Laundry

[FEJ]

How often do you do it?
I am on my last pair of boxers, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it. (I have 2 weeks worth of uniforms for work)

I am doing just 1 load to get me through to tomorrow night (When I will do all of it).

I like to do it weekly, but my weekends have been hectic. I need to get back into m routine.



How about you?
HOw far will you go? Whats your schedule? Do you have the "backup" clothes that you wear when everything else is in the dirty pile?

or am I just a slob this week?
(take your shots :) )

[Ghoulish Delight]

I've got enough clothes to last me well over a month (including underwear and socks). I re-wear pants and select shirts (depending on what I was doing while I was wearing it). When it gets down to the bitter end, and I'm wearing "those shirts", depending on how I'm feeling I'll either do a stop-gap run which involves a load or two with the best shirts and pants and enough underwear to last a little while. About every 3rd time, I do the full load, which is a LOT of clothes.

[Brigitte]

Weekly, starting on Thursday, usually done Friday afternoon. Keeps my weekends free for the rest of the housework :P

[€uroMeinke]

There was a time when we used to go to Target and buy underwear to avoid doing laundry. It got to the point we could go 6 weeks at a time. Then we took over the laundrymat for hours.

[Not Afraid]

I probably have enough underwear to last me 4 weeks - that is including the "bum around the house" ripped lovelies. But, I run out of clothes - believe it or not. Mostly it is because I can't wear 3/4 of my clothes at the moment, the other factor is that I wear mainly jeans lately and I don't have many pairs of jeans. So, with clothes, I'd say 2 weeks.

[MickeyD]

I have enough underwear to last me about a month. Depending how busy and/or lazy I am, I might actually go a month without doing laundry. If I'm doing pretty good at keeping on top of it, I do two or three loads a week. Which, lets face it, rarely happens.

Right now I'm not doing laundry, first, because there's a huge stinky pile on my laundry room floor from my Mexico trip. Second, because I'm still a bit gunshy from breaking my toe while carrying a load of laundry.

[Prudence]

I used to do laundry almost daily, but now that I don't get home until 9-10 at night, I can only do it on the weekends. I actually like doing laundry; it's the one chore I won't let my husband do. (Plus he can't separate loads. He just doesn't grasp the concept.) We bought a new washer (front loader!) almost a year ago and I still sometimes just sit and watch the clothes tumble around.

[Babette]

How often do you do it?
I am doing just 1 load to get me through to tomorrow night (When I will do all of it). Ummmm...If you leave it there won't mom just do it for you?! :evil:

I own like a million pair of panties that would hold me for over 2 months, but only about 20 of my favorite style. When those are gone, I think about doing laundry. My luck lately has been I MUST do it because I am in DIRE NEED of something, and it is pouring rain. I have to go outside to get to the garage here. That is my dream...to have a washer and dryer that I can get to without leaving my home, and that I don't have to share with neighbors!

[MerryPrankster]

I'm with Prudence. I enjoy doing laundry and I would never, ever let my husband touch it. Sometimes I'm into doing at least one load a day, putting it in first thing in the morning. Other times, at least a couple of loads a week. Then there's always the delicate and odd colored items that need special attention. Some items I prefer to not machine dry, so they have to be hung out to dry. I have enough underwear to last me for well over a month. I even have some new stuff with tags that I've never worn.

[€uroMeinke]

I own like a million pair of panties that would hold me for over 2 months, but only about 20 of my favorite style. When those are gone, I think about doing laundry. My luck lately has been I MUST do it because I am in DIRE NEED of something, and it is pouring rain. I have to go outside to get to the garage here. That is my dream...to have a washer and dryer that I can get to without leaving my home, and that I don't have to share with neighbors!

You share your panties with your neighbors?

[SacTown Chronic]

I own like a million pair of panties that would hold me for over 2 months

Do you do anything other than change your panties all day?

[€uroMeinke]

Do you do anything other than change your panties all day?

"What color are your panties? How about now? or now?"

[mistyisjafo]

Uggg, laundry. I do mine about every two weeks or when I get down to the last pair of undies which ever comes first. In fact I did mine on Saturday and has of yet to hang them.

[Scrooge McSam]

I confess a love of doing the laundry as well. But I never said anything about putting it away. That's what the guest room bed is for.

[Isaac]

How often do you do it?
I am on my last pair of boxers, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it.
I got down to my last pair of boxers about 2 years ago. I'd buy more but I figure it's just one extra thing to wash.

I tend to do my laundry every week but lately I've slacked off. I finally did 3 loads of it about a week ago but I still have 7 more to do. I just don't like collecting quarters & going to the laundry room on a regular basis. It has to be done but I'm not into it at all.

[mhrc4]

we usually do laundry every 2 weeks, thats about how many clothes we have to last us, usually its underwear for both of us that require us to do laundry... on regular clothes, i could probably go 2 months

[sleepyjeff]

My wife does the laundry but I am in charge of transporting it to and fro plus putting it away.
A million years ago when I was a bachelor I discovered the wonders of having the lady at the laundromat do it for me......for about $8.00 more then I would have paid using those machines I got 3 weeks worth of laundry done and saved myself spending an entire Saturday doing this chore :D

[Kevy Baby]

I got married so I wouldn't have to do laundry.

The washer/dryer combo in our place was here when we moved in. It is just big enough to do one day's worth of laundry for the two of us. Which really sucks because we owned a W/D combo that could do a weeks worth of laundry in a single load.

With GusGus praying at the Church of Fly Lady, she does a load of laundry a day: it's the eighth Commandment I think.

[MickeyLumbo]

while you're at work, Gus Gus does my laundry. sometimes we play cards, naked, while waiting for the spin cycle to finish.

oh, by the way, i think i am wearing a pair of your briefs now.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I hate doing laundry.

I will let dirty clothes build up in my closet for a month or more.

Then I do it. Realize I don't hate doing it at all and tell myself that I'll do it once a week because having less to do is a better way to live.

Then I forget I don't mind doing laundry.

I hate doing laundry.

I will let dirty clothes build up in my closet for a month or more.

Rinse. Repeat.

Dry cleaning? Months may go by. Then I'll finally take it in and it'll cost me $100.

There were times in New York where I'd buy an entire new outfit for work rather than do laundry on a Sunday evening.

I run out of underwear. I go commando. I prefer commando anyway. Unless I'm wearing wool pants. That gives me rug burn in sensitive areas. If I *have* to wear underwear, and I'm out of a clean pair, I'll wear the bottoms to my swim suit.

Yup, I've said that here before, actually.

Sometimes I'll do a hand wash in the sink, just for a pair of panties.

I miss college. I used to send my laundry out to be cleaned. They came back fluffed and folded, and smelling really, really nice.

[sleepyjeff]

I miss college. I used to send my laundry out to be cleaned. They came back fluffed and folded, and smelling really, really nice.

Hooray for Fluff and Fold!............Funny the stuff we could "afford" to do in College when we had no money that we can't "afford" to do now when we do :D

[Name]

If I *have* to wear underwear, and I'm out of a clean pair, I'll wear the bottoms to my swim suit.mmmmmmmmm, boot camp memories, like the first day or two when I first got there, before they issued us our uniforms, they issued us sneakers, sweats, and a swimsuit, the swimsuit was used as skivies under the sweatsuit.....not that this has anything to do with laundry, its just 1am, and it brought back memories.......I'll stop derailing this now.

[Betty]

I confess a love of doing the laundry as well. But I never said anything about putting it away. That's what the guest room bed is for.


Or the small couch in the living room. Sad but true. I tell the family that I need help. I do the laundry and they put it away. I can make the kids do that but somehow, the husbands laundry is STILL on the couch. Oh well. It'll be there next time I do laundry too... which brings me to answer the question - I do it on weekends... and hate hate hate it.

[Flubber]

I miss college. I used to send my laundry out to be cleaned. They came back fluffed and folded, and smelling really, really nice.

I am all for this. Used to send out just work shirts but if I could pay somebody to wash everything..... :snap:

How often I do laundry is driven by the need for undies. Since I only wear those about 2 or 3 times a week I don't do a lot of laundry.

I confess (I know, wrong thread) that I've done the "buy new clothes to avoid washing the dirty ones" trick too.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I've bought whole new outfits, including underwear and socks, to avoid doing laundry.

[Mousey Girl]

David does his own laundry. I refuse to ente his bathroom and pick it up off the floor. Nickolas & I share a hamper that we never seem to use. The clean laundry will end up on the couch for a few days waiting to be folded. Since Nickolas is 100% pure boy I have to his wash quite a bit. When I do his if I have something that needs to be washed I will toss it in. Right now I have a big pile in the garage waiting to get washed, all smelling like campfire smoke from their camping trip. The stuff I had on when I took Boy up there reeks too, even though I only stayed for 30 mins.

I must confess I bought The Boy new jeans and socks just so I wouldn't have to do it as often.

[Kels]

I try to get my laundry done once a week. Out of habit Sunday afternoon/evening is my 'nesting' time. Time for laundry, cleaning the kitchen and making sure all the stuff that I've left around the house during the week is put away. Somehow it just makes me feel better knowing everything is in it's place. (I'm also one of those people who likes to make her bed).

[Baileykat]

At least one load of laundry gets done everyday...when you have one kid who plays baseball...and one who either has tumbling class or cheer practice almost everyday...it tends to pile up on you! So there's at least one load going thru daily....

Add to this that hubby travels alot....I totally 'love' :rolleyes: when he brings home his laundry for the week....and just dumps it off in front of the washer!


Last week I tried to be on "vacation" with the kids...meaning I didn't do any laundry!

I'm paying for that this week! :rolleyes:

[FEJ]

to set things straight, I really don't mind doing laundry. going to the laundromat can be productive. I get good reading or studying done there. my problem is the time to do it. the last thing I want to do after an 11 hour day is go do laundry...or any chores... I like to do that on the weekends... but when weekends get busy, chores get pushed aside.
speaking of that, I have enough socks, underwear and uniforms to get me through friday. looks like I don't have to go to laundromat tonight.

"why do today what yoy can put off till tomorrow"
hee hee

[Scrooge McSam]

Why put off until tomorrow what you can put off til day after tomorrow?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I do 2-3 loads once every 3-4 weeks. Lots of undies and re-wearing pants and skirts pulls me through.

Heh, all this taps into something I've been pondering.

I always hated doing laundry as a teen living at home, because it would take ALL DAY. Load 1 in the washer, load 1 moved to dryer and new load in washer, load 2 in dryer and load 3 in washer and fold load 1, etc. Hours of remembering to go check on the dryer. Bleh.

Since I've moved out it's been apartment laundry room woes. Drag everything there. Hope that there are available machines that work. But even so, it doesn't take nearly as long as doing one load at a time. I keep thinking of owning my own place and actually owning a washer and having to spend a whole day on laundry and how much that would suck. It would definitely force me into the whole "domestic day" thing that people are mentioning here, and that does appeal to me to some degree.

So what do you prefer? Your own W/D set, which means you'll do laundry more often or spend all day on it....or doing all of it at once in some annoyingly communal place?

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'd definitely prefer my own. I wouldn't so much do a whole day, although that I'm sure would be necessary like once every other month. I'd do a lot more quick single loads. It'd be so convenient to just get my favorite clothes + a few pairs of underwear clean whenever I want, instead of having to trudge to the laundry room. Especially in our current apartment, where we're exactly half way between 2 laundry rooms which means we're about as far away as we can be from either. And we're on the second floor.

[Scrooge McSam]

So what do you prefer? Your own W/D set, which means you'll do laundry more often or spend all day on it....or doing all of it at once in some annoyingly communal place?

I prefer my own set, hands down. No more laundromats for me every again.

[Sheila]

Me too on the in-house W/D. I do laundry about once a week. Three loads' worth: undies and jeans (hot), nice clothes (warm) and towels/sheets (bleach!). I almost never do it on the weekends.

I pretty much start a load after dinner, then check in on it as the evening progresses. By the time bedtime rolls around, I'm all done.

I HATE doing housework on the weekend. Weekends are made for goofing off, not clearning or doing errands. I'll move heaven and earth to get all that domestic stuff done by Friday night so I can go play, except for yardwork which can only be done on weekend days. It doesn't always happen, but that's what I shoot for.

[Name]

"why do today what yoy can put off till tomorrow"
damm, now I'm missing Spain...:( .....to be "on topic" I do laundry every week or two, but hate folding it or hanging it.

[Not Afraid]

I MUCH prefer in-house laundry. I can do it on my own schedule, whenever I like; I can let it sit in the dryer for days if I want (like the load that's in there now); I can do other things at home while doing laundry (reading, writing, LoT, YIM, cleaning, cooking, going out etc.). I don't miss the laundromat at all!

[Prudence]

In-house. I don't "spend the day" on laundry, but when I'm home I can have laundry going while I'm doing something else. Heck, if I'm really on top of things, I can load the washer the night before and set the time so that it starts at the same time as the alarm. Then mid-way through morning prep I can move it to the dryer. I hate the idea of having to be away from home until my clothes are clean. Ish! It also makes it easier to wash things properly. I don't feel like I'm wasting a load if I wash gentle cycle stuff by itself. Plus our washer has a "hand wash" setting which saves me so much time. I never actually hand wash things. Pain in the patootie, handwashing is.

No one steals my clothes. Any scary items left in the machine are mine. No one has just used bleach/dye and not rinsed it out. No one has just washed un-rinsed poopy diapers and left the machine a mess. No one takes my wet clothes out of the dryer so they can dry theirs on my coin. I don't have to sit right in front of the machine to mark my territory. I can do laundry at 2:30 in the morning if I feel like it.

Plus, if I'm feeling supremely lazy, I can toss something wrinkly in the dryer while I shower and then I don't have to iron!

[Claire]

Bwahahaha!! Laundry!

I do laundry every day, usually more than one load a day and on Wednesdays, I do TONS of laundry. Somehow, even with daily maintenance, I'm always behind.

I rarely fold laundry...my husband usually does it on Thursday nights during Survivor and on Sunday nights during Arrested Development.

I will put Chloe and Cassidy's laundry away, but I refuse to put anyone else's away, including my own. WTF is up with that? I don't know. I guess I figure Courtney's ten and can do her own....and yet I'm thirty-one and won't do mine.....

[Kels]

Plus, if I'm feeling supremely lazy, I can toss something wrinkly in the dryer while I shower and then I don't have to iron!


My thoughts Exactly! :snap:

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I MUCH prefer in-house laundry. I can do it on my own schedule, whenever I like; I can let it sit in the dryer for days if I want (like the load that's in there now); I can do other things at home while doing laundry (reading, writing, LoT, YIM, cleaning, cooking, going out etc.). I don't miss the laundromat at all!

I read "can let it sit on the dryer for days" as "whenever I like; I can sit on the dryer...."

I've heard things about sitting on dryers.

And here I thought you were confessing in the laundry thread. I'm so very naughty.

[Not Afraid]

No, dear, it is the spin cycle on the washer you want to be "utilizing". ;)

[Ghoulish Delight]

No, dear, it is the spin cycle on the washer you want to be "utilizing". ;)Yikes, the center post on those drums is kinda large, isn't it? :eek: ;)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

A lot of the problems you guys mention have to do with visiting laundromats. I've never had to do that - just the apartment laundry room with six washer and six dryers. I can do things at home while stuff washes and do it whenever I want, and it's pretty rare that I deal with other people's weirdness (this is silent Irvine, after all).

Still, I see the point - much less shlepping, doing small loads each week. I'll take it. :)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Oh, and I always hang up my laundry immediately. I hate wrinkles. If an article of clothing needs ironing, I never wear it. I do let the socks and underwear lay around for a few days before matching up the socks and putting them away.

[MickeyD]

When my best friend bought a condo without washer/dryer hookups, I thought she was crazy. She reasoned that it was ok because there's a laundry room on every floor and it's just around the corner from her condo. Hate to say it, but I've been right...something that someone on her floor uses in the washer has ruined quite a few loads of laundry for her. Last I heard she was going to take it to the HOA, dunno what's happened since then.

I've been really lucky in that even when I was in college, we had our own washer dryer. The only thing that sucked about that is somehow we were all on the same laundry schedule....we'd all end up in the laundry room within minutes of each other...with whoever got there first totally gloating.

Give me my own W/D any day.

[Baileykat]

I "kinda" miss having to use the apartment laundry room! There is something to be said for getting all your laundry done..in under 2 hours! Of course I don't miss having to haul it back and forth...and having to get quarters...and then there's dragging around the laundry products...soap, Biz, fabric softener...

But I wouldn't trade "hot towels" for anything...Sometimes when it's cold, I'll throw a towel in the dryer for Kat while she's in the bath....she loves it!

And I adore fresh from the dryer sheets! Ahhhh....Downy goodness!

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I love going home to my parent's to do laundry. I watch tv, hang out with them, go on walks. Etc. Plus, the laundry is cleaner and more fresh smelling than when I do it using the apartment's machines.

I almost miss the Laundromat experience, though. I miss realizing that I'm wearing some stranger's panties halfway through my day. I remember turning to my rommmate in NYC, "You know, I don't think these are my panties. These must be your panties."

"Those aren't my panties."

"Fvck! Whose panties am I wearing!?"

Ah, Laundromats.

[Not Afraid]

"Fvck! Who's panties am I wearing!?"

Ah, Laundromats.

So now I singing a combo of The Cramps:

"What color panties are you wearing? What color panties are you wearing? And how long have you been wearing them?"

and Black Randy and the Metro Squad:

"Down at the Laundromat. That's where I'm at."

Maybe I should head on over to the Esoteric Geek thread. :rolleyes:

Jesse, Chris, Fej.......surely you know what I'm talking about.

[Baileykat]

I do NOT miss having my laundry stolen from apartment laundry rooms!

(we lived in a rather not so nice neighboorhood when John was still in college...he was the weekend maintenance guy..so rent was free!)

I left my laundry in the WASHER and went back upstairs...returned about 15 minutes later...clothes are GONE! Everything...jeans, towels, undies...

Who steals someones laundry? I can see maybe a shirt or the towels maybe...but my underwear....and while they were dripping wet from the washer....

I figured if they were THAT desperate for clothes...they could have em!

[Babette]

You share your panties with your neighbors? Only when I accidentally leave a pair in the machine ;) I live in a garage apartment and share the washer & dryer with the people in the house up front. Not the ideal situation, but at least I don't have to drag all my delicates to the Fluff 'n Fold.

I don't hear the machines going right now. I should take this opportunity to get a few loads done while it is open. The last couple did laundry like EVERY day. The lady would work out and wash one shirt, a pair of socks and shorts. That was the whole load. I could never get my stuff done. The current couple is more normal about things and we rarely have a scheduling conflict. Except for the time she took my stuff out of the washer to get their wash done before she left on a trip. Yes, removed the wet clothes and left them sitting in the garage. She didn't need it for her trip, she told me she just didn't want her husband to have worry about it while she was gone. What a wench!

[Babette]

Right now, navy blue.

Years ago I lived in a large apt. complex. I loved the all-at-once timesaver of the laundry room, but hated the "are the machines open?" lottery. The room was too tiny and noisy to stay, so I'd walk down the hall to my apt., set a timer and get stuff done at home. Once, when I went back to move things along, there was a guy standing there holding my panties. I confronted him and he said he was helping me by putting my stuff in the dryer. I looked into the dryer he was transferring things to and it was ALL panties. No t-shirts, socks, sweats or any other articles of clothing from the washer. Just panties. Creepy! Well maybe they float to the top in the wash cycle and settle there after the spin. Yea, right! Eeeeeew! I was soooooo grossed out that I started lugging all my laundry to my parents house after that. Hey Zapp, don't you live in that complex now?!?! You'd better keep a close eye on your panties :D

Now, I've changed to black.

Yippee, my timer. First load is done washing, time to move things along.

[Flubber]

"Fvck! Whose panties am I wearing!?"

If only I had a nickel for every time I've uttered that phrase. :p

[Matterhorn Fan]

I don't mind doing laundry, but I hate carrying it to the laundry room. Plus, the laundry room here has no AC so it's super hot, esp. when the dryers are going, which is awful here, even in the winter.

Last time, some jerk used 6 out of 8 washers, leaving the other two for me (good thing I only had two loads). He'd moved his stuff to the dryers before my loads were done, and he used 7 out of 8. The 8th was broken. I had wet laundry draped all over my furniture. Blech.

My favorite way of doing laundry is to schlep it to HTHBellcaptain's house, believe it or not. But I don't do that often. I don't like people to think I'm taking advantage. (It's not taking advantage if I fold his towels, is it?)

[Stan4dSteph]

"You know, I don't think these are my panties. These must be your panties."

"Those aren't my panties."

"Fvck! Whose panties am I wearing!?"This makes me think of the exchange from Planes, Trains & Automobiles:
"Why did you kiss my ear?"
"Why are you holding my hand?"
"Where is your other hand?"
"Between two pillows..."
"Those AREN'T PILLOWS!"

[FEJ]

ok..so I finally am doing it now. its in the dryer. I filled one regular washer (lights) one triple-load (sheets and towels) and STUFFED the maxi-sized washer, the largest. (darks...duh! )

and the room looks cleaner without the piles...now to put the clean stuff away when I get home. that may be asking too much for one day :)

[FEJ]

And its put away!

[Baileykat]

ok..so I finally am doing it now. its in the dryer. I filled one regular washer (lights) one triple-load (sheets and towels) and STUFFED the maxi-sized washer, the largest. (darks...duh! )

and the room looks cleaner without the piles...now to put the clean stuff away when I get home. that may be asking too much for one day :)

You sorted! That's sooo cool!

Can you teach my husband that trick....he thinks clothes go in the washer together...doesn't matter what color! :rolleyes:

[Kevy Baby]

We actually have a quadruple hamper. Actually, we have two double hampers. Lights in one, mediums in the next, darks in the next , and finally reds. Whenever one is full, throw it in the washer.