Families of 4: How many loads of laundry do U do each day?

baybee07 · December 2009

I feel like I am a laundromat! All I do is laundry. I do 2 loads each day...and I am bewlildered at how that much laundry accumilates each day!

How many do you do?

teach2183 · December 2009

We're only 3 right now, but we do 2, sometimes 3 loads of laundry per week. Do you wash towels after each use? How often are you washing bedding?

ash2 · December 2009

Wow, that is a TON of laundry! We are a family of 3 right now as well and I'd say we do 3-4 loads per week. We don't wash towels after every use though. And I was our bedding every other week.

cepcep · December 2009

1 - 2 weekdays, 2 - 3 on weekends. ?The weekdays have gotten better since my baby has gotten older. ?

polar0805 · December 2009

I probalby average about 10 loads/week. It's a lot.

Vrbka · December 2009

i usually do 5 loads each time i do laundry but i do laundry on monday's and friday's

10 a week not bad.

Temp174496125006552 · December 2009

DH and my (16 yo) daughter do their own laundry. I do Ben's laundry about every 5-7 days. I do mine about the same.

lms_bride · December 2009

We are a family of 3 but I do about 5 loads/week, sometimes 6. I do all the laundry on Mondays/Tuesdays and then we are done for the week. I know when baby comes it will go up big time for awhile...

I wash towels weekly and bedding every other week.

hayleydeee · December 2009

We're a family of 3, and I probably do an average of 1-2 loads a day. But a lot of that is because we CD.

lilone_06 · December 2009

On average 1-2 per day. It boggles my mind too. I also run the dishwasher almost every day, probably 6 times a week.

Sometimes I take a "laundry vacation" and take a day or two off from it. It means a lot of catch-up but is worth it just to have a little break.

Sammysu · December 2009

Wow. Are your two loads a day, full loads? I have a family of 5 which include: DH, myself and 3 girls. We do about 7-8 loads a week. I guess it depends if kids are in sports too because that would be more laundry as well but I still think that is alot.

ali-1411 · December 2009

There are 4 of us but I get laundry done all in one day.

jnksmom · December 2009

I do about 5-6 loads a week. I wash our bedding every other week so that adds 1 load those weeks. Also, DS has regressed some in PTing so sometimes I have to wash an extra load of his clothes if he had several accidents.

MrsPreK · December 2009

Wow!! How are you guys getting 1-2 loads of dirty laundry a day??

We're a family of 4 and I do laundry ONCE a week.

Towels/Bedding, Kiddos Clothes, Bibs, My clothes/DH's clothes

Generally equals out to 5-6 loads a week.

Maybe we have a lot more clothing?? The children also do not wear anything more than one time if that matters.

FWIW - I also run the dishwasher one time a day =D

EnglishMajor03 · December 2009

We are a family of four and we do four loads a week-ish.

safy · December 2009

I only do laundry once a week, sometimes once every week and a half. When I do laundry though, it's at least 5 loads.

HarrietNJMommy · December 2009

I do laundry M-Thursday. 1 load per day. Sheets on Monday, Towels on Tuesday, Kids' clothing on Wednesday and Adult clothing on Thursday. It works out well for me.

Every OTHER day of the week I do a load of cloth diapers.

I can't imagine doing 2 loads each day, and we're a family of 5.

mattanddiana · December 2009

I probably do about 6-7 loads per week.

thetwistedwillow · December 2009

Fanily of five here and we have 5 loads a week. How on earth do you have so much?

In my house everyone wears their pajamas and jeans twice before washing unless there is an "accident". Everyone has 1-2 towels they can use per week as well. So long as it is hung to dry right after use it is NOT going to get mildewy and nasty.

And I do bedding once a week except for comforters. Comforters I do 1-3 times a month AS NEEDED because we don't sweat all over those (we have a sheet separating our bodies from it).

We're very, very clean and I'm somewhat of a germaphobe- this works for us. Hope it helps you to cut back on some laundry and save on your energy costs!

thetwistedwillow · December 2009

Oh I must add that we do have a large washer and dryer so perhaps that is why I do less. But still, I do laundry 1-2 times a week for a total of about 5 loads.

Funny to see how diverse all of our laundering is.

MattsWifey<3 · December 2009

2 loads at least per day. We are now a family of 5 and I do have 2 in cloth diapers.

DH works outside, so he dresses in layers and then changes when he gets home. DS (8y/o) wears an outfit to school but usually changes when he gets home to play outside. Needless to say, the babies go through 2 outfits a day.

Barneso · December 2009

As of a family of just 2, it's not out of the question for me to have 1 load of laundry per day... So I can see how with a family of 4, you'd be doing 2 per day.

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