What does laundry day look like for you?

[pulsator]

I do my laundry every 8 days, my bath towels dictate that, I almost never wash anything of mine before 8 days has passed unless it's an emergency! I was just wondering what laundry day looked like for everyone else here? Here are my "3" loads, towel, colors, and whites. It actually gets split up into 7 loads though. Two loads of towels, one load of shorts, one load of t-shirts, one load of pajama pants/boxers, one load of white towels, and one load of white socks/wash clothes/t-shirts. Anyone else generate a large amount of laundry?

 

[dogboy44]

I did it early this week to fend off the marathon

I don't know where it all comes from, there are two of us and it always looks like someone parked a small car in front of the washer when I start to sort it. I will remember to get the camera before I begin next week.

 

[mixguy]

Frequency in washing

I do laundry as soon as I have enough accumulated to do a medium sized load. I sort "dirty" clothes, pretreating spots with a "stain stick" or other prewash just before loading the washer. My Whirlpool Duet Sport cleans my clothes better than my previous GE FilterFlow or Maytag ever did. It also spins out more water! My clothes are dry in 30 minutes or less using medium to low heat on the dryer too! I don't like having a big pile of laundry.

 

[dj-gabriele]

No wash day for me

I put all my dirty stuff in the bin and when it's full it means that there are around one and half loads of clothes in there, so I sort the colours and do one load, then as soon as it fills again I do another, that is usually one every 2/3 days.

 

[frigilux]

Jamie, it's funny your washday is also dictated by the towel load. Same here! Six of my bath towels plus 8-10 hand towels make one very full load in either the TL or FL Frigidaire.

Here is my wash-week:

1. Bath towels (all white)
2. Kitchen (and other) whites (always washed with liquid chlorine bleach)
3. Bed linens (all white)
4. Colored clothes
5. The Black Load (every 2-3 weeks during the summer months)
6. A second load of mixed whites (often on Sunday, after company leaves)

 

[sudsman]

What it looks like every day!

5500 to 7500 lbs daily
Avg.3000 Sheets
250 Draw Sheets
500 Surgery Barrier Gowns
2000 Bath Towels
4000 O R Towels Blue and Green
1500 Pillowcases
1000 Patient gowns
300 Scrub pants and Shirts
3000 Washcloths
800 Either/ Bath Blankets
400 Thermal Blankets
5000 Surgical Blotter spg.

 

[frigilux]

Holy crap! You win, Lee!

 

[mayguy]

Monday is my laundry day. Most of the time it's 3 loads, some times 4. it's just me and my partner. I never do laundry any sooner than 7 days unless we are going to be gone or something.

These what I do in order.

-Whites (socks, and shirts)
-Colors (shirts, short and boxers)
-Towels and jeans. (If lots of jeans or towels, then that get broken down into two loads there.)

 

[supremewhirlpol]

I wash every 2 weeks usually Friday and Saturday. I end up sorting everything like you Jamie.

 

[xraytech]

I dont do my laundry all in one day, I only wash my stuff and no one elses,
I do
1)my bath towels, 6 antique gold JCPenney bath towels with 6 matching washcloths, and 2 matching hand towels
2) sage green full sheet set and ratty old threadbare bedspread
3)3 days worth of scrubs, mixed of misty green scrubs for OR/PRN days and ceil blue for days I am scheduled in the main dept/fluoro/ED
4)all other colord clothes
5)socks and lab coats only done on my day off since I soak in hot water and 3 cups bleach and 1 cup borax until water goes cold approx 3.5-4 hrs, then a pre wash with oxy clean and dawn, then a 14 min wash in hot water/warm rinse with detergent, murphy oil soap, and borax, and bleach in the dispenser.Then line dry in full sun to help further bleach the whites to keep my lab coats a nice crisp hospital white.

Plus the approx 12 full loads of every one elses laundry mother does on Sunday.

Unfortunatley I can't soak my whites as long now because the DD Kenmore 80 series has developed a tub leak, and I dont want too big a mess

 

[laundromat]

I have this method where I do at least one load a day.That way, I get to have my fix.I recently found a Frigidaire front loader at the local dump. The door switch was bad and the board lit up but no action.When I saw the breakage on the door latch, I went to the local Sears(48 miles away isn't really local)and repaired it.works great and now has a light inside so I can do clothes at night

 

[j2400]

I do laundry several times a week. With a vintage Kenmore, how can one bear to do it only once a week?

My loads vary, depending on what I'm using, and my whim of the moment. Currently, it's:
-short sleeve shirts
-bathroom towels
-"other than shirts" clothes
-white kitchen towels
-colored "everything else"

All is done on a as-needed basis. I do at least 5 loads a week.

 

[alr2903]

Jamie, you should send that pic to Whirlpool, look at the reflection on your washer. It's better than their art dept. turns out. "START WASHIN". alr2903

 

[strongenough78]

Well, last weekend I housesat for some friends. We usually don't do large amounts of laundry since we don't have washer dryer hook ups in the apartment, so we have to use their coin ops. So I took everything we needed washed to my friends house and spent probably 10 hours doing laundry. 8 large loads altogether. By the time I was done, I was sick of being around clothes lol. Oh and in case you all are wondering, I used my friends, 2003 Kenmore. Middle of the line I think. Dual action agitator. And NOTHING came out shredded or damaged, for all you Kenmore haters out there lol. They did a great job and I love the Auto Moisture Sensing. Got everything dry in a short time, and it seems the dryer they get, the less heat is used. As soon as the signal went off I pulled everything out and it was like at room tempurature, but totally dry. Very cool.

 

[westingman123]

Wash day blues

Since there are four of us, I end up washing every day. However, I did laundry for a local nursing home for a couple of years, so I really relate to Lee's pile!! Truthfully, I
find hanging a couple of loads out on a sunny day to be very
relaxing and satisfying. Just don't tell my brother, whose lazy rear end I guilt at every possible moment!!

 

[johnny]

...

My laundry day is every saturday or sunday
2-3 loads. Whites , Colores and darks.
Here some pics

 

[johnny]

another

pic of the other washer

 

[johnny]

together

both washing

 

[yogitunes]

I wash almost everyday, I may get a break once in a while, but with 5 little ones running around, I have some laundry!...and I have 3 washer/dryersets...just so I don't spend all day waiting for the laundry...and I love getting it done all at one time, had one dryer break last year, I was in turmoil, had to decide between a new one or fix the old, and if I got a new one, cold I afford a new TOL, but at this point any dryer would do, but I fixed it myself with some help from the parts store...and back on track, amazing how one machine threw a monkey wrench into my system, but I really enjoy all the laundry, I get the kids involved with sorting and I give them little cups with liquid detergent and a small paint brush, and we play find the stain and pretreat...keeps them occupied, and helps me too!

 

[ptcruiser51]

Sudsman!

If that's you in the photo, why aren't you wearing GLOVES? Eeeeeeeeew!

I have a three-section nylon "carrying hamper" since I have to cross the street to the laundry room. As I fill it during the week it's automatically sorted - whites, darks, towels (dish and bath) and sheets. Three loads all ready to go! 1/2 cup Oxydol liquid in the whites and sheets, along with 2 scoops STPP in each, hot water. 3/4 cup Oxydol for the darks. warm water. Everything gets hung on hangers or drying rack except sox, pants, sheets and towels, otherwise the blast-furnace coin-op dryers will ruin them. I love to iron so I don't care about wrinkles. I don't usually need a lot of pre-treating; if something is nasty I do an overnite soak in Oxy-Clean.

From time to time I'll grind up a load of my car-drying towels, to which I usually add two pairs of my sneakers. Put the sneex on the dashboard of my VW on a sunny day=nice 'n' white again!

I can never thank Launderess and Jeff G. enough for introducing me to the wonders of STPP!

 

[favorit]

no washing day

I usually run a load as soon as I have the right amount of laundry for it

Anyway yesterday I came back home after 2 weeks away 4 work, so I ran several loads (I had even some laundry left before leaving)

1st load : 2 pairs flip flop + 1 pair hiking shoes + 1 pair water shoes + some rags = perma press 50°C with liquid detergent and clothes disinfectant

2nd load : camping tent ... cow-birds were flying in the nearby :-(( I washed both inner and outer layers togheter on "delicates 30°C" with prewash (podwered delicate detergent)

3rd load : coloured (red,black,green,dark blue) sheets, towels, briefs on perma press 60°C with liquid for darks and clothes desenfectant.

4th load : pastel coloured sheets and a dark blue sleeve / white chest T-shirt. Perma press 50°C - didn't want so much blueing ;-) - normal liquid detergent

5th load : whites (some kitchen and bath towels and a bathgown) eco boilwash 75°C with powdered detergent and some oxybleach

6th load : shirts, short sleeved dress shirts and trousers = perma press 40°C with higher water level . Darks liquid and some desenfectant (so shirts will not smell when I'll sweat)

now this load is ready, the line is waiting 4 me :-((

 

[sudsman]

ptcrusier51

No I am not in the photo , That is one of my washmen, Why should gloves be worn on clean shake out? In 40 years as a Certified Laundry Manager that is the 1st I have ever heard of that. I ASSURE you, YOU would NOT want me to post a pic of the soiled work here. Or perhaps you would?

 

[sudsman]

PS

In soiled sorting not only does he wear gloves but face mask, hair cover, barrier gown and shoe covers. You have not a clue as to what will touch your body or fall on your feet. When over full carts are bought in not uncommon for heavy soiled surgery, or ER linen to fall on you head or your feet. I can assure you ER is far worse than surgey work,

 

[appnut]

Well I'm not going to post any of pictures of my laundry loads (and I"m doing laundry right now) because some prissy queen or two (see the disturbia thread) might have comments about my kitchen floor not being spotless or that it's 25 year old vynil.

 

[sudsman]

RIGHT ON BOB!!!!!!

Oh, the art of good country living.. Is NOT appreicated anymore. esp. here!

 

[ptcruiser51]

Whew!

Thanx, Sudsman! I didn't realize the photo was clean laundry, though now that I look it is indeed!

My sister works in an IVF lab and once shared an elevator with the not-on-premises laundry man riding "up" for a pickup. She asked why he was dressed as for hazmat and he said, "Believe me, lady, I am!"

 

[appnut]

Thank you Lee!! WOOF!!!

 

[sudsman]

ptcrusier

thank you for not taking my comments the wrong way, I did not mean them ugly at all just informative.. This is my pic.. wish I was as young and the washman again...

 

[appnut]

Lee, you're adoreable. No need to hide yourself!!

 

[jamiel]

Let's see...usually 3 1/2 loads a week.

1 load is white cottons (Brian's white cotton T-shirts...he wears at least 2 a day), socks, white underwear, towels every other week). Hot water, Foca, double rinse (we don't even meet our water billing minimum, so scr** that...) Half a cap of softener. Hang socks and underwear, tumble towels/T-shirts. Bleach every couple months.

1 load is colored synthetics (UnderArmour, gym wear, underwear, work slacks) and (more) delicate polo shirts (lighter colors/drip dry type) BTW, I really like Under Armour, but Nike Dry polo shirts are far better than UA polo shirts (which have too much Spandex/cling and snag too easily).
Foca/Tide hot/warm water and no softener, hang most to dry (work slacks go into the dryer)

1 1/2 loads of colored cottons (cargo shorts, boxer briefs, sturdy polo shirts, colored T-shirts, etc) per week. Foca/hot (we keep our waterheater very cool)/softener/dryer for most
loads)

About every 3 weeks a small white synthetic load (my Underarmour T-shirts, compression shorts, etc) hung up to dry

I had to break B. of the habit of using cold water on everything. When he moved in, everything smelled. Now, only when we find a box of rags which haven't been washed since he moved in or something like that does that smell emerge.

We've got a water softener, but I'm a big phosphate user (bring White King back from our trips to Palm Springs or Calgon from Canada). Nothing's better, milder or more appropriate than a complex sodium phosphate for cleaning laundry soils.