Would you rather? Laundry related

[lilles]

Would you rather have the minimum number of clothes you need for a week but need to wash.constantly with the advantage of hardly having anything to fold/put away OR have a ton of clothes and mountains laundry to fold?

I just spent an hour folding laundry and still have a ton of stuff to fold.

I wash stuff all the time but can never keep up.with the folding.

[spk926]

I would pick option C - lots of clothes and someone else to wash, fold and put it all away!

[lilles]

Oct 13, 2015 14:36:17 GMT -5 spk926 said:

I would pick option C - lots of clothes and someone else to wash, fold and put it all away!

That is the dream!!!

[mandapanda18]

Well... I used to have option 2, but I did the KonMari method and fall more into category 1. I really pared down my work attire, I wear two outfits a day though, so still some laundry (I wear suits/skirts/dresses to work and jeans/yoga pants/shorts after while working on our property).

[aspentosh]

I am between those options and like it. But I also don't do all the laundry on a given day. I've never felt like I have a ton of stuff to fold, even though I know we have a lot of clothing in this house.

DD can go about 2 weeks between a load of laundry.
Darks are every 10-12 days.
Lights are every 10-12 days.
Workout gear is every week.

Then sheets and towels as needed (every 1-2 weeks).

[bowies]

I have 10 work outfits (mix and match) and 4 weekend outfits so I can only do laundry every 2 weeks. I probably have more clothes than that but that's mainly because I really need to purge the stuff that doesn't fit or bores me.

I'm not counting work out or dressy clothes in this.

[Deleted]

The kids and I have minimal wardrobes - just over a week of clothes.

DH has a million items, but that doesn't change the frequency of laundry.

It's not a huge deal. I listen to audio books or watch TV while I fold.

[anna7602]

I wash a few times/week, but only do a big putting away of the clothing (that hasn't gotten reworn or rewashed) about once/week. 

I do wonder how people deal without multiple washing machines, but I guess they can just put in loads of clothing at any time of day and don't need to run two machines at once to make it worth the PITA of dealing with communal laundry? 

[Deleted]

B. I love clothes and I love options.
I don't find it that big of a deal but I also don't mind laundry.

Even though I have a lot of clothes, I still do laundry on a regular frequency so it's never piled. I have a hamper that holds a load's worth, so when it's full I wash.

[Willis Jackson]

A

I do laundry 2-3x a week.

[DarcyLongfellow]

Laundry is my nemesis.

Knowing myself, I'd have to say option B because I know that I would never, never, ever be kept up enough with laundry to know that we'd all have clothes to wear if we only had 1 week's worth.

I'm regularly scrambling around the house in the morning trying to find DD1 matching socks.

[oswin]

B - except that I don't see how owning more than 1 week's worth of clothes has to effect the frequency and quantity of laundry done. I never let laundry go more than week without being done, and usually 2-3x/week. I often don't fold it right away, but we tend to pull clothes from the clean hamper.

[DarcyLongfellow]

Oct 13, 2015 16:10:37 GMT -5 @bunnybean said:

One day I will take a picture for the board of my Clean Laundry Mountain, but then you will all see my secret shame and judge me.

Not me. I will post my mountain in solidarity :-)

I currently have 2 laundry baskets in DH's and my room, 2 in DD1's room, a huge pile of clean but tangled together sheets and blankets on top of my dryer, and a clean and dry load IN the dryer. I feel like I'm winning because all the baskets of clean clothes are actually folded instead of just a pile of wrinkles.

[SJ]

I don't fold laundry

[niq]

We wash weekly, I have just enough pants to make it through the work week, but a lot more shirts. Msniq has more but we still wash weekly or more often.

Before the invention of the washing machine, laundry was the first thing that got outsourced (these days it seems to be housecleaning)