How many loads of washing do you do a day?

[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.

[ubba82]

I wanted to read all the other posts before I posted - but I have no need to be embarrassed!!!!
I wash probably every 3-4 days. Then I throw it strait in the dryer (even if it's a sunny day). All the clean clothes then sit in baskets for about 3 days before I can be bothered folding it and putting it away.
I really HATE housework!
PS- I wash sheets around every 2 weeks and towels after 2-3 showers except for the one that goes on the floor - it gets soaked every day

[Tegam]

This thread has made me feel SOOOO much better LOL

I do about one a day and that increase the days i wash sheets. I confess to using the dryer sometimes on a hot dry day....

I use MCN so that doesnt help and the baby never has the same towel twice.... My mother cant believe how much i do LOL

[LisaL]

I average 1 per day. Today its 3, but tomorrow might be none, and there are 2 adults and 1 tot in our family.