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DietCokeHead · Queen of Imperfection Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 3805

of laundry do you do a day/week? And how many people's laundry is included in that?

I feel like all I do is laundry! I do at least 2-3 loads a day. Where the hell are all these clothes coming from?

Petulant Pixie · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:12 pm Post subject:

It's winter. More clothes, thicker clothes. I was just complaining about the laundry situation this morning. I don't know how many fucking loads of laundry I do anymore. I only do FULL loads, too, and it seems there's always laundry to be done.

As an estimate, I'd say about 15 loads a week? I start on Friday with the black load and then work on it from there (then the brown/greens, then the blue/grays, then the reds followed by pinks, then whites then underwear, then bedclothes, then towels) through Sunday and Monday night there is another full black load to put in, but usually there's only full black, brown/green, gray/blue and reds to do so I can get all that done Tuesday and then I don't do laundry again until Friday, so...how many loads is that? I count 14 (several loads for bedclothes). So, likely yeah, around 15 for 5 people.

DietCokeHead · Queen of Imperfection Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 3805

OMG PP, I have never heard of anyone sorting colors so thoroughly! Do you have a big laundry room or are your washer and dryer in your basement?

I don't even sort colors at all anymore! I wash all clothes together on cold and then I do separate towels and sheets and wash those on warm or hot, depending on how germy I feel like everyone is.

Anthromomma · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:02 pm Post subject:

I had to count, and I think it ends up being between 12 and 15 loads per week, not counting stuff like washing seasonal clothes coming out of storage or duvet covers. We're a family of five- 4, 2 and baby, and the only thing that I don't wash in a full load is kitchen towels and cloth napkins because those get bleached and nothing else does-- I just do a small load once a week. Part of our laundry issue is that dh's job involves reconstructing military records that were in a fire in 1973. Most of these files are partially burned, or were wet, or both, and have been moldering in a box since the 70's. He stinks when he gets home most days, so obviously a clothes change there, and he runs... sweaters, cords, jeans, fleece, sweats, etc for a 6'3" guy add up fast. (for the record, dh does more than half of laundry related tasks around here)

We sort by color, too-- we try to do two loads of laundry a day, plus as needed on the weekends. I've found that if I just grab a load of colors or lights indiscriminately, I never get to the bottom of the hampers.

Sewingsiren · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject:

There are 5 of us. I probably do about 15 loads a week. My dh work is plaster so I have to wash his work clothes separately. My enduring daytime fantasy is that he would realize that his folded up clothes on the foot of the bed are supposed to be put away, not slept on Evil or Very Mad

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Petulant Pixie · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject:

ExCareerGal · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject:

My husband does laundry once a week. He does 3-5 loads. We have 4 people in the family. I am not sure what we are doing differently than you all!
Janna

Scout · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject:

We do a load a day, some days two but not usually. No sorting.

julymom · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject:

I sort by color. I do a black/brown load, a pink/red load, a green/blue load and a white load. Towels and sheets go in whatever color load they match (my bathroom is brown and cream and ds's is blue). I also do his clothes seperately from mine. I don't know why, but it seems wrong to wash his cute little clothes with mine. I do a load a day, but they are small loads and it makes it easy to keep things from piling up. I've been lax this last week though and I feel totally overwhelmed by laundry.

becky2005 · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:

For 2 adults and 1 toddler I do laundry twice a week 3-4 loads each time. Tuesdays are 1 load of whites, 1-2 loads of other clothes, and all the towels. Fridays are 1 load of whites, 1-2 loads of all other clothes and then all the sheets/pillowcases.

I've started getting lots of pink and purple clothes as baby gifts for the one who is on the way so I will probably have to start adding a load of red/pink/purple in there somewhere.

BTW, I did more laundry when Michael was 0-6 months old b/c he was a spitter-upper. I had to change his bedding 3-4 times a week and his and my clothes always had spit up on them! During that time I think I did laundry almost every day.

Jessica · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject:

Gasp -- pink goes in the pastel load, not with darks!

I do about 7 loads per week, between Saturday and Sunday. We're a family of 4 -- 1 girl person and 3 male persons:

4 dark loads
1 pastel and grey (this only takes up one load a week with 3 guys in the house)
1 white with bleach
1 cleaning and kitchen rags with washed out boys underpants with skid marks Laughing

- this is done immediately after bleached load because I made the fatal mistake once of doing a dark load after a white load and I'm still trying to recover from the devastation.

Towels and sheets go into the respective color coded load.

Anthromomma · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject:

So, you guys wash towels along with regular laundry? I've always washed sheets and towels seperately-- sheets because they'll fill a load in and of themselves, but I've always been under the impression that towels can wear/pill clothing in the wash. scratch

Petulant Pixie · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:50 am Post subject:

Scout · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:48 am Post subject:

Y'all are on crack with all that sorting. The only time I sort anything is if I have something new and red or purple to wash, then I will do a load of darks to put it in. Sometimes I try to do a whole load of towels if I know I'm going to be doing two loads anyway, but lots of times they get thrown in with other clothes. I don't bleach anything because we don't really own more than maybe 5 white things in the whole house. I used to always sort by color, then dh took over most of the laundry (he does all the folding, I just throw stuff in the wash some days but he does the rest), and he never sorted and I saw that it makes no difference whatsoever.

snuffles · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:22 am Post subject:

LMAO

It's nice to hear that I'm not the only one who doesn't sort by colors! LOL My mom AND dad have been on my case about it since I started doing laundry way back when and it drives then nuts to this day!

I sort by whose clothes is whose. The boys get done together with a bit of my stuff thrown in to fill the load. Then the rest of my clothes get done and all hubby's clothes get done by themselves when he gets back in town. He does HVAC so his clothes are always filthy, ripped and covered in duct sealer so I'm reluctant to wash them with the rest of our stuff.

Between my and the boys, during the week I do a load/load and a half a day, so that's about 5-8 loads a week. But when hubby comes home, his clothes take at least 4 loads themselves because he works outside and has to wear layers in the winter. If we have something going on during the weekend and are away from home, it's not unusual to find me doing laundry until 3am so he has clothes to go back out of town with. (That's why I started packing 2 out of town bags for him, one for this week, one for next.)

I don't mind washing the clothes and swapping them to the dryer but it's the hanging up clothes and putting them away that I despise. Don't ask me why, I mean the washing's done, I just truly hate putting them away.

But now that we're talking about laundry, I'm looking at 3 out of town bags that need to be unpacked and clothes washed. (2 for me this week, one for him.) *SIGH* It just never ends, does it?