How Much Laundry do you do?

[passatdoc]

ps 3.5 cu ft (10 kg) Frigidaire FL 2140. I have a three-bag sorting cart, with overhead rail for hanging clothes on hangers, and a full bag fills the machine. I only wash full loads unless it's a special cycle like washing sweaters on gentle cycle, etc., or something heavily soiled that I'm washing by itself.

 

[andyelectrolux]

I wash only for myself and do four loads per week.

1)Colors
2)Whites
3)Blacks
4)Sheets

We (roomate, his BF, I) share a crappy Whirlpool which I cannot wait to replace with a Miele. Sometimes the water just drains out of it and it doesn't even go into spin mode.

 

[frigilux]

My weekly wash:

2 loads of kitchen whites and personal garments

1 load of sheets

1 load of blacks/dark colors

1 load of light colors

1 load of bath towels

I usually have guests for dinner on Wednesday and brunch/lunch on Sunday, so I wash a load of whites each of those days. I use commercial poly-cotton white tablecloths on the dinner table and the buffet line. There are almost always children accompanying my adult guests and they tend to drip/drop on both the table and buffet.

Occasionally, when I have to return to work in the evening a couple of times during the week, I'll change into fresh clothes and consequently will have an extra catch-all load of dress shirts/pants at some point in the week.

 

[jeffg]

Just for my partner and I, and with a super capacity W&D it doesn't work out to that many loads/week:

1 (sometimes 2) warm/warm for "regular" clothes (just about all of our shirts and pants are cotton)

1 (sometimes 2) hot/warm for bedding, towels and cotton underwear

1 (sometimes 2) hottish-warm/cold for acrylic (mainly socks). We wash these separately, because it's the only thing we use fabric softener on.

 

[spaniel50]

How much wash do you do

The Neptune does 6 loads per week. Love that water bill with the front load machine! No more off balance loads either.All you hear is the water doing it's thing.

 

[appnut]

It variews from week to week for me. I stopile laundry until I run out of whatever category it is--shirts, slacks, whites, sweaters, jeans, shorts, golf shirts/t-shirts, bedding; TOWELS (all 36 sets). And the Fridgemore is accustomed to BobLoads. When Steve 1/18 brought my Fridgemore to me october, 2006, he witnessed the stopiled laundry. Same with Glenn at the 1st Texas wash-in in 2005 (as did poor Bryan, I stuffed the trunk of his rental car with 30 gallon trashbags full of laundry lol). This past Sunday I did 7 loads, the previous Sunday 8; next week I'll have about 3.

 

[suds14]

I average 12-15 loads per week. family of 4 ( 2 teenagers).Most of the loads are med to large loads. I do tend to short by color.

Load 1 Whites
2 Towels
3 Towels
4 Sheets and light blue & whites with dark prints
5 Peach, yellow, cream & mint green
6 pink & purples
7 Beige & brown
8 Blue, green & gray (sometime this is 2 loads)
9 Navy
10 Jeans
11 Red
12 Black
13 Rags
every other week rugs

 

[pulsator]

I do 3 loads a week for myself: colors, whites and towels. Every other week I do my bedding which adds 3 loads: comforter, sheets, and matress pad.

I also do 3 loads a week for my sister: darks, brights, and whites, and whenever she remembers, which is about every other month, her sheets as well.

Then I do about 5 loads for my mom a week: 2 dark loads, a light colors load, a whites load, and her sheets.

So I can do anywhere from 11-15 loads a week, generally, they are all large loads, but I do do the occassional small delicates load, which adds yet another load on top!

 

[dirtybuck]

It Depends On When I Do It!

I generally do 3-4 loads of laundry every 2-3 weeks. However, within the next few weeks, some items may increase and some may decrease.
I usually use one towel per week, so not alot there. I generally wash jeans and towels together.
Shirts/tshirts go in one load.
Whites and underwear go in one load.
Sheets and misc. colors go together.

I switch between TideHE (powder), Tide w/Bleach (powder and liquid), Gain (powder) and Wisk-Wisk HE.

And that's my plan for clean laundry.

 

[dirtybuck]

OH...

And it's only for myself.

 

[seamusuk]

Too many compared with most single ppl probably..

Hey Guys

It varies a bit but typically...

1x 60 deg cottons for white/pale blue towels/bathmats and teatowels

1x 40 deg cottons for dark bedding and boxers/socks

1x delicate 40 deg for light colour tops etc

1x delicate 40 for black/dark work trousers/tops

1x delicate 40 for Jeans

And before anyone asks about the delicate cycle for jeans its fine as I only ever wear them twice and they dont need ironing if they go on a hanger straight out the machine

Seamus

Also I only ever use the short option on Cottons(with extra rinse)

 

[seamusuk]

Forgot to say.....

obviously they tend not to be full loads lol!!

Seamus

 

[re563]

I do about 7 to 8 loads per week for my partner and myself.

Tuesday Sheets (king size with 4 pillow cases) Warm/cold. 1
Colors- pj bottoms, t-shirts, colored undies
shirts, shorts 1 somestimes 2 loads
Whites-white t-shirts, shirts, socks, kitchen
towels

Saturday Sheets 1, colors 1, towels 1, duvet 1, whites 1

 

[mayken4now]

I will answer the question:

usually 8 loads - 2 persons - no pets

 

[sudsman]

between 3500 and 4500 lbs a day

for 250 to 400 people
800 to 1200 sheets
200 to 300 Thermal blankets
200 Bath Blankets
800 Bath Towels
2000 Washcloths
1500 Surgery Towels
250 to 500 Patient gowns
500 Pllowcases

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[samsungfl]

I do roughly about.. :

1- 2 loads a day of Coloured or Dark clothing on a week day.

then at weekends I do Towels, Kitchen Linen, Jeans , Bedding, more coloureds and a load of whites - which usually work out at about 8 loads for the weekend

So I average out at about 18 loads a week, or maybe slightly more if there is anything delicate e.t.c to be washed

Sounds like alot! I never realise how much Ive done until I actually give it some thought LOL!

Richard

 

[lavamat78800]

samsungfl,

for how many persons do you wash? I hope not for one single person

 

[samsungfl]

Call me Richard lol! samsungfl is only my username!

3 people in my house

Richard

 

[retro-man]

I stockpile on clothes also to do medium to large loads. Same with towels which I always hang outside. So on a weekly basis there is 1 load of sheets and pillow cases. Each week one of the quilts or bedspread or bottom quilts goes in then the next week pillows. I load of dog bedding sometimes 2. 1 or 2 loads of towels depending on weather, 1 load of colors, shirts and pants, 1 load of whites and 1 or 2 loads of my wifes clothes. She doesn't like mine washed with hers. Mine are always have a lot more dirt on them from yardwork etc. So I guess it ends up being 5-10 loads a week.

 

[joeekaitis]

We each wash our own

I don't know how many loads Cathy runs through the Affinity every week but I get by with 2:

White cottons: Quick Wash cycle with cold water as a pre-wash, Heavy Duty with hot water, chlorine bleach; Stain Clean, Extra Rinse and Extended Spin options.

Colors: Heavy Duty cycle with cold water; Stain Clean, Extra Rinse options.

My needs are simple.

Oh, and on the weekends, we wash the bed linens.