Just wondering if this is only a phenomenon in the Phlosphr household…But I’m asking the men of the boards…do you do most of the laundry in your home? Whether you are married, have a girlfriend, kids etc…etc…is most of the laundry done by you?
If so why?
My account: My illustrious wife does not know how to load a washer properly - it’s constantly over loaded…so 10 minutes after it starts we hear a noise from the basement…BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG…
Nuff said:
I learned to do my laundry while still living at home because my mom would bleach the bejesus out of everything, turning red tee-shirts pink in a few weeks.
30+ years later, I still do my own laundry, because I know how it want it done. When my GF is here, I wash her stuff, too.
Yeah, I’m the laundry-doer. Also the cook. She’s the dishwasher-loader and, most importantly from a domestic chores perspective, the clutter-straightener.
I do it a couple times a year, when need dictates. I always did it when I was single, but my wife is a SAHM and tends to have all the chores taken care of by the time I get home from work.
Works for me. 
Jammer
Whichever one of us notices that a load needs to be done does it. We also swap off the cooking chores. I run the vacuum, she dusts. We both feed the cats.
Himself is generally in charge of the laundry. This has been so ever since we first moved in together and discovered that he was pickier about how it was done (mostly in regard to overdrying his shirts). Until just a few years ago this entailed going to the laundromat. Sometimes I would go along to help, sometimes not. He was still in charge, and I would ask him if this load was OK to take and fold, etc. I once noticed a young mother watching us, her mouth slightly agape at the idea of Husband running the laundry show.
Now that we finally have our own machines, I will throw a load in if I need something, or if I have time and the baskets are piled high and he hasn’t had a chance to get to them. Otherwise it’s still his show.
I do take care of my own delicates, hand washing, etc.
I’m responsible for the laundry getting done in my house but that’s because I’m single.
I do, however, send it out to be done (for the last 2.5 years now). It’s expensive but getting rid of the stress, aggravation and waste of my valuable time is well worth it.
The do occasionally lose socks (once, 5 pair), but I beat them and now they fall in line.*
I spoke to the owner and he agrees to reimbursement for any loses.
My husband does his laundry, I do mine.
I do mine, my wife does hers.
My husband does his own shirts and usually the jeans loads. I usually do most everything else during the day.
The Bog does the laundry in our house. When we first met, he did all his own everything so it wasn’t a big deal. Getting him to FOLD the laundry was interesting at first, but now he’s a wiz at that, too.
My husband does it sometimes, but I try to intercept him. He doesn’t sort, he doesn’t check the pockets in his jeans, he overloads the machine, and he uses too much detergent.
He insists he’s good at it, because he worked for awhile in a test lab. Eight hours a day, loading and unloading washing machines and dryers.
I do all the laundry. Because I’m single.
My wife does the laundry I am supposed to mow the lawn. What she doesn’t know is that I hired a landscaper who comes during the week and does it. Been almost a year the lawns always perfect but she hasn’t noticed that our lawnmower is getting coated with spider webs.
Yeah, I do all the laundry in my place, the missus won’t touch it. No idea why, I think she finds hanging it out to be really onerous. Its the one non-negotiable chore from her pov. The mirror image of this is that she does the ironing, which I won’t do under any circumstances. If the cocky watchwoman one day went on ironing strike I would honestly pay someone to do it rather than do it myself - I cannae stand it.
My husband does the laundry. Neither of us care about sorting, picking different machine settings, or whatever. We both fold or at least put away our own (I don’t fold. It’s a miracle of neatness for me to put things away.) I can do the laundry and will on the weekend if I notice the hamper is full. We always wash in cold water, if a piece of clothing can’t stand up to our lackadaiscal approach, it doesn’t belong in this household. We own an iron; I use it to press hems before I sew them, or block knitted items after I finish them. Neither of us keeps clothing around that really requires ironing to look sharp.
In my childhood household, we used to have to iron everything (I was on the hook for napkins, tablecloths, sheets (minimal, after already mostly folded), and handkerchiefs), and Dad would get very cranky if his shirts weren’t ironed correctly, and would also accost me before I left the house if I was too crumpled for his liking and make me take off the offending item so he could iron it. I really like living in an age where all I have to care about is “is it clean?” and it’s pretty easy for my husband to take care of most of the time, because he works part time from home, and is the primary homemaker.
Oh yes, and because we live in a city apartment with no yard and lots of traffic fumes around, it all gets machine dried. This is very different from when I was growing up, when laundry did take a good amount of time because of all the hanging out on the line. I hated cold water running down the inside of my t-shirt sleeves as I pegged stuff out. It felt strangely posh to move into a place where the default assumption was to machine dry but I’m used to it now.
I do most of the laundry. Mainly because I have more free time than my wife. This will probably change in a year or so, after which neither of us will probably do it.
I live alone, so I do all of it, but when I was cohabitating romantically, she did the laundry and I did the cleaning. Let’s just say we both knew the other’s skills and priorities and worked out a mutually beneficial agreement.
I did all of ours when we lived in a second floor apartment because it was heavy and needed to be carried up and down stairs. She does all the laundry now but I am an expert ironer and can iron in several different styles so I take care of that when it is needed.
That’s how we work it. My wife figured I had lived on my own long enough to learn how to do laundry, and my laundry schedule is different than hers, so it works out fine.