Post by steamboat185 on Oct 31, 2023 16:28:09 GMT -5
4 people and about 3-4 loads a week. We aren’t really big into sorting laundry aside from towels and sheets everything else just gets thrown in if it fits, which helps keep the number of loads down.
These numbers are stressing me out. Do you all not rewear anything? I'll wear my lounge clothes for like 5 days before they go in the hamper. I mean, how dirty can I get them just lounging around the house?
These numbers are stressing me out. Do you all not rewear anything? I'll wear my lounge clothes for like 5 days before they go in the hamper. I mean, how dirty can I get them just lounging around the house?
I workout and/or walk the dogs 5 days a week and those outfits I only wear once. Everything else gets reworn a LOT lol it’s usually workout clothes, socks, and underwear that I’m washing.
Post by thebreakfastclub on Oct 31, 2023 18:06:56 GMT -5
I could do less, but my 10yo does his own load, towels and sheets, so I keep them separate so he can be responsible. My husband and I are 2 loads per week.
These numbers are stressing me out. Do you all not rewear anything? I'll wear my lounge clothes for like 5 days before they go in the hamper. I mean, how dirty can I get them just lounging around the house?
I workout and/or walk the dogs 5 days a week and those outfits I only wear once. Everything else gets reworn a LOT lol it’s usually workout clothes, socks, and underwear that I’m washing.
H gets super gross stinky so doesn't re wear exercise clothes
I discovered that my work clothes get gross and ruined if I don't wash after each wear. I rewear sweats a whole bunch
Kids don't have the executive functioning skills to manage rewearing things, and also still manage to spill and get dirty like they are toddlers
Probably 4-5 loads for a family of four. I don’t really rewear clothes, but I don’t wash towels after just one use and I don’t change the bedding every week.
These numbers are stressing me out. Do you all not rewear anything? I'll wear my lounge clothes for like 5 days before they go in the hamper. I mean, how dirty can I get them just lounging around the house?
I'm more stressed by the idea of how wasteful it is to run frequent small loads instead of saving up for larger loads.
But also, I think factors like your washer size (you said you can combine sheets and towels, which I'm guessing is not the case for everyone) and how many clothes you own (I don't have 2 weeks of pajamas!) are going to affect the answers.
Household of 1 Turns out the Speed Queen I got has a smaller capacity than the old agitator-less washing machine. 2-3 loads of clothes (cycling and equestrian clothes will sometimes get washed separately) 2 loads of towels 1 load of sheets
Post by melmel4854 on Oct 31, 2023 20:57:49 GMT -5
It is only me and I feel like I do a lot of laundry. I also have cats though so I feel like I wash things more often than I would if I didn't have them. I change my sheets every week, but have an obsession with sheets so sometimes I have two loads of just sheets. I also have huge towels which take up a lot of room in the washing machine. I switch towels and kitchen towels a lot as well.
I somehow always have a ton of dirty clothes even if I just did laundry. It just never ends.
These numbers are stressing me out. Do you all not rewear anything? I'll wear my lounge clothes for like 5 days before they go in the hamper. I mean, how dirty can I get them just lounging around the house?
I'm more stressed by the idea of how wasteful it is to run frequent small loads instead of saving up for larger loads.
But also, I think factors like your washer size (you said you can combine sheets and towels, which I'm guessing is not the case for everyone) and how many clothes you own (I don't have 2 weeks of pajamas!) are going to affect the answers.
Load size is definitely a huge factor. Our washer can handle almost 2 laundry baskets in one load no issue. When we stay places with smaller washing machines I could see doing more loads.
2 adults/1 kid - We've done 3 loads of laundry just today. I'm guessing our weekly average is 10-12?
Two caveats - our washing machine is tiny and we rarely wear clothes a second time. H and I work careers where we come home dirty so maybe a mid-layer can be reworn, but not often. Our kid is 9 and plays hard. PJs/lounge clothes are worn a few times, towels are hung up for a second use. I'm very conscious of our water consumption, but until we have a bigger washer or different careers this isn't changing for us.
I do two, a load of darks and a load of lights, which includes our towels. My kids do one load each week. We wash the dog stuff once a month or so. Sheets are every other week.
These numbers are stressing me out. Do you all not rewear anything? I'll wear my lounge clothes for like 5 days before they go in the hamper. I mean, how dirty can I get them just lounging around the house?
I'm more stressed by the idea of how wasteful it is to run frequent small loads instead of saving up for larger loads.
But also, I think factors like your washer size (you said you can combine sheets and towels, which I'm guessing is not the case for everyone) and how many clothes you own (I don't have 2 weeks of pajamas!) are going to affect the answers.
With the home sizes and lifetyles people talk about here, I don't think I have a comparatively enviable washing machine and I can fit more than a set of sheets in mine.
I rewear everything except workout clothes and DH rewears everything except boxers. But I workout daily and my kids get their clothes dirty. With 4 little kids, 3 of whom are boys, none of their clothes except sweatshirts and jackets are getting reworn. Plus my kids play a combined 7 sports. So all the sports clothes get sweaty and dirty.
Living in a year round pretty warm climate means more sweat but less bulky clothes, so a lot fits in one wash if they’re like lightweight shorts as opposed to pants and sweaters.
The guinea pigs alone need more than 6 loads a week. I hate our new "efficient" washer that takes at least three cycles to wash clean what used to get clean the first time. (and our dryer that needs to run twice to get even a small load dry).
The guinea pigs alone need more than 6 loads a week. I hate our new "efficient" washer that takes at least three cycles to wash clean what used to get clean the first time. (and our dryer that needs to run twice to get even a small load dry).
That's awful. My washer gets the clothes clean, even on a short gentle cycle which is how I was most of my own clothes. But it wrings everything so dry that the wrinkles don't even come out well in the dryer.
My son always wore his clothes twice, he was a kid that always hated getting dirty! But he turned 13 and BO has come with that and I don't even want him to wear his school uniform pants twice anymore until we're sure we get a handle on that and his deodorant is reliably working! I used to work 3 six hour days and wore everything more than once most of the time. Now it's 5 days, all day and many days I don't even have time to change until bed time, so I'm washing a lot more. We have sheets to put on the furniture because of the dog and towels to wipe him off with and with all the rain we've been getting there has been a load of just his stuff every week. And I've been trying to do a white load because my son's uniform shirts are white. I did 6 or 7 loads last week and it was awful and I would not find that manageable on a weekly basis!
I'm more stressed by the idea of how wasteful it is to run frequent small loads instead of saving up for larger loads.
But also, I think factors like your washer size (you said you can combine sheets and towels, which I'm guessing is not the case for everyone) and how many clothes you own (I don't have 2 weeks of pajamas!) are going to affect the answers.
With the home sizes and lifetyles people talk about here, I don't think I have a comparatively enviable washing machine and I can fit more than a set of sheets in mine.
If I put more than a king size sheet set in the washer, it fits fine but it gets tangled up and won't balance and I have to reach my arms in and wrestle a sopping wet ball of sheets at least once.
H does his own laundry at least twice a week. I wash mine about every other week (best part of wfh imo is not caring about what I'm wearing), and I throw towels in with my clothes (we have lots of towels so it works out).
However, we also have three cats. I try to wash their blankets at least once a month, and that's 2-3 loads.
And then there are days like today when I'm washing ALL the bedding - 5 loads at least once a month.
So... if I'm mathing correctly that's about 18 loads a month and an average of 4.5 loads per week for two adults and three cats.
It’s interesting seeing the different “styles” of doing laundry. We (well, my H), despite having our own w/d, still do laundry like we did when we were in an apt & did multiple loads at once. We thought when we moved into a house we’d do as needed but nope! Laundry only gets washed 1x/wk & whatever didn’t get washed is saved for next time.
And even now wfh we our loads/wk haven’t really changed. I don’t know how that magic works out but it does!
Probably about 8-10 a week? I do not do H's laundry. Just mine, the kids and household.
I wash DS1s clothes seperately because he is a runner. I also wash my workout clothes seperately because I sweat a lot. I try to not let those clothes sit too long which means I do a couple medium sized loads a week of just this stuff. I have learned if I let this stuff fester all week the smell doesn't come out. Even with the fancy athlete detergent.
I also wash our sheets each week.
I am particular about laundry and I WFH primarily so it is very easy to throw a load in.
These numbers are stressing me out. Do you all not rewear anything? I'll wear my lounge clothes for like 5 days before they go in the hamper. I mean, how dirty can I get them just lounging around the house?
Or hang a bath towel up to dry and reuse it?
I remember having this conversation at work years ago. Coworker said his wife and 2 daughters would each use 2 towels a day (one for hair and one for body) and would only use them once. So they were using 42 new/clean towels per week! Holy shit. I couldn't get over how wasteful and not environmentally friendly that was.
I had another coworker whose wife would thrown out any food that was over 24 hours old. No eating leftovers in their house. What a waste of food.
I side eyed them both so hard. (also because they both seemed to blame their wives)
Even with reusing bath towels we easily do 1-2 loads of towels per week. My washer maxes out at 4 towels. So if everyone is disciplined all week and only uses one towel that is a load. Normally we all switch out mid week for varied reasons. My oldest is the worst culprit of not reusing his towel. Everyone else does a decent job.
Even with reusing bath towels we easily do 1-2 loads of towels per week. My washer maxes out at 4 towels. So if everyone is disciplined all week and only uses one towel that is a load. Normally we all switch out mid week for varied reasons. My oldest is the worst culprit of not reusing his towel. Everyone else does a decent job.
That is so tiny! I think we can fit up to 14 per the specks. We don’t have 14, but it fits a lot more than 4.
We have tiers for electricity pricing and doing one load in the wrong time period during the summer can ruin any “savings” you’ve attained for the month. It’s really changed how we do laundry.
Are my kids the only ones that drench hand towels and sleep with every possible blanket? Their bedding alone is 4 loads, but I don’t do that often enough.
I’m one that does a lot of laundry. Usually 2-3 loads 2-3 times a week. My SD plays soccer, that stuff needs to be washed after each wear and sometimes in a quick turn around (she has one home and one away Jersey) my SS likes to lift weights and work out. DH and I rewear a lot of work stuff and lounge clothes but my kids rewear very little (just jeans and jackets/hoodies).
These numbers are stressing me out. Do you all not rewear anything? I'll wear my lounge clothes for like 5 days before they go in the hamper. I mean, how dirty can I get them just lounging around the house?
Lol, agree. Faints at 10 loads of laundry a week. Maybe they’re not full loads? I even rewear sports bras when I’m working out at home, shrugs. Things last longer with less washes. The days of living overseas and doing my laundry by hand was def a light laundry time haha.
I'm honestly trying to figure out what we do differently that makes so much more laundry. I work out every day, and the amount of sweat I generate means that my workout stuff does need washed, so that stuff only gets worn once. I do re-wear things like jeans/leggings/shorts/bras that I put on after working out. In the winter I also usually have a long sleeve top/sweatshirt that I wear over my workout tank top until it's time to work out, and I'll rewear that for a few days too. But between the workout clothes and the clothes that I wear after working out, plus dh's clothes (he changes after work because he works in a hospital, so he feels like he brings home germs, and he sometimes also adds in a workout outfit if he has time), I feel like we go through a lot of clothes. We wear pajamas for about 3 nights before washing them. We use towels for a week before washing them. We change sheets once a week. Still 10 loads.
I remember having this conversation at work years ago. Coworker said his wife and 2 daughters would each use 2 towels a day (one for hair and one for body) and would only use them once. So they were using 42 new/clean towels per week! Holy shit. I couldn't get over how wasteful and not environmentally friendly that was.
I had another coworker whose wife would thrown out any food that was over 24 hours old. No eating leftovers in their house. What a waste of food.
I side eyed them both so hard. (also because they both seemed to blame their wives)
Omg! I’m imagine her just constantly throwing out food and then having to make more, to throw it away, and so on. 😆
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