I don't have a bath mat or dish mat, so that's out.

But I do a lot of laundry. Bath towels are washed after every use, however I use the bath towels to wipe down the shower everyday so they're too soaked to want to reuse tomorrow.

Bed sheets every 3 days. My 2 dogs sleep with me & get fur & pawprints everywhere on my white sheets.

Dish & hand towels go in everyday with the bath towels.

I have a queen size comforter laying on the floor of my basement. This is washed daily as my dogs potty on it. Max, my 10 year old German Shepherd can't hold it thru the night anymore. The comforter is very absorbent and washes easily in the front loader every morning.

I don't have dress clothes. Just shorts, colored t-shirts & boxer underwear. Those go in with the towels.

I know, before you gag, I use the sanitize cycle so my underwear & dish towels come out sparkling clean & sanitized. Plus I don't dry dishes anyway. That's the job of the Kitchen Aids dishwasher.

I wash all my throw rugs monthly & hang to dry. I have a blanket outside on my deck that my Beagle lays on in the sun. I wash that every 3 days.

My Beagle also has 2 dog beds that go in the front loader every 2 weeks.

Also, my laundry is kosher. I have 2 washers. The front loader is for dog stuff & the HE top loader for everything else.

I do laundry about 4 days of the week. The nice thing about a front loader is it is not wasteful to do smaller loads. I'm big on sorting things, tees, pants, underwear, work clothes, towels, bed linens. I dream of the time when I get an inside laundry room. The garage will be for animal stuff, rugs, mop heads etc. I want a kosher laundry like Pawprint has.

I got lucky. My laundry is in the basement & it's set up for 2 washers & 2 dryers.

My Whirlpool Duet is 10 years old, my GE dryer is 15 years old. Since they don't last forever anymore, when I came across a sale last year for an Amanda set, I jumped at the deal. So when something dies, I'm not in a rush to make an impulse purchase.

The Amanda set replaced a 25 year old Kenmore Elite set that broke. Oh I miss that washer. It was a water hog, but did an excelllent job.

Arcy, my thoughts, too!!!

Lately I've been doing laundry then I find myself out of clean clothes or towels.

Good lord, who wants to do laundry every day? Where do you get the time??? I do laundry once a week. For larger items like blankets and stuff, I wash when it looks or smells dirty. I don't have a bath mat (I use a towel) or a mattress pad.

It's just me most of the time. I can do laundry as often, or seldom as I like. But, I just had a visitor, and only 1 clean towel left. Thus, towels were washed, including the towel like bathmat. Also, sheets, as I don't see a reason to have more than one set of sheets.... wash, dry, put back on is my preferred method.

I wash jeans more often than recommended, I use the nose indicator, LOL.

If it smells in the morning, after having it hang to dry, air out, or what ever, it goes in the hamper.

Nothing wet ever goes in the hamper.

Right outside my door to the garage is a hook and a towel bar, where wet things can hang before they go in the hamper.

Currently my washer is in my kitchen, but I may put it back in to the garage, where it is visible, it used to be.

I don't own a mechanical dryer. I have two racks that can be set up indoors (great for adding humidity in the winter) and bought and installed an outdoor clothes drying rack as soon as I was in this house.

I LOVE not using power I have to pay for, for drying my laundry.

Audrey, the list overall is pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.

Moni

I seem to do laundry fairly often. Maybe 4 times a week, it just depends, I do not have a schedule. My life is not on a schedule :)

Sue

I don't have a particular schedule. Sheets are washed once a week and towels every 2-3 or so days. Everything else when it needs to be washed and when I have time. DH is at home and he does laundry a lot of the time.

Nope, not going to tell you my schedule. I read online about someone who did that, and crooks showed up and stole $10 million in jewels. ;)

I don't even want to read this to know what a horrible housekeeper I am!

I do laundry when the hamper starts to overflow and do dishes when the dishwasher is full. Don't want to tempt the fates. LOL.

Our laundry is upstairs and our washer has a time delay, I put clothes in to wash when I go to bed and set it to start while we're asleep, I put them in the dryer when I wake up and fold or hang them after I'm dressed. I don't have a real schedule for bath towels, I swap them out every couple of days and change our bedding once a week. In addition to some nicer kitchen towels we use bar keepers towels for a lot of stuff in the kitchen and for cleaning (as opposed to paper towels). I keep a big bin full of them in our pantry as well as a bin to hold the dirty ones. I swap our towels and wash cloth out daily and wash that hamper once a week in bleach to sanitize them.

This conversation is funny/odd .....and I recently had one too similar with DD (she has worked her whole adult life). I've never had or used a "schedule". Have always been a "homemaker" who, once the Marine Corps Wives taught me how to be one....just did everything necessary every day.....and changed directions, or whatever, on the fly. It drives me crazy today, because I never had a laundry day, or spring cleaning day or window washing day. Those things were done as soon (or sooner) as there was evidence that it was needed. When I put dishes away, I tidy as I go, so I rarely "clean" cupboards, same with closets....and when you move every 2 or 3 or, rarely 4 years...closets get cleaned. Now that I have lived in this house 12 years, OH YES, it's different and I NEED a schedule and two cleaning ladies; and quite honestly don't know where to begin. I don't "get" how the door jams and knobs and walls get dirty. I don't even remember that I may have cleaned them in the past except when kids were toddlers. We have no toddlers! The handle on the freezer door in the garage....it looks like we have mechanics reaching in it 3+ times a day. We have no mechanics! You know those ghosts of Christmas past? I think that my ghosts from all those homes where housekeeping was "just a daily chore of the day" have begun to haunt me....just haunt me.

I think it's wasteful to wash every day. There are just two of us. How much can we possible get dirty in a day, week, or month? It aint a lot.

I wash when it piles up, or we're getting low on items. I buy my sheets at the second-hand stores for $3 and I've got lots. If they were all washed, I don't think there'd be room in the closet for them.

'There are just two of us. How much can we possible get dirty in a day, week, or month?' Well, in our household, DH can go through a lot of dirty laundry in a day, lol! He's retired, but he plays senior softball once a week, and he's volunteering at our Botanical Garden 4 days a week, soon to go to 5. The guys work from 8-12 am (or later) on a project that is the main fundraiser for the garden (huge Christmas light display), so he goes through a lot of work clothes! I'm proud of him and the guys & gals who do this though. It's a big effort. And when it's over they have to take it down (in the cold of Jan-part of Feb) and pack it away for next year. He doesn't like to leave a lot of dirty, smelly laundry lying around, so he washes it. Yay DH! Love him for that!

Hey! I do all this! I even change the hand towels every day and DGS who lives here gets a clean face cloth every use. I put a load in at night and hang it out or on a drying rack inside. Keeps me out of mischief!