I can't stand a full laundry basket.
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......
Laundry washing is down to a dull-roar these days, now that it's down to just dear husband and myself, still, I hate any sort of buildup of laundry waiting to be washed.
I have 4 plastic laundry baskets in my laundry room... one for whites, one for darks, one for colours, and one for unmentionables, though unmentionables (now that it's down to just little old me) is more often than not added to the towels on laundry day, but back in the day when my daughters were living at home, the unmentionables basket was dealt with on it's own, and every other day.
Husbands and my outdoor work clothes are hung in the entry (coat hooks) between washings, and how I love when fall/winder rolls around, because no longer do I have to look at ugly gardening clothes hung up in the entryway from day-to-day.
I have several tablecloths, all 100% cotton, which I take outside and shake-out after meals, then lovingly fold and stash away until next mealtime, and when soiled, straight into the washing machine they go. If I have enough coloured things to add to the wash, I do, and if not, tablecloths are laundered on their own.
Bedding get's tackled weekly, and no matter what sort of laundry I do, everything get's pinned-up on the outdoor clothesline to dry, at least from spring until fall it does. Electric tumble dryer get's used very little when the line-drying season is in full-swing.
Can't help but think back to the baby days in our home. Cribs sheets and bedding was stripped and washed twice weekly, sometimes more depending on the age of the child and/or if accidents happened... a leaky diaper, throwing up, etc, then there was the standard daily wear... baby sleepers, pyjama bottoms and tops, socks, bibs, baby washcloths, and diapers... lots and lots of diapers (and rubber pants).
Diapers were laundered every 2-3 days (on average)... and when I had two wearing diapers in the home, diapers were washed every day. Seldom did a day pass where a long row of diapers wasn't on display, stretched from one end of the clothesline to the other, and it seemed no sooner the diaper pails and baby hamper were emptied, I'd turn around and they be full again.
l remember the hollow echo that would sound when the first wet or dirty diaper was dropped into the plastic diaper pail, after the pail was emptied on diaper-wash day. Plunk! It was a good sound, because it meant I was semi-caught up, but as with all things kids, it never lasted.
As for my husbands collared shirts, all get laundered on their own and pressed the very instant they are dry, and when it comes to hanging, whatever requires hanging and folded, is hung and folded immediately when washing and drying is complete. No heaping laundry baskets sitting around with washing waiting to be pressed/ironed or folded.
