** Kam **, they’re Americans, they don’t hang washing out 
I do a load most days. I don’t fold though, I just randomly distribute the clothes throughout the house. P the E has a basket where his clothes are stored, Mr P folds his own and P the Y tends to have all his clothes on the bedroom floor.
I also don’t iron. Ironing sucks.
My laundry philosophy is that if I don’t perceive the laundry, it doesn’t exist.
If I had a clothesline, I would hang them.
The last two places I’ve lived didn’t have a place for one.
Love those line dried sheets.
I also would hang the wet clothes on the hangers, then clip to the line.
Unless it’s a very windy day, then forget it.
We have a laundry set now, but with only two of us, we wait until we have a load, then do them.
I know I own an iron and board, but have no idea where they are.
I do a load when, ahem, things start to be stinky. I’m poor, barely sweat without a lot of exertion, and I sit on my butt in front of the computer most of the day.
Fortunatly, I do wear all black, so strains don’t show up. Yeeeaah.
Since I have so very many Tshirts, I can go a while before I do laundry. A few weeks, then it’ll take about 3 loads to do all my laundry.
If I had my own washer/dryer, I’d be doing laundry much more. I actually prefer clean smelling clothes, but as long as it’s not funky, I don’t mind.
And yes, I have tons of socks and whatnot, so don’t get all grossed out. Hehe.
Apartment dweller here. We have a laundry room in the basement with two washers and two dryers. Since I live by myself, if I do my laundry once per week, I only have one load’s worth (two loads when I do sheets/towels, which is every other week, usually). I have enough clothes to keep me dressed in clean stuff for more like 2-3 weeks, but the basement is three flights of stairs down from me and my bad back/partially paralyzed left side hates laundry day even when I DON’T have to haul 2-3 weeks worth of laundry down and then back up those stairs. So this is why I make a point (and usually succeed) of doing the wash once a week. So…
I take all the stuff down to the laundry room (wash day is usually Sunday for me: I’m too f***ing tired to deal with it on weeknights after working all day, and Saturday is my usual relaxing-day, though once in awhile I switch things and wash Saturday/relax Sunday). Then I put the stuff in the washer(s), go back upstairs to my apt and set my computer’s timer for the 30 min wash cycle. When that goes off, I go back to the basement and (1) separate the “hang up” clothes from the “general population,” and (2) put the rest in the dryer(s). When I have a 2-load week and therefore need both dryers, I separate the dryer stuff so that each dryer has a roughly equivalent distribution of heavy vs. light stuff (example: jeans and towels are heavier than T-shirts or sheets) to make sure they’ll dry in one cycle. I then run the dryers and go upstairs with the hang-up clothes (work slacks and skirts, certain blouses or sweaters, bras/pantyhose/knee-his). I set the timer for the 50-min dryer cycle and hang the aforementioned items on hangers placed on the rod for the shower curtain. When the timer for the dryer goes off, I go back down, dump the contents of the dryer(s) into my laundry basket, bring it up and fold (or hang in the closet in some cases) right away to prevent/minimize wrinkling, since ironing is not in my vocabulary except as an abstract term.
When my boyfriend visits (one or two weekends a month, we’re in a LDR), I do his laundry along with mine (he also lacks the time and energy to do his wash during the week), which means doing three or four loads instead of just my one or two, but he does ALL the clothes-carrying – I just wash, dry and fold, and with my timing system I get all of it done very efficiently. I have no problem whatsoever with the washing and folding (for just mine or both of ours). What I hate is carrying full baskets of clothes to and from the basement, so since he does the carrying for both of us I’m very OK with doing his wash too.
Now HERE is a laundry gripe I have, but I’m betting few if any of you share it. The laundry room in our apt building basement (plus the one in the building across the street) used to have coin-op machines, which was fine by me. All I had to do, and it was easy, was save my change, and I had plenty of easy laundry money. I even had (still have it in fact) a special little cup on my desk for laundry quarters. A year ago, a new laundry company came in, redid the laundry rooms, put in new machines and implemented this CARD SYSTEM to use in both activating the machines and paying for their usage. THIS F***ING SUCKS!!!
The card looks like a credit card and is easy to use while doing laundry, but the problem is that to put money on it, I have to go across the street to this machine in which I insert first my card, then cash (it only accepts $5, $10 and $20 bills, and the maximum you can put on it is $40!). Now if they had one of these “card refreshers” in MY building (or no maximum, so I could “stock up” and then not worry for months about laundry money), I probably wouldn’t complain AS much about it, but it pisses me off because prior to this, I never had to leave my own building to do anything laundry-related; I’d pocket some quarters and go downstairs with the dirty clothes and detergent. But given the fact that I DO have to make a special trip every so often specifically for “laundry money,” what I’d LIKE to be able to do is put more than the maximum $40 on my card, especially in winter. But I can’t do that. And now I have to pay attention to how much cash I have in what denominations, something I didn’t have to do before. I often HAVE that extra $5 I’d like to add to my laundry card, but if (as is frequently the case) I have it all in singles, it’s useless as laundry money.
What especially kills me about this is that the laundry company had sent us tenants letters saying that this new card system would make our “laundry experience” more CONVENIENT! Bovine excrement! Yes, I emailed the laundry company complaining about it (and asking them why don’t they at least put a card refreshing machine in OUR building too) but I never got a reply. Oh, oops…is this material for a pit thread? >:-P
When wife & I lived in a highrise with a laundry room downstairs we’d save up dirty laundry until we’d dirtied almost everything we owned, including both sets of sheets and towels.
Then we’d haul it all downstairs (one massive trip to the elevator) and start 8 or 10 washers at once, then go back up to our unit. We’d come back down 30 minutes later and transfer it all to 4 or 5 big dryers then go back up. Then come back down 45 minutes later and quickfold the outerwear into a basket or two and stuff the sheets, towels & underwear into a duffel or two and go back up.
Total time invested in 10 loads of wash: about 20 minutes and 3 trips up/down the elevator. Note: we worked odd hours so it was easy to use all those machines at once without interfering with other users. Somebody who tried that same trick on Sunday morning would be shot by the other residents.
Now with a house and just one (large) washer and dryer (Gawd how limited!), we do wash as the dirty baskets fill up. We have one basket for regular, one for delicate and one for whites. Depending on the season they fill up at different rates, but each basket holds about 1 machine load. When one’s full, it gets done; that’s roughly weekly.