How many loads of washing do you do in a week?
My friends seem genuinely surprised that I do 2-3 washes (only 3 if there's something I really want to wear again, in which case I'll throw in some of their washing too) but I don't see how that's out of the ordinary. I do my darks with my colours most of the time and then my whites. Surely the minimum number of washes you can do in a week is 2 unless you have LOADS of clothes?
I appreciate that this thread is really dull but there's not much happening at work besides I Spy and talking to idiots.
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1.2 of clothes (the .2 is made up of dressing gown week etc.)
and 0.8 of towels/bed sheets.
2
1-2
whereas work's dull enough here that i answered the thread
5 or 6, maybe more.
But then factor in a nine month old and its no surprise. The wife is pretty messy as well : )
Well, I abhor people who do a wash when it's not a full load
my landlord will wash one thing, so wasteful.
So I try to wait til I have enough for a full load but if there's anything I need in between I handwash.
So one dark wash and one white wash a week. I also wash my bedsheets once a weeks which either go to bulk up the load with my clothes or I do a seperate wash. Then...here's the AMAZING bit (I am cool, right?!) I take my bedsheets and towels to the launderette to be dried because they feel softer and keep their smell longer this way. I LOVE going to the launderette with my book and then walking home and I can feel the warm sheets through the bag.
^ Revelation of being a total, utter loser.
We don't have a launderette nearby, alas
sounds like an ideal opportunity to finish the tens of books I picked up but never finished.
For the record- I NEVER wash one item of clothing. Always a full load. Oh yeah.
Mine is called Soap Opera
and it's awesome, when you're in there you can smell all the lovely washing and depending what time you go when you step outside the smell of bread baking across the road or the greasy chippy next door.
It's brilliant, we all got trapped in there the other week when there was a HUGE storm outside and we all sat inside nice and warm and smelling of soap staring out at this amazing rainfall.
That sounds like some wonderful dream sequence/scene from a film
I really need to get out more.
I have been waiting for a long time for a thread about washing
just so I can tell you all about my love for Soap Opera!
I'll be there tomorrow, I can hardly wait.
Take a camera please!
so we can get some kik lunch-style updates. If i can't enjoy the vicarious thrills of long-distance tumble-drying, then what's left in my life?
Well, I believe it is also KiK's local launderette
I could be taking photos of my tumble drying at the same moment he's taking a photo of his Polish sausage and pint of beer just moments away. Just imagine that.
When I put my fresh sheets on the bed I roll about on them for a while grinning like I'm in an advert then I have a cider to calm me down. There shall be no photos of this. I have told you too much.
:D
Our closest laundrette appears to be about a mile away - think i'll have to make do with flipping the clothes on the drying rack this evening. There will be no rolling.
Ok....the bedsheets are going in the wash!
I know you'll be as excited as I am to hear that in just over an hour I'll be sat in Soap Opera basking in warm laundered air. I think with some Cheever today, yes.
AND the cleaner has just been so it's like a fucking palace in here today.
I'm more than a little bit embarrassed to admit that
1. I was checking this thread for exactly this update and
2. I didn't flip any clothes last night, so suspect there may be some lingering damp patches.
Sadly my camera is broken but you're in luck...
I took a photo of the launderette a few months ago. Let me show you...
http://tinypic.com/r/9abigw/4
Thanks!
I tend to imagine it to be raining whenever i think of laundrettes, so it's nice to see a sunny one.
Also, you appear to be jumping in the air with excitement? Excellent.
Yeah it's good when it's sunny cause you get to sit outside
like that women on the right is doing and perhaps even smoke yourself into some nicotine high, plus it increases your chances of spotting someone you know who'll think "fuck, she's cool, let's see if she wants some gin in the pub when her sheets are done" and you can sit in the beer garden clutching your warm sheets and getting slowly pissed.
Sometimes I hope when I'm in there the woman working will ask if I mind looking after the place whilst she goes to buy a scratchcard and then it'll be mine. ALL MINE!
*End of laundering fantasies*
i think i love you
:-D
When you don't have to go to a laundrette out of choice
you'll realise how UNROMANTIC it is and bloody annoying.
However saying this I did have a foreigner approach me to speak about the book I was reading. Swit swoo.
2-3
depending on how much sport/exercise I've done during the week.
Two loads, on a Sunday.
One darks, one lights.
I wouldn't put you down as a lights and darks man...
It's the modern era, nothing runs anymore - just bung it in together.
tell that to my new jeans.
If I was doing six washes a week I wouldn't mix...
did they run with baby poo?
nah we don't wash the disposable nappies, we er, dispose of them ; )
Wash at 40C Colour Fast mode and nothing runs.
not sure kiK has ever run,
his moobs are legend.
How on EARTH can you do three a week?!
I do one a week, tops. And that's not because I own a lot of clothes. One pair of jeans, seven pairs of socks, seven pairs of pants and a few t-shirts.
And that's not even a properly full load.
How can you need to wear more than that?! Do you change your clothes twice a day?
Crazy washing scenes.
Do you wear t he same clothes for work and after work?
I don't. Throwback to when I was at school and had to change out my uniform as soon as I got it. You were one of those kids that didn't aren't you. Eurgh.
Yeah, usually. But I only wear jeans and t-shirt for work most days.
Except when I'm suited and booted. In which case I simply wear the same t-shirt or rank house-only footie shirt in the evening most of the week.
Yeah, if I wore more casual clothes to work I probably wouldn't change.
But wearing smart clothing at home is like I'm off to a funeral or wedding.
I usually get home and cook in my clothes and then get changed
Mumsy taught me never to wear the same clothes to school/work as at home (apart from dress down friday).
Aren't you running the risk of spillage on work trousers?
(I'm assuming you only wear your shirt for a day so any spillage on that isn't so bad)
If there is a danger of that I'm not afraid to go down to my pants.
Yes, I do only wear my shirt for a day. However I do try and string my evening t-shirt out to two.
We're far too similar.
Well...
I'm currently short on shirts so they need washing more than once a week. That normally goes in with my housemates stuff though. I don't normally do more than 2 and the third is only for emergencies, and I'll make sure it's a full load. I probably do have too many costume changes in day, though.
what about towels and bed sheets?
Only one.
But I am a dirty student. Most of my jeans smell musty.
Two loads.
One is a light load of shirts (done on a Friday, ironed on a Saturday morning whilst listening to Adam and Joe), the other is a dark load that also contains my football kit and is done on a Wednesday night.
I do a bedding load every other week too.
However many I need to
which isn't usually more than 1
One
cos i'm not Imelda Marcos washing all her shoes
I'll ask my mum.
Ah bless.
She told me to piss off.
I'm aware of the machine always going, but it still takes fucking weeks for my favourite t-shirt to surface. There's six of us in the house. It ain't easy.
On a similar note, when did it become 'common knowledge' that Lenor is exclusively fabric conditioner?
Because, apparently, it doesn't clean clothes as effectively (or at all reall) as washing powder/detergent.
Three
Colours
Whites
Towels (I have about 6 or 7 to wash from the gym)
Is that the new Krzysztof Kie?lowski film?
nice
At least someone appreciated it.
3-4 loads a week, between 2 of us.
'kin hell.
You people are all mental. THE ENVIRONMENT HATES YOU.
so 1 and a half loads for 1 person is too much?
I'm focussing on the top end figures. I'm the shadow cabinet.
It's easier to get fake-angrier about that. TWO LOADS A WEEK!
big fucking deal.
and dont bring out the environment card either.
its not as if i wash 1 item of clothing at a time on 70 degrees or anything.
Your grandchildren will read this one day, sitting in their futuristic pods to shield them from the sun's burning rays, and weep for what you cost them.
sorry i cant hear you.
my personal deskside coal fire is roaring rather loudly.
Are you burning lions?
very environmentally unaware ones.
they all work for BP.
ridiculous
1 load a week, absolute max. dont seperate anything. nothing has ever gone wrong.
nothing can "go wrong" with washing.
it just depends on whether you want grey pants or not. i, personally, dont.
1 load a week
whites and darks together, this isn't the 1930's.
Usually one a week
unless I'm doing an extra load of trousers or bedsheets. I never separate whites and darks, apartheid ended a long time ago in my laundry basket.
none
my missus does the washing
0
I don't do washing.
You must stink
mother washes the clothes
You're 22
and has had to work for everything in his life whilst none of the rest of us have.
Ok?
two usually
used to be only one but that was when i lived in a place with a huuuuuuge washing machine.
I try to put a wash in every day
All colours together on the 40 setting. Im too tight to buy new clothes so its every day for me.
My Placebo tshirt though, I wash that separately
on 36 degress
:D
An oldie but a goodie.
i do about one a month
my clothes don't get particularly soiled or sweaty so i see no need to waste water on what are perfectly wearable clothes...plus i have no tumbledryer so i have to plan every jeans wash about three days in advance.
1-2 (live with gf)
could probably do more but we don't have a line or a drying machine and the house is well cold, so it takes ages for stuff to dry.
2-5, depending (2 people, 2 guinea pigs)
Colours - at least one a week.
Whites - almost one per week.
Bedding - per every 3 weeks, tops.
Throw that the guinea pigs play/wee on + teatowels - every week.
I used keep coloured pants/socks seperate, and do 'em in a single wash, so that you never get odd socks at the end of a wash, but that system has since been dropped - takes up too much floor space in laundry bins.
Once a week
at most.
This thread has reminded me of Captain Planet.
At the end of every episode, they’d always dish out some environmental advice, such as “ALWAYS REMEMBER TO DO A FULL LOAD OF LAUNDRY”. After seeing that as a youngster, whenever my mum was doing a wash, I’d always say “I hope that’s a full load you’re doing there”, presumably whilst smoking a fag and adding “you slag” on the end.
:D
I used to sing a song about being 'green'
in its entirity (and it was pretty jarring) everytime I saw someone do something harmful to the environment. I was quite the obnoxious little child.
Does any know it...
"Keep the countryside tidy, keep the countryside clean
The air should be fresh and the grass should be green
So don't dump your rubbish, you know what I mean
Keep the countryside tidy, keep the countryside clean"
For the third line pointing and shaking of finger and head in dismay, plus a hand on hip was compulsory.
Looking at my posts I'm coming across really well in this thread :-(
5-6 a week probably
cheers
^ dribbling fibre yoghurt all over himself on a daily basis
1-ish
but I'm really lazy and have never thrown away any clothes, so I can amass a LOT of washing before I start running out. Which sucks, because it's no fun doing three loads in a day :( Plus lots of it has to be hand-washed. Even less fun.
About 30 loads a week.
But I do constantly shit myself so..
Zero
boxfresh innit.
When I was single it was one a week.
And I'd get up at 7.30ish on Saturday to put the washing on and then go back to bed with Radio 4 and the Today show until it was done and time to hang up.
I guess now it's more like 2 to 3 a week but then girls have lots more clothes and so I blame the wife.
Ah those crazy single days!
footloose and fancy free.
i started weeping at my desk
when i saw this thread title
with joy, right?
Me too
:D
I'm amazed it got so many replies.
1 for myself
But then if the missus is doing her washing at a different time I sometimes chuck whatever I've worn that week so far in too. So say 1.5.
How many loads must a man put on
before you can think him a diva?
1, maybe 0 some weeks
3 is completely mental unless you have either very few clothes or, like, a family to wash for. Also, is it weird that I just wash all my clothes together, regardless of colour? EQUALITY FOR CLOTHES.
1
2 if I wear something and then want to wear it again (the new "lucky" pulling shirt for instance).
Although maybe you're not supposed to wash a "lucky" shirt...
That's the reason why I didn't get anywhere with that PGCE student on Saturday night. Either that or my utter lack of charm and wit, not sure which.
Probably one, occasionally two.
That's for two of us, and we do quite a lot of exercise, so have stinky clothes a lot.
I do one now, if that.
It's annoying though, I've not really got an awful lot of clothes.
I sdhare a flat with five people though and it seems like someone else always has a load in when I need mine done.
about 4-5
Laundry?
I have been known to buy new things just to avoid doing it. I'm not sure that's any less wasteful however.
Just clothes?
The vast majority are never going to get any action with your bedsheets & towels on the verge of cracking