strawberry letter 23: blog 
beth's blog:
how many loads of clothes do you wash each week, on average?
Published Jul. 13, 2008
mrkagain's blog on ironing got me to thinking. About my toilet tissue, actually, but also about washing clothes! Our toilet paper hangs up and over.
How many loads of clothes do you wash a week, on avearge? I wash 2 per week, and sometimes 3. Usually 2, though.
In very loving memory of Honey!
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Let's assume we change clothes each day so that would be 7 X everything worn X #ofpeople in house + a set of sheets/pillow cases per bed used + X towels per person = enough clothes that 3 people would produce a load a day. That's a level clothes basket per load or about 9 or 10 lbs.
I wash everyday. I try not to over-load (wears out machine and clothes). I use delicate cycle on everything, if possible -- faster cycle and less wear. I hang dry sheets, towels, and shirts, putting shirts on tumble for a minute first.
My friend turns her jeans inside out to dry faster.
The worst wash HABITS are connected - overloading & waiting until everything is dirty to start washing.
Don't ever wash red with anything else -- lessons learned with pink towels to prove it.
Best practice - you mow the grass, let someone else wash. Grass is seasonal.
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You know, I live by the adage that you always do what is right even if no one sees you do it. But ironing underwear is another one of those things that make no sense to me. It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things if you do it "right" or not since their is no "right" in underwear ironing.
No one should be looking at you in your underwear in the first place, and if they are, generally it is either in an emergency room where you have already taken a massive dump in them, or by your husband who is obviously looking beyond crumpled underwear thinking that the cloth is simply picking up the underlying wrinkles.
And if you feel a need to hit me for that, just smite NM cause he's thinking the same thing. :)
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