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I too wash as I have a full load of like clothes. I always wash my grandchildren's white school t-shirts with our white shirts, nighties etc. I normally wash at least one load of towels a week but sometimes it is two. One load of bedding and then a load of mixed coloureds,(separate load for pale coloureds). I often wonder how we come to get so much washing. We always use non bio as my husband has delicate skin and I try to be careful not to over use a product.

I forgot to mention that all my washing (except small number of special items) goes into the tumble dryer. I got rid of my washing line years ago when I was working as couldn't stand having damp washing round the house when it was raining. Sometimes I would hang washing out before I went to work and find it wetter than ever when I got home. Never looked back since started using tumble dryer, it's saved me hours of work and actually costs very little. DH checked costs of using a dryer on line and it was quite cheap. The other bonus is that quite a lot of items do not need ironing especially if you hang them up straight out of dryer. This saves money too. Win/win!

I do some washing whenever there is a large enough pile in the laundry basket. I separate lights and darks, underwear and top clothes, (shirts, t-shirts etc). Just hubby and me now so do about four or five washes a week not counting bedding. Change and wash sheets and duvet cover etc. about once a fortnight.

Bedding every two weeks, other things twice a week from a mixed basket but possibly several loads. Ironing done on same day as washing.

I tend to wash when needed separating into lights and darks mostly. Towels and bedding washed at higher temperatures. As I don't have a tumble drier I try and space washing out in winter but in summer when can line dry it I sometimes do multiple loads a day. I do use the 40 eco cycle on my machine and sometimes 30 degree wash depending on load.

I have to do washing when the sun shines as we have non-owned solar panels. I generally sort the washing into dark, light, white and dog/garden stuff then wash below 50, usually 30 or 40, as we have very hard water and I do not want the machine to scale up. I use fairy non-bio as the smell is not overpowering for my DH and it's gentle for my DGD who has delicate skin (and also the dog!). I spin everything on 2000rpm so it will dry as quickly as possible in the tumble dryer if the sun is still out or on a rail. I never do hand washing and have never shrunk anything.

I don't have a schedule but I do think I do too much washing ! I separate all my washing into three piles , darks , lights and mixed colours . My beds get changed once a week and towels are used once and washed , as are tea towels . Clothing is worn once and washed as well . There's only two of us at home but I do two washes every day . I got rid of my tumble dryer to save energy do now my house looks like a Chinese laundry in the winter ! Roll on spring ????

I do the laundry twice a week: Wednesdays and Saturdays. Wednesdays are for my clothes, Saturdays are for household items such as tea towels, towels and bedding. Ironing when I need to!

Someone always puts a wash on on Saturday to make sure DS has clean work clothes, otherwise it is 'as and when'. I do try to go for sunny days if possible, so I can hang washing out or get 'free' electricity (via solar panels) to run washing machine/tumble drier in the winter. I find a 30 degree wash and a non bio liquid is fine for all our washing. I like capsules best for convenience/less mess and do like the smell of Fairy, but I will only buy it when on offer at the supermarket!

I don't have a schedule for washing at all, most of the clothes we wear are dark, so I just fill the washing machine when there's enough laundry, I tend to use the 'quick wash' cycle on my machine, which is at 60 degrees. We do, however, both have to wear white shirts for work, so when there's enough of them I put them on a 'white cotton' wash at 95 degrees.
I use washing gel in with my washing and a softener for all my washing, and add a whitening sachet with the white shirts.
All of my washing has to be tumble dried as I don't have access to line drying.

I wS my mother in laws clothes on a Monday my sons stuff on a tues and ours when I can feel widow twangy some days !!!! Love the little capsules much easier ?

No set days here - my husband works very variable shifts, so I try to keep on top of his uniforms.

I also try and run the washer on sunny days - not as much for the drying, as because we have solar panels, so I can run the machine for free if the sun's shining!

I'm really lucky, as my teenage daughter does alot of the washing for me, especially if she sees it building up.

I do a wash every day , always separate colours and whites. Weekends usually wash all the bedding

I have sensitive skin so always use non-bio. I usually separate clothes into lights and darks. I always wash bedding and towels separately on high wash. My husband's sports clothes are usually washed in a separate wash too! I confess I never hang towels out to dry as I love the softness of them being dried in a tumble dryer.

I wash when there is a machine load sized pil. Sometimes I realise that the wash pile is building up and I will suddenly have 2 loads. Not so bad in the summer, but a little more difficult to get dried on the airers and radiators. Beds are changed fortnightly, but staggered so that I am only washing one beds worth of bedding in one day.

Am I the only one who doesn`t separate colours from whites ! I tend to wash like things together ie towels and tea towels, or trousers and joggers . Nothing ever seems to run these days . I do use powder not liquid because I find that powder keeps the machine cleaner and stops it developing a `smell` . I do like Fairy mainly because it is gentle enough to do the Gcs stuff and smells nice . I wash whenever I have the time and inclination .

I have no set schedule, just do the laundry when I have enough for a load, one for sheets, another for towels and tea towels, one for light coloured clothes, another for darks. Luckily I have a utility room where I can dry my laundry when it's raining.

i do the laundry 5 out of 7 days with 2 boys moving back home to save for their own house. chef whites and towels are done on a hot wash. everything else is just put in together on 40 degrees, all spun at 1600rpm, i do the ironing

now theres only myself and my daughter, I only wash one coloured load and one white load a week, we both have sensitive skin and I go for fairy non bio if its on offer. x

I'm a bit OCD with my laundry. I have to split, darks, whites, colours and because the sock monster that hides in the back of my machine used to steal socks, i now have a wash especially for socks, which have gone in paired so i can check up on what socks the monster has took a liking too

I do my washing as soon as a load builds up as there are 4 of us in the house including 2 teenagers who will put washing in after just looking at the clothing.I did used to do it when the laundry bin filled up but before long due to illness and also adverse weather conditions it was over running

I do all my bedlinen and towels on 60. Everything else colour sorted at 30. Love fairy cos I've got sensitive skin and it always smells clean especially when it's line dried!

I do the laundry whenever some needs doing. I do everything on 40 degrees except towels, which I do on 60 degrees - even if they say 40 degrees - and it never seems to do them any harm. I split between a load for 'coloureds' and one for 'mostly white-ish'!

Now my husband has retired, he always puts the washing in because he gets up first! We separate the washing into darks and lights and always use the fast, low temperature wash. We use non-biological washing liquid and non-biological fabric conditioner. I do the hand-washing - wool, cashmere etc using special delicate hand wash liquid. We try not to use the tumble-dryer as it's so expensive, but there is a limit to what you can festoon around the house in the winter. We have two electric dryers with 6 bars each to hang the washing over, or dry sweaters flat, a pull-out dryer over the end of the bath with 6 rails to put clothes on hangers and two dryer rails on the guest room radiator. We also use a sock hanger. I think we've got everything covered! It seems to work well and then we finish everything off in the airing cupboard. In the summer we dry everything outside unless it's wet, in which case, the winter system operates! We don't do a lot of ironing now that my husband has retired, but he does his and I do mine!
If it doesn't look creased, I don't iron it!