How many loads is average...

[delightedbutterfly]

How many loads of laundry a week or month for one adult and one child using a front loading machine???

Can anyone help me out with a ballpark figure/guesstimate?

[yeahwhat]

I would guess 3-4 loads a week, depending on stuff like how often you change towels, if the adult has to wear separate work clothes, etc. I do about 10 loads per week for 6 of us, but 2 of those are diapers.

[Malva]

Three a week if you include towels and such?

[mamadelbosque]

I find 1 load a week per person plus one load of towel/sheets a week. So for my family I do 3-4 loads of clothes and a load of towels and/or sheets every week... along with a couple loads of diapers

[Drummer's Wife]

I would also guess 3 per week, sometimes 4.

Often, I do that many loads a day.

[Jenn_M]

Yep, 3-4 per week would be my best guess too.

[SuzyLee]

2 a week with no diapers and no bedwetting, etc, and washing sheets every other week (3 loads for sheets week).

[weliveintheforest]

4-5 a week I'd say. One each for clothes, 2 for bedding, towels, rags etc, and 1 for the extra stuff that comes up.

[APToddlerMama]

I'm the odd one out because with 2 adults and 1 (very messy kid), and cloth diapers being washed 4x week, we are at at least 15 loads/week....

When it was just me...I did 2-3 loads a week including washing sheets.

[maggiemae]

We have a family of six and we do about 15 loads per week. We have an old top loading machine.

[4evermom]

Probably 2 or 3.

[Jackies Ladybug]

i have an awesome front loader that fits almost 2 loads, so if you have one of those i think 2-3 loads a week will work good.
i do a load a day with 2 adults and 1 child in cloth diapers. but i have a very messy husband and baby and hubby refuses to wear a pair of pants twice before washing.

[kirstenb]

I do between 5 and 6, but a few of those are diapers... without diapers probably about 3?

[lucifugous]

gosh it depends so much! When DD was between two weeks and six months old, she had reflux/dairy sensitivity/ bottom line, she spit up an entire feeding at least once a day, so between that and using CD I did ten loads every week in a large top loading washing machine. After a move, huge simplification of our lives and wardrobes, and quitting cloth, I was doing about a load a week while it was still warm outside. Now I'm at two or even three per week, for just the two of us. We just wear a lot more layers and even though we re-wear things if they aren't dirty, it seems like there is always the carseat cover or a quilt or a wrap filling up our loads!

[MonkeyPrincess]

I do about 10 loads a week for 7 people.
At least one a day, plus blankets, sheets, jackets/coats, towels, etc.

[lucyem]

IME front loaders can vary widely in what they can hold. Some double what others can hold. Then you have to factor in how dirty a child do you have? My boys manage to go through 1-2 pairs of pants on a good day. Then there is the time of year and you location. Those of us in the North have bigger heavier clothing all winter. With 2 adults and 2 messy boys I end up doing at least 7 loads a week right now for just clothing. Towels and sheets another 2 loads. Our front loader is an average size.

[Dingletwitz]

We do about three, but I'm quite certain that we add on one additional load simply because we live with a dog (not many repeat wears here)

[GoBecGo]

When i was a single parent with just DD i did about 4-5 a week. That was clothes (she's a messy one) sheets (both beds changed weekly) and towels (washed every 2-4 days depending). No daipers, so that would add 1 one 2 loads.

[deditus]

I always do 1 lights, 1 brights, 1 whites, 1 dark regardless of size of loads, so for the other adult in our household (DH) we have to do 2 additional loads for his work clothes since he drives a recycling truck and gets nasty and his company only gave him 3 work shirts. I am a little anal about sorting, though, as I grew up working in my aunt's laundromat.

[delightedbutterfly]

Ok so this is an ongoing problem with my tenant (we share laundry).

When we rented she specifically said "I only do 2-3 loads a week with some weeks having an extra here and there." cool we said that as long as laundry was kept to a respectful amount we wouldn't set days or load limits.

Well DH talks to her at least once a month. Our front loader holds a TONNE even though it doesn't seem like it at the time. She runs very few things in a load on average like 6-8 articals at a time. And for a couple weeks she does slow on laundry after we talk to her. But after that it starts to creep back up. I am not kidding when I say that her higher weeks average 10+ loads. It is her and her three year old son whom is potty trained and maybe has one accident every few weeks. 10 or more loads a week for 2 people is ridiculous! And she doesn't wash on cold...

3-4 seems about average for that size family. Goodness I can do a weeks worth of laundry for four people in three to four loads.

It had tapered off when she went back to work (she was not working when she first moved in) to where I wouldn't be angry everytime I left the house and saw her doing laundry. But these last two weeks her mom has been wahcing her son at the house and does at least one load a day and more often two.

I can't stand it! I can barely get my laundry in the machine and when do she has hers lined up waiting. And if I don't get down there right away to change it? She has changed it for me and the ONLY perk to all this is that if it is towels or blankets she folds them for me... But really!

I will say this I am not usually a nitpicky landlord, I try and fix everything ASAP and even will go beyond "fixing" to actually upgrading the fixes. It still is my house you know? But she calls at least once a week with SOMETHING, the closet broke and she lost the piece, the light broke, there is a wasp problem and while we are trying to fix and deal with it it isn't good enough...

Yet her father comes knocking on ours with does drunk inthe middle of the night, she won't park in her space if there is a second car parked in the sapce beside, she didn't smoke until she moved in and while she had been respectful of "not on the property" I haven't seen her at her car lately (she might have quit tho), her son escapes (I went and bought her a lock to remedy it) she has locked me out of the house while the baby is sleeping... The list goes on and on and on and I probably sound silly with some of it but it has just gotten to be too much. The most recent? The silent thermostat war in themes/laundry room. It is not a living area and it is it's own room. Yet she and her mom turn it so it is a sauna in there... And no matter how often DH or I turn it down it is turned right back up. None of it is the end of the world but I feel like my few rights as a landlord are gone and a bit I feel prisoner in my own house. But she is a clean freak (explains the laundry) and pays her rent on time and is quiet for the most part so while we could take the suite back as our own living space financially we don't because while the money is nice we don't need the space at all.

I know talk about it right? We will but I just want to make sure I am not crazy on the laundry... I thought maybe I was missing something because I sure don't do that much! Sorry for my mini rant. She most likely will be receptive to the laundry as usual I just hate feeling like a broken record.