how much laundry to you all do

[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

 

[kenmore1978]

separating loads

That is subdividing it quite a bit.

I lump heavy cotton colored things like jeans and towels together.

White towels will be lumped in with white underwear

Often if I have Perm Press shirts, I'll wash them with the sheets, since they are of similar weight.

 

[DADoES]

I sometimes do sheets and shirts together. Or (rarely) sheets and towels, but they dry separately due to the different weight. But NEVER anything with jeans (except maybe ragged-out shirts and/or shorts for yard work) . . unless I want it all to be blue-tinged!

 

[kenmore1978]

jeans

Well, after a while, all the dye that's going to run out of jeans gets washed away. And, of course, you would only wash dark colored towels or clothes with them just in case.

I never do sheets and towels together, it's just asking for an unbalanced condition in spin

 

[david]

6 loads a week roughly, sometimes more, never less.

 

[jmirawm]

I imagine you also discovered the cost and the time to take

Juane, at $1.25 a shirt and the dry cleaners is on my way home, It is a small price to pay NOT TO IRON! I dont have my shirts dry cleaned, just laundered.

 

[foraloysius]

I don't keep track of how many loads I do, I do a few loads during the week I think but do most loads in the weekend. I started today with a load of jeans with some socks. I do these loads quite often because I put clean jeans on every day. Next load are the bed linens and a beach towel, all red stuff. After that I will through in some sweaters (clean sweater every day) that have to be washed on the delicate cycle. I think I do three loads of sweaters every week, that is in the winter ofcourse. The fourth load will be towels (white). I use my bath towels twice (they have two sides!). I never wash white towels and t-shirts together, I don't like softener in my towels but I do use it with my t-shirts. Those t-shirts together with white underpants are done about every two weeks I think, the towels (very heavy ones in a small Miele) are done every ten days together with kitchen towels. Without the extra loads like rugs, other bed stuff etc. etc. I guess that will be 6 - 8 loads per week.

 

[kirk280980]

Normally I do one load each evening, occasionally two, depending on what's in the basket. Clean clothes on every day, and I'm a "sorter", so my laundry for the week breaks down into the following:

Jeans
Socks and underwear
Whites
Lights
Darks
Duvet cover and pillowcases
Quilted bed throw

That's just my own laundry, on top of this there's laundry for the rest of the family, plus at least one full load of towels each day. Add it all up, and we run 2-3 loads a day, every day.

 

[david]

Here's a strange one

We were presented with some beautiful white towels with flowers on them when we moved into our new place. The tags say "cold". A set I bought at TJ Maxx also said cold (dark violet and charcoal gray); I mean 2 sets. Is this getting to be a trend? I have always felt that towels should be hot or at least very warm selections on temp. People tell me todays detergents do such a good job of disinfecting it's not necessary. Do you all believe this is true?

 

[bpetersxx]

cold water washing

I have blue jeans that have to washed in cold water

the label says cold water

 

[kenmore1978]

temps for towels

It depends on how you feel about the colored towels fading. If fading doesn't bother you, then wash them in hot if you want.