M-F working moms - wash schedule/stash

astroMom

I'm going back @ 12 weeks and work a fairly typical work schedule, but it is in tech and sometimes can have flex/OT.  I'm wondering how you handle CD washes.  I can sometimes go in a little later on Wednesdays, so I'm thinking...

Sun nite-wash

Wed AM - wash & sun for 30 mins?

Fri nite wash 

I would like more sunning time, esp on PFs, but even the above might be hectic with my job.  I will have 12 PFs + I think 24 pockets/AI2s...

 

chef'swife

We don't sun them but every few weeks, and mostly only after she started solids.  Our diapers still look great with very minimal stains.  I wash twice a week, usually Saturday nights and Tuesday or Wednesday night.  We soak while prepping dinner. Wash while hanging out in the evening and toss in the dryer before bed. 

We own a business and work longer days/6-7 days a week and this still works for us.

We have 24 prefolds, 3 bummis covers, 1 wool cover and 16 pocket diapers.

Sam78

I wash every other day and sun when I have the time (I work from home so I can do this more often than if you go into an office).  I have 3 days worth of diapers so I'm washing 2 days while we're using the 3rd.  I wouldn't bother sunning for 30 minutes, just sun on the weekends or leave them out to sun all day Wednesday (if its not supposed to rain, would it really be a problem to hang out before you leave for work and take them in when you get home?).

pixy_stix

I just sun them when they get particularly bad.  I wash every other day.

MWoodside

We just wash them whenever the pail is more than 1/2 full.  Ends up being every other day usually.

MawrtyrB

With the twins in CD I have to wash daily otherwise, the washer gets too full and they don't get clean. The first thing I do in the morning is put the diapers in the wash. Depending on how fast I'm moving in the morning, I can usually start the hot wash too before I go. Now that we have an inhouse babysitter full time, she'll either run the second wash and/or throw them in the dryer for me. Otherwise, I finish it off after work. I don't have time to think about sunning.

Before I had the twins and it was just DD. I aimed to do diapers every other day, that way when I forgot or didn't finish, I could get it done without running out of diapers. Believe it or not, its actually easier now that it's something I do everyday.

sweetpea18

pixy_stix:

I just sun them when they get particularly bad.  I wash every other day.

This, exactly. 

HSartteach

If I get to sun, it's on the weekends.  I usually wash every other/third night.  I use flips and have 10 covers.  I like to send 3 covers to daycare...and it doesn't always work out that I can go every third night.