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Laundry questions and schedule
Do you wash your families laundry all together, or does each person have their own load? We don't combine our loads, but I'm thinking about buying one big hamper that has a lights/darks/towels kind of section thing and doing everything together. Right now our laundry schedule usually is (and usually 2 loads/day):
Mon. - towels
Tue. - DH's clothes
Wed. - DD's clothes and sheets
Thu. - my clothes
Fri. - clean house
Re: Laundry questions and schedule
Our clothes are all together (sorted; whites, darks, lights). The only time I wash DH's clothes separately is if he was doing something that requires a separate washing (anything involving grease, mud, poison ivy, etc).
Towels and sheets are washed separate from clothes. Clothes on cold, linens on hot.
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I have a sort of hybrid method. DD's clothes are all washed separately because she has bad skin allergies and I can't use dryer sheets on her clothes (even the free and clear ones).
I have a lot of hand-wash or delicate items (especially washable work clothes), so they all get tossed in their own special hamper so DH doesn't ruin them.
Any casual wear items that can be washed on a regular cycle and tumble dried on low or medium get lumped in with DH's clothes too and we share the job of washing them.
Those are divided into lights/darks in a hamper labeled accordingly. DH doesn't wash ANYTHING that is red, lol. Even his clothes. I lump them in with my red stuff and wash it for both of us.
I am starting a new cleaning routine and plan to do a load of laundry 5 days a week. It's basically going to be whatever seems to be the biggest load regardless of whether it's towels, darks, lights, fragiles, our daughter's clothes, whatever.
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
Wednesday is "dog laundry" at our house. Dog bed and blankets get a good wash and dry.
Thursday I do a load of whatever is full (lights or darks) and then Friday morning I toss in one more load, including our sheets which can go in either load.
That's three loads per week, total. Occasionally I have a separate load of reds, but that's only about once a month.
i don't have any set days for laundry, i do it when there's enough for a full load and i have time.
Here's how i separate things:
darks, lights, whites, delicates, towels, bedding
I was all of our clothes together. separated into darks, lights, whites, towels, and bedding. I do these loads whenever I happen to have a full load.
The only exception is that I was DS's diapers every other day.
I'm one of those people who HATES laundry and lets it pile up and then I'll do 60 million loads in one day and catch up. I'd never thought about having a schedule before! But in answer to the real question, since there is only two of us, I just throw everything in together, seperated out of course. Lights, darks, whites, jeans and towels.
~Missy~
I do laundry once a week (all in one day- usually 4 loads). Everything is all mixed together unless we got a new clothing item that I am afraid might bleed.
Literally--- everything mixed up. sheet, towels, clothes, etc. I figure it all comes out clean in the end so who cares? And I really only buy clothes that can be machine washed on regular and dried on hot. Otherwise I will accidently lose track of it and ruin it.
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