How many loads of washing do you do a day?

[Kailani]

Wow, is this what I'm in for? I don't have enough washing to even come close to doing one load a day - okay baby's not here yet...but this thread has scared me! Towels for the shower don't need to be washed after one use! You are sparkling clean when you use them!! I wash mine after 3 showers.
Most times I struggle to fill the machine and feel bad putting on a load coz of the water wastage!

[ShootingStar]

Jeepers.. i dont do nearly as much as you all.
I wash every 2-3 days.. sometimes even longer. Just depends when im home. I just try to get a full load each time to save water and electricity. But on those days that usually just consists of whites and baby clothes.. darks.. colours. I'll then do sheets & towels maybe every 1-2 weeks.

[Ambah]

With 1 adult, and 2 kiddies, I think I average about 1 load per day. (though I usually let it build up, and then do 3 or 4 in one day, or as needed).
I'm another that doesn't wash towels after each use, and should probably wash sheets more often LOL.

[DoubleK]

i tend to do two a day, one of clothes (i just dump in all our clothes from the previous day) and usually one of tea towels/floor towels/hankies and facewashers - this one is not an overly large load, but i do try to do it everyday, so that i dont get an overflowing basket.

i cringe at the thought of washing towels after each use you're clean when you come out of the shower, then hang them up to dry... i change ours once a week, usually thursday, then i change all our bedding on saturday/sunday

[leebee81]

I do 2-3 a day, but we have a tiny 4kg washer and one of those loads will be a half-load of nappies. I do the towels once a week or sooner if they are smelly or grotty looking.

[mum3girls]

I average 2 loads a day, but weekends can be more as we go through a lot of towels and togs since we put a pool in. Some days can be up to 4 loads, depending on whether I'm washing sheets and towels that day. We have 5 people in our house.

Bath towels get washed every 3 days, all sheets washed twice a week (for 4 beds, 2 queen, 2 single - usually wash the single beds ones same day, the queen sets the other days).

[ktgirl]

I normally do 2-3 loads a day. There is two adults and two babies in our household. I do a load of nappies every day and then alternate a day of baby stuff and then a day of DH & my stuff. Then about every third day I do a load of towels, and change the sheets once a week.

[Jewel]

Usually only either 1 or 2 loads. Most of the time it's every second day.
Depends on what we've been doing, and if we're at home.

I don't seperate colours either. We have hardly any light clothes.

[Bathsheba]

We probably average 2 loads a day. We have a 7kg machine. There are 2 adults, 1 teen and and 2 children in our house.

I agree that washing a towel after every use is excessive. My water bill would probably be double if we did that. I grew up on farms with tank water which was too precious for waste. We wash towels when needed... usually about every 3/4 days. I wash all our sheets every Monday. I separate colours fastidiously and only use cold water with darks to prevent the colour fading.

Our grey machine water is collected into a wheelie bin and then used to water our rose gardens... the suds are good for keeping pests and diseases at bay apparently.

[fionas]

I'd say I do about 1 load a day on average but sometimes that means 3 loads in one day.

We have two adults and one toddler.

I'm with you Hollye - I reuse towels because you're clean when you dry yourself so in theory they're just wet, not dirty. When DSD lived with us she was a bugger for getting a new towel for each shower so I ended up giving her two towels and hiding the rest in my wardrobe.

But yep, I don't wash sheets, doona covers nearly as much as I should.