how much laundry to you all do

[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.

 

[bpetersxx]

Thats what I do with towels and they do not fade

If the color process is cheap they will run even in cold water

 

[rickr]

water temps

I only have white towels/wash cloths,and I wash them in hot water with a bit of bleach in the last 5 minutes of the wash cycle. All other clothes I wash in warm water. I seldom wash,or rinse anything in cold water. I think it gums up the machines and the clothes to wash or rinse in cold water.They tried cold water detergents in the 1960's. They did not work even with phosphates. My colors are not faded,and the towels stay bright white. I always use the 15 minute wash cycle as well.

Rick

 

[golittlesport]

We do about 12 loads a week. There are three of us in the house. (And two dogs and a cat, but they don't generate much laundry.) My son and I work part time at a gym, so that makes for extra wash. I send all of our work dress shirts out to a laundry. It's amazing how the stuff piles up, but since I like to do laundry I don't mind.

 

[kenmore1978]

water temps

Jeans that call for washing in cold water are probably not pre-shrunk, so that's the reason for the directions to wash in cold water, as well as the fading problem.

I always rinse in cold, wash in whatever temp the care label dictates, or if there are stains, the appropriate temperature for treatment of the stain.

 

[angus]

Well, my sister and I share a house and between the two of us, we generate probably 10-12 loads per week. Because of her allergy to scented detergent, we have to do double the loads -= since I insist on a scented product.

Usually my loads consist of:

Towels and face cloths - clean ones are used daily on the advice of my dermatologist..

Whites (includes underwear, t shirts, athletic sox, some sheets

Work shirts -which can be nothing more than long sleeved sport shirts. These are laundered and wet starched at home and taken to a hand laundry for ironing. I actually like to iron, but haven't the time so.......

Jeans, cords and darks

Kitchen towels, place mats and napkins

Casual sox - most are mid weight wool and really need to be washed separately. This is one of those times I REALLY miss my mini basket

Finally, fugitives - you know...those one or two black or navy knit turtlenecks or golf shirts that simply cannot be washed with ANYTHING else

Most laundry gets done EARLY on Saturday morning. Seems like I get up earlier on Saturday so I can have a jump on the weekend Most weeknights I get home around 8:00 and since I get up at 5:00 and am out the door by 6:15, it is just a long day. Sometimes, I will do some towels at night just to keep up and get some quick therapy. Besides between the two of us, we will go through something like 16 bath towels in a week, plus hand towels and face cloths. So on Saturday, I like to get up around 4:30, have some coffee and start washing. No rushing to get out the door, etc... A very relaxing way to start the day.....

 

[westytoploader]

Hi Rich,

That brings up a question: how many Unimatic loads do you run each week?