S/O person who does laundry once a month…

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you want to do laundry monthly?! I do it as soon as I have a load. One load is so manageable for me. I can easily hang and fold it all in 10 min. Multiple loads become a sorting disaster and harder to put away. I remember when I was a kid my mom would sit me in front of like 8 loads of laundry and make me fold it all. It was hell.

Doing laundry costs money. I don’t wear new clothes each day. One load a month is fine for me.

One load a month? Assuming you are single, isn’t that still at least a towel, a set of twin bed sheets, 30 pairs of underwear, and a few other things? Unless you have an industrial W/D and only wear dry clean only, I don’t see how this works.

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I do laundry nearly every day. I work out daily and have to wash those clothes. Plus work outfit and lounge outfit. Plus kids and husband. And bedsheets. Towels. Rugs.

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Once a month? I do laundry 1-2x a day.
We are a family of five with a ton of clothes. The issue for me would be seeing laundry pile up and what to do with dirty dish rags, face cloths and bed linens.

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I do at least one or two loads of laundry every day because I have a dual washer and jumbo dryer in my house. It is so much easier because it takes just 10-15 minutes to fold everything and put it away.

If I had to do laundry once a month or once a week, I would probably lug everything to a laundromat.

When are you washing bath mats, rugs, towels, sneakers, bed linens, comforters, parkas, bookbags and lunch bags etc?

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I did laundry once a month when I was traveling Sun-Thurs as a single person, but even having purchased enough clothes/sheets/towels to go that long with clean clothing, my monthly laundry was like 6 loads! Also mostly wore business attire that was dry-clean only.

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I do laundry daily, yet have tons of piles of laundry. I guess we all wear clean clothes and clean pajamas every day.

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Yeah- I do at least two loads a week. I workout daily, wash towels and sheets weekly, and hate when it fills the hamler

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Someone in my household does laundry almost every day. I am a single mom of two teens. one of those tiny stacked washer dryers. I work in a field like Kindergarten teaching where nothing comes home clean enough to wear again, and nothing is dry clean only. My kids go to a school with a dress code, and play outdoor sports, so they go through at least three outfits a day. One kid has severe dust allergies so the kids bedding gets washed more than most and between bath towels, swim towels, the towel we dry the dog’s paws with after a walk, and kitchen rags, we’ve got plenty of cloth to wash.

With the exception of a few dressy things, I don’t sort, things go straight in the wash and when it’s full we run it.

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I do laundry every 2-4 weeks unless I have a specific need. I have enough items that I don’t even need to rewear anything but winter coats/shoes/gear & I have multiple sets of sheets & towels. I do rewear certain items, then I rotate them out for a while, but not things like underwear, socks, or workout clothes. People always ask me if my outfits are new, but usually they’re just outfits I’ve rotated back in. I haven’t shopped for more than a handful of clothing in 5 years & I usually buy secondhand. Anything stored for a time is clean & in watertight bins. Anyone saying that doing laundry once a month is disgusting, as they’ve said for other people, just doesn’t understand. Most of my dirty laundry is not stinky & is contained in a couple laundry bags. I even pre-wash underwear in the shower & let them dry before hampering them for a full wash, I don’t like bad smells & have an extremely sensitive nose. I live alone & only have to take care of my own things. And I love wearing different things from week to week, I get bored, plus my favorites don’t get worn out quickly. I also don’t have time to do laundry weekly, certainly not every DAY that’s insane!! I understand the need to do laundry more often if you have multiple kids for example, but I still think every day is outrageous & I have no idea how working people can do that. I’d have no life unless I hired a housekeeper, which I can’t afford. I would also never do the laundry of another adult unless they were elderly or disabled in some way. If they won’t do it, they simply won’t be living with me anymore lol. Teen adults can be tough, I get it, I guess they can stay . Just in general.

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Anonymous wrote:I do laundry every 2-4 weeks unless I have a specific need. I have enough items that I don’t even need to rewear anything but winter coats/shoes/gear & I have multiple sets of sheets & towels. I do rewear certain items, then I rotate them out for a while, but not things like underwear, socks, or workout clothes. People always ask me if my outfits are new, but usually they’re just outfits I’ve rotated back in. I haven’t shopped for more than a handful of clothing in 5 years & I usually buy secondhand. Anything stored for a time is clean & in watertight bins. Anyone saying that doing laundry once a month is disgusting, as they’ve said for other people, just doesn’t understand. Most of my dirty laundry is not stinky & is contained in a couple laundry bags. I even pre-wash underwear in the shower & let them dry before hampering them for a full wash, I don’t like bad smells & have an extremely sensitive nose. I live alone & only have to take care of my own things. And I love wearing different things from week to week, I get bored, plus my favorites don’t get worn out quickly. I also don’t have time to do laundry weekly, certainly not every DAY that’s insane!! I understand the need to do laundry more often if you have multiple kids for example, but I still think every day is outrageous & I have no idea how working people can do that. I’d have no life unless I hired a housekeeper, which I can’t afford. I would also never do the laundry of another adult unless they were elderly or disabled in some way. If they won’t do it, they simply won’t be living with me anymore lol. Teen adults can be tough, I get it, I guess they can stay . Just in general.

You're immune to your own stink and just can't smell it (but I assure you others can, and your home reeks).

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I sleep naked and do laundry twice a week or so.

Dcum is so fascinating. It’s wild that we can all live so differently.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do laundry every 2-4 weeks unless I have a specific need. I have enough items that I don’t even need to rewear anything but winter coats/shoes/gear & I have multiple sets of sheets & towels. I do rewear certain items, then I rotate them out for a while, but not things like underwear, socks, or workout clothes. People always ask me if my outfits are new, but usually they’re just outfits I’ve rotated back in. I haven’t shopped for more than a handful of clothing in 5 years & I usually buy secondhand. Anything stored for a time is clean & in watertight bins. Anyone saying that doing laundry once a month is disgusting, as they’ve said for other people, just doesn’t understand. Most of my dirty laundry is not stinky & is contained in a couple laundry bags. I even pre-wash underwear in the shower & let them dry before hampering them for a full wash, I don’t like bad smells & have an extremely sensitive nose. I live alone & only have to take care of my own things. And I love wearing different things from week to week, I get bored, plus my favorites don’t get worn out quickly. I also don’t have time to do laundry weekly, certainly not every DAY that’s insane!! I understand the need to do laundry more often if you have multiple kids for example, but I still think every day is outrageous & I have no idea how working people can do that. I’d have no life unless I hired a housekeeper, which I can’t afford. I would also never do the laundry of another adult unless they were elderly or disabled in some way. If they won’t do it, they simply won’t be living with me anymore lol. Teen adults can be tough, I get it, I guess they can stay . Just in general.

You're immune to your own stink and just can't smell it (but I assure you others can, and your home reeks).

I do kid laundry two days a week (everything they wear seems to get gross and they would also otherwise run out of clothes).
I do towels one day a week.
Cleaning lady does linens every other week when she comes.
DH does his own laundry, and I don't really know what his system is.

I wash my clothes only once every other week (it's a couple loads on every other Sunday afternoon/evening). I obviously wear underwear, socks, t shirts, tanks, blouses, tops only once, and I have a lot of clothes. I totally re-wear jeans, pants, certain dresses, sweaters, pajamas... In between washes my clothes go into hampers that have lids that snap shut. These hampers are in the back corner of my walk-in-closet, which is down a small hallway that is off the primary bedroom, which is upstairs down another hallway at the back of the house. No odors are escaping the hampers, but even if they were, they certainly are not permeating from there down to the main level of the house where we have guests. That's just ridiculous. Sundays evenings are a restful, at-home time for us, and this system works for me.

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For those of you who are washing every day, where is your washer and dryer located?

My washer and dryer is way down in the basement. I’m not complaining, because before this I had to go to the laundromat, so having the machines in the house seems like a luxury.

If my washer and dryer were conveniently located right next to my bedroom, or right next to the kitchen, I might do laundry a lot more. But they’re in a part of the house that I rarely would go by except for when I am doing laundry. I suspect that the people who are doing laundry daily can just throw things in as they are walking by and it’s a lot easier than going up and downstairs, and not seeing the washer and dryer all the time so not remembering…

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I’m going to pile on the “wash towels after each use” people. That is indeed a terrible use of resources. It is not only the energy and water that is wasted for something utterly unnecessary, but also the energy used to treat the water to get it to a drinking stage, which you then use on a towel that was used on a clean body. Then you have the issue of the towels wearing out faster since you are running them through a cycle daily. Awful.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m going to pile on the “wash towels after each use” people. That is indeed a terrible use of resources. It is not only the energy and water that is wasted for something utterly unnecessary, but also the energy used to treat the water to get it to a drinking stage, which you then use on a towel that was used on a clean body. Then you have the issue of the towels wearing out faster since you are running them through a cycle daily. Awful.

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