Every weekend, two people. Always the same rotation: whites/lights, colors, darks, hang up stuff (sweaters and delicates), daughter’s work clothes, sheets/blankets, then towels. Towels always go last, since they take the longest to dry and it’s no big deal if they are left in the dryer overnight.
Weekends, I do the majority of the clothing. During the week it’s sheets, towels, throw rugs etc.
While it’s very handy to have the washer and dryer in house, I will say I kind of miss my bachelor days…
I had enough socks/underwear for 30+ days and wore work supplied and cleaned uniforms. I would wake up extra early on a day off once a month, head down to the 24 hour laundromat and use several machines at once. I was usually done with the chore in less than two hours.
Two person household, clean!
Probably three loads a week, just whenever I remember to do it, not all on the same day.
1 x bedding
1 x darks/colours
1 x either whites, jumpers or silks, whichever is more pressing.
I don’t get why people find it such a chore. Shove in, unload, hang up, done (I don’t tumble dry).
Every Saturday morning I get up at 5:30 and walk down to the laundromat that opens at 6:00 in the morning.
When I was doing laundry just for myself, I did laundry once a week. Now that I’m washing the Firebug’s clothes as well, I do it twice a week so that I don’t have five or six loads all at once.
Two or three loads, I can pretty much do overnight: put the first load in the wash an hour before bedtime; just before bed the first load goes in the dryer and second load goes in the wash; when I first stumble out of bed in the morning, second load goes in the dryer and third load goes in the wash; and by the time I’ve had coffee and showered, the third load goes in the dryer. All without really taking any time out of my day.
When shirts and slacks that need hanging up come out of the dryer, I toss them over a hanging rack, and put them on hangers later when I have the time, or just pull them off the rack when I want to wear them.
Once a week, usually on the weekend, but sometimes just whenever I have the energy, I will throw in a load or two. I try not to let too much accumulate, because then I spend all day running up and down the stairs - bedrooms on the second floor, washer and dryer in the basement. On nice days, I like to peg my laundry out on the line in the back yard, which is more effort than shoving it in the dryer, but I like line dried clothes, and towels especially, and I’m cheap, so I prefer to not run the dryer if I don’t have to.
Before I moved into this house, I lived in an apartment building that had the tiniest, crappiest coin washers. Totally useless. I loaded all my laundry into the car and drove to a laundromat. I could get multiple loads washed, dried and folded in two hours, which was nice, but I love having my own washer and dryer.
Somehow I managed to do my laundry separate from my wife and children, so mine gets done on roughly a weekly schedule, although it’s not everything every week. It might be white clothes this week, cold water items next week, and warm water items the week after. So any one type of load gets done on a 2-3 week schedule, but there’s almost always a load done each week.
I hate doing laundry during the week so every weekend we have 3-4 loads for a family of 3.
I do one load weekly, all my clothes in one load.
My gf handles sheets, towels, and her own clothing.
I have a washer/dryer in the garage, so I’ll throw a load into the washer whenever it’s needed. I estimate it’s between once and three times per week.
Washers going probably 4 days a week, sometimes upwards of three loads a day.
Family of four: two adults, two kids, plus a dog that throws up more than I’d like.
I have two kids under three. We do laundry constantly.
Hee. I don’t have quite that many, but I have enough to last three work weeks. Khaki pants, black shirts. That’s it. No thought involved in the morning.
I have a tiny washer & dryer in my apartment in the M.E.
I have 5 work uniforms, and normally work 5 days/week. I’m also on 1hr standby most weekends, so I have to have at least one clean uniform in the wardrobe at all times. All 5 uniforms won’t fit in the washer at once, so every other day I wash two uniforms. At least twice a week I wash work tshirts & socks and underwear, so I don’t open the wardrobe at 5am to find I don’t have _________ for work that day. Once was enough of that…
At home, my wife does at least one load, sometimes two, every day. When I’m home, two a day consistently. Her OCD will not allow dirty laundry to pile up.