How many loads of laundry do you do in an average week?

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I bought some Tide Pods the other day (3 containers with 71 pods each) and noticed that it said on the containers that it lasts 4+ months which is like 4-5 loads per week. There are only 3 of us in the house now and I feel like I do way more laundry than that. Heck, 3 of my weekly loads are bedding and towels. Do we just create an egregious amount of laundry? 

[circa1978]

Me? None. My husband does the laundry. #blessed.

But I would guess around 5.

[gardengal]

Actually 4-5 for a family of 4

[trissie18]

At least one a day for a family of 4 so on average 7+ a week.

[wildrice]

Only 2 of us here, but I'd say 3-4 is pretty average, maybe more if I'm washing bedding other than sheets or throw blankets. It's usually 2-3 loads of clothes and 1 load of sheets/towels.

[noodleoo]

Probably 3 per week for my family of 4. I bought enough clothes though so that I don't have to do a load for everyone every week.

[abs]

3-4 a week for a family of 3.

[candreco]

5 or so? Family of four, though DH is OOT a lot. DS's clothes take over a week to build up a full size load, towels get done more like every ten days rather than weekly, sheets are weekly.

[dcrunnergirl52]

Probably 5-7 for our family of 6.

[Saudade]

I'm guessing 5+ for family of 6. More if I do sheets, which I never do 🙈🙈

[mofongo]

We’re just 2, honestly we only average 2/week? One very large load of clothes and one of blankets/sheets/etc. Now every other week It’s probably 4, more blankets etc. We have 5 animals. We have a large washing machine and just throw all of the clothes in there together, it’s worked fine for 15yrs lol.

[Velar Fricative]

One load a day for a family of 4 - includes separate normal loads for each of us, DD1's hockey load, a bedding load and a towel load.

[lilypad1126]

I… have no idea. H does most of the laundry. I would guess probably 4-5 loads most weeks. More if I’m doing my work clothes and we need to wash sheets.

[gerberdaisy]

probably 5-7? I'll forget about laundry for a while then do like 5 in a day.

[sofamonkey]

Probably abut 6-8, depending on the week.

One load each (4 people), one load of towels. We rotate doing bedding, so that is 1-2 when we do that.

Obviously we do more if things happen. Like when DS had a sleepover and the kid was a puked when he overeats, and the mom over fed him before bringing him over. That alone was 2 loads. LOL

[marvine]

I wash every Wed and Sun. I do 2-3 loads those days, depending on what I'm washing. So I guess 4-6 loads per week. (Although that's just for me and my kids - my DH does his own laundry and I'd guess he does 1-2 per week? He has no system except to always "NEED" to wash a load on one of my laundry days)

[MDmomof2]

We have 4 adult sized people here and do 5-7 loads a week. Each kid does their own, DH and I have 2 between us, I'll do a hand wash load, then a load of towels. Depending on where we are in the sheet cycle that's another one.

[beerlover]

Probably 5 or so for the 3 of us. That seems like a lot, but we both work out daily so there's those clothes plus other clothes, plus when DS was playing soccer I had to wash that stuff frequently so he could wear it to his multiple practices/games.

[sarahsays]

It's just me. I do three. One is regular clothes, one is work clothes, and one is sheets and towels.

[cereal K]

Two adults, two kids.

I do 5-6 loads per week. H and I mix our clothes, so one darks, one lights, one whites. I was one load for DD, one load for DS, and a load of towels.

[definitelyO]

Oct 31, 2023 11:28:13 GMT -5 circa1978 said:

Me? None. My husband does the laundry. #blessed.

But I would guess around 5.

same!     

[mala]

1 for each of the kids, including their sheets. Two weekly for my husband and I (each), at least one load with towels/sheets/blankets from around the house. 8-9 loads a week, more if someone is sick or if I'm washing all the blankets or something. Oh, and maybe a load of work stuff/rags. So up to 10 on average. Which feels like a lot because it will be days between someone using the washer.

[wanderingback]

My partner and I do our laundry separately. He does the baby’s laundry and he folds all of our laundry.

On average between all loads seems to be about once every 7-10 days. So about 3 loads of clothes a week for 2 adults and 1 baby.

We wash towels, sheets and cleaning rags separately and those get done about once every 2 weeks.

[quesyrah]

Family of 4 and we do 5 loads a week.

[cjcouple]

A LOT - I'd guess 8-10. There are 4 of us in adult clothing and we all have a couple outfits a day (everyday clothes and workout stuff) and we all shower every day.

[CrazyLucky]

205.
Maybe it just feels like that. We do about 6 I think. That includes sheets and towels. We have four in the family.

[leahcar]

There are 6 of us (2 adults, 3 teens, 1 kid) and 2 dogs. We do soooo much laundry. We do a minimum of 9 loads and usually more.

I do 6-9 loads each week. 2-3 loads of clothes for MH, the youngest, and me. 1-2 loads of napkins, 1 load of towels, 1-2 of bedding.

My 3 teens do at least 1 load each every week. Between work clothes and bedding, it's not all that unusual for them to do two/each.

[gretchenindisguise]

You mean the loads that actually get done and put away or the loads I have to rerun because we forgot to put them in the dryer?

[tacokick]

2 but we are only two people and have very high capacity machines (and a lot of sets of sheets/wash cloths/towels so we do loads of those more like every 2-3 weeks when there is enough)

[sugarbear1]

My two boys and me, but the boys are with me 50%.
I probably do 4 loads on average, per week.