Laundry, Laundry and more Laundry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do four loads a week: DH & my clothing (light & dark), sheets, and towels. Kids are responsible for theirs. (Kids are 12 & 14). I started them doing laundry in about 3rd grade. I’m all for off-loading chores. No child of mine will go to college without knowing how to do laundry.

I do pooled laundry for efficiency. What part of laundry is so challenging that years of practice is required? No issues for my kids in college.

[Anonymous]

Buy more clothes? You’d be able to go longer without doing laundry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do four loads a week: DH & my clothing (light & dark), sheets, and towels. Kids are responsible for theirs. (Kids are 12 & 14). I started them doing laundry in about 3rd grade. I’m all for off-loading chores. No child of mine will go to college without knowing how to do laundry.

I do pooled laundry for efficiency. What part of laundry is so challenging that years of practice is required? No issues for my kids in college.

Ugh! The amount of sorting! Wash each person’s clothing separately

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do four loads a week: DH & my clothing (light & dark), sheets, and towels. Kids are responsible for theirs. (Kids are 12 & 14). I started them doing laundry in about 3rd grade. I’m all for off-loading chores. No child of mine will go to college without knowing how to do laundry.

I do pooled laundry for efficiency. What part of laundry is so challenging that years of practice is required? No issues for my kids in college.

Ugh! The amount of sorting! Wash each person’s clothing separately

Easy to sort while folding.... everyone has a pile. No extra time.

[Anonymous]

Family of 3, minimum 4 loads a week:
- DD’s clothes
- Mine and DH’s clothes that get hung up to dry
- Mine and DH’s clothes that go in the dryer
- Towels
- Sheets every other week or so

[Anonymous]

Well, for starters I stopped at two kids.

DCUM gets in a tizzy about this but we all rewear pants and pajamas a few times before washing as long as they are not stained. Same with sweaters and sweatshirts that go over other shirts. Towels 1x a week and sheets every other week (I do the kids one week, and ours the opposite week.) So I do roughly a load per person per week (so 4; and yes I prefer to wash each persons separately so I don’t have to sort later) plus a load of towels and a load of sheets. So 6 loads a week which I concentrate over 2 consecutive days. I would absolutely hate doing daily laundry but to each his own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do four loads a week: DH & my clothing (light & dark), sheets, and towels. Kids are responsible for theirs. (Kids are 12 & 14). I started them doing laundry in about 3rd grade. I’m all for off-loading chores. No child of mine will go to college without knowing how to do laundry.

I do pooled laundry for efficiency. What part of laundry is so challenging that years of practice is required? No issues for my kids in college.

Ugh! The amount of sorting! Wash each person’s clothing separately

Easy to sort while folding.... everyone has a pile. No extra time.

DP here. This is just personal preference - I’ve tried it both ways. I highly prefer keeping the laundry separated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, for starters I stopped at two kids.

DCUM gets in a tizzy about this but we all rewear pants and pajamas a few times before washing as long as they are not stained. Same with sweaters and sweatshirts that go over other shirts. Towels 1x a week and sheets every other week (I do the kids one week, and ours the opposite week.) So I do roughly a load per person per week (so 4; and yes I prefer to wash each persons separately so I don’t have to sort later) plus a load of towels and a load of sheets. So 6 loads a week which I concentrate over 2 consecutive days. I would absolutely hate doing daily laundry but to each his own.

See vodka tip above.

Most people over wash their clothes, which causes them to wear out more quickly. Jeans and most other pants don’t need to be washed unless they have actually stains.

I wash sheets and towels weekly, but otherwise I use this approach, too.

[Anonymous]

^^^ I do think, however, that younger children tend to be much messier and so this might be hard to apply to them.

[Anonymous]

Just do a load every day. You will miss days, but then they won’t be a big deal. And buy the biggest machines you can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do four loads a week: DH & my clothing (light & dark), sheets, and towels. Kids are responsible for theirs. (Kids are 12 & 14). I started them doing laundry in about 3rd grade. I’m all for off-loading chores. No child of mine will go to college without knowing how to do laundry.

I do pooled laundry for efficiency. What part of laundry is so challenging that years of practice is required? No issues for my kids in college.

I went to college having never done a load of laundry. For my first load, I put the detergent in, loaded the quarters into the slot, started the machine, put the clothes in, and 45min later moved the clothes to the dryer. An hour later, I took them out of the dryer and put them away.

Not seeing the difficulty here.

[Anonymous]

Amazed by how many families of 5 posting here. I thought US birth rates were in decline?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do four loads a week: DH & my clothing (light & dark), sheets, and towels. Kids are responsible for theirs. (Kids are 12 & 14). I started them doing laundry in about 3rd grade. I’m all for off-loading chores. No child of mine will go to college without knowing how to do laundry.

I do pooled laundry for efficiency. What part of laundry is so challenging that years of practice is required? No issues for my kids in college.

I don’t want to do my kids’ laundry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do four loads a week: DH & my clothing (light & dark), sheets, and towels. Kids are responsible for theirs. (Kids are 12 & 14). I started them doing laundry in about 3rd grade. I’m all for off-loading chores. No child of mine will go to college without knowing how to do laundry.

I do pooled laundry for efficiency. What part of laundry is so challenging that years of practice is required? No issues for my kids in college.

I went to college having never done a load of laundry. For my first load, I put the detergent in, loaded the quarters into the slot, started the machine, put the clothes in, and 45min later moved the clothes to the dryer. An hour later, I took them out of the dryer and put them away.

Not seeing the difficulty here.

It isn’t difficult! A grade schooler could do it (as long as they’re tall enough). But guess what, I’m not doing their laundry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our house is a family of 5. We do a load every night as soon as the last person hops in the shower. That’s more than we really need to do but it’s better to be caught up than behind. Our LG washer takes around 45 min which helps. I would hate to have a washer with a much longer cycle time. My older kids are starting to help load the washer. Now it’s actually better than when we had a live in nanny who washed clothes maybe every 3 days.

So you mix the laundry of the entire family as well as mix underwear with socks and pants etc? I think this is gross

Because the washer can get your socks clean but only by transferring the sweat to your jeans?

this explains the grayish color of undergarments you see in locker rooms