Poll: Laaaaundry

[Nuuu]

Every 5 to 7 days here. I don't have a ton of clothes so I just do my laundry whenever i'm about to run out.

My brother on the other hand: while he does his laundry weekly as well, somehow his laundry load it always at least double the size of mine. I don't know why he goes through so many clothes in a week but he has overfilled the washing machine once or twice before.

 

[Tiger King]

I'm pretty much right next to the laundry room and so I do most of my laundry whenever it's not going to be full. Many a trip done at 3 AM in sleep pants and a tee.

You and my friend would get on well.
She always leaves things to the last minute and then it's not a short sensible load it's EVERYTHING!
The sofa covers, 2 weeks worth of clothes, bed sheets, the little carpets in the toilet and kitchen and all the towels.
It happened last night actually, 4 massive bags of clothes that she decided at about 8pm to start washing despite having all day to do it.

We have washer and dryers at our complex but oh no... Can't wash the clothes here, need to load up the car and drive to a nearby laundry place because it's 50 cents cheaper.
Then once the clothes were finally washed the clothes are loaded back into the car and it's dried in the dryers at our complex because it's 50 cents cheaper than the dryers at the laundrette!!!
I've tried telling this girl that she is making life SO much more difficult and the tiny insignificant saving she thinks she is making is being lost by driving all over the place.

Around midnight everything is finally washed and dried but then it needs sorting and putting away.
I really find myself questioning her thought process, that doing all that laundry so late and her having work the next day early, is a good idea.

Actually I apologise something Amyss, you may do your washing at a funny time but I suspect you at least get it done sensibly.

 

[baddude1337]

Once a week for my clothes (usually Friday as soon as I come home for work, and sometimes a second run for towels and bedding. I then dry it over the weekend.

I currently live on my own in a flat, so my washing is pretty minimal, even when I do my girlfriends work washing too.

I tend to go back to my parents house ever few weekends or so and I do my bedding/towels there, mainly because they have a tumble dryer so it doesn't take an age to dry.

 

[NPC009]

I have my own washing machine, so I wash whenever the hamper is full (one hamper = one load), about once a week. No dryer, though, which means washing large things like linnens take some planning.

Back when I lived at home I did the laundry for everyone there (usually 6 people), which came down to atleast a load every day. At some point I started to wonder if I saw my sister's boyfriend's underwear more often than she did.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Who in the hell is changing their clothes so rarely that they can go one month without a laundry day?

*raises hand* Although it's not about rarely changing clothes, instead it's about having a huge wardrobe and lots of lounge clothes and sleepwear to hang around in when I don't go out. Same goes for my dad, whose wash I also do.

I do wash once every month, or so, sometime staggered over several trips on different days, depending on various factors. There's a laundromat room in my apartments, so I use that, assuming all the washing machines aren't taken up, which delays wash day. Denims I only wash once a month, I do my delicates and knits separately, on delicate/knit especially considering colors that may bleed, I do my dad's whites(socks and undies) and white towels and sheets in a whites cycle, my own sheets and such separate, as they're microfiber. Of course colors are their own wash, blacks usually go in with colors on a cold cycle with a detergent good for blacks. My blacks don't fade that fast because there's enough of them that I only wash any given article once a month at most.

 

[BrawlMan]

I do it within a week or week and a half.

 

[jklinders]

Work Uniforms, by themselves (cooking oils and food stains are a bastard and i don't want the rest of my clothes ruined by them) twice a week. The rest in one big batch every Monday. Skipping this risks running out of underwear by the middle of the second week.

My wife folds them, mainly because she cares about that part far more than I do, but I set the schedule by which it's done by actually getting the wash done. Likely the reason the bed linens don't get done as often as they should.

I use cold water exclusively and as such I really don't care much for sorting. I pay for hot water here and our light bill is high enough.

 

[krystalphoenix]

My machine has a very small capacity, so I tend to do laundry twice a week and then one more time for bedding and towels used. Gets done right after work for clothes and Saturday morning for bedding and towels. I have a nice double rail on my balcony to dry things on, and since there is another apartment above me their balcony hangs over mine protecting my laundry from the rain most of the time.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Who in the hell is changing their clothes so rarely that they can go one month without a laundry day?

*raises hand* Although it's not about rarely changing clothes, instead it's about having a huge wardrobe and lots of lounge clothes and sleepwear to hang around in when I don't go out. Same goes for my dad, whose wash I also do.

I do wash once every month, or so, sometime staggered over several trips on different days, depending on various factors. There's a laundromat room in my apartments, so I use that, assuming all the washing machines aren't taken up, which delays wash day. Denims I only wash once a month, I do my delicates and knits separately, on delicate/knit especially considering colors that may bleed, I do my dad's whites(socks and undies) and white towels and sheets in a whites cycle, my own sheets and such separate, as they're microfiber. Of course colors are their own wash, blacks usually go in with colors on a cold cycle with a detergent good for blacks. My blacks don't fade that fast because there's enough of them that I only wash any given article once a month at most.

Ah, but two points of order there: firstly laundromats have much larger washing machines than the regular household models and secondly you say you do many washes at once, so therefore if you were to do one wash at a time in a regular sized washing machine you would be washing your clothes much more regularly than once a month, so that's ok.

 

[Pseudonym]

On occasion my clothes almost run out. So I do the laundry then whilst wearing some clothes a day longer than I'd prefer while washing the others.

 

[sanquin]

I do my laundry when I have 2 pants left. Then hang it out to dry when I have 1 left. And so far I've never run out of clothes to wear.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I go through periods of staying on top of it and then sometimes letting it all pile up to a point that I stop and wonder when I acquired so many clothes. The upside is that during each of these times, I end up donating a bunch of them or tossing them.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Who in the hell is changing their clothes so rarely that they can go one month without a laundry day?

*raises hand* Although it's not about rarely changing clothes, instead it's about having a huge wardrobe and lots of lounge clothes and sleepwear to hang around in when I don't go out. Same goes for my dad, whose wash I also do.

I do wash once every month, or so, sometime staggered over several trips on different days, depending on various factors. There's a laundromat room in my apartments, so I use that, assuming all the washing machines aren't taken up, which delays wash day. Denims I only wash once a month, I do my delicates and knits separately, on delicate/knit especially considering colors that may bleed, I do my dad's whites(socks and undies) and white towels and sheets in a whites cycle, my own sheets and such separate, as they're microfiber. Of course colors are their own wash, blacks usually go in with colors on a cold cycle with a detergent good for blacks. My blacks don't fade that fast because there's enough of them that I only wash any given article once a month at most.

Ah, but two points of order there: firstly laundromats have much larger washing machines than the regular household models and secondly you say you do many washes at once, so therefore if you were to do one wash at a time in a regular sized washing machine you would be washing your clothes much more regularly than once a month, so that's ok.

Well all front loaders are at least twice the size of any top loader, which many laundromats do have, but even household front loaders are about the same size as laundromat double load washers. When I had my own washer and dryer in my home, I was doing about 3 loads a week, even after the switching to a high efficiency double load front loading washer. That was more because doing laundry was a lot more convenient, because I didn't have to go anywhere, and sit around for hours guarding my laundry.

 

[Guffe]

I have a laundrybasket, when it gets full, I put the stuff in the machne, wash it, dry it and then back in the wardrobe... Never run out of clean clothes

Weird laundry story...
Oh yes!
Last time I moved, I plugged in my laundry machine and all that, washed some stuff when 10 minutes in there was water everywere! Apparently the waterpump which takes the water away from the machine didn't do it's job. Well I emptied it and replugged everything and did a "reset" thing on it. New try and same thing happens. I search out the manual on the internet to check that I've done everything the way it's supposed to, which is was. Tried a third time and machine still doesn't do what it's supposed to and just fills itself with water. I call a handyman and he comes over, pluggs the machine, the same way I did, and everything works fine. Weirdest shit ever!

 

[x EvilErmine x]

Cloths get washed when there is a full load to go in the machine. So that works out to about once a week. Bedding gets washed and changed weekly (theirs nothing like having clean sheets on your bed IMO it's a wonderful feeling) Sunday is ironing day, usually about mid day, I actually enjoy doing it as I have a podcast on I'm watching TV for a bit of a distraction.

 

[RedRockRun]

I've been wearing the same pants for over a year. I'm not joking.