how much laundry to you all do

[Cybrvanr]

For me, it's about 3 loads a week on average. It's definitely not much laundry, especially considering that both of my machines are "compact" washers. I'm just a single guy living alone, and my job usually doesn't get me all that dirty. I try and make full loads of wash before cranking up the machines, and I try to minimize the amount of laundering my clothing gets, so that the clothes don't wear out as much. I have noticed most of my clothes age more by laundering than by wearing. I enjoy just operating a piece of machinery...any machinery...appliances, automobiles, lawn tools, you name it Still, I like doing laundry, it's just that I don't generate enough of it to do it as often as I want to!

I have 4 sets of sheets for my bed, and I usually change the sheets once a week, so there's the potiental to get at lest 4 weeks out of bed sheets. When they're all dirty, that's at least 4 good loads of sheets with towels included too.

I can also usually get two days out of clothing I wear to work during the wintertime because I don't sweat hardly at all. After two weeks though, my clothes give me about 3 good loads of laundry between work duds, weekend wear and the socks, underwear, etc.

My dirtiest clothes though are my gym and excersize clothes. I only wear them once to the gym, so with 3 trips to the gym a week, I can get by with doing 1 load of gym clothes every 2 weeks.

I think due to my lifestyle, I have one of the lightest laundry loads of any household. People think it's odd that I have two washers considering the fact that I don't have that much laundry!!! Having both a top-loader and a front loader though allows me to use the machine that best suits the job. I like washing sheets and towels in the TL, especially because I can soak them. Clothes though usually get washed in the FL machine.

 

[appnut]

Steven, well, we won't go into details, but I stockpile laundry. I wait until I run out of whatever it is--sheets, towels, slacks, shirts, yard clothes, ... They're known as "Bob Loads". I wear shirts once to work and slacks twice. One month I may do as little as 7 loads and then next month I may do 18-20. And I'm single. LOL.

 

[gansky1]

8-12+

Depending on the week and my laundering mood, I do from 8 to 12 loads every week. Myself and my son, rags for work, sheets, bed linens and towels add up pretty fast!

 

[maytagbear]

It depends.

No less than two loads a week (darks and whites), and maybe 7, if I do sheets, washable rugs, curtains, kitchen towels (don't like to wash them with bath towels...)

And, blast it, I too, am s i n g l e, and not loving it.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[DADoES]

Average three or four loads every 7 to 9 days. I use bath towels for several days, change wash cloths more often, and have enough socks to last two weeks. Kitchen towels and dishcloths maybe two per week, not much cooking/kitchen what with my heavy work schedule. Jeans I wear twice (usually), which can cover two weeks if necessary. Shirts are worn once, except the ragged ones on weekends maybe twice.

 

[powerfin64]

at least 4 in my Lady K

well, living single, but NOT single(Bob knows what Im talking about...)I do at least 4 loads a week in my Lady K and as many as 8-10 a week, when things pile up, sheets, towels, Jeans, whites,Blankets,Jackets etc...

 

[kenmore1978]

laundry

4 loads, once a week.

light synthetics (nylon/polyester basketball jerseys, polyester bathroom rugs, anything else that's not cotton)

sheets

heavy colored cotton (towels, trousers, colored cotton pullover shirts, colored cotton boxer underwear, denim, colored cotton socks)

whites (white cotton briefs, tshirts, anything else that's cotton, white and can take hot water & chlorine bleach.

Every so often silk shirts, jackets, and electric blanket

 

[drmitch]

3 loads

I work in a shop and get very dirty, so all shop clothes get washed seperatly. And I HATE iorning!

 

[retromom]

C'mon guys! Y'all have it easy! Here's my wash schedule:

Towels (Dish, Bath, Dog, and rags): Tuesdays and Thursdays
Lights and Darks: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays
Whites: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays
Sheets: Every Friday
Comforters/Quilts: Every two weeks (Westy does these at the Laundromat)
Bathroom rugs: Every other Saturday
Ironing: Saturday and/or Sunday Mornings

As you can see, the four of us generate quite a a bit of laundry. Not fond of ironing, but once I start, it is really quite relaxing. I especially like using the 50+ year old ironing board (red wooden legs) that I got for $2.00 at an estate sale.

 

[re563]

I'm with gansky1 I do about 8-12 loads a week. I have 3 dogs and a partner and we both work from home so laundry tends to pile up quickly. With the dogs, they like to sleep on the bed until i come to bed at nite so I change the sheets every 5 days. By that time My partner, who wears white sox around the house like slippers has a ton of the in the wash so......

 

[bethann]

Home) 4 loads every two days. Salon)3 or 4 everyday, sometimes more.

 

[Designgeek]

Lately about 18 - 20 lbs. per week, consisting of about 1/4 whites including long underwear, and 3/4 colors including blue jeans, t-shirts, and shirts. Towels and sheets etc. might add another load or so on any given week.

All done on Saturdays, however-many-loads-it-takes, back-to-back, with each load's final rinse water used for the next load's wash water; hung to almost-dry overnight; and then 15 minutes per dryer-load on Sunday to get bone-dry.

Once I install my experimental water-recycling system here, I'll be able to store the final rinse water from any given day's washing, in a tank (dosed with sufficient bleach to keep it sanitary) for use on a subsequent day. This will relieve the need to do all the wash on one day in a continuous operation.

On the other hand, the (electric) dryer takes about 5- 10 minutes to fully heat up, so in the interests of conserving dryer time, I might still stick to the "all on Saturday" plan.

 

[mayken4now]

As much as I can! Cannot wait till it piles up. It vary's from 3 - 10 a week. I too have a front and top load and matching dryers for both. Folks think I am strange as well. I say F..K you to them.

Steve

 

[user 12105]

Generally i wash on Saturday and it can be from 3 to 5 loads depending.I usually wear my pants twice to work and shirts only once.I usually get by washing whites every two weeks.

With a cat,i have to wash my sheets and comforter every couple of weeks,a real pain,but that's the price of love.

I like washing,it's the folding that i'm not crazy about.

 

[neptuneguy27]

I generally do anywhere from 5-12 loads a week. My niece stays with my mother and I on the weekends and she brings all her dirty laundry including sheets, towels and comforters. Every week. I wash my laundry once every two weeks. My clothes are normally worn once and tossed in the hamper. I normally always sort my loads as such:

1) White cotton clothes. Hot water and bleach.
2) Colored cotton clothes. Warm wash.
3) Darks,blacks. Cold water
4) Sweaters. Warm/Warm
5) Jeans,Sweatshirts and pants. Warm
6) Delicates,Synthetics. Warm or Cold.
7) Sheets. Warm
8) Colored Towels Warm
9) White towels Hot and bleach.
10-12) Misc. And there always seems to be these laods after all the wash is done.

I generally spend my saturdays doing all this. But what can I say? I love it.

Chris

 

[veg-o-matic]

Hmmm. I probably do 4 loads in the average week. I don't wait until I run out of anything; as soon as the hamper is full, I do a load.

Like Donnie, I HATE ironing. So I don't. I pay a lovely little woman to wash and iron my shirts for me. It's my only extravagance--$1.30 each. But they come back looking so nice that it's worth it.

Don't mind folding, but I have a severe impediment. Named Honey. Apparently, warm, fresh laundry is irresistable to weiners. Long ago, I got used to the fact that everything I own will have a certain slight "weiner whiff".

And don't let's get started about germs and bacteria and stuff. I wouldn't trade her germs for anything in the world!

veg

 

[spiralactivator]

I do one load of some sort per week. I have enough towels, clothes, and socks that I can "stagger" the laundry schedule.

 

[jaxsunst]

I do between 9 - 12 loads a week for my family of 4 (7 if you count the 3 cats). Usually starting on Friday and finishing by Sunday night. I don't mind ironing, it usually takes 2 hours, I set it up in front of the TV and watch a movie while doing it.

 

[pulsator]

I've lost count but with two washing machines, I wash about 10 hours worth of laundry each week. (About 90% of them are large loads.)

 

[jasonl]

Jason loads

Well, being single (for now) I usually do 3 loads a week. Here's what Sir Frigemore and Little Lady puts up with

shirts and jeans
towels, socks, underwear
bed sheets (lil' lady takes care of those)

I have an old GE dryer that will wrinkle my jeans given half a chance so I usually put 4 shirts and jeans at at time. So sometimes I can get 3 or 4 loads a week.

 

[westytoploader]

Yep, it's 12-14 loads a week here--sometimes even more! Mom handles most of the Monday--Wednesday loads, and I take over the washing on the weekends when the piles get big!

For the most part, I sort into 4 separate loads, and sometimes divide them in half, which I usually have to do with jeans & other darks. Depending on how many there are, I either combine the towels with dark & light clothes or wash them in separate loads.

1--Light shirts, shorts, pants, bath towels
2--Dark shirts, shorts, nightclothes, bath & dish towels
3--Dark pants, jeans & other "heavy" items
4. Whites

And then, of course with the bedsheets, I wash either 1 or 2 sets in one load. My parents' quilt can be washed here (and rolls over well), but my cotton-stuffed comforter as well as my sister's have to be washed at the laundromat, in the triple-loaders. When I have the GE Portable up at the house, I sometimes wash a few small loads in it which speeds things up (and of course is fun to use).

--Austin

 

[Unimatic1140]

With two of us and a dog, I usually do 7 to 8 loads on Sunday and sometimes in the middle of the week I like to wash the bed linens for a relaxing post-work wash. Washing ONE wash load after work is so therapeutic, it's like Darrin Stephens having his after work matinee.

 

[rickr]

Weekly wash loads

I do three to four loads on Friday night,while doing paperwork.And wash bedding on Sunday afternoon,while making dinner. I live alone,change bath towels and wash cloths every day,and never wear anything more that once before washing it. So it adds up,even for one. In the summer I have "car rags" to wash also,so I may do two loads on Sunday,bed sheets,and car rags.I alway's have a couple of rum and cokes with the Sunday wash too!! o:
Rick

 

[jasonl]

You people with 10+loads

HOW DO YOU GET ALL THAT STUFF DIRTY?

I can understand with kids but us bachelors and gay couples with no kids? My two friends are roomies and they generate like 2 or 3 loads a week each. making 6 loads.

Do I have to dirty more clothes to keep up with yall or what? ;-)

 

[pulsator-power]

I usually wash about 3-4 loads per week. I'd say 50 percent of them are washed on gentle cycle, so you can fit less in the toploader. Two loads are my kid's. I don't do all of what's dirty (I keep a reserve) at once because they're usually full loads of bath towels, and I don't want to overload the washer. Plus, we have a 35 year old septic system too, so even though it's not a problem, I don't want to overtax it. (Plus, no one helps me do it either), not to mention my wife doesn't throw a stitch of hers into the hamper, so she has to ask me nicely to do it, or it never gets done!
Jerry

 

[Cybrvanr]

Well, My aunt ought to be hired by Maytag for reliability testing . She has an early 80's top loader that runs constantly. She has 8 children...the first was born in 1981...the youngest born in 1996. She thinks the reason the washer continues to work so good is because she keeps it running all the time.

I'm not even sure how often she does laundry, but every time I go over there, the washer is running away. Measuring her washer useage could probably be better by hour, instead of by load. I imagine that thing has more hours per day on it than most people's television sets!

 

[doityrselfguy]

Two or three loads per week. I stagger them: one week may be separate loads of t-shirts, work pants and towels; the next may be underwear and sheets. I tend to do them Saturday evening, while watching Cops (a guilty pleasure of mine!). The TV is directly across from the couch, but I keep the laundry closet diagonally across the livingroom open so that I can catch an occasional glimpse of my Bosch working it.

Pete

 

[jmirawm]

3-4 loads per week

Usually I have a load of Jeans, towels and whites by the end of week. My shirts go to the dry cleaners as I HATE IRONING! Although after readin some posts here and watching the video at archive.org about wash-n-wear, I have rediscovered the permanent press cycle on my washer. I used to do all my shirts. My recipe for success was: softner in the washer and fabric sheets in the dryer.....take them out and hang them up at the precise right moment....Then life got to where I was spending time on other things and I discovered the joys of a dry cleaner.

 

[kenmore1978]

dry cleaner

I imagine you also discovered the cost and the time to take them there and retrieve them.

 

[geoff]

In this household??

I don't think anyone boils loads down to as many as my mother and I. (I hope that made sense, the Johnny Walker Red has taken effect) There is a science to sorting in this house.

Darks
Whites
Jeans
Towels
Sheets
Light Delicates
Dark Delicates

and that's just for the household. this past Monday I did laundry for my best friend as I usually do and that was 7 loads. Now keep in mind, I had JUST done his laundry exactly 7 days before that. I was flabbergasted and exhausted when I was done. 1 load of darks, 1 load of whites, 1 load of jeans, 2 loads of sheets, 1 load of towels, and one load of delicates. So between my best friend and my family, 20 loads a week EASY. I guess it's all in how you sort.

Geoff