7+ loads per week...

We are 2 guys and 2 cats at home, both working in the hotel industry, and both gym-goers. We wear clean clothes every day, no exceptions. Towels changed twice a week, bedding every second week.

We have a Siemens iq300 9kg 1400rpm front loader washer, purchased new in 2020. And an American-style LG vented dryer, purchsaed used in 2021.

Wash routine goes:
Midweek (Wednesday or Thursday):
1x load of lights,
1x load of darks.
This is mainly work uniforms. We dont have enough to get through a full week without a midweek wash.

Sunday:
1x load lights (we have very few white items, so I wash the whites with the lights)
1x load darks
1x load socks/undies/pajamas
1x load gym clothes
1x load towels (towels are changed twice a week, but 2 dirty sets fills our washer, so I wait until theres 2 dirty sets before washing)

If its bedding week:
All of the above plus 1x load bedding (1x double duvet cover, 1x fitted sheet, 4x standard pillow cases, 2x continental pillow cases). I wash the duvet inner every 2nd bedding change (so once every 4 weeks)

In winter this can increase as there will be a load of woolens (work jerseys) and a load of bulky winter warmers, as well as extra blankets.

I have LOADS of kitchen towels, so I have a separate basket in our spare bedroom where they accumulate, and when I see we only have 2 or 3 clean ones in the cupboard, then I wash a big load of kitchen towels.

I also try and wash the 2 cat beds every 2nd week. I vacuum them every other day, but every 2nd week I like to give them a wash.

When I was still living at home, we were 4 people in the house and we would easily do 10+ loads a week, also scattered between Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays

 

[revvinkevin]

2 of us and a dog here.

I usually do 4 to 6 loads per week (add 2-3 loads more if I bathe the dog = towels + doggy bedding) always done on the weekend. On the rare occasions if I don’t do laundry one weekend, I’ll end up doing 10-12 loads the next weekend. We both have enough clothes we can go 2+ weeks w/o doing laundry. Fortunately I can do 6 loads (all FL washers) at the same time so I only spend a few hours doing it all!

Darks, colors, whites, work clothes, bedding (every week), towels (when I have enough for a full load = 2 weeks), wash cloths every 6-8 weeks (I have 100 white wash cloths we use for many things and wash them when there’s enough for a full load). [this post was last edited: 1/11/2023-23:25]