Poll: Laaaaundry

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Hey guys, simple thread. How do you handle your laundry needs?

Do you have a plan of attack and are on top of it? Or are you like me and you blitz through everything when you suddenly realize you have no socks?

Bonus points: Share strange laundry stories.

GO!

 

[tippy2k2]

Once a week I do my laundry. Same bat-time, same bat...er....laundry cave?

Currently, I live in an apartment so I go over to my Mum's every Sunday to do my laundry (and yes, I do my own laundry). She lives about ten minutes away and it saves me $5 every week. However, even when I previously had my own laundry machine in my apartment, I would always do my laundry on Sunday.

It might sound goofy but I do it on Sunday's because the Vikings (football) play on Sunday. It's a 3+ hour event with a lot of commercial breaks so it's a pretty perfect sport when it comes to needing to do laundry. Once I got into that routine, I just kind of stuck with it.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I do laundry about once a week, unless I go through cloths quickly during the week. I try to do it on Saturdays since that's practically the only time I can do it because of how busy I am.

That all gets sorted and then washed accordingly. Gym cloths gets it's own pile because that shit needs to be cleaned properly. I have my own washing machine and dryer, so I have a running clock in my head while I'm doing stuff and keep it going since there tends to be a lot of it.

Sad, I know. But I'm multi-tasking the whole time because my Saturdays are "get shit done" day. >.>

 

[Lufia Erim]

I do laundry once every 3 weeks. I have enough clothes to last me 21 days. When it's that time, i do it all at once. I live in an apartment building with a laudry mat in the basement. So i take up 3 machines and get it all done in about 2 hours ( 30 min cycle , one hour drying, 30 minute to fold and hang up). Funnily enough if there aren't 3 machines free i won't do my laundry.

 

[cathou]

i must do one load of laundry every two days... 2 girl, with 2 small children = a ton of clothes to wash every single day. i must keep three separate pile of laundry, color, white and children stuff to wash with the no perfume soap. then half of hour clothes doesnt go in the dryer, so in summer it's not that bad, i can use the clothes line (?) but in winter i must find place to hang our clothes everywhere in the bathroom...

and since usually at the end of day i'm tired, i just put all the clothes in a pile and i do 3 or 4 laundry batch in the weekend.

 

[Something Amyss]

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.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Whenever the washer is full, or in other words twice a week. Who in the hell is changing their clothes so rarely that they can go one month without a laundry day?

 

[The Enquirer]

Whenever I need clothes I do it. Though it depends what's going on in my life. If I've got a busy schedule it's much more regulated.

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

Weird answer, this. I kind of do it once a week, but then there are gym clothes that get done more often, and office clothes which go about a week and a half. The ironing though, that's all over the shop. God I hate ironing. There is someone in the office who helps me out with it now and then when he's not up to his neck in it (I work in a school, and he irons every other day), but otherwise yeah it's a never ending saga. I much prefer hanging to taking down, because taking down involves folding and sorting, which I basically mash socks and boxers in a drawer, gym stuff and another one - only shirts go into some kind of pile.

 

[Tanis]

Two hampers.
Whites and coloreds.
When a hamper is full, or I'm getting low, I wash.

 

[Fijiman]

I usually wash my closes on an as needed basis. So if I need more of something or I just need to empty my close basket I'll do it then.

 

[JaKandDaxter]

My mom usually does my laundry. But I sometimes do it myself once I see clothes are piling up. Or if its time to clean my rather large but comfortable covers. For the times I do have to do my personal laundry, I don't go more than a week without doing it. We have a washer and dryer downstairs so its simple. And we used to have a laundromat on the same block but it closed down. Didn't have an issue leaving my clothes there and coming back after 40 minutes, or in other nearby laundromats.

I also wash colors and whites together and haven't had an issue. Having a family is where laundry gets complicated. My mom said back in the day, she had to do the laundry every 3 days or it gets piled up between 5 people. Overloading your home laundry machines is a really bad idea since nowadays practically every brand out there is made largely of plastic parts. Which while you get cheaper laundry machines, you pay for what you get. Pro tip for buying laundry machines, fewer buttons and features the better. Less likely to break down when your machines only has a few things that can go wrong.

 

[infohippie]

I throw five days worth of work clothes and whatever else needs cleaning (old around-the-house t-shirt that I've only worn twice so far? Nah, that doesn't need it yet) into the machine at some point over the weekend, hang it out when it's done, and eventually bring it back inside at some point over the same weekend, though this might sometimes occur at ten PM Sunday night. Then it sits in the basket over the next week from which I pull a single shirt and my underwear each morning, and drop back into the machine each evening, to await the weekend. I rarely get around to putting it away, I just dress straight from my washing basket. Folding? What's that? I just make sure I buy wash-and-wear fabrics so by the time I arrive at work any wrinkles have fallen out.

 

[Strazdas]

every 2 or 3 weeks depending on how full the laundry box is. I like to keep a stack of additional clothes i could use if the laundry failed so i dont "run out" of clothes.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

I do laundry once a week, but I don't care to sort it. I just throw it all in on the same load and use a color friendly, cold water detergent.

Sure my black clothing fades quickly, but the majority of my black cloths are pants or t-shirts, nobody seems to give a damn and I typically wear more colorful clothing anyway.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Usually bi-weekly for clothes and sometimes an extra one for bed linens and all that. I make sure my laundry hamper doesn't fill up too quickly though it somehow has the last couple days. I'll probably do laundry again tomorrow, even though I did bed linen laundry yesterday.

The place where I do laundry is pretty awesome though, it's a laundromat-coffee house combination. So while my laundry is spinning I get an excellent cappuccino and read a book. It's a lot more chill than your average TL-tube-laundromat. Sadly also a bit more expensive, I think. I pay ?5,- for a wash that includes ecological detergent and shit, so I exploit that flat fee mercilessly by doing long washes. Of course I then also buy a coffee or two and it gets a bit more expensive. But I prefer being comfortable so it's fine.

I don't really have any odd laundry stories though. I'm pretty diligent, it seems to me that you have to do extra efforts to really fuck up your laundry. It's so easy with a relatively modern washer.

 

[Zhukov]

My system is simple but brilliant.

I have two baskets. Clean clothes go in one, dirty in the other.

Whenever I find myself running out of clean shirts or underwear or needing a specific item of apparel to be clean (gym clothes for example) I empty the dirty basket into the washer. None of that sorting by colour or material nonsense here, no sir!

I don't own that much clothing, so I end up doing 2-3 washes per week.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Every Sunday.

One load for shirts, pants, socks, and undies, and a second load for towels and shit. Then Saturday is ironing time.

Funny laundry stories... Well, not exactly funny, but like 10 years ago my mom had the centrifuge (a verticle one) explode open hitting her elbow and nearly breaking it.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

I'm pretty good about balancing the need to do laundry with the cost of doing laundry. I use machines that require coins to operate. It's a pain lately because some jackasses came in and ruined 6 out of the 9 units.

 

[Foolery]

Once a week. I own a lot of green, black, grey, and generally dark colours, so sorting isn't much of an issue. I really only own enough clothes to wear for a week and a half anyway.