S/O person who does laundry once a month…

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. I hate it when people have stinky laundry piles. You can totally smell them. Old and musty. You’re not taking it out back and beating it with a stick. Just do a load every day.

I guess not everyone gets as smelly and sweaty as you. I certainly do not have that issue. I wash my clothes monthly. DH does his own laundry. The kids laundry is done weekly as are the sheets and towels. The housekeeper washes the bed and bath linens.

You should try strenuous exercise sometime. It’s good for you! And you should be doing it five days a week.

And no, if you aren’t sweating, it’s not strenuous exercise.

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. I hate it when people have stinky laundry piles. You can totally smell them. Old and musty. You’re not taking it out back and beating it with a stick. Just do a load every day.

I guess not everyone gets as smelly and sweaty as you. I certainly do not have that issue. I wash my clothes monthly. DH does his own laundry. The kids laundry is done weekly as are the sheets and towels. The housekeeper washes the bed and bath linens.

Unless you're in a vegetated state, never going outside, I assure you that you definitely have that issue and people can tell. If you go outside, your clothes pick up stink and dirt. And your clothes accumulate oils whether or not you exercise and sweat (which is a good thing, not sure why you associate sweating as a negative).

Washing your clothes once a month is like taking a shower once a week. It's nasty. You've just become accustomed to your own stink.

I don’t think you understand. I don’t wear an outfit more than twice. I just have enough that I don’t need to do laundry more than once a month.

Right, but you're letting dirty clothes sit and marinate in their stink for a month? That smell travels in your house, and isn't completely something you can get rid of. Especially underwear. It's gross pp, do your laundry once a week at minimum.

This. You sound like the people who claim they don’t have BO. Your house smells like dirty laundry. I promise you.

+1,000,000. And they’re noseblind to it, but I assure you, others aren’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry, but that's nasty. Letting your smelly, dirty clothes marinate in their filth for so long is gross. Wear jeans 2-3x? Sure. Re-wear workout clothing? Foul.

I'm an adult woman who lives alone, and does 3 load a week - one of sheets, and 2 for various clothes and towels.

Also, it's MUCH easier to do a load as soon as you have one to do, rather than spend all day (or multiple days) doing a giant backlog of laundry.

I don’t think anyone said they rewear their workout clothes. And I can see why you live alone.

Have you seen My 600lb Life? Almost everyone on there has a partner. Doesn't mean everything's healthy and dandy.

And yes, doing laundry once a month must make your house smell. The stink and dankness multiplies over time. Of course you don't notice it, but I'm certain others do.

Do you live in a studio apartment? I have a 3600sq ft house and can assure you that my guests are not hanging out in my laundry room. There is a world outside of your poor, tiny, little bubble. And excessive laundry washing is terrible for the environment. Shame on you!

You sound like a 12-year-old mean girl. I’m sorry you’re so insecure. I hope you feel better soon.

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For 20 plus years of my married life I did laundry once a week on Saturday. It was 6-7 loads and a mountain thar went until Sunday with all the folding. I also had so much that I was folding stacking on the floor

A few years ago I switched to daily and it was life-changing. I regret not doing it sooner. I put the load in at 6am every morning and hang it to dry on my wall mounted folding racks, by 7am. It is ready to be put away that night or the next morning. My loads are small and manageable. I only use dryer to dry towels, diag rags, bedding. All other items are line dried.

Mon darks warm
Tues lights warm
Wed delicate cold (linen nightwear and tights, bras
Thurs hot kitchen linens (dish cloths and napkins)
Fri hot towels
Sat (every other week) hot, bedding
Sun hot. housecleaning rags

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. I hate it when people have stinky laundry piles. You can totally smell them. Old and musty. You’re not taking it out back and beating it with a stick. Just do a load every day.

I guess not everyone gets as smelly and sweaty as you. I certainly do not have that issue. I wash my clothes monthly. DH does his own laundry. The kids laundry is done weekly as are the sheets and towels. The housekeeper washes the bed and bath linens.

Unless you're in a vegetated state, never going outside, I assure you that you definitely have that issue and people can tell. If you go outside, your clothes pick up stink and dirt. And your clothes accumulate oils whether or not you exercise and sweat (which is a good thing, not sure why you associate sweating as a negative).

Washing your clothes once a month is like taking a shower once a week. It's nasty. You've just become accustomed to your own stink.

I don’t think you understand. I don’t wear an outfit more than twice. I just have enough that I don’t need to do laundry more than once a month.

Right, but you're letting dirty clothes sit and marinate in their stink for a month? That smell travels in your house, and isn't completely something you can get rid of. Especially underwear. It's gross pp, do your laundry once a week at minimum.

This. You sound like the people who claim they don’t have BO. Your house smells like dirty laundry. I promise you.

Right. This is so nasty. I feel bad for this persons coworkers.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP who does laundry monthly.

We have one of those rolling hamper things with 3 compartments - his, mine and dry cleaning.

I think the secret is that I rewear things. For example, jeans get worn several times before washing unless they are stained. Bras (I have like 15) are worn, set out to air out, and then washed monthly. T shirts and tops are worn once before washing. Sweaters are worn several times - I wear a t shirt underneath to hold sweat and odor. Socks and panties obviously worn once too. Work dresses work 2-3 times before being dry cleaned.

HTH!

This is interesting! I have a similar approach to rewearing, but I do laundry whenever my laundry basket is full or I run out of clean underwear. This used to be every 1-2 weeks, but with kids it's closer to 1-2 days. I'm considering decreasing the size of wardrobe even further since I'm doing laundry so often I almost always wear my favourite outfits. It seems sill to have 10 shirts when I only wear 4 of them regularly.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Granted, we have 3 kids, but we do laundry every day. We wash towels and PJ's after each use.


Laundry is an easy chore, and takes only a few minutes to throw things in the washer, advance them to the dryer, and then fold them.

You know those racks in your bathroom? They are meant to hold towels to dry out after a use. Five people using a clean towel every day is insane and wasteful.

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Hampers are not some secure space where smell does not escape. The grossness multiplies, and if you're not going laundry regularly, it's foul - but your nose has just gotten used to it.

There's a balance between wasteful and nasty. I, a single person, do about 3 loads a week. Maybe 4. 2 are clothes, another is sheets. Towels are used about 4-5x before washed.

It's also not environmentally friendly to own a gazillion so you don't have to do laundry very often.

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Washing towels daily is a huge waste.

I'm curious to hear from people who don't have laundry in their home. Where I am in the city this is quite common. I assure you that ppl who share laundry facilities are not doing daily laundry. Weekly at most.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys must have a lot of clothes! I run out of clothes to wear after about a week.

Agreed - NP, I’m trying to cull my clothes and do smaller loads more often. I can go weeks without doing laundry but then it is overwhelming

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Granted, we have 3 kids, but we do laundry every day. We wash towels and PJ's after each use.

Laundry is an easy chore, and takes only a few minutes to throw things in the washer, advance them to the dryer, and then fold them.

This is horrifying. Think of the environmental consequences of the world you leave to your kids. I suspect they'll prefer a habitable planet earth than newly washed daily towels.

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Unless you have 5 kids, I don’t know how anyone does daily laundry. It’s just me and my husband, and maybe on a given day, we’d each have an outfit we worked out in, our underwear, and maybe a t shirt to wash. Jeans, sweaters, and pajamas get worn more than once, towels are used more than once. It would just be such a tiny load that it seems really environmentally unsound.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP who does laundry monthly.

We have one of those rolling hamper things with 3 compartments - his, mine and dry cleaning.

I think the secret is that I rewear things. For example, jeans get worn several times before washing unless they are stained. Bras (I have like 15) are worn, set out to air out, and then washed monthly. T shirts and tops are worn once before washing. Sweaters are worn several times - I wear a t shirt underneath to hold sweat and odor. Socks and panties obviously worn once too. Work dresses work 2-3 times before being dry cleaned.

HTH!

So you are counting dry cleaning as doing laundry?

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I have four hampers. One for towels and sheets, one for whites, one for colors and one for darks.

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Anonymous wrote:Washing towels daily is a huge waste.

I'm curious to hear from people who don't have laundry in their home. Where I am in the city this is quite common. I assure you that ppl who share laundry facilities are not doing daily laundry. Weekly at most.

I have to pay to do laundry. I do it less than once a month. When I had laundry in the home it was once a week.