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Barmymoo:
I'm intrigued. I read a lot of homemaking blogs and I've noticed that a lot of them talk about doing laundry every day, or even more than once a day. Admittedly these are blogs written by women with families (and no jobs), but I'm still gobsmacked that they can have enough dirty laundry to need to put on a load three times a day.

So, how often do you do your laundry? Also, bonus question: do you use a front-loading or top-loading machine? I've never, ever seen a top-loading washing machine in a British house, so I was also amazed to discover that they are common amongst the mommy-blogger set. Is this a self-selecting sample or do the States not like front-loaders?

Lines:
We wash about once a week, but there's usually more than one load because I don't like washing small loads of laundry (wastes water). Michael and I bought a top loading high efficiency washer, but the matching dryer is front loading. When we were shopping it looked like most front load washers were high end and rather expensive. Like at least $300 more than the machine we got.

Welu:
I have a front-loader. I'm in Northern Ireland and I've never seen a top-loader.
Laundry isn't something I've quite got the habit of yet since I moved out. We're usually doing two, maybe three loads every other week. There's only two of us in the house and almost all my clothes are black and almost all of my boyfriend's are light/coloured so we probably should do one load a week if we were organized.

I think when I lived at home, when there were five in total and Mammy was working, it probably was a load almost every day needed done. Probably was only three to five that actually got done. More during summer while my brothers and I were off.
I can't imagine how much clothes the family of the women you're talking about must have or how often they change a day to need to do that. I would guess they either have at least four children or less but they're infants so mess up everything in five minutes.

Lines:
Unless they're those people who only wear things once before they wash? I usually wear pants/shorts/skirts multiple times before I wash them unless they get dirty or sweaty or whatever. Outer shirts, like cardigans, hoodies, etc. get washed less frequently as well, because they rarely touch skin. I know some people, though, that think that's gross, so they will wash everything after being worn only once.

lepetitfromage:
We tend to do between 3-5 loads every 2 weeks. I usually have 2 loads of dark, 1 load of light, Nick has 1 of each, 1 of our combined whites, then 1 load of sheets and towels. Usually he and I don't do our laundry on the same day, but within a few days of each other. This is especially helpful if we're just shy of a full load of towels/sheets or whites. Then whoever goes last will wash those. I'd much rather do a LOT of laundry all around the same time and be done with it for a few weeks than have to constantly do smaller loads.

Linds, I'm with you to an extent- jeans, cardigans, hoodies are always worn more than once. Everything else is single use. I don't quite know why skirts and trousers aren't as special as jeans, but for some reason I just can't wear them twice. Ditto on leggings.

My parents always had a top-loading machine. The laundry room in our building has front loading and the laundromat we used to use had both. Always front loading dryers.

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