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Doin' Laundry
Carl-E:
Our laundry's in the basement. Seemed like a good idea at the time...
Then my wife's knees went out. My younger daughter, who had finally started doing her own laundry fell ill, and is now in a wheelchair. My older daughter's ankles are bad, she avoids the stairs as much as possible. She'll do a load or two of her own stuff each week.
I try to get a couple of loads done every week, but the amoeboid mass of dirty laundry keeps growing...
lepetitfromage:
Ahh, I forgot about bras! Yep, they're definitely not washed between every wear.
--- Quote from: dr. nervioso on 21 Jun 2012, 17:35 ---I do laundry a few times a week. See, I have a lot of clothes, but I have several outfits that I really like so I want to wear hem a lot. I do eventually get sick of them though.
Also, I hate washing jeans, they always are hard to dry and I am not sure whether it's the colder weather making me pack on the pounds or the fact that they shrink in the dryer, but they are always tighter when they get out of the laundry. And I already buy them pretty damn tight!
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I definitely get the concept of washing just to wear a certain outfit. But I have more clothes than I'd like to admit so I can get by a few weeks before I run out of the "good" stuff.
And I absolutely hate washing jeans too! If I hang them, they take ages and get stiff. If I stick them in the dryer, they shrink. :x
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 21 Jun 2012, 14:34 ---If you can shave with a towel, it's too stiff.
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Bwahahahahaa
Lupercal:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 21 Jun 2012, 14:38 ---Maxusy, I'm not sure if you're joking or not... Other than pants (as in underwear) and socks, I use everything more than once before washing it. Even bras, because those suckers cost a fortune and I can't afford to have more than two that fit at a time.
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My girlfriend has a similar dilemma. Cheap ones die quickly, more expensive ones tend to just fade, die, lose any kind of supportive function. Its a shame, because it seems like a black-hole of underwear shopping that men rarely go through. I choose to throw out boxers I've had since like, before college, just because I shouldn't have underwear I've had since I was 16. Too much information? Possibly! :mrgreen:
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 21 Jun 2012, 07:11 ---I always heard that front-loaders get to smelling kinda nasty if you don't care for them properly (something about mold or something), and so we've always had top-loaders.
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Yeah the one in my current house develops a lovely brown squidgy liquid in the rubber rim around the door. It means that if you don't notice it before you take your clothes out, you drag perfectly clean clothes through brown mouldy crap and have to re-wash them. But I don't think top loaders are really a thing over here in the UK (although a top-loading tumble dryer would've been so much more useful for kitchen space this year)
Akima:
I normally do about two loads a week, one for "whites and lights" including things like sheets and towels, and another for "coloureds". It varies a bit depending on what I've been wearing, fabrics, favourite clothes, how hot it's been and so on. I usually have a bag of cycling gear to wash each week apart from anything else.
I have a front-loading washing machine, but no dryer. The climate in Sydney is such that I can generally dry outside all year round if I keep an eye on the seven day weather forecast. I use a front-loader because they use less water and electricity (generally), and are gentler on the clothes (usually). Top-loaders are quite popular here however because they are cheaper to buy. My machine has a neat feature where you can program it to start the wash n hours after you set the timer. I load it in the evening and set it to start at 5am, so it runs on cheaper off-peak electricity, and I can hang the washing out early to catch the morning sun.
LTK:
--- Quote from: Lupercal on 22 Jun 2012, 07:49 ---
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 21 Jun 2012, 14:38 ---Maxusy, I'm not sure if you're joking or not... Other than pants (as in underwear) and socks, I use everything more than once before washing it. Even bras, because those suckers cost a fortune and I can't afford to have more than two that fit at a time.
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My girlfriend has a similar dilemma. Cheap ones die quickly, more expensive ones tend to just fade, die, lose any kind of supportive function. Its a shame, because it seems like a black-hole of underwear shopping that men rarely go through. I choose to throw out boxers I've had since like, before college, just because I shouldn't have underwear I've had since I was 16. Too much information? Possibly! :mrgreen:
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I remember a stand-up comedian telling how men really never throw away underwear. We wear them until they disintegrate into dust. Then you can just open the window and let it blow away. That's pretty accurate, don't you think?
Regarding front- and top-loaders: Every single washing machine and dryer I've seen in real life and in advertisements/commercials has been a front-loader. I only know top-loaders exist because of American tv shows, and even then it never occured to me that people have a choice about which kind they buy. The More You Know!
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