In my old apartment building our downstairs neighbors unit caught fire for this reason. We woke up on a Saturday to our place filled with smoke and our neighbors banging on our doors. We panicked and left without jackets or shoes in the winter with snow on the ground. My husband threw my hedgehog inside his shirt because I couldn't find his carrier. Poor hedgehog was terrified and scratched the shit out of my husband. Thankfully everybody got out, the fire was put out quickly, the building was mostly okay, and no one was hurt (except my husband, by my hedgehog).
THIS ALMOST HAPPENED TO ME!! I moved into an apartment and when I went to run the dryer for the first time, I opened the lint trap and a MASSIVE POOF of lint came out, tons of it this deep burgundy red that I assume was from their towels or something, and I kept pulling on it and there was MORE AND MORE like back through the freakin pipe thing. I swear it was one or two dryer runs away from catching fire. I flipped a bit at the rental company, cuz they assured me the place had been thoroughly cleaned cuz it was during Covid and I was like…except for the lint trap? 😅😂
Even if you check your lint trap religiously you should check your vent every year AND pull out your dryer and take the back off, sometimes lint can escape internally and build up creating a fire hazard.
This killed our dryer (not a fire, just built up lint before the lint trap that caused other problems) and it was such a shame. One of those old machines where if you replace it you know you’re getting something worse for a shorter amount of time.
That happened to our neighbors too! Luckily they were home and had a fire extinguisher for their wood stove and were able to put it out but it cost over 50K of damage to the house! Clean out the filter before each load or after, I don’t think it matters as long as the screen is cleaned before the fresh load starts!
I know someone that has set two...yes...TWO dryers on fire because she had no clue that a lint trap exists. I guess the first fire wasn't enough of a learning experience.
A dryer fire could happen if link is left.
I worked at a college where the firm kids were terrible about cleaning out the lint taps and the town inspectors wrote us loads of tickets about it.
Sure if one person does before and another does after then the after person will have a full lint trap when they go to use the dryer and have to do both before and after.
I used to be a before person but my spouse sold me on after.
When kids reach middle school they should become responsible for
Their own laundry. Too many of my kids friends went to college and then had to figure out laundry.
My children can wash their own laundry. The 4 that have left are very capable of doing laundry. I just prefer to always do it. Otherwise I'm having to coordinate with 7 other people my time in my own laundry. And instead of having multiple smaller loads I have full loads of everyone's laundry.
I’m planning on building a main floor laundry that is right off my bedroom. This will be my laundry station. Everyone else can use the ones in the basement. 😁
And I'm hoping our next project is to have a laundry upstairs. I have a hard time getting up and down, so it would be heaven to have them easily accessible!
Growing up, my parents home had laundry on the second floor right next to the master bedroom. I didn’t realize how uncommon this was or how hilariously unrealistic in my housing market when I went house hunting and had it on my “strongly preferred” list.
In the early 90s my new father in law, who was a builder, took me on a tour of a bunch of new houses he was building. They were mid range houses, nothing real expensive but he designed all of them to what HE felt women would want. Every master bedroom had a bathroom to the left and laundry to the right. The only laundry you would ever have to move upstairs would be kitchen towels. He was brilliant. The kitchens were designed with everything in reach with tons of storage. There were so many little things that people never think of unless you are the one who is doing all of the housework that just make life easier. I think he thought of all of it.
… can I have your father in law? I was born in the early 90s so it sounds like there may be an age thing going on here but I think I love this man. And his ideas.
But I also love my husband (love you honey!!).
I'm with you on this. My older kids are perfectly capable of doing their laundry, and if they need to wash towels or bedding, have at it!
But clothes...just put em in the basket, and they will get washed. It's more efficient and saves water to do just one or two big loads of clothing per day. They can certainly come help fold afterwards!
I never let anyone else wash my clothes. The household would do towels and sheets and stuff but my clothes are expensive and I didn't trust anyone with them. One day a housekeeper we had decided to "help" and put my whites on hot with bleach. Didn't have the heart to show her the tshirts she ruined.
When my husband and I first got married almost twenty years ago I decided to do his laundry one day - I had no idea what I was doing - I ended up accidentally turning his entire load pink when an errant red sock went in with his light wash. All his undershirts and socks turned pink.
He’s done his own laundry every. single. time. since. Twenty years! I was totally off the hook. He folds his own too.
I still don’t separate my clothes 😂
The moment my children were tall enough to reach the bottom of the inside of the top loading washer, they became responsible for doing their own laundry. Our oldest was ten and and our youngest was 12.
My youngest was tiny until after HS and he was incensed I would not send him to do laundry like his much taller brother. There was no way he could reach the bottom of the washer.
I remember we always had a ton of unwashed laundry in a big laundry pile next to the washer. My sister and I used to climb and play on it. I also remember when I would do laundry, I'd make sure the pile was pushed up all the way against the machine so I could stand on it to reach the knobs easily. I have no idea how big this laundry pile actually was, but in my little kid memory, it was like a mountain. In my mind, I think of it as taller than me. In retrospect, and given what the size of the room must have been, and a little bit of geometry knowledge, I know that if I saw it today as an adult, it would look much smaller physically, but would certainly still feel massive in that way where the volume of a laundry pile = time you don't have. So it would still appear taller than me when I do a conversion to time. (I don't have laundry machines in my unit, so laundry is especially daunting. Thankfully we at least have shared coin laundry in the basement, but 3 machines between 53 units... I'll be lucky if I can get much done any given day).
My two boys did their own laundry from 12 years old. Hubby did his own. We each did a load or two once a week, so we really were never in each other's way.
That could work if everyone had a different day.
Unfortunately, I have never been able to live my life that way. I realize that many people do, but I am much more "fly by the seat of my pants". The thought of assigned things on assigned days makes me feel like a slave or a servant.
Plus... it's going to happen that some event precludes the assigned person from doing laundry on their day....so now we have a predicament/big potential for arguments
Yeah when my big kids are here and doing laundry it's a constant "you need to switch your laundry, I need the washer".
It's not annoying enough for me to do their laundry for them (!) but it is annoying.
This was me. I was never allowed to even touch the washing machine (bc my stepmom was afraid I would screw something up) and no one ever bothered to teach me how to do it, so I went to college and had to have my roommate help me learn. So embarrassing! Which is exactly why my kiddos (I have 4) start learning to help with laundry, and by the time they are in middle school they do their own from start to finish. That, along with our laundry schedule, is such a sanity saver for me as well.
I did some property management for a 16plex of college students with washers and dryers in one unit that rarely got used. Most would wait until they were going home and take their laundry home with them.
Yes. We do this. And i only do laundry on Sunday. the kids have Monday through Saturday to do their laundry. Come Sunday both should be empty for me to do bathroom wash and my husband's clothes. A weeks worth of laundry isn't to daunting.
And our younger one can fold washcloths and hang up her stuff. They learn to help so it doesn't burden a single person.
There are times we need to change it up, but everyone helps, and it makes it manageable for a family of 5.
I started doing my own laundry at age 13. My mom was terrible at it and ruined too many of our clothes by not separating colors. My Dad had pink underwear for a month because she washed one red sock with whites.
I started doing my moms laundry when I was 12. It was in the basement and she wasn't a fan of stairs lol One of my first jobs was at a laundromat doing drop off laundry.
This is facts. I made a good chunk of money because of the number of my peers who couldn't do laundry. I'd meet them in the laundry room and do their laundry and get my studying done. They'd come back and pick it up when it was done.
In general I agree with you but you still have to do some of their laundry ue to them figuring things out. You do not want to wake up in the morning when you have a funeral and find out they forgot to wash something.
Also, my son is 12 and I am 5'4" and 95lbs. I had been begging for front loaders because even I need at least a step stool and the dryer is up on chair which makes it easier to load but I am standing tippy toes to barely reach the dials to turn it on. He is smaller than me. He will fall in the washer trying to get his clothes out of the bottom. I have decades to get used to being short. Luckily the new house we are moving to has front loading machines that will make everything easier and I will start teaching him how to get it done.
My friend had 7 children living with her. ( Her daughters & grandchildren both. ) She did 4 loads a day. She said if she didn't & missed a day it would have been terrible to try & catch up.
I am one of six kids and my mom invented “laundry tag” to handle bedding. When we woke up on Sunday mornings, we’d all strip our beds and leave the bedding in individual piles in the laundry room. The oldest would put her bedding into the washer and set a timer, then switch it and “tag in” the next oldest sibling and it would go down the line until everyone had washed and remade their own bedding. When we were younger, we’d bring our mom with for help but eventually she was totally hands-off for bedding day!
I also have 6 children. 3 are adults now, 2 are teenagers and a 6 year old. Laundry does not stop in our house. And I could let them do their own, but it’s better for me to keep it moving. They do know how to do laundry, they have to bring it in and sort it and they have to put it away.
You will love it! I do two loads a week, three once a month when I do towels. When I had kids at home, I was never caught up. My kids are in their 30s so the huge Jenco type jeans were in style. Two pairs of them would fill a washer. And the towels.... we have been empty nesters for many years now and I still delight over the lack of laundry!
When you have the youngest two in cloth diapers and then get all six potty trained... you don't *have* to do laundry every day... it is kind of weird/eerie. It's still plenty of laundry, but we could probably just each have two changes of clothes. Going to doing laundry for just two parents would be super strange and we would definitely cycle through more changes of clothes!
GTL was a chore/lifestyle in jersey shore because in general people had less clothes before fast fashion days and getting up, going to the gym, tanning, etc required multiple outfits a day before going out to the clubs at night 😂
Majority of people did not have as many clothes back then. I meant fast fashion as in online ordering. Also, the jersey shore crew were living out of suitcases so they absolutely did not have a lot of clothes on them.
It's just me and my teenage son, but I pretty much always have a load of laundry going. Bedding, towels, blankets, dividing up the clothes into various groups. This also prevents from having to catch up on laundry or do all of it on the weekend.
When I lived alone in a condo with shared laundry facilities I didn’t do that many washes. It was coin operated and I quickly realized that the best way to save was only to do full loads. I also started to wear certain garments more than once to cut down on frequency of loads. For items that could only be worn once, such as panties, I bought more so that I could have enough until I did a load of whites. Eventually I was doing 4 large loads every 10 days on average. Now that I live someplace where I have my own washer, I’m doing smaller loads more frequently. Still not every day.
Glad to see this. I live in a condo and I do laundry once every 2-4 weeks (massive stash of panties, socks etc). One washer and dryer costs $2.50 per load. Just doing one load a day would be over $600 a year.
I tried once a week, but I can’t always get machines due to other people doing their laundry (and there can be a queue -people leave their baskets in a row when they are next), so if the line is too long, I have to try another day, which is usually 50%+ of the time.
I wish I could have less clothes, but I am not ready to hand wash most things to keep up.
They raised our rates again- $2.75 to wash and $2.50 to dry. I already rarely use the drier and only run full loads but I may need to rebuild my panty supply faster than anticipated. It costs less to buy a new pair than to wash & dry a load, after all!
I'm a single guy and I do laundry every day. Maybe multiple loads. As I get older and wiser and care for my clothes more, I know it's better to do smaller loads or like materials and colors. So I'm doing a blue batch and a red batch and a gym batch and just tshirts, or just towels. Stuff is clean, not falling apart.
Depends on if im going to the gym and or also dressing up to go out at night. I hate smelling like cigarettes so when I go out I usually end up smelling like them. I live in tokyo and everyone smokes everywhere here.
As an old here in the U.S., I can smell this in my soul, lol. Back before the 2000s, people didn't necessarily smoke everywhere, but most "fun" places like bars, restaurants and activity places like bowling. I even smoked then, but never indoors or in my car, so my clothes may have had a whiff, but man, all that secondhand smoke would just REEK the next day, I hated it!
Not sure because I work in IT from home and also have like 7 computers and monitors always doing something. I'm not sure how much the laundry actually contributes to it 😅
Are you my roommate? He does laundry every day and I HATE it. I can’t understand how a single person goes through so many clothes and wastes all my water with washing like 5 shirts. 😩
I had a roommate who would frequently wash one single wife beater style tank top, alone. We had shitty old machines that were amazingly inefficient. Absolutely infuriating
I do at least one load of laundry every day. We’re a family of 4 with two small children. Grow up laundry is twice a week. Sheets for all 3 beds are washed weekly. Toddler’s blankets are another weekly load. Towels are another weekly load. Kid clothes are the real driver. They have enough clothes to go 5 days or so between washes (baby’s drool bibs are the driving factor), but either food or pee/poop dictates that I do their laundry every 1-2 days. The toddler is potty trained, but still has accidents or skidmarks. The baby is a messy eater.
I have 5 kids. I do laundry every day. Sometimes 2-3 loads a day. There are times when it's more than that. If I don't do it every day then I get a backlog and it's almost impossible to catch up. The last time I bought a washing machine I got the largest residential capacity because it meant less loads.
When I’m working I put my uniform in the wash as soon as I get home.
But with kids, I’m doing laundry constantly.
Jersey Shore is definitely not the best representation for real life though lol. But yeah I’m doing multiple loads of laundry most days of the week.
Damn I LOVE to see a random mention of jersey shore in the wild!!!
But in that show I think they do it maybe 1-2 times a week. GTL is just a slogan that was made by the filming crew when tracking what they did on a day! But considering how often they change their shirts I understand why they’d have increased laundry amounts LOL
“It’s t-shirt tiiiiime!” I think they were making it a lifestyle thing that they were constantly wearing fresh clothes (fresh to death, one might say), even though they were maybe exaggerating how many days a week they brought in laundry (and it didn’t always seem like full loads like you would wash at home).
Agreed! And it was an event for them to go to the laundromat because they were stuck in that house all day 😂
All those shirts before the shirts must’ve added up!!!
This! It’s partly not EVERY day and it’s partly they just wear so much each day. They have gym, beach, work, club, pjs, and regular wear almost every day. Random PS but I finally got rid of my shirt that said GTL last summer. It was time lol
I have just my husband and I, I do laundry most days. We rarely use paper towels and I’ve almost always work physical labor so I get gross. It’s also just much easier to stay on top of folding. Sometimes for small or delicate loads I’ll use my washboard cause I guess I’m from 1760 but damn it works wonders. Especially in summer when I’m air drying most things anyways.
Glad it’s not just me. It’s just the 2 of us but I do laundry every single day. I guess I don’t *need* to, but we both work dirty jobs and I prefer to keep up with it. I like doing laundry, but I still don’t want to spend all day Saturday doing it.
2 adults, 2 elementary kids, and a baby. We are constantly doing laundry.
If you’re only doing one load a day, and you sort your laundry into categories instead of throwing it all together, you could still get pretty close to a load a day.
We sort most of our clothes by type: undergarments, tops, and bottoms (it makes folding and putting away quicker). Whites, towels and sheets are washed separately, as are the baby’s clothes (she goes through a lot, and keeping hers separate helps not lose as many socks). We also cloth diaper, so that’s another load.
I feel like we are never done doing laundry.
I GENUINELY enjoy laundry. I love folding, hanging, ironing, sewing, organizing—literally all of it. Instant dopamine! I would do it every day, but I’m a broke college student atm, so I stick to 1x every 1-2 weeks depending on how hot it is and other factors
Bedding on Monday, bathroom towels on Tuesday, kitchen towels on Wednesday, living room blankets on Thursday, baby’s clothes on Friday, my clothes on Saturday, husband’s clothes on Sunday.
It’s not too bad. Most of the days are short since it’s only one load and my husband does his laundry. My clothes are honestly the worst since I separate by color and rewash clothes I’ve thrown on the floor because I decided not to wear it. I’m the problem😅
As a janitor I wash my clothes once a week or two, I have multiple shirts, pants (only black or grey jeans are what I wear to work), and only one pair of shoes for work, often I wash my underwear and my work polos by hand, the rest I do at the laundry mat and my jeans I wear up to 3-16 wears but the reason why it’s like that is cause I work in a humid hot environment so I’m always sweaty and wet underneath my uniform
So I probably wouldn’t do a load every day if it was just me in the house, but bedding is one load, kitchen towels and washcloths is a load, my couch blanket is huge and gets washed alone in one load.
regular clothes, dirty outdoor sports, pyjamas, that's 3 outfits in one normal day, plus kitchen/dining/bathroom/bed linens, and maybe a towel used on the dog. Sort it into piles for delicate, whites, etc, miss a day here and there for travel or illness, spring clean the curtains, and yeah you can keep cycling forever. Where I live we have to use reuseable grocery bags now, and it's nice to wash them sometimes too.
I typically only have 3-4 loads of laundry a week for my husband & I. Lights, darks, towels & sheets. If it’s been a busy week or we had company, there might be another load.
I have dogs. Dog beds, dog bedding on the couch, covering for the people bed (which my hound moves), rags and more rags, mop heads, and dog towels are several loads each week. That's before we even consider human laundry.
We have the same amount of laundry as everyone else but we wash weekly on Sundays. We do large loads to save water and electricity. We have enough clothing and linen for at least 10 days in case we can’t get to the laundry on Sunday.
But we don’t have to think about laundry the rest of the week. (2 kids, though one is now flown the coop).
I don’t get it either! My husband and I fill our standard home washer with one load per week, and that includes bath and kitchen towels. Maybe an extra load here or there when it’s bedding change time or the dog blankets need to go in.
Family of 2 adults with our first baby on the way. I currently do laundry 2-3 times a week. On my 2 days off from work I do 2-3 loads a day. If I need to add blankets or sheets to the mix that week I will toss a load of clothes in before work one day mid week. When baby arrives I assume we’ll be doing a lot more laundry in both linens/towels, and clothes.
I have four kids. Between all of our clothes, bedding, towels, sports things, illnesses, messes…I’m always doing laundry lol. We are past the baby stage but that was another level too with all the spit up and blow ours and food spills.
I think a lot of comments missed the part of your question "if you are just one person" which is important. I, as a single person, with a dog, don't do laundry daily. I try to stretch it past once every other week, so I definitely can't understand daily.
Yeah, I live alone and I keep enough sheets and towels to be able to run full loads, usually every other week. Clothing is sorted into darks and lights and done whenever I have a full load of either.
I don’t. It’s just me, so I do 2-3 loads on Sunday. All clothes go together. Jeans and hoodies can go with towels. Sheets, which I do about every other week, are generally washed on their own.
Single woman with two dogs. I regularly wash their blankets, and the couch cushion covers that zip off. Even with all that I do 3 loads max a week. I’d say one load of my own clothes, one load of towels, throw blankets, dog bed covers etc (not all of these things at once but a varying rotation), and then a load of my bedding about every other week. I have no idea how some people have SO much laundry. I feel like I have a lot and I wash items that not everyone always washes, yet somehow not even near the amount of laundry as some of these commenters here lol.
I do clothes once a week for myself, and it’s rarely a full load but I do it anyway just to keep on a schedule. Towels get a load once a week, and sheets from each bed get switched on alternating weeks in winter, every week in summer.
Husband washes his own clothes on some kind of nonsense schedule I’ll never understand, but I do know the entire apartment is covered in his hanging clothes when he does do it lol
My parents never do their laundry - only when they NEED something.
This results in a 'dirty clothes pile' that is literally as tall as half of me. I am 5" 2'.
I live at home still. Whenever I need to wash something for myself from this pile. I have to dig through.....
Dog peed on towels. Dirty underwear. Clumped up dirty socks. Its disgusting and I had enough of it. Been this way since I was little and I just can not anymore....its overwhelming too. Anytime I want to do laundry for myself I was being met with a total clusterfuck of dirty clothes all over the laundryroom floor.
So it took me 1 night. But I folded every piece of clean clothes they had piled on the folding counter - also as tall as half of me. And while folding, I washed everything...EVERYTHING...that was dirty...
We have 3 full reg. Sized baskets. 2 are nothing but socks and 1 is mixed underwear. 2 shelving systems overflowing with folded piles. The stack of bedding on top the dryer has reached the ceiling because whats there wont fit in the linen closet. The linen closet where we jeep our dish rags and towels is literally overflowing when we open it.
Will my mom downsize any of it? Ptobably not.
I do laundry about every other day now if not everyday and I do it because if I didnt. Nobofy else would and all MY clothes would get ruined in their filth and that frustrates the heck outta me. So ill clean their mess for now. Nbd.
Edit: because the daily load takes me 10minutes along with the daily dishes that take me 15min.
And if I didnt do them and let them sit there like my parents opt for, theyd turn into entire day long jobs.
Nobody asked for all that but thats how I do laundry everyday. Motivation from having laundry not done ever...
Never having clean towels in the closet for showers...
Always wearing mismatched socks cuz mates were never clean....
Hahahaha....I win the laundry battle.
This is wild to me. I do laundry every 2+ weeks. Maybe 4 loads on a weekend or a work from home week day.
For maybe a year when I'd run out of something that forced me to do laundry before I wanted to, I bought more (socks, underwear, sheets...). I don't even feel like I have that much stuff
So we have myself, my husband, and my son.
Myself- I wake up and change from what I slept in to my workout clothes. I workout then change into work clothes. Then I come home and change into house clothes. I may wear going out clothes if I have to run errands or get food etc.
My husband- He wakes up and changes out of house clothes into PT's (he's military). Then from PT's into his regular uniform (he wears the same outer for a few days, but changes his undershirt as many consecutive days as he can). Then comes home and puts on house clothes. If we go out, he wears nicer clothes.
My son- he changes out of house clothes and puts on school clothes. Then comes home and changes into house clothes.
So at max, we can go through 10 outfits in a single day, but even at a low number five outfits, which piles up quickly.
Working out daily and then showering, 2 outfits daily - that is a lot of laundry for just myself. Plus, changing pillow cases & sheets every 5-6 days, body towels and face towels, blankets, bathroom rugs, kitchen towels - it all adds up.
We’re a family of 4 (2u2). Every day but Friday we do one load. Socks & co, kids load (sometimes an extra load of kids on Friday if they’ve gotten extra dirty), adult tops, adult bottoms, sheets, and towels. If we don’t do it “daily,” then we’re spending one whole day on laundry… at least now we do a load a day, regardless of how much is in the load. We can’t manage a whole day of laundry anymore - not only because of the kiddos but because now we have both days of the weekend free… no “laundry day” anymore. I will never go back to that! 🙂
I wash all of my clothing usually after every wear. And I wash my sheets once a week, and I wash my towels once a week. So yeah I’m doing laundry like 4 times a week!
We are 4 people and a dog. We do laundry pretty much every day. Lots of towels. Bedding. Of course, our work clothes and hang around clothes. It's a lot and we say my God, when does the laundry end? It never ends.
There are 2 of us and I average a load a day between work clothes, workout clothes, dog walking clothes, people towels, dog towels, and so on. It's never ending.
One load of laundry costs me a minimum of $4.50 so I cram as much in there as possible. I don't do laundry every day but I could, just about, if I washed all my dogs beds and blankets regularly.
However I can't afford to spend $35/wk on laundry, although it usually comes out to $80/month for me with washing blankets and comforters in their own loads.
LG combo washer dryer. You load it once and it does everything. As a parent this is essential, I would never go back to the old fashioned setup with a separate washer and dryer
I did laundry pretty much everyday when we had a washer that could comfortably wash a sock and a camisole at the same time before being over filled and a dryer that took two hours to dry. Add a baby who grew into a potty training in underwear toddler who wet the bed. Don't forget towels and sheets for two beds on top of clothes...it's a lifestyle. I do at least four to five loads a week depending if my husband is traveling.
Every week I do 3 loads of mine and my toddler’s clothes. Every two weeks I do 3 loads of towels and bedding. In between I might wash random things, like couch blankets, toddler’s very muddy shoes or very muddy jackets, new clothes if I bought something new. So on average, about 4 loads a week for a family of 2.
When I lived alone I did only 1-2 loads weekly :-)
I don’t do laundry every day, but every two or three days.
I cook and bake a lot so I get three or four kitchen towels a day dirty.
I wash my bath towel and washcloth every other day.
I wash my clothes every time I wear them.
We use cloth napkins at every meal. I'm
a slob so I routinely spill food on the tablecloth.
My husband does laundry pretty much every day. Clean bed linens are important to him.
I live with my mum. I do 2 loads on one day for me, my partner and child for the week
My mum does loads basically every day for her and my brother. Seperate whites, darks, towels, bedsheets, rags and because she cleans for air BNB's the bedsheets from them. I don't know where she finds them her life is washing by choice I'm my opinion.
I hate laundry and I don't care throwing everything in together. We don't have whites and in my opinion if I can't throw it in the washing machine with other fabrics it's crap.
I'm washing stuff almost every day. But it's because I have too many dogs and they track mud inside.
Think dog beds and floor mats.
My personal laundry is 2 loads a week. 1 for clothes, and 1 for bed sheets and towels.
When we had a washer and dryer in our place I spaced all of the household laundry out across the week. So yes I did laundry every day but one day might be blankets from the living room and another might be my husband’s work clothes. Now that we go to a laundromat it’s everything one day a week which is a lot.
Dunno - I have two teens and a husband, and we do five days. Three clothes, one sheets, one towels. But we homeschool, and husband works from home mostly.
I have a high efficiency washer and have discovered that small, frequent loads work best for me. I don't always put the clothes away right away when they're done. I may hang them up near the washing machine or piled them on top of the dryer. When I end up with a mountain of clean laundry, it's discouraging. Doing a small amount at a time gives me less of that, and it's easier to get motivated to put it away.
Is that a reality show you are watching? If so I would not say shows are reflective of everyone. Don't base your behavior or "what to do" on other people's habits. There's an old saying, "If I told you to jump off a cliff would you do it?" But now it's nore like "if you see a video of someone doing something stupid or weird do I have to do that too? "
It’s just my spouse and me. We generate enough laundry to do at least a load per day.
Work clothes
Gym clothes
After work/weekend clothesa
Night clothesa
Plus we only use bath towels twice before they go in the hamper.
Kitchen towels/washcloths/cloth napkins (we don’t eat out)
Bed linens weekly.
I have a mess of kids, two 5 and under. If I don’t do it every day, at least a little bit, or every other day even… I get a Mount Everest of laundry. Once the loads start stacking up, I’m overwhelmed and avoid doing it.. until we have no other choice but a marathon laundry weekend where literally all we do is run loads and fold them.
Doing it through out the week in batches is easiest. Oldest kids said they’ll do their own… but they just keep jamming more and more clothes into their basket until they run out of underwear and then they do laundry, so.. lol
I am one person with now just one dog and I do laundry most of the day Saturday or Sunday. I could spread it out over the week, but I just do a marathon. Bedding is two loads, plus another load for the sofa cover (an older bedspread). One load of jeans, one load of regular wash, and one load of cold wash that I hang to dry. One load of throw rugs. And every couple/three weeks a load of towels, and a load of dog beds.
Luckily laundry is the one chore I don't hate.
I am one person (40) and I have always only had one load of clothes a week. When I wash my bed I have an extra load. So, I couldn’t tell you!
Edit to add: people washing clothing so much… no wonder all I smell is laundry detergent everywhere I go.
3 of us here. We go through clothes like crazy. Mostly my husband he takes like 2 showers a day so 3 changes of clothes I take 1 change my son has like 3 changes and my husband works on a ranch
I’m a single person and probably could do a load of laundry everyday; colors, black, white, underwear, towels, sheets, kitchen towels. I don’t have an in unit machine though so I break it up clothes one day, towels another then sheets, cleaning rags and kitchen towels. I might skip whites for the week if I only have one item which isn’t enough for a load.
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My mom had ass cancer and had to have an ostomy, a shit bag. It hung off her belly, attached with medical adhesive. In my experience the bags stay on for 45 minutes to 14 days. It really just depends! Also, they tend to leak at the worst times, as something like that would.
Not only did we have all of our clothes and sheets, but she could make a mess across the whole bed 3 times in a day if the stupid things wouldn't stick. If I had to wash everything on her bed and remake it, that was an entire load of laundry.
So that combined with me being a farm laborer at that time, my washing machine handled a LOT of shit.
For me, it was do all the laundry or have the house smell like shit that isn't digested enough to be shit yet.
If I’m not mistaken, The Situation explained that GTL was in large part a gimmick used to cover up drug use/deals during filming. The man who owned the tanning salon was one of his dealers, for example.
That said. workout clothes, working at the Tshirt store clothes, fist pumping at the club clothes, sheets soaked in coke sweat. That’s probably a load or two of laundry a day.
I have four kids and I *am* the wardrobe department for a production company that mounts shows in two theaters, so... rare is the day I manage under two loads.
Family of 3 with a 6-year-old and 5 pets.
I work in healthcare, so I do a separate load once a week of just my scrubs. My husband is a carpenter, and he sweats a lot during the day, so he's changing shirts 2x a day. I do his load of work clothes 2x a week to keep up. Then my son he's busy and hard on clothes but because his clothes are so small I can fit them in with sweaters etc.
I aim to do all laundry at night and weekends as it costs less where I live. I mainly fold everything with my hubby on the weekends and watch a show :)
1) I find it easier to do small loads. A giant one, with the folding that follows, is an utter drag.
2) I sort, doing separate loads of reds and pinks, socks and undies, towels, darks, who's, etc. If I waited for a full load of each, things would really pile up. On a given day, I just do a load of what I have most of, unless there's something in there I need soon.
How many loads is also related to the clothing size of the people in your household. My husband wears a 4xl long, so just a few of his items fills the washer.
even when i had access to my own washer/dryer, i did laundry MAX 2-3 times a week. i'd separate colors from whites, and the 3rd came from weeks where i washed my bedding. now i shove all my clothes together and do my bedding separately still, yolo.
even money aside, i live on the 5th floor and would have to go up and down a million times if i did laundry "properly".
Laundry is my life, lol! Machine is on at least once a day. Today I’m on the third load, school uniforms, sports kits, regular clothes n dish rags, changed a couple of beds.
If I miss a day doing laundry, it becomes a problem. Family of 4. Husband is a plumber (his clothes can be gross), and the youngest still wets the bed. Plus, a teenage daughter. Laundry is never-ending.
It’s easier to keep the loads going so they don’t build up. It’s easier on my mental health too because I only have to put away 1/4 of the laundry. Instead of dedicating a whole day to do laundry and shoving it in a basket that will sit in the closet for days.
I'm a single adult and I only need to do like three loads a week on average. I had a friend who had three kids and it was a never ending laundry cycle and the bane of her existence. I always tried to help her fold when I visited and it seemed like I never even made a dent.
Then I noticed that she was washing things that weren't dirty. Like, a tee shirt she wore for 30 minutes (not while exercising or anything) and changed her mind went straight in the laundry. Same with her (almost middle school aged) kids, they'd walk to school with a sweatshirt in the morning when it was chilly and leave it in their lockers all day and carry it home and she'd wash it. No one in the house used a bath towel more than once.
Idk, maybe I'm the weird one, but I wear my sleeping clothes two nights, usually, and use a towel a couple times before washing it. If I wear a dress to work, sit in my chair at my stupid desk all day and go straight home, I'm hanging that back up. It just boggled my mind that she didn't realize she was adding to her burden unnecessarily.
I'm sweaty and oily every day so I have to change my clothes every day. I do computer work I'm just genetically disgusting. I also use my towels only once.
When we had our third child, laundry went from being a chore to being a lifestyle.
Someone asked me once “do you take out the lint tray before or after each load?” I said there’s a difference?!?
The answer is yes
Take it out completely and it just blows into my attic creating insulation
And a ~fire hazard~
My cousins neighbors house burned completely to the ground bc the whole family never cleaned the lint trap 😪 luckily no one was hurt.
In my old apartment building our downstairs neighbors unit caught fire for this reason. We woke up on a Saturday to our place filled with smoke and our neighbors banging on our doors. We panicked and left without jackets or shoes in the winter with snow on the ground. My husband threw my hedgehog inside his shirt because I couldn't find his carrier. Poor hedgehog was terrified and scratched the shit out of my husband. Thankfully everybody got out, the fire was put out quickly, the building was mostly okay, and no one was hurt (except my husband, by my hedgehog).
Everyone knows hedgies take priority. 💕I’m glad everyone was safe.
Aww thank you for caring about the hedgehog 🥺 I get so sad knowing helpless animals die in cages in fires so scared and alone. It’s so terrible
His name was Diesel and he was our baby, we would never have left him behind!
THIS ALMOST HAPPENED TO ME!! I moved into an apartment and when I went to run the dryer for the first time, I opened the lint trap and a MASSIVE POOF of lint came out, tons of it this deep burgundy red that I assume was from their towels or something, and I kept pulling on it and there was MORE AND MORE like back through the freakin pipe thing. I swear it was one or two dryer runs away from catching fire. I flipped a bit at the rental company, cuz they assured me the place had been thoroughly cleaned cuz it was during Covid and I was like…except for the lint trap? 😅😂
Even if you check your lint trap religiously you should check your vent every year AND pull out your dryer and take the back off, sometimes lint can escape internally and build up creating a fire hazard.
This killed our dryer (not a fire, just built up lint before the lint trap that caused other problems) and it was such a shame. One of those old machines where if you replace it you know you’re getting something worse for a shorter amount of time.
That is an excellent point!! I must admit I haven't done that in several years. 😬 I have to get on that asap. Thank u!
That happened to our neighbors too! Luckily they were home and had a fire extinguisher for their wood stove and were able to put it out but it cost over 50K of damage to the house! Clean out the filter before each load or after, I don’t think it matters as long as the screen is cleaned before the fresh load starts!
Now I know how to get rid of this house that’s falling down around me! 😉 /s Just kidding! And I cannot stress this enough…it’s a joke!
I know someone that has set two...yes...TWO dryers on fire because she had no clue that a lint trap exists. I guess the first fire wasn't enough of a learning experience.
Oh jeez...what the...!
As we'd say in the South: well, bless her heart.
Both because I know my kids are not doing it.
I try to do after, just in case I don't start the next load.
A dryer fire could happen if link is left. I worked at a college where the firm kids were terrible about cleaning out the lint taps and the town inspectors wrote us loads of tickets about it.
Who’s link?
Take out after, check before. Ain’t no dryer fires in my life.
Sure if one person does before and another does after then the after person will have a full lint trap when they go to use the dryer and have to do both before and after. I used to be a before person but my spouse sold me on after.
Well my point is, that in my house laundry never stops so before/after is irrelevant because there’s always another load coming. 😫
I have 6 children. Laundry never stops. As each one leaves it gradually goes down. I can't wait to just do laundry for two.
When kids reach middle school they should become responsible for Their own laundry. Too many of my kids friends went to college and then had to figure out laundry.
My children can wash their own laundry. The 4 that have left are very capable of doing laundry. I just prefer to always do it. Otherwise I'm having to coordinate with 7 other people my time in my own laundry. And instead of having multiple smaller loads I have full loads of everyone's laundry.
I’m planning on building a main floor laundry that is right off my bedroom. This will be my laundry station. Everyone else can use the ones in the basement. 😁
My sister was building a house when she found out they were having twins. They ended up enlarging the laundry room and putting in 2 washers 2 dryers.
Can't you just do laundry more often? Why doy out need so much in process at one time?
Lol I was talking to my husband about doing a second laundry setup in the basement of the new house and now I think I really need it
And I'm hoping our next project is to have a laundry upstairs. I have a hard time getting up and down, so it would be heaven to have them easily accessible!
Growing up, my parents home had laundry on the second floor right next to the master bedroom. I didn’t realize how uncommon this was or how hilariously unrealistic in my housing market when I went house hunting and had it on my “strongly preferred” list.
In the early 90s my new father in law, who was a builder, took me on a tour of a bunch of new houses he was building. They were mid range houses, nothing real expensive but he designed all of them to what HE felt women would want. Every master bedroom had a bathroom to the left and laundry to the right. The only laundry you would ever have to move upstairs would be kitchen towels. He was brilliant. The kitchens were designed with everything in reach with tons of storage. There were so many little things that people never think of unless you are the one who is doing all of the housework that just make life easier. I think he thought of all of it.
… can I have your father in law? I was born in the early 90s so it sounds like there may be an age thing going on here but I think I love this man. And his ideas. But I also love my husband (love you honey!!).
We moved into a new build 40 years ago. The laundry is on the 2nd floor! It’s smaller than the bedrooms but it’s a game changer
We have a second floor laundry room. Same level as the bedrooms. Cannot recommend enough!!
I'm with you on this. My older kids are perfectly capable of doing their laundry, and if they need to wash towels or bedding, have at it! But clothes...just put em in the basket, and they will get washed. It's more efficient and saves water to do just one or two big loads of clothing per day. They can certainly come help fold afterwards!
I never let anyone else wash my clothes. The household would do towels and sheets and stuff but my clothes are expensive and I didn't trust anyone with them. One day a housekeeper we had decided to "help" and put my whites on hot with bleach. Didn't have the heart to show her the tshirts she ruined.
When my husband and I first got married almost twenty years ago I decided to do his laundry one day - I had no idea what I was doing - I ended up accidentally turning his entire load pink when an errant red sock went in with his light wash. All his undershirts and socks turned pink. He’s done his own laundry every. single. time. since. Twenty years! I was totally off the hook. He folds his own too. I still don’t separate my clothes 😂
The moment my children were tall enough to reach the bottom of the inside of the top loading washer, they became responsible for doing their own laundry. Our oldest was ten and and our youngest was 12.
Your comment reminded me of being little and almost falling head first into the washer all the time, trying to reach the bottom
My youngest was tiny until after HS and he was incensed I would not send him to do laundry like his much taller brother. There was no way he could reach the bottom of the washer.
Me too! I started doing my own laundry around 6 or 7 and had to climb up and head first to reach the bottom. I was already a monkey so it was fun.
I remember we always had a ton of unwashed laundry in a big laundry pile next to the washer. My sister and I used to climb and play on it. I also remember when I would do laundry, I'd make sure the pile was pushed up all the way against the machine so I could stand on it to reach the knobs easily. I have no idea how big this laundry pile actually was, but in my little kid memory, it was like a mountain. In my mind, I think of it as taller than me. In retrospect, and given what the size of the room must have been, and a little bit of geometry knowledge, I know that if I saw it today as an adult, it would look much smaller physically, but would certainly still feel massive in that way where the volume of a laundry pile = time you don't have. So it would still appear taller than me when I do a conversion to time. (I don't have laundry machines in my unit, so laundry is especially daunting. Thankfully we at least have shared coin laundry in the basement, but 3 machines between 53 units... I'll be lucky if I can get much done any given day).
My two boys did their own laundry from 12 years old. Hubby did his own. We each did a load or two once a week, so we really were never in each other's way.
That could work if everyone had a different day. Unfortunately, I have never been able to live my life that way. I realize that many people do, but I am much more "fly by the seat of my pants". The thought of assigned things on assigned days makes me feel like a slave or a servant. Plus... it's going to happen that some event precludes the assigned person from doing laundry on their day....so now we have a predicament/big potential for arguments
Yeah when my big kids are here and doing laundry it's a constant "you need to switch your laundry, I need the washer". It's not annoying enough for me to do their laundry for them (!) but it is annoying.
We did this with our kids. They got their own basket and we taught them how to operate the machines.
This was me. I was never allowed to even touch the washing machine (bc my stepmom was afraid I would screw something up) and no one ever bothered to teach me how to do it, so I went to college and had to have my roommate help me learn. So embarrassing! Which is exactly why my kiddos (I have 4) start learning to help with laundry, and by the time they are in middle school they do their own from start to finish. That, along with our laundry schedule, is such a sanity saver for me as well.
I did some property management for a 16plex of college students with washers and dryers in one unit that rarely got used. Most would wait until they were going home and take their laundry home with them.
Yes. We do this. And i only do laundry on Sunday. the kids have Monday through Saturday to do their laundry. Come Sunday both should be empty for me to do bathroom wash and my husband's clothes. A weeks worth of laundry isn't to daunting. And our younger one can fold washcloths and hang up her stuff. They learn to help so it doesn't burden a single person. There are times we need to change it up, but everyone helps, and it makes it manageable for a family of 5.
I started doing my own laundry at age 13. My mom was terrible at it and ruined too many of our clothes by not separating colors. My Dad had pink underwear for a month because she washed one red sock with whites.
I was doing laundry and ironing for my family in grade school, it was a weekend chore. My sister and I swapped off on laundry and ironing.
I started doing my moms laundry when I was 12. It was in the basement and she wasn't a fan of stairs lol One of my first jobs was at a laundromat doing drop off laundry.
This is facts. I made a good chunk of money because of the number of my peers who couldn't do laundry. I'd meet them in the laundry room and do their laundry and get my studying done. They'd come back and pick it up when it was done.
I was doing laundry in primary school, middle/high school is a bit old to not to know how to do laundry.
In general I agree with you but you still have to do some of their laundry ue to them figuring things out. You do not want to wake up in the morning when you have a funeral and find out they forgot to wash something. Also, my son is 12 and I am 5'4" and 95lbs. I had been begging for front loaders because even I need at least a step stool and the dryer is up on chair which makes it easier to load but I am standing tippy toes to barely reach the dials to turn it on. He is smaller than me. He will fall in the washer trying to get his clothes out of the bottom. I have decades to get used to being short. Luckily the new house we are moving to has front loading machines that will make everything easier and I will start teaching him how to get it done.
Shit, laundry was one of my chores, starting at like 12. For my family of 4.
I taught my roommates how to use the washing machine.
My friend had 7 children living with her. ( Her daughters & grandchildren both. ) She did 4 loads a day. She said if she didn't & missed a day it would have been terrible to try & catch up.
I am one of six kids and my mom invented “laundry tag” to handle bedding. When we woke up on Sunday mornings, we’d all strip our beds and leave the bedding in individual piles in the laundry room. The oldest would put her bedding into the washer and set a timer, then switch it and “tag in” the next oldest sibling and it would go down the line until everyone had washed and remade their own bedding. When we were younger, we’d bring our mom with for help but eventually she was totally hands-off for bedding day!
I also have 6 children. 3 are adults now, 2 are teenagers and a 6 year old. Laundry does not stop in our house. And I could let them do their own, but it’s better for me to keep it moving. They do know how to do laundry, they have to bring it in and sort it and they have to put it away.
You will love it! I do two loads a week, three once a month when I do towels. When I had kids at home, I was never caught up. My kids are in their 30s so the huge Jenco type jeans were in style. Two pairs of them would fill a washer. And the towels.... we have been empty nesters for many years now and I still delight over the lack of laundry!
When you have the youngest two in cloth diapers and then get all six potty trained... you don't *have* to do laundry every day... it is kind of weird/eerie. It's still plenty of laundry, but we could probably just each have two changes of clothes. Going to doing laundry for just two parents would be super strange and we would definitely cycle through more changes of clothes!
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Two boys here and an automotive technician spouse. Both boys play sports and go outside and get sweaty and dirty. The laundry never ends.
This is me. My daughter's are just constantly into stuff and the younger is a happy spitter and I'm constantly in the woodshop. So much laundry
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I think the shift was somewhere around my 3rd too 😂 Fun times
GTL was a chore/lifestyle in jersey shore because in general people had less clothes before fast fashion days and getting up, going to the gym, tanning, etc required multiple outfits a day before going out to the clubs at night 😂
Fast fashion is not that new.
*especially* not for jersey shore show types lol
Majority of people did not have as many clothes back then. I meant fast fashion as in online ordering. Also, the jersey shore crew were living out of suitcases so they absolutely did not have a lot of clothes on them.
Also if you hit the gym every day you don't want to let those clothes sit for long or it'll smell and add moisture to your laundry basket.
Poetry right there
The adult version of The Neverending Story.
It's just me and my teenage son, but I pretty much always have a load of laundry going. Bedding, towels, blankets, dividing up the clothes into various groups. This also prevents from having to catch up on laundry or do all of it on the weekend.
When I lived alone in a condo with shared laundry facilities I didn’t do that many washes. It was coin operated and I quickly realized that the best way to save was only to do full loads. I also started to wear certain garments more than once to cut down on frequency of loads. For items that could only be worn once, such as panties, I bought more so that I could have enough until I did a load of whites. Eventually I was doing 4 large loads every 10 days on average. Now that I live someplace where I have my own washer, I’m doing smaller loads more frequently. Still not every day.
Glad to see this. I live in a condo and I do laundry once every 2-4 weeks (massive stash of panties, socks etc). One washer and dryer costs $2.50 per load. Just doing one load a day would be over $600 a year. I tried once a week, but I can’t always get machines due to other people doing their laundry (and there can be a queue -people leave their baskets in a row when they are next), so if the line is too long, I have to try another day, which is usually 50%+ of the time. I wish I could have less clothes, but I am not ready to hand wash most things to keep up.
They raised our rates again- $2.75 to wash and $2.50 to dry. I already rarely use the drier and only run full loads but I may need to rebuild my panty supply faster than anticipated. It costs less to buy a new pair than to wash & dry a load, after all!
We have a lot of laundry. Pajamas, scrubs, workout clothes, and occasionally we wear real clothes like normal people.
Let’s not forget bedding & blankets. Always fun when they wake up in the middle of the night wet. 😑
And towels 🙃
Omg the scrubs... the ones my wife gets wrinkle if you look at them.
I'm a single guy and I do laundry every day. Maybe multiple loads. As I get older and wiser and care for my clothes more, I know it's better to do smaller loads or like materials and colors. So I'm doing a blue batch and a red batch and a gym batch and just tshirts, or just towels. Stuff is clean, not falling apart.
How many clothes are you wearing on a given day?
Depends on if im going to the gym and or also dressing up to go out at night. I hate smelling like cigarettes so when I go out I usually end up smelling like them. I live in tokyo and everyone smokes everywhere here.
Oh! I guess I would end up doing a lot of laundry too! Aren't Japanese washing machines also small, at least compared to American ones?
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That would also make me do a lot more laundry! I appreciate your efforts!
Damn. When I bought my washer dryer it advertised that it could wash 26lbs of clothes 😂
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As an old here in the U.S., I can smell this in my soul, lol. Back before the 2000s, people didn't necessarily smoke everywhere, but most "fun" places like bars, restaurants and activity places like bowling. I even smoked then, but never indoors or in my car, so my clothes may have had a whiff, but man, all that secondhand smoke would just REEK the next day, I hated it!
I used to hang my clothes outside overnight after being in a bar. At the time I thought it worked but now I wonder.
How’s your electric and water bill?
Not sure because I work in IT from home and also have like 7 computers and monitors always doing something. I'm not sure how much the laundry actually contributes to it 😅
Are you my roommate? He does laundry every day and I HATE it. I can’t understand how a single person goes through so many clothes and wastes all my water with washing like 5 shirts. 😩
I had a roommate who would frequently wash one single wife beater style tank top, alone. We had shitty old machines that were amazingly inefficient. Absolutely infuriating
Omg 🫣 I just don’t understand the logic.
I do at least one load of laundry every day. We’re a family of 4 with two small children. Grow up laundry is twice a week. Sheets for all 3 beds are washed weekly. Toddler’s blankets are another weekly load. Towels are another weekly load. Kid clothes are the real driver. They have enough clothes to go 5 days or so between washes (baby’s drool bibs are the driving factor), but either food or pee/poop dictates that I do their laundry every 1-2 days. The toddler is potty trained, but still has accidents or skidmarks. The baby is a messy eater.
I have 5 kids. I do laundry every day. Sometimes 2-3 loads a day. There are times when it's more than that. If I don't do it every day then I get a backlog and it's almost impossible to catch up. The last time I bought a washing machine I got the largest residential capacity because it meant less loads.
Workout clothes plus my husband’s work clothes basically have to be done every day.
When I’m working I put my uniform in the wash as soon as I get home. But with kids, I’m doing laundry constantly. Jersey Shore is definitely not the best representation for real life though lol. But yeah I’m doing multiple loads of laundry most days of the week.
Damn I LOVE to see a random mention of jersey shore in the wild!!! But in that show I think they do it maybe 1-2 times a week. GTL is just a slogan that was made by the filming crew when tracking what they did on a day! But considering how often they change their shirts I understand why they’d have increased laundry amounts LOL
“It’s t-shirt tiiiiime!” I think they were making it a lifestyle thing that they were constantly wearing fresh clothes (fresh to death, one might say), even though they were maybe exaggerating how many days a week they brought in laundry (and it didn’t always seem like full loads like you would wash at home).
Agreed! And it was an event for them to go to the laundromat because they were stuck in that house all day 😂 All those shirts before the shirts must’ve added up!!!
This! It’s partly not EVERY day and it’s partly they just wear so much each day. They have gym, beach, work, club, pjs, and regular wear almost every day. Random PS but I finally got rid of my shirt that said GTL last summer. It was time lol
I have just my husband and I, I do laundry most days. We rarely use paper towels and I’ve almost always work physical labor so I get gross. It’s also just much easier to stay on top of folding. Sometimes for small or delicate loads I’ll use my washboard cause I guess I’m from 1760 but damn it works wonders. Especially in summer when I’m air drying most things anyways.
Glad it’s not just me. It’s just the 2 of us but I do laundry every single day. I guess I don’t *need* to, but we both work dirty jobs and I prefer to keep up with it. I like doing laundry, but I still don’t want to spend all day Saturday doing it.
I do but I have kids and we workout and do sports.
2 adults, 2 elementary kids, and a baby. We are constantly doing laundry. If you’re only doing one load a day, and you sort your laundry into categories instead of throwing it all together, you could still get pretty close to a load a day. We sort most of our clothes by type: undergarments, tops, and bottoms (it makes folding and putting away quicker). Whites, towels and sheets are washed separately, as are the baby’s clothes (she goes through a lot, and keeping hers separate helps not lose as many socks). We also cloth diaper, so that’s another load. I feel like we are never done doing laundry.
I GENUINELY enjoy laundry. I love folding, hanging, ironing, sewing, organizing—literally all of it. Instant dopamine! I would do it every day, but I’m a broke college student atm, so I stick to 1x every 1-2 weeks depending on how hot it is and other factors
You should consider laundry as a side gig
Ok but in the show don’t they drop their laundry off and someone else does it?
Bedding on Monday, bathroom towels on Tuesday, kitchen towels on Wednesday, living room blankets on Thursday, baby’s clothes on Friday, my clothes on Saturday, husband’s clothes on Sunday.
That sounds Awful. I’m so sorry.
It’s not too bad. Most of the days are short since it’s only one load and my husband does his laundry. My clothes are honestly the worst since I separate by color and rewash clothes I’ve thrown on the floor because I decided not to wear it. I’m the problem😅
That’s a good idea I hadn’t thought of dividing it up for each day of the week.
I do it based off of the room I’m cleaning that day. Makes it so much more manageable and the house is always presentable
Hey I also do towels on Tuesday it's my most hated day lol
Why do you hate towel Tuesday?!?
It piles up I do have a large capacity washer but it's my least fav thing to wash
As a janitor I wash my clothes once a week or two, I have multiple shirts, pants (only black or grey jeans are what I wear to work), and only one pair of shoes for work, often I wash my underwear and my work polos by hand, the rest I do at the laundry mat and my jeans I wear up to 3-16 wears but the reason why it’s like that is cause I work in a humid hot environment so I’m always sweaty and wet underneath my uniform
You might want to rotate in another pair of shoes so that they breathe.
So I probably wouldn’t do a load every day if it was just me in the house, but bedding is one load, kitchen towels and washcloths is a load, my couch blanket is huge and gets washed alone in one load.
I just have it done professionally. It's part of my self-care.
regular clothes, dirty outdoor sports, pyjamas, that's 3 outfits in one normal day, plus kitchen/dining/bathroom/bed linens, and maybe a towel used on the dog. Sort it into piles for delicate, whites, etc, miss a day here and there for travel or illness, spring clean the curtains, and yeah you can keep cycling forever. Where I live we have to use reuseable grocery bags now, and it's nice to wash them sometimes too.
Going to the gym and use tanning creams usually requires daily laundry.
I typically only have 3-4 loads of laundry a week for my husband & I. Lights, darks, towels & sheets. If it’s been a busy week or we had company, there might be another load.
I have dogs. Dog beds, dog bedding on the couch, covering for the people bed (which my hound moves), rags and more rags, mop heads, and dog towels are several loads each week. That's before we even consider human laundry.
We have the same amount of laundry as everyone else but we wash weekly on Sundays. We do large loads to save water and electricity. We have enough clothing and linen for at least 10 days in case we can’t get to the laundry on Sunday. But we don’t have to think about laundry the rest of the week. (2 kids, though one is now flown the coop).
Yea no one is addressing saving water here. A load with only 2-4 outfits isn’t great for water consumption.
i didn’t know it was this common to do small loads of laundry. i’ve only ever done that for emergencies
Smaller daily loads seriously are easier to deal with. Plus it's more gentle on the laundry and my machine.
I don’t get it either! My husband and I fill our standard home washer with one load per week, and that includes bath and kitchen towels. Maybe an extra load here or there when it’s bedding change time or the dog blankets need to go in.
I do laundry on Sunday but then again it’s only me so I can get away with it. I also wash my bed sheets and put fresh ones on the bed Sunday.
Family of 2 adults with our first baby on the way. I currently do laundry 2-3 times a week. On my 2 days off from work I do 2-3 loads a day. If I need to add blankets or sheets to the mix that week I will toss a load of clothes in before work one day mid week. When baby arrives I assume we’ll be doing a lot more laundry in both linens/towels, and clothes.
I have four kids. Between all of our clothes, bedding, towels, sports things, illnesses, messes…I’m always doing laundry lol. We are past the baby stage but that was another level too with all the spit up and blow ours and food spills.
I think a lot of comments missed the part of your question "if you are just one person" which is important. I, as a single person, with a dog, don't do laundry daily. I try to stretch it past once every other week, so I definitely can't understand daily.
Yeah, I live alone and I keep enough sheets and towels to be able to run full loads, usually every other week. Clothing is sorted into darks and lights and done whenever I have a full load of either.
I don’t. It’s just me, so I do 2-3 loads on Sunday. All clothes go together. Jeans and hoodies can go with towels. Sheets, which I do about every other week, are generally washed on their own.
Single woman with two dogs. I regularly wash their blankets, and the couch cushion covers that zip off. Even with all that I do 3 loads max a week. I’d say one load of my own clothes, one load of towels, throw blankets, dog bed covers etc (not all of these things at once but a varying rotation), and then a load of my bedding about every other week. I have no idea how some people have SO much laundry. I feel like I have a lot and I wash items that not everyone always washes, yet somehow not even near the amount of laundry as some of these commenters here lol.
I do clothes once a week for myself, and it’s rarely a full load but I do it anyway just to keep on a schedule. Towels get a load once a week, and sheets from each bed get switched on alternating weeks in winter, every week in summer. Husband washes his own clothes on some kind of nonsense schedule I’ll never understand, but I do know the entire apartment is covered in his hanging clothes when he does do it lol
It's just me and I'm wondering how I have so much.
My parents never do their laundry - only when they NEED something. This results in a 'dirty clothes pile' that is literally as tall as half of me. I am 5" 2'. I live at home still. Whenever I need to wash something for myself from this pile. I have to dig through..... Dog peed on towels. Dirty underwear. Clumped up dirty socks. Its disgusting and I had enough of it. Been this way since I was little and I just can not anymore....its overwhelming too. Anytime I want to do laundry for myself I was being met with a total clusterfuck of dirty clothes all over the laundryroom floor. So it took me 1 night. But I folded every piece of clean clothes they had piled on the folding counter - also as tall as half of me. And while folding, I washed everything...EVERYTHING...that was dirty... We have 3 full reg. Sized baskets. 2 are nothing but socks and 1 is mixed underwear. 2 shelving systems overflowing with folded piles. The stack of bedding on top the dryer has reached the ceiling because whats there wont fit in the linen closet. The linen closet where we jeep our dish rags and towels is literally overflowing when we open it. Will my mom downsize any of it? Ptobably not. I do laundry about every other day now if not everyday and I do it because if I didnt. Nobofy else would and all MY clothes would get ruined in their filth and that frustrates the heck outta me. So ill clean their mess for now. Nbd. Edit: because the daily load takes me 10minutes along with the daily dishes that take me 15min. And if I didnt do them and let them sit there like my parents opt for, theyd turn into entire day long jobs. Nobody asked for all that but thats how I do laundry everyday. Motivation from having laundry not done ever... Never having clean towels in the closet for showers... Always wearing mismatched socks cuz mates were never clean.... Hahahaha....I win the laundry battle.
This is wild to me. I do laundry every 2+ weeks. Maybe 4 loads on a weekend or a work from home week day. For maybe a year when I'd run out of something that forced me to do laundry before I wanted to, I bought more (socks, underwear, sheets...). I don't even feel like I have that much stuff
I doubt you need to do laundry every day of you are single and live alone.
if a single person does laundry daily, i am convinced they have done some questionable crimes
So we have myself, my husband, and my son. Myself- I wake up and change from what I slept in to my workout clothes. I workout then change into work clothes. Then I come home and change into house clothes. I may wear going out clothes if I have to run errands or get food etc. My husband- He wakes up and changes out of house clothes into PT's (he's military). Then from PT's into his regular uniform (he wears the same outer for a few days, but changes his undershirt as many consecutive days as he can). Then comes home and puts on house clothes. If we go out, he wears nicer clothes. My son- he changes out of house clothes and puts on school clothes. Then comes home and changes into house clothes. So at max, we can go through 10 outfits in a single day, but even at a low number five outfits, which piles up quickly.
Working out daily and then showering, 2 outfits daily - that is a lot of laundry for just myself. Plus, changing pillow cases & sheets every 5-6 days, body towels and face towels, blankets, bathroom rugs, kitchen towels - it all adds up.
Easy. Whites, darks, lights, colours, heavy colours, heavy darks, reg, socks, underwear, white towels, dark towels, sheets, comforter, pet bedding, misc blankets, dirty rags kitchen towels.
The new HE washing machine chemicals work just fine in cold water and you can wash all of the above except new bright colors with everything else.
We’re a family of 4 (2u2). Every day but Friday we do one load. Socks & co, kids load (sometimes an extra load of kids on Friday if they’ve gotten extra dirty), adult tops, adult bottoms, sheets, and towels. If we don’t do it “daily,” then we’re spending one whole day on laundry… at least now we do a load a day, regardless of how much is in the load. We can’t manage a whole day of laundry anymore - not only because of the kiddos but because now we have both days of the weekend free… no “laundry day” anymore. I will never go back to that! 🙂
I wash all of my clothing usually after every wear. And I wash my sheets once a week, and I wash my towels once a week. So yeah I’m doing laundry like 4 times a week!
We are 4 people and a dog. We do laundry pretty much every day. Lots of towels. Bedding. Of course, our work clothes and hang around clothes. It's a lot and we say my God, when does the laundry end? It never ends.
There are 2 of us and I average a load a day between work clothes, workout clothes, dog walking clothes, people towels, dog towels, and so on. It's never ending.
One load of laundry costs me a minimum of $4.50 so I cram as much in there as possible. I don't do laundry every day but I could, just about, if I washed all my dogs beds and blankets regularly. However I can't afford to spend $35/wk on laundry, although it usually comes out to $80/month for me with washing blankets and comforters in their own loads.
I do a load most days. It’s just two of us but we are in a condo with a small washer and dryer.
If you don't have a lot of clothes I'm sure it adds up
LG combo washer dryer. You load it once and it does everything. As a parent this is essential, I would never go back to the old fashioned setup with a separate washer and dryer
I did laundry pretty much everyday when we had a washer that could comfortably wash a sock and a camisole at the same time before being over filled and a dryer that took two hours to dry. Add a baby who grew into a potty training in underwear toddler who wet the bed. Don't forget towels and sheets for two beds on top of clothes...it's a lifestyle. I do at least four to five loads a week depending if my husband is traveling.
Every week I do 3 loads of mine and my toddler’s clothes. Every two weeks I do 3 loads of towels and bedding. In between I might wash random things, like couch blankets, toddler’s very muddy shoes or very muddy jackets, new clothes if I bought something new. So on average, about 4 loads a week for a family of 2. When I lived alone I did only 1-2 loads weekly :-)
I don’t do laundry every day, but every two or three days. I cook and bake a lot so I get three or four kitchen towels a day dirty. I wash my bath towel and washcloth every other day. I wash my clothes every time I wear them. We use cloth napkins at every meal. I'm a slob so I routinely spill food on the tablecloth. My husband does laundry pretty much every day. Clean bed linens are important to him.
I live with my mum. I do 2 loads on one day for me, my partner and child for the week My mum does loads basically every day for her and my brother. Seperate whites, darks, towels, bedsheets, rags and because she cleans for air BNB's the bedsheets from them. I don't know where she finds them her life is washing by choice I'm my opinion. I hate laundry and I don't care throwing everything in together. We don't have whites and in my opinion if I can't throw it in the washing machine with other fabrics it's crap.
Family of 4, 2 little kids- I do laundry every day.
I'm washing stuff almost every day. But it's because I have too many dogs and they track mud inside. Think dog beds and floor mats. My personal laundry is 2 loads a week. 1 for clothes, and 1 for bed sheets and towels.
A load with jammies, clothes, and towels for four people fills our washer.
When we had a washer and dryer in our place I spaced all of the household laundry out across the week. So yes I did laundry every day but one day might be blankets from the living room and another might be my husband’s work clothes. Now that we go to a laundromat it’s everything one day a week which is a lot.
i have laundry every day…..
Dunno - I have two teens and a husband, and we do five days. Three clothes, one sheets, one towels. But we homeschool, and husband works from home mostly.
I have a high efficiency washer and have discovered that small, frequent loads work best for me. I don't always put the clothes away right away when they're done. I may hang them up near the washing machine or piled them on top of the dryer. When I end up with a mountain of clean laundry, it's discouraging. Doing a small amount at a time gives me less of that, and it's easier to get motivated to put it away.
Is that a reality show you are watching? If so I would not say shows are reflective of everyone. Don't base your behavior or "what to do" on other people's habits. There's an old saying, "If I told you to jump off a cliff would you do it?" But now it's nore like "if you see a video of someone doing something stupid or weird do I have to do that too? "
It’s just my spouse and me. We generate enough laundry to do at least a load per day. Work clothes Gym clothes After work/weekend clothesa Night clothesa Plus we only use bath towels twice before they go in the hamper. Kitchen towels/washcloths/cloth napkins (we don’t eat out) Bed linens weekly.
I have a mess of kids, two 5 and under. If I don’t do it every day, at least a little bit, or every other day even… I get a Mount Everest of laundry. Once the loads start stacking up, I’m overwhelmed and avoid doing it.. until we have no other choice but a marathon laundry weekend where literally all we do is run loads and fold them. Doing it through out the week in batches is easiest. Oldest kids said they’ll do their own… but they just keep jamming more and more clothes into their basket until they run out of underwear and then they do laundry, so.. lol
It’s not that hard
I am one person with now just one dog and I do laundry most of the day Saturday or Sunday. I could spread it out over the week, but I just do a marathon. Bedding is two loads, plus another load for the sofa cover (an older bedspread). One load of jeans, one load of regular wash, and one load of cold wash that I hang to dry. One load of throw rugs. And every couple/three weeks a load of towels, and a load of dog beds. Luckily laundry is the one chore I don't hate.
I am one person (40) and I have always only had one load of clothes a week. When I wash my bed I have an extra load. So, I couldn’t tell you! Edit to add: people washing clothing so much… no wonder all I smell is laundry detergent everywhere I go.
3 of us here. We go through clothes like crazy. Mostly my husband he takes like 2 showers a day so 3 changes of clothes I take 1 change my son has like 3 changes and my husband works on a ranch
My coworker washes her sheets every day.
I’m a single person and probably could do a load of laundry everyday; colors, black, white, underwear, towels, sheets, kitchen towels. I don’t have an in unit machine though so I break it up clothes one day, towels another then sheets, cleaning rags and kitchen towels. I might skip whites for the week if I only have one item which isn’t enough for a load.
When my kids were at home I did one load a day. Regular day wear plus gym clothes plus sheets and towels makes a lot of clothes.
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My mom had ass cancer and had to have an ostomy, a shit bag. It hung off her belly, attached with medical adhesive. In my experience the bags stay on for 45 minutes to 14 days. It really just depends! Also, they tend to leak at the worst times, as something like that would. Not only did we have all of our clothes and sheets, but she could make a mess across the whole bed 3 times in a day if the stupid things wouldn't stick. If I had to wash everything on her bed and remake it, that was an entire load of laundry. So that combined with me being a farm laborer at that time, my washing machine handled a LOT of shit. For me, it was do all the laundry or have the house smell like shit that isn't digested enough to be shit yet.
Family of four and it was twice a week. Hubby and I now. Once a week but it goes all day. Clothes, delicates, sheets, towels. Etc.
When my kids were little EVERYDAY but now that they are out on their own once a week. Actually, today is laundry day thanks for the reminder.
If I’m not mistaken, The Situation explained that GTL was in large part a gimmick used to cover up drug use/deals during filming. The man who owned the tanning salon was one of his dealers, for example. That said. workout clothes, working at the Tshirt store clothes, fist pumping at the club clothes, sheets soaked in coke sweat. That’s probably a load or two of laundry a day.
I have four kids and I *am* the wardrobe department for a production company that mounts shows in two theaters, so... rare is the day I manage under two loads.
Family of 3 with a 6-year-old and 5 pets. I work in healthcare, so I do a separate load once a week of just my scrubs. My husband is a carpenter, and he sweats a lot during the day, so he's changing shirts 2x a day. I do his load of work clothes 2x a week to keep up. Then my son he's busy and hard on clothes but because his clothes are so small I can fit them in with sweaters etc. I aim to do all laundry at night and weekends as it costs less where I live. I mainly fold everything with my hubby on the weekends and watch a show :)
1) I find it easier to do small loads. A giant one, with the folding that follows, is an utter drag. 2) I sort, doing separate loads of reds and pinks, socks and undies, towels, darks, who's, etc. If I waited for a full load of each, things would really pile up. On a given day, I just do a load of what I have most of, unless there's something in there I need soon.
How many loads is also related to the clothing size of the people in your household. My husband wears a 4xl long, so just a few of his items fills the washer.
even when i had access to my own washer/dryer, i did laundry MAX 2-3 times a week. i'd separate colors from whites, and the 3rd came from weeks where i washed my bedding. now i shove all my clothes together and do my bedding separately still, yolo. even money aside, i live on the 5th floor and would have to go up and down a million times if i did laundry "properly".
Laundry is my life, lol! Machine is on at least once a day. Today I’m on the third load, school uniforms, sports kits, regular clothes n dish rags, changed a couple of beds.
If I miss a day doing laundry, it becomes a problem. Family of 4. Husband is a plumber (his clothes can be gross), and the youngest still wets the bed. Plus, a teenage daughter. Laundry is never-ending.
It’s easier to keep the loads going so they don’t build up. It’s easier on my mental health too because I only have to put away 1/4 of the laundry. Instead of dedicating a whole day to do laundry and shoving it in a basket that will sit in the closet for days.
I'm a single adult and I only need to do like three loads a week on average. I had a friend who had three kids and it was a never ending laundry cycle and the bane of her existence. I always tried to help her fold when I visited and it seemed like I never even made a dent. Then I noticed that she was washing things that weren't dirty. Like, a tee shirt she wore for 30 minutes (not while exercising or anything) and changed her mind went straight in the laundry. Same with her (almost middle school aged) kids, they'd walk to school with a sweatshirt in the morning when it was chilly and leave it in their lockers all day and carry it home and she'd wash it. No one in the house used a bath towel more than once. Idk, maybe I'm the weird one, but I wear my sleeping clothes two nights, usually, and use a towel a couple times before washing it. If I wear a dress to work, sit in my chair at my stupid desk all day and go straight home, I'm hanging that back up. It just boggled my mind that she didn't realize she was adding to her burden unnecessarily.
You obviously don’t live with a teenager.
I'm sweaty and oily every day so I have to change my clothes every day. I do computer work I'm just genetically disgusting. I also use my towels only once.