How do you deal with laundry?

Ronni

Ronni

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I can't stand a full laundry basket. :mad: I'd do a load a day if it wasn't so wasteful.

Even so, I do laundry several times a week. Ron has work clothes that are nasty from physical work in the heat, the dirty towels build up really fast (it doesn't help that we will both sometimes shower twice a day and we don't have a lot of towel storage,) I change out my dogs' bedding every week so it doesn't start to smell (even though I can mostly still smell the fabric softener on the things when I take them up to wash them lol!) and then there are the sheets and kitchen towels and our snuggle blankets and napkins etc.

If Ron runs out of something he uncomplainingly just runs a load which I really appreciate. Otherwise I do it all....and am happy to, as I find running laundry soothing and therapeutic. I know, I'm weird. ;)

I tend to hang most of my clothes to dry, and some of Ron's non-work clothes too, after tumbling them for just a minute to get the wrinkles out. (HATE IRONING!! so this step eliminates having to haul out the iron and ironing board.) Ron's work clothes go in the dryer.

I can't stand putting the laundry away. I don't mind the towels etc., but the folded clothes are so annoying. I put my own away, Ron puts his away...again, uncomplainingly as he's so happy to have someone other than him do the laundry because it's not a task he enjoys.

Do you run laundry frequently, or are you a "batch processor" and do it only when you've nothing left to wear? If you have a partner, do you do theirs, put theirs away? Curious minds...... ;)
 

I do the laundry as often as it needs it. We don't keep our clothes in a laundry basket we put the dirty ones straight into the washer, and probably twice a week I turn the machine on, . We don't have dogs, and hubs has a white collar job.... so the sheets and towels one load..and our clothing another, very often 2 loads on the same day, and then not for another week.

I too hate putting away the washing after it's been dried and folded or ironed..I don't know why, it's just an annoying job!!
 

I used to use one of the laundry rooms in my apartment complex every week but they have become so dirty and disgusting that I go to the laundrette near my home every couple of weeks.

I also rinse out a few things in the sink and hang them on my old fashioned granny bars to dry.
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I still have a few glad rags that require a trip to the dry cleaners.
 
On of my duties is to do most of the laundry in our house: sheets every Thursday, and dark clothes when the basket gets full. Now my wife's delicate items are a separate case that I just stay out of. I think that I may like the sound of the washer, but not the dryer.
My wife retired several years before I did, and I think that one of the smarter things I did was to just assume responsibility for specific tasks around the house and do them reliably. Naturally, I assumed tasks that were somewhat enjoyable to me: cleaning out the dishwasher, washing cloths, ironing my own cloths, all things related to coffee , wine and beer, and bill paying. All of these are somewhat relaxing, but pushing a lawn mower around in this heat, …. forget it. I don't like to paint either.
 
I love doing laundry and always have. When my kids moved out and took their laundry with them, I was nearly as bereft by the loss of laundry as the loss of children. I always though it was wasteful and a bit ridiculous to have every member of the family run laundry and therefore did the laundry of everyone living in my house (for a year we went from 5 to 7). Laundry is batched by colors and types (dish towels NEVER being run with anything that has contact below the waist).

Like @Ronni, I tumble dry everything for about 10 minutes and then hang it to dry in my garage (where I've got a great laundry setup).

Love laundry, hate dusting.
 
I like RR's method.. :)
Doing laundry for myself doesn't really get a second thought. .. have my own laundry room off of my kitchen in the apartment.
Dirty clothes go right into the washer .. when washer is full ... wash. Usually every 8-10 days or so. Use my drier on medium setting and pull some things out after 10-15 minutes and hang on a rack to finish drying. .... my tried and true method.
No rocks involved.
 
Laundry is once a week for me. Spin cycle is iffy on mine. As long as I can get it to spin eventually, I won't call a repairman. Those guys creep me out. Anyway so far so good.
 
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why talk about washing ---end of day it has to be washed ''' load or half load ' we get a lot and there
is only 2 of us now boys have flown away --thank god -lol---- change clothes every day' yes agree towels build up so I leave those till end of week ' so really there isnt any easy answer to this -

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I could do one or two loads a day - I don't. Mondays and Thursdays are laundry day. On those days I usually do 3 to 5 loads depending on towels and bedding. 112F days mean you only wear something once and there are a lot of towels to wash each week. Plus all the hand towels, kitchen towels/potholders/dishrags.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I used to use one of the laundry rooms in my apartment complex every week but they have become so dirty and disgusting that I go to the laundrette near my home every couple of weeks.

I also rinse out a few things in the sink and hang them on my old fashioned granny bars to dry.
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I still have a few glad rags that require a trip to the dry cleaners.
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I should get one of those! I do some laundry in the bathroom sink and hang items on the shower rod. Then I use the laundry room every couple of weeks. I don't like doing laundry but have to when I run out of clothes to wear. :sneaky:
 
My mom had a dryer. But she hung clothes out on the line to dry. So that they would smell "fresh". That was great during spring through fall, but she did that in winter too. She hung clothes out to dry when it was below ZERO. Guess whose job it was to take them down, and put them in the dryer? Me. I had to chop through the ice around the clothes pin. Jeans were the hardest clothes to take down. They were like wooden boards. Flannel shirts were made of frozen steel. Then I had to 'break' the frozen jeans & shirts in order to get them through the dryer door. All this so they could smell "fresh".
 
I do laundry once a week. The hubby and I have enough clothes to get us through. Once in awhile when I get into my deep cleaning mode, I'll do curtains or throw rugs at another time. If the weather is nice I hang out my clothes. I never could see throwing a towel in the wash just because it got damp after we take showers, We hang them on hooks I have in the bathroom and use them a few times before throwing them in the wash. I never minded doing laundry until about a year ago when I purchased a new machine. From day one I hated the thing. I'm a great soaker of clothes especially whites. With this machine it is impossible to fill. I called the company and they say it can't be done. Something about saving water. Who would have thought to ask that question when purchasing a new machine.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I never minded doing laundry until about a year ago when I purchased a new machine. From day one I hated the thing.
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Ruth, I am a kindred spirit. About 10 years ago I had to replace my 20 year old workhorse of a washing machine. Although I successfully avoided a front loader, the stores were all pushing machines with electronic settings and I bit. Who knew they were such a pain?

To add something to an already started load was a 3-4 minute exercise that involved stopping, waiting and rebooting the cycle because the door was locked from a load's start to finish, not just during spin cycle. Remember, this was a top loader. I hated that #$*&* machine. Everything about it was ridiculously complex. I mean, we're talking washing machine, not space shuttle. Dude, what the heck?

When my FIL moved out of his house and into assisted living, I laid immediate claim to his manual dial washing machine. I've had it a couple of years now. Ahhhh... all's been right in my laundry world ever since.
 
I do it a lot less now that I am alone. But I still do it about once a week. I like that Oxy clean additive for the odor. I have two cabinets above the washer and dryer with a bar between them. I hang non dryer stuff there.
 

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