I do 3-4 loads per week for my family of 4. I do between 7 and 10 loads each one filled to the brim. 7 sounds completely reasonable for 5 of you! Sheets and underwear do not pill up as much if they are not washed with towels! Now, we do a huge load on Monday (usually somewhere around 5-6 loads), then 1-2 each day the rest of the week, except Sunday. The Only Lottery With a Positive Expected Value: The Green Card Lottery, Maplewoodshop: Learning to Use Hand Tools in Woodworking. I’m still using them and have about 4-5 bottles left! Especially now that my middle child is potty training. He wears the same t-shirt and jeans in the evening all week and definitely produces the least wash of our crew. When we got married, my husband was like, “Um, I only have enough underwear for one week…I think you need to do laundry every week!”. Once a month I change sheets and will have that extra load of laundry. I wish I could tell you that I have perfected the laundry system and we do two loads per week for our family of five. Where do you get the time?!? I try to do 2 loads a day to keep up, but sometimes 3 or more loads a day is reality…that’s for our family of 9, we have a large capacity front loader….this includes washing towels and sheets….and it is never, ever done! We have 5 (soon to be 6) in our household (kids 5, 7, 9). Wow! It depends on whether I am good about washing sheets and towels or if I skip a week or two! I usually try to do one load per day on the weekdays, and then do all the towels and linens on Saturday. I am on load # 8 and I have still have 2 loads of clothes and 2 loads for sheets. We do have an extra-large capacity washer and dryer. Also, DH works outside a lot and in the South, that can mean very stinky, wet clothes. I really do try to encourage the children to wear and re-wear stuff. That is with three boys playing football and a cheerleader so there are practice clothes daily and uniforms weekly. In the summer he was changing at lunch because he has sweated through them completely. For our household of six, we do 7-10 loads per week. That’s 416 loads a year. Ok, now I know where are definitely over-laundrying. 5 Answers. We do a lot of rewearing clothes (well, the adults do anyway), and don’t change sheets and towels that often unless they need it. Ironing and folding may cost additional $1.50 – $2.00 at the laundromat. For example, I only wash jeans with other jeans. We bought the 4.3 size and it’s plenty big enough. If we let the loads get too large they don’t clean as well. It’s a bit like cleaning the dishes or brushing our teeth. Our home is 4 adults and 2 kids under 3! some weeks i can stay totally on top of it and do all 6 or 7 loads, even folding and putting them all away. =] We have to bring our laundry to my parents (no washer and dryer for us yet..) so it is kind of a pain to do two days of laundry (once on Wednesday and once on Saturday) Oh well though.. =]. And that has risen from 250 in previous years. other weeks, like today, i put away nothing! When Dh is not home it’s about 3-4loads a week for just Ds and myself. The occasional 3rd load is usually throw rugs, rags and pet bedding. When our washer and dryer die, I am definitely going to get a larger capacity unit! Still. If it wasn’t dirty, wear it again. I’ve gone from doing 3-4 loads/week (I love clean linens!) I’m a single mom of two girls. And somehow, I’m still not caught up. Maybe if we had a large capacity washer I’d do it less often; I do laundry throughout each day as we do showers at night and will run out of warm water if we try to do dishes, laundry and showers all in the evening. 15 Recommended Pre-K & Kindergarten Resources. . I know what you mean! I do wear a different shirt to work each day, but will re-wear my dress pants if not stained, as well as casual wear, sweaters, etc. We have 6-7 loads of just clothing in our house (two adults, a pre-school boy, an infant girl). My son is in football. My washer just broke and we are saving up for the one we want. Every week I do a load for lights, darks, towels & jeans, and sheets. I don’t think that sounds like a lot at all. I do a load of whites, a load of darks, and she does her own laundry which means 1 load of whites and darks combined, lol. On a “light” day, maybe 2 or 3; on a “heavy” day, 5 or 6. I just bought a Cabrio and I love it! 1 … I just hope I’m doing ok. White wash. obviously more if … I’m just grateful that half of our basement is unfinished (the part where the W/D is, whew!) I’m sure some people would be shocked, but if we wore new clothes every day and changed the sheets every few days, I’m sure I would be overwhelmed with laundry! We don’t use fabric softener, but white vinegar instead. @Deb H. in Wisconsin, I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that you think 7 is too much. One is towels & sheets, one is our everyday “normal” clothes and then I try to do the kitchen & bathroom rugs weekly as well (though sometimes I forget!). = lb./hr This includes patient clothing in the average home. Then another 3 for clothes, 1 for towels (we use them for a week too), and 1 or 2 for sheets/rugs since I wash any particular set about every two weeks. @Jennifer, We are a family of 8 and I do WAY too much laundry. Tayst Deal: 20 compostable k-cup coffee pods + mug for just $8 shipped!! If they are playing sports that number goes up. You can make it cover as big of an area as you want. PS My six year old boy changes his clothes about 4 times a day. My fiance & I do about four loads a month. that’s a lot of laundry!! I used to do the same thing when I was her age, so I don’t complain too much. @brookeb, Our dogs used to sleep in our bed with us so I was washing the sheets at least every week and the comforter at least every few weeks due to the dog hair. Our household is 2 people and 2 messy cats. In the winter it’s solidly 10 because the clothes are so much bulkier (I’m in northern WI). Delicates – Darks (cold wash) 1 decade ago. I do all of it on Monday, with maybe one small load of clothes on Friday of clothes that get stained throughout the week. I'm trying to find out what is normal or average. HOURS PER WEEK OF OPERATION OF LAUNDRY LOADS / HOUR FACTOR 7 Day Week - Use 49 Hours 6 Day Week - Use 42 Hours 5 Day Week - Use 35 Hours UW Models UC / UF Models Heavy Soil 1.2 loads / hour 1.0 loads / hour Normal Soil 1.5 loads / hour 1.2 loads / hour Light Soil 2.0 loads / hour 1.5 loads … There are 8 of us. Sheets are separate; towels are separate. I have to wash all the bed linens once a week (daycare regs). @Candace, a yard of plastic table cloth @walmart is what i use cost $3.00 found in the fabric section . That saves electricity too. Investing is risky business. The plastic map wipes clean really easily. I know I’m one who posed the question last week. Under normal circumstances I wash one load every day or two (so maybe 5-7 loads a week). I gathered scales, a power meter and a sensor that records temperature and humidity. We wash bedding more often just because we have animals that aren’t taking a shower every night! So when I do, that means several more loads…. One is for sheets and towels, and the other for clothes. If it is bedding day then well there will be at least 4 more loads. My husband is a livestock farmer. How on earth do you have so much? I’m a single woman living in a condo with a (bright, clean, never busy) laundry room full of professional sized washers/dryers. Breaking down the washing to certain things on specific days really cut down on the time it takes and everyone knowing what will be available. 5 Answers. So that is at least one load 6x week. I am really looking forward to this phase being over! I have 4 children under the age of 6 so with spit up, food spills, grass stains, etc. Relevance. They both almost always have some kind of stain on their shirts and pants by the end of the day. We are a family of 6, the 4 “gnomes” range in age from 6 yrs to 5 months. Do people doing fewer loads not have nice enough things that they bother following the care instructions on the labels? So I think you doing 7 loads is actually good for having small children! We have a family of 3, and I do 7 to 8 loads a week. @Annie, My mom did the same. i do laundry once a week as well. . We re-wear, etc, too. We are a family of 4.5 (for the purpose of this discussion- my stepson is not half a kid but he is with us half the time so half of his laundry). I never wash those after only wearing them once. 7 total There are 3 of us, and I do a load or two every other day. Answer Save. Nursing Homes 50 lb./bed/week x number of beds / 37.5 hr. I have tried every system known to man, and because of my scatter-brainedness, have finally found that doing one big laundry day is the best way for me to stay on top of laundry. Sometimes we get by with a low laundry week of 8 loads, but this is … I am glad we are empty nesters now or I would be doing laundry all the time. We average 5-7 loads per week for a family of five. I personally only do about 5 loads per week, but my two oldest kids do their own laundry, adding 2+ for each of them. At least one of the loads are towels, wash cloths and bedding. I alternate between whites and sheets/bedding, whites one week, sheets the next. You may be up to 40 gallons of water per load if you have an older washing machine. Of course you are going to do more laundry then the lady down the street with one kid. We do have a frontloader, so I can do large loads. A couple times a week I wash washloths and kitchen rags. I do laundry once a week and it is 4 loads. And I found out that the power cost spikes at 10am so all laundry has to be done before 10am or after 6pm when it goes back down. 6 loads a week, 312 loads a year. I frequently re-wear my work clothes and jeans, but everyone else seems to get too dirty for any chance of that. 2 adults and 4 kids sure can make a mess. The bed sheets get washed once a week… more so for the two year old who’s potty training. The boys take their stuff to the laundry mat, and now they’re used to it. An honestly, I don’t think your 6-7 loads sounds that bad.