Laundry Quirks | Pad Patter 11.14.15

Laundry is my forte! lol
We have 8 people in this house 6 kids and my hubby and me.
Monday (I do hubby and my laundry)
Tuesday (one of the twins)
Wednesday( I do an extra load of towels, and misc and my sheets)
Thursday (no laundry, and my son and his darling wife know it is a free day and sometimes drop in)
Friday (the other twin)
Saturday (all three littles do one load each) they each have their own basket
Sunday (my 17 year old does his, so he hopefully remembers his gym clothes...ugh)

Each person loads and starts. I have stacked front loaders so the two littlest can't reach to start, but they can load it.
I pull out and put in basket..and everyone is responsible for folding and putting away. I only fold mine, and sometimes hubbys, he is a great folder,and we usually do them together as the kids are doing dinner chores.
Every other week or so, I was the Littles sheets and blankets...the older kids wash theirs on their day.

 

Hubby does the adult laundry, towels and bedding, most of the time. I usually do the kids' clothes. I like to split up their laundry into their own piles, but only because I feel like it goes faster when I get to the fold/put away part.

Kitchen towels usually end up in kids laundry, because we keep their hamper in the living room.

The kids occasionally help with folding and putting away. I gave up making sure they fold correctly, because they often like to pull clothes out of their drawers, or they get messed up as they are picking out their clothes each day. Not something I care to stress about.

Because I don't do the laundry, I don't complain if hubby puts my tank tops in the "regular" shirt drawer, or if my work out socks end up in the "regular" sock drawer.

I do kid's laundry every other week. There's usually one load each kid. I don't mind throwing towels or something random in a load if I need it and it's not laundry day/specific load time. Husband has some method I don't really understand, like color shirts load, whites load, pants load, I think.... Haha

 

I'm only responsible for my own laundry, and usually do 2 or 3 loads a week....black/brown/dark blue in one load, pinks/purples/reds in another, and greens/blues in another. About once a month I have enough white/yellow/gray stuff to make a load, and sheets & towels are done as needed, sometimes I'll throw a couple towels in with the clothes if I don't have much else to wash - I hate to use the electricity it takes run the washer for a small load, when our machine takes just as long for those as for a full load. I used to be terrible about putting things away, but since I re-organized my closet a few months ago, I've been pretty good about getting things hung up or folded & in the drawers the day I wash them.

 

When everyone was here, I did at least one and most of the time 2 loads a day. If I didn't, the weekends were a nightmare. I washed and put in the dryer and DD folded. Everyone puts their own away. I cannot stand for it not to be put away and have to dig for things all week. Now that there's just 3 of us, it is so much easier. I usually do one load every other day and maybe 3 on the weekend.

 

I used to do all the laundry, but last year during soccer season I wasn't home enough to keep up with it and my hubby was running out of socks and underwear so he actually started helping with the laundry and then this year again during soccer season, he just took it over and I let him! Lol!

I have two long table downstairs by the washer and dryer. Each family member has a section of table. Laundry gets folded and put in their spot and they can either take care of their laundry or streak downstairs after their shower in the mornings. I'll give you a hint... don't drive by my house in the morning or you might see streakin' I'm the only one the always puts my laundry away.

As for when it gets done? Either on the weekend if I have to do it or whenever I remember or whenever someone runs out of something.

 

I am alone in laundry duty like you, but I like it that way - I'm sort of a control freak about it. I wash ALL the clothes in the house on Monday, in six big loads. Monday night after everyone is in bed I put on a show or movie and fold it all in one sitting. It all gets put away Tuesday morning. Then, I'm done for the week!! Well, except for sheets and towels, but I just do those on any other day, as needed. This system totally works for me and laundry is really the only household chore I don't mind, and sort of feel like I have a handle on.

 

We have one laundry basket, so I do a load when there is enough washing in the basket, usually three or four loads a week. Everything that doesn't need ironing gets put away as soon as it's dry. I do the ironing on Thursdays. Why has no-one else mentioned ironing? It's my least favourite job!!

 

What's an iron?
We don't use that appliance we own. Lol.

 

I am pretty careful about NOT buying things that need to be ironed, but every couple of months, the hems on my jeans have turned themselves up & won't stay in place until I iron them back down....sometimes the back pockets too, and if I accidentally break out the sewing machine and make or repair something, I use the iron a bit for that....otherwise, it makes a great paper weight!

 

I do laundry as I have to, lol! I have to wash my work clothes every other day, so I put whatever in with those.
The kids laundry gets done as they actually clean rooms and give me their stinky stuff!

 

I'm a single lady so I obviously have to do my own.
I mostly only wash in the weekend. I have two electricity meters, one for the low price (weekends and nighttime) and one for the high price (daytime on weekdays). So washing in the low price hours really helps me save money.
Usually I do it all in one day. I love doing my laundry btw. I like to see the pile of dirty laundry get smaller and my closet filled again. It's such a simple task that doesn't take much time (I only count the time I actively have to do something) but it makes me feel like I'm very productive.
I don't do a lot of ironing though, I save it up and only iron maybe once a month. I researched how my clothes would get the least wrinkly and for example hanging jeans up by their legs really helps.

My general laundry list:
darks (1 load a week)
midcolour (1 load a week)
lights (1 load a week)
towels, socks and underwear (1 or 2 loads a week)
bedding (1 load every other week)

 

I have a sickness.
Cold vs warm
White vs black vs red/pinks/orange vs blue/green vs knitted sweaters vs fleece materials vs towels vs sheets vs underwear vs socks vs dark jeans vs light jeans.

 

I do approx a load a day, skipping a day. Give or take a load, and give or take a day, lol!

Lately, I've been on top of it...mostly, because of soccer, gear and sports. Usually if DH is home, and I bring up the load, then he will help fold. I put it all away. We have a hamper in each bedroom, and it works well. DH and I are usually very equal on the chores. We look as it as a team. He also helps out with it if he is off during the week one day, which then saves me from doing a load/folding!

 

Just me and the 21 year old boy around these days. We have one light load, one dark load and one jeans load during the cool Florida weather all washed on cold. Each of our sets of sheets added makes 4-5 loads on the weekend. Towels happen whenever the basket is full or I run out of washcloths, whichever comes first.

Not much ironing happens, I'll admit. I do white pants in the summer and dress shirts for holidays. Other than that, it better be okay out of the dryer.

 

ahhh laundry! Is it weird to say I enjoy ironing?


Okay here it is for our house. I do my husband's and myself's laundry every Monday including sheets. We have 4 children that still live in this house. They do their own laundry. That was a must for me once they got old enough. Teach them to be self reliant. I do towels a couple times a week, just when I notice we are running low, and that too I love to fold towels. The only thing I do not like is having to search in rooms when you 'notice' all the towels are missing. LOL. It is almost time to replace our towels. AND. Some are missing which really bugs me. Who knows where they walk off too!

 

After reading all these posts, I need to re evaluate the way I do laundry!!!!!!!!
I wash everyones every other day and usually fold and iron on Thursdays or Fridays, but it takes forever.