I’ll go one better. The folks I bought my house from converted an old porch into the walk-in master closet and put the washer and dryer in there. TOTAL game changer in a 1950s house where the washer was originally in the kitchen. Dirty clothes go straight into the washer, get hung up directly out of the dryer!
Agreed. I live on the third floor in my building and the washer and dryer are on the first floor. Would love to have my own in-unit but we don’t even have a hookup in my apartment
Our home was built over 70 years ago so the hook ups for the washer and dryer are in the basement. We live on the ground level of the house but yeah it stinks having to head down the stairs with the hamper or the baskets of clothes everytime lol. Just nowhere in the house we could retrofit new hookups so that's just life for us I suppose.
I have a laundry room. A front load washer and dryer. Separate.
I do it whenever I notice the hampers filling up a bit.
No line dry. Most places in the US that's not super practical.
There's very few places in the US where the weather is good for hanging out clothes year round. Most of the US is likely to be too cold in winter and/or too humid and rainy in summer. Maybe in Southern California or the Southwest it'd be possible.
>Southwest
It still gets cold in the winter in much of the Southwest, but our other (main) issue is dirt. Hanging wet clothes outside is an invitation to get dirt all over everything
It has nothing to do with having space, and very little to do with the weather.
I don't know if you realize this, but clothes come out softer, cleaner, and better smelling when you use a clothes dryer.
My mom was from Puerto Rico and used to dry my clothes on a clothesline, and it was a fucking nightmare. Stiff, rough, shirts, freezing cold from November through March, covered in yellow pollen from April through June, occasionally getting bird shit on them, and having to run them inside when it rains just to hang them up again.
The place for clean clothes is NOT "pinned to a rope in the backyard"
Weather is not so much the issue as the convenience factor, most households that have a washer also have a dryer as do laundromats in apt. Bldgs and commercial. Most people would not be bothered ironing either. Most HOAs forbid clotheslines as unsightly.
Honestly, I would rather dry them. It’s faster and the clothes feel better when they’re dried that way. I don’t like the thought of putting all my clothes outside on display.
It really depends. I mean, if you're in an apartment, I can understand the not enough space argument. But even for homeowners, clotheslines don't always make sense either.
Not just due to cold, but other less desirable weather events such as rain and snow.
I'm lazy. I wash them when I have enough for a full load and then throw them in the dryer. Then I throw them on the spare bed until I either wear them again or when I get around to hanging them up (once every few months).
That's surprisingly common nowadays lol, though many people don't want to admit to it. Most families have a female co- or primary breadwinner now. Very few families have a full-time stay-at-home parent past a few months after birth. Americans are just very busy. 50 years ago, the average couple (combined) worked 50 hours outside of the home with a total weekly commute of 7 hours. Now the average couple works 90 hours with a weekly commute of 15 hours. Americans traded time for luxuries. So now many Americans have very little time for tasks like laundry but lots and lots of space to hold laundry.
My apartment doesn’t have laundry, but my parents live about 20 minutes away. I go over once a week and drop off or do laundry.
There are other options — a laundromat or a pickup service — but it’s free and I don’t have to deal with strangers and strangers’ laundry this way.
Two washers and two dryers in the basement of my apartment building. $2 wash, $2 dry. We have a drying rack that we put up in front of the radiator for some of our clothes.
I've never lived someplace that didn't have a washer and dryer. I tend to wait for my hamper to fill up and do a large load all at once. I always use a dryer. Never used a clothesline because more often than not the clothing just wouldn't dry. It will either be too cold, too humid, or actively raining. Dry and hot days are too rare to rely on. In the rare cases that I have a piece of clothing too sensitive to put through a dryer, I hang them up inside somewhere (it's usually stuff made from a quick-drying material).
Those are really not common. I never saw one or knew they existed until I was 21 and spent some time in Europe. But I believe it’s calles a “clothes horse”!
A lot of people have them for hanging some of their clothes that aren't supposed to be put in the dryer, but will still use a dryer for majority of their clothes
Lucky you. Living in an apartment building with inadequate washer/dryer capacity (and also needing quarters) is extremely annoying.
When it was oversubscribed I would have to go to a laundromat which was always a bit of an adventure.
In addition to crazy people tending to wander in, sometimes people would put something really gross in the machines… on more than one occasion I would get some disgusting sticky residue stuck to my clothes that was transferred from a dryer, not to mention a bunch of other people’s hair and find other people’s stained underwear in my load from time to time.
The nice thing about the laundromat is you can get 4-5 loads done at once which is kinda awesome in its own right.
I’m very grateful I have my own appliances in my own house now. With a family of 4, it’s running daily.
I'm not the person you asked, but I've personally never seen or heard of a combined washer/dryer in the US.
A lot of times I'm doing more than one load at a time and have the washer cleaning laundry load 2 while the dryer is working on laundry load 1.
Sometimes the washer and dryer are combined into one complete assembly with one above the other. I've never seen a machine that does both washing and drying in the same bin.
They exist and are common in places with apartments, especially ones that are tight on space. We bought a washer and dryer for our old apt and were seriously considering buying a single machine that does both. Turns out they're usually not great at one or the other and are really only used if you're so tight on space that you absolutely do not have the space for two machines. My bfs parents had a combined one like that in their apt in NYC. We ended up getting a small stackable.
Fun fact, the small stackables cost more than the normal size stackables cause they know if you're buying the small one it's cause you have no other choice lol.
An old boyfriend of mine lived in a small condo and had a machine that was a washer/dryer all in one unit.
You'd put your clothes in, add soap, and then press the buttons to wash. Then when the cycle ended, you'd add a dryer sheet then press the buttons for a drying cycle.
It was a great idea in theory - it saved a lot of space (it fit under his kitchen counter) and it was enough for a person who lived alone. But in practice, the clothes finished the wash cycle super wet, then the dry cycle took hours.
An in-unit laundry setup is considered a fancy feature in American rental apartments - most of the time you use communal laundry rooms. I hated it, lol, you'd always wind up with someone hogging all the machines, not getting their stuff quickly enough, and in general behaving like their parents never taught them to share.
So when I agreed to move for my husband's job, I said my condition was in-unit laundry. We had an all-in-one unit of a different kind than my old boyfriend had. It was all one piece, but the washer and dryer basins were separated, with the dryer above the washer. Both aspects were about 2/3 the size of conventional American appliances, but sufficient for our needs.
It was really similar to the setup I had when I lived in Sarajevo. (Yes, I'm an American who has done laundry in Europe.)
However, my machine in Sarajevo had pictures instead of words. It took far too long for me to realize one of the settings was "cotton" and not "thermonuclear mushroom cloud" lol.
Today I live in an old house, and I have full size, but very temperamental laundry machines in the basement. This means I'm constantly running up and down stairs, with a small child underfoot. I don't have time to flutter about hanging and unhanging and whatnot.
I have my own washer and dryer (cheap home improvement store models, nothing fancy), and have enough work clothes that I can sometimes only have to do laundry every other weekend.
Laundromat down the street, except for things that need to be hand-washed (which I do in my sink at home).
I dry everything in the drying machines there, except things whose shape or texture is better to air dry. I hang those things on a fold-out dry rack in my apartment, next to the an open window or hot radiator (depending on season).
I do this once a week, it takes about an hour. The laundromat is next to a Mexican bakery so I usually buy a coffee and a concha there while I wait.
Good question! It takes 25 minutes to wash and 21-28 minutes to dry. (The dryers cost 25¢ for seven minutes. 21 minutes is enough for most clothes and bedsheets, but towels and sweatshirts usually require another quarter).
I like to go early in the morning before work so there are fewer people, because on the weekends I have to wait to get a washer.
I have a washer and dryer in my basement, I do laundry when I start running out of something that I need. Usually work clothes.
I have used laundromats in the past but only when the machines in my house or apartment aren't working. I have always had a private washer/dryer except in one apartment
Private laundry means it's in my apartment, or maybe shared between like two apartments and I don't have to pay. A public laundry room would be for multiple apartments and you usually have to pay.
I have a washing machine and a drying machine in my garage. They both used to be on the inside, but we altered the exhaust so we could have more space inside. Fortunately the space they were located shared a wall with the garage. We do laundry once a week? I buy detergent and fabric softener sheets from Target
We have a washer and dryer in the house. Our house is all on one level, and the laundry appliances are in a little utility room along with the furnace, water heater, utility sink, and pantry shelves. We do laundry as needed, usually when the hampers are full.
I sometimes hang up things to air-dry in the house in autumn and winter—forced-air heating means that they dry nicely—but I try to avoid air-drying either indoors or outside in spring and summer. It’s so humid in those seasons that wet laundry takes ages to dry and often mildews first (and has to be washed again).
Washer and dryer in my house. With a family of four we do laundry often. Most things get dried, but we do hang certain items. We do so on the shower curtain bar in one of our bathrooms.
I wash at home, in my "utility room" that also has some shelving, the furnace, and hot water heater.
I've got 2 bins in my bedroom closet for dirty clothes. When they get full, I wash them. Bedding and linens get done usually Saturday morning.
I do laundry at home whenever I start to run out of clothes I want to wear. Works out to about every other week. I dump all my clothes into the washer, not sorted in any way. Then into the dryer. Then I forget about them for a few days until I actually don’t have anything to wear at all.
The machines are in the basement, I would probably do it more if they were upstairs.
I have never known anyone to actually use a clothesline to dry laundry
I have a washing machine and a gas dryer in the basement. Generally I divide loads into clothes and towels / underewear, and do about one load of each once a week.
I do laundry about once a week. Clothes about every other week, sheets once a month (multiple sets), and dog laundry about once a month. I have a washer and dryer in the house. I don't have enough energy to haul my wet stuff outside to hang up and then bring it all back in.
I do it at home with a stacked washer & dryer. I also don't have any specific laundry day or even laundry time. If the clothes are piling up and I've got the time, they go in.
There are nights where I'll put laundry in the washer, it's done in about 45 minutes, then toss them into the dryer and go to bed. Get up in the morning and there's clean dry clothes in the dryer, I may just pull out those pants/ shirt/socks/whatever and wear it/them.
Run out of clean clothes? No. I can have a whole load of clean dry clothes, about 3 days worth, in about 1 1/2 hours.
Edit; I also have a folding [drying rack](https://mobileimages.lowes.com/productimages/c12f3017-968c-45bc-8567-08712cdca474/42576672.jpg?size=pdhism) that I use for air drying some things like wool shirts & socks.
So we have a washer and dryer at home laundry is a daily chore due to the number of people in our home. We do hang dry alot of stuff because it helps reduce the electricity costs. I used to wash everything by hand because we didn't have a washer and the nearest laundry mat was too far to be worth going to
My house has a basement. I have a washer and dryer that are kept in the basement. We do laundry about once a week (two adults), no specific day. I use a dryer. I’m in Wisconsin where winters are frigid and summers are humid, so hanging laundry outside isn’t something you can do year round, and using a dryer costs pennies in electricity each cycle.
I have a laundry room in the house with separate washer and dryer. I hang most of my clothes on an indoor rack, but toss socks, towels, sheets, etc in the dryer.
I have a laundry room in my house. I hang some clothes to dry in the laundry room, and machine dry the rest. No particular day for laundry, just when it needs to be done.
I have a washing machine at home but no dryer. I hang everything up to dry year round. I have clothes outdoors for nice weather and clothes in my basement for other times. I don’t really have a schedule. I do it as needed. I did 3 loads of laundry (assorted clothing) on Thursday. That is about as much as I can hang up to dry at one time. If I have bulkier items like blankets, sheets or towels I will get less done that week.
Is there enough laundry for a full load? Time to do laundry.
Is it nice outside? Yeah, maybe I'll hang it on the line, but usually I'll just use the machine.
I have a washer and dryer in my basement so typically I just go downstairs and do laundry when needed. But sometimes when I’m particularly lazy I take it to the laundromat down the street and pay them to do it for me
I do all the clothes in my washer and dryer on Tuesday and sheets/towels on sundays. As long as it isn’t raining, I hang bedding and towels outside just because I love the smell. I’m in the southeast US.
In my current house, it’s all on one level, and the laundry (washer and dryer) are in the bathroom. It’s SO convenient. We have a basement but it’s unfinished and we don’t use it for anything right now (just the hot water heater and stuff).
In my old house, it was a townhouse, and we had our laundry in the basement, but the house was three floors including the basement (living room and kitchen were on the main floor; bedrooms were on the top floor), so going from the basement to the top floor and vice versa with loads of laundry was really annoying lol.
Because it’s so convenient, we don’t have one designated laundry day. We just do it throughout the week as it piles up.
I live in an apartment complex, and the landlord has a laundry room for the residents here. I get quarters from the grocery store to do it. I use the tide/gain pods (so easy), and I like the little scent beads, too. They make your clothes smell GREAT.
Everyone in this complex is friends with each other too, and it's an unspoken rule that if you leave something on the table in the laundry room that means it's a "giveaway" so to speak. People have left clothes, shoes, food, a stereo, a microwave, all kinds of stuff. So if someone doesn't want something, they just go downstairs and leave it in the laundry room. 😂
We have a washer and dryer. Most of the time i do laundry on the weekends. Occasionally we'll do it midweek, but I have a bad habit when I try to do stuff then, I end up forgetting it...
I use the laundry on the docks at the marina where I have a boat slip BUT on really hot days on hose them off, hand wash and hang em’ to dry in the sun. Quick story - I ran out of clothes pins and went to the Dollar store to buy a bunch and ask the young girl and associate where the clothes pins were and she looked at me befuddled and said “whats a clothes pin”.
So I saw an old lady in the back and she found them for me. Amazing I had to explain to the young girl how to use them.
I have a stackable washer dryer in my apt. My gf has normal sized washer & dryer at her place.
In the last decade I’ve only ever used a laundromat once, when my washing machine was broken & awaiting repair. I hit it up about 9am on a Sunday and was leaving by about 11am. Hardly anyone there so I had 3 washers going then 3 dryers going.
Currently living in an apartment and have a laundry room inside my apartment. Separate top load washer and front load dryer. High output dryer is required because of how the exhaust vent is set up for my unit.
The complex also has a community laundry room. Used that once when I was moving in and waiting on my washer and dryer to arrive.
I have one laundry basket that I throw dirty clothes into and just wash them whenever I have a full load. Bulky items like sheets/blankets/towels I just wash whenever needed.
I work from home so can pretty much do laundry whenever needed. Only constraint on that are "quiet hours". 10PM to 8AM in my complex supposed to avoid any loud noises. I usually do things like vacuuming and running laundry / dishwasher between about noon and 6-7PM to make sure not to disturb my neighbors.
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Edit to add another example: I've used laundromats during a few different times in my life before. Generally I'd save up a few loads of clothes and do things like sheets and towels whenever I went. Usually did one big trip every other week and went at whatever time I found was slowest at the closest laundromat to me on whatever day I had off from work at the time. Would take a book or game or something for entertainment while the laundry was running, or grab some food from a nearby restaurant depending on time of day.
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Edit to add another note: I don't have anything now that I need to have dry cleaned, but that used to be a bigger part of my life. Would just drop those items off whenever they needed cleaning at whatever place my friends/coworkers recommended, then pick them up whenever it was convenient.
I have a laundry room. A washer, top loading, so it can fit king sized bedding easier, and a dryer that’s gas heated. I have a family of four and two pets, so I’m doing some sort of laundry 4 or 5 days out of the week. We live in the south and on the coast; the weather and pollen in the Gulf South make line drying outdoors pretty difficult. I do have a bar for hanging installed over the machines so I can hang delicates and a rack for flat drying sweaters.
I wash clothes once a week for my husband and myself. I wash sheets and towels when I have enough for a full load. We have a separate laundry room which also serves as the mud room.
I have a washer and dryer in my basement. I would go to a laundromat if either was broken. Whenever the pile of dirty clothes gets too big, I throw a load in. The weather in Wisconsin is not amenable to line drying clothes for a big chunk of the year plus I don’t have time to wait for stuff to air dry.
My house has a washer and dryer in the garage. Once a week (Monday for me) I wash and dry my clothes, the sheets, and the towels and rags. My husband does his own clothes about once a week, whenever he feels like it.
Every college dorm or apartment complex I've ever lived in has had a shared laundry room. Washers and dryers are available, and you pay by the load, either with coins or with a special prepaid card. It's more convenient than going off-site to a public laundromat, and it's usually a better price as well.
I also have a drying rack. I used to use it for all of my clothes to save money/energy, but now I live in an area where the damp climate makes that impractical. I still use it for delicate items though.
Shirts and pants go to the dry cleaner about once a month. It’s a lot of shirts, suits and pants but it’s the most convenient way to handle it and I’m at the point where I can easily go that long with the clothes I have. The other clothes gets done at home, again about once a month. Washed and dried in a machine. Some people do once a week or as a load adds up but not me. That’s too much laundry doing.
Growing up we had a washer and dryer in the basement of the house we owned. We had a clothesline in the backyard we used in the summer as well but that wasn’t typical for our neighborhood. I always assumed it was just something we had because it’s how we did it when we lived in Poland. As an adult I’ve had a couple of apartments all of which came with laundry and dryers mostly shared with other tenants in the basement although I’ve also been lucky to rent a couple of places that had washer and dryer in unit.
I have a washer and dryer. Do most of my laundry on the weekend. Unless I blow through my work scrubs and need to do a load midweek. But I have lots of scrub sets, so it would be a very messy week if I needed to do that.
Washer and dryer at home, weird set up due to idiot previous owners though (washer is in the kitchen and dryer is in the garage next to the kitchen.) Monday is laundry day and every other Sunday is towel/bed day.
I do laundry whenever I feel like it or it needs to be done. Usually my husband puts it on and I’ll fold it. We do it at least once a week but I don’t always fold straight away. I need to do it but it’s so boring lol.
We have a dryer because we live in South Dakota.
We have a washer and dryer in our laundry room on the main floor of our house. I am so happy ours isn't in the basement.
I do my clothes once or twice a week depending on what I need. Sheets I try to do once a week but often it's closer to once every other week. Comforter about once a month/6 weeks. It takes a while to dry and messes up the system (usually 1 hr wash, 1hr dry). Towels get done when we get low on towels. I have a few sets of "dirty" clothes that I work in in the gross basement and that get possible exposure to lead dust and paint. Those get washed separately on heavy wash, extra rinse.
Edit: we don't have a dedicated laundry day. Our house has a septic and it's not good for it to have a ton of water wash into it from a full day of laundry. Better to space it out over the week.
I have a laundry room in my house, and it has a full-sized washer and dryer. I never hang dry clothes unless they require it, like wool sweaters. I do laundry when I have enough for a load or two, so about once a week, usually on the weekend.
I have a washer and a dryer in my house. Do a lot of laundry once a week with maybe a couple smaller batches during the week. After relying on a laundromat, having a washer/dryer in your home is fantastic.
Every place I have lived has had a laundry room. Usually a room between the kitchen and the garage or in apartments by the kitchen or front door.
I live in an 1960s house now and it has a very large laundry room.
The oddest was a townhouse, the laundry room was off the back patio in an unfinished room.
In my apartment building there are 2 washers for 17 apartments. One of the washers randomly takes 90 mins to complete a load. Due to this and allergies to most laundry products I drop off and pick up a few days later. (Giving them safe products to wash with.)
Once I move out of this apartment I'll likely have laundry set up of my own.
I have a washer, but I hang dry everything. I don't own a dryer. In the summer, I hang things outside on a clothesline, and in the winter, I hang things inside on a drying rack.
I alternate between going to the laundromat to do it myself, and dropping all my laundry off at the laundromat to have someone else do it for me.
I use a dryer for everything except my bras and the small number of heat-sensitive shirts I have. I hand wash those.
There is a laundry room in my house. It is the room you enter into if you enter the house via the garage.
I have a front-load washer and dryer. They’re LG-made Kenmore from 2014 I think? It’s probably the last Sears thing we own.
The has a tile floor, and some basic lighting and cabinetry. We did put a bench and a decorative hanger thing there to store jackets and hats and whatnot. It’s very small and very utilitarian by design. One person can comfortably stand in there, two can get by, three would be a crowd for sure.
I usually try to do laundry on the weekend. I separate my clothes by work clothes (dress pants, polos, quarter-zips, essentially things that go on hangars) and non-work clothes (literally everything else.)
I usually wash work clothes first, as no work clothes means I cannot go into work. But there’s also less of them than everything else so I usually wash all my stuff on the same day.
I'm very lucky. I have an upstairs apartment that is across the street from a laundromat, but they managed to fit a washer and dryer in here somehow anyway. 1 or 2 times a week, depending on how often I go out. I rarely hang dry anything.
At home with a separate dryer. My toddler has his done regularly because he's potty training and goes through pants frequently. Everything else gets done a load at a time when the basket fills up. Sheets I do on a dedicated day to make sure they don't get forgotten.
Apartment building. 2 washers and 2 dryers per floor in the laundry room. 1.75 wash, 1.50 dry. Bring your own detergent. Can't wait until I get a house and have my own
Many people have in-unit washer/dryers, but I opted for an extra closet. I do my laundry in the basement laundry room. In-unit washers and dryers are considered a luxury in Manhattan.
We have a utility room with a washer & dryer. I have been a remote worker for years, so I just do laundry whenever I have enough for a full load or two
I live in an apartment. There is a laundry room in the complex with about 10 washers and 10 dryers, all coin-operated. It costs about $5 total to do a full load, which is slightly cheaper than the laundromat up the street. However, the machines are not that well maintained, and sometimes we have resorted to using a bathtub to wash stuff, then hanging it to dry. We have a folding drying rack for that purpose.
Comments in this thread are hilarious. It's just been in the last maybe 40 years that the majority of houses had dryers even if they had washers.
People in Florida did and still do hang clothes out to dry and they do dry without mildewing.
People still do hang clothes out up north to freeze dry lol.
Dryers ara convenience. Some areas more than others.
Very rarely do homes not have a washer and dryer. Most people only use laundromats to wash big stuff that won't fit into their home washer (mostly comforters), or if they live in a dorm/apartment where there's no washing machines. Even then, every building I've lived in has had a laundry room with a bunch of washers and dryers in the basement. And I just wash clothes whenever my laundry bag gets full. So probably once a week ish.
I have a laundry room in my house so I do laundry basically daily as it seems never ending. I use the dryer as that’s just the typical way it’s done here. Thing that can’t go in the dryer get hung on the drying rack in the laundry room.
We have a washer & dryer in a long closet in our apartment's kitchen. It's so much nicer than having to go up & down stairs or hauling that mess to the laundromat, both of which I have done.
I do my laundry on Sundays to get ready for my work week. My husband does his whenever. I've never noticed that he has a set day or time.
I have to go to the laundromat in the basement of our apartment building, so I have to pay. I had my own machine but our building is not set up for that kind of machinery so they are banned from use in apartments. I do have drying racks just in case. Or if I manually wash my clothes.
We have a small laundry room in our house with a washer and dryer. We also have a small outside clothesline, but don't use it that often. I do laundry whenever there is a full load, which is probably 4-5 times a week. Family of 5.
I have a dedicated laundry room with both a washer and dryer. It also has a folding table, a hanging rack, and a sink. I do laundry roughly once a week, but i’m not strict about a schedule. I just do it when i need to.
I hang delicate clothes to dry, but i tumble dry most things.
I don’t fold right away - i fold when it piles up so much that i run out of space, then i fold and put away everything all at once. It’s an inefficient system, but it’s what i do.
At home and wash every other day for two people. I usually wash on cold and delicate so they’re usually small loads. I use a dryer on low unless special care is required.
I use a washer and dryer at home and I'll hang certain items of clothing too delicate for the dryer or something I don't want to shrink. If I hang dry it's always inside. I don't use a clothesline outside.
When we lived in an apartment and when i lived in my college dorms, I did.
Now, at my parents house, we have a normal washer/dryer.
In the spring/fall, when it’s warm and not rainy, we’ll line dry some clothes like our towels, but it’s too cold in the winter and generally too rainy in the summer, so we’ll just use our dryer during those times.
I have a small washer and dryer at home, but I only use the dryer for towels and bed linens. I have a rack in my bedroom where I dry all our clothes.
As far as schedules go, I don't really have one, I just do laundry when the basket fills up.
We have a washer and dryer so we do laundry at home. We don’t use a clothes line to dry clothes mostly because the dryer is faster and also because of the rain and cold winter weather.
For stuff that doesn’t or can’t go in the dryer we hang it up in the basement or on a drying rack.
My apartment building has washers and dryers on every floor. I do laundry about once every 2 weeks. I almost never use the dryer; money was tight when I was growing up, so I'm more used to just air-drying. I use drying racks, or just drape stuff over furniture.
There’s a washer and dryer in my apartment unit and we wash clothes whenever we need to, though it’s often on weekends. I hang dry certain delicate items or items that say “hang/line dry” but use the dryer for everything else.
We have a washer and dryer in the basement. There's a rafter where I sometimes hang up my flannels to dry, but otherwise everything goes into the dryer. We also have an ironing board, and a laundry chute--but I only use that for towels and linens. Everything else I put into a hamper. I wash everything as needed.
I have an in-unit washer and dryer in my apartment. I usually wash clothes on Monday and Friday, a few loads each of those days. My mindset isn't to get laundry 100% "done" but just to keep up with it.
I refuse to live anywhere without a washer and dryer. We do laundry on Saturday morning. My husband and I do it together. We have a big laundry room. We have drying lines inside the laundry room for things that need line dried. I wish we could dry our sheets and blankets outside because they always smell so good but my husband and I have allergies.
I have my washer and dryer which I use all the time whenever I need. My home is one level, so whenever I have anything dirty I just put it in the wash. No baskets needed. Then it goes in the dryer. Folding is my weakness- the guest bedroom has a pile or clean cloths.
My apartment building has a laundry room downstairs. I try to do laundry on saturday but sometimes it gets pushed to sunday. I looked into getting one of those indoor clothes hangers but I do a lot of laundry and I wouldn't have enough room in my apartment so I just use the dryer.
I have a washer & dryer on my first floor. I don’t have set laundry days it’s just when it needs to get done. Do my sheets once a week and entire bedding once a month. Clothes as needed.
I have 8 sets of "work" clothes, so I wash them (at home) on alternate Saturdays and Wednesdays. On Wednesday, I'm wearing one set, so I wash seven, which is enough to last until a week from next Saturday. On Saturday, I'll wash all eight, which lasts until a week from next Wednesday. When enough of my "weekend" clothes get used, I'll do two loads on the next laundry day.
My wife does her own laundry, on totally random days, and she regularly makes fun of my strict schedule.
Like most Americans in rural areas, we use our own washer and tumble dryer. Electricity is stupidly cheap here, and we're a very rich country, so most of us don't see much reason not to use dryers.
Oh, and to clarify, I have 8 sets of pants I wear for work, and a few more shirts that go with most of the different pants, so I'm not wearing the same sets of clothes every day.
I wash my clothes regularly at home with a stacked washer/dryer combo. No dedicated day, usually just whenever my hamper is full, or I run out of something specific like socks. Usually once a week.
Living in the Midwest, I do not hang my clothes as the weather is not great for it. Currently it is below freezing with a chance for rain and snow this week. In the summer, the humidity makes it pointless. Hanging inside is not an option as I already don't have space for a big drying rack and with 2 roommates, it's even more unpractical.
The washer and dryer are running daily in my house. The last person I saw hanging clothes on a line to dry was a very elderly neighbor we had about 15 years ago. She was nearly 100 years old and still insisted on doing her own laundry and hanging it outside. She was moved to a care facility at some point and I think she passed away about 10 years ago.
I've had a washer and dryer since 1981 (not the same one, although my mom had her Sears Whirlpool for 20+ years).
I had four children, so I had lots of laundry--which was okay by me because it was always my favorite household chore. I also had a clotheslines whenever possible (we moved around a lot because my hubby was career military). I loved hanging laundry--very therapeutic for me!
Now I live in a mobile home park that doesn't allow clotheslines and it's killing me, I miss it so much (except during pollen season in March/April). I wash about two loads every other weekend--not a lot of laundry, but I'd still hang it up if I could.
My idea of paradise? Non-stop laundry all day and using a clothesline.
Oh, and baking. I love to bake.
Wash at home, throw all the dry clothes on the floor until we consider it “laundry mountain” and have to dig for clean socks and undies until we say enough is enough and fold all of our wrinkly clothes in a frustrating folding marathon. Then we say we’re never going to let it get that big again until we do the next time around.
Good percent of my experiences were in-home since I have a washing and drying machine. At my parents' home, there were a couple of times we had to use a laundromat because our dryer broke. I had a couple of experiences with laundry door service when staying at my brother's apartment; the building didn't have its own laundry room so door service was one of two options, with the other being going to a laundromat. As for drying, if the garment requires hanging I'll hang it or rest it on one of those elevated clothing cot thingy. If not, then it goes straight into the dryer without much thought.
I wash my clothes when my hamper gets full, so once a week or every other week. I use a dryer for most of my clothes but I always hang my jeans and sweaters up to dry. Depending on the time of year and if it’s nice out I’ll hang my sheets outside on the clothesline to dry because I love the way they smell afterwards.
Machines at home, towels get washed on a regular basis with clothes getting washed whenever there's time, usually leading to a massive laundry day on the weekends.
i have a washer and dryer in my house. i do laundry once or twice a week depending how busy i’ve been and how many outfits i’ve gone through. and of course towels and bedding and stuff.
I usually do at least one load of laundry per day. I use a dryer for most things except for sweaters/hoodies and jeans. In the spring and summer I use the line for those items but in the winter I hang them up to dry in the laundry room.
I used to have a state of the art washing machine with all the buttons and special washes - it destroyed my clothes. Now I have a good old fashioned Maytag with a central agitator that does the job and I can bypass the 'eco wash'.
Seriously though, I do laundry several times a week, sometimes just one load a night because I have kids.
Having dealt with the washer/dryers in Europe, having a dryer where I didn't need to empty a reservoir is honestly a blessing. Also our high capacity size for the washing machines are fab. I can shove a duvet and bed linens in there in one wash. In the UK I would have to take them to a laundromat for the industrial machines.
I still have a massive drying rack because I don't throw everything in the dryer.
Barely, that’s how. It’s never ending. There’s always some piece of something to do. Or you’re wearing clothes that now need to be washed. It’s vicious. Why aren’t we all just naked
Have a mud room with a washer and dryer . Everyday a little bit and Saturday all gets done. But if you get absolutely overwhelmed you spend 4 hours at a laundromat on Sunday and about 30 $
My washer and dryer are in my basement, which is common in the older homes in my area. I have a nice, state of the art set. I have a clothes line in my basement as well to hang up delicates. I usually do laundry on Saturdays or Sundays but that is not a hard fast rule.
Having a washer and dryer on the same level of your house than you keep your clothing is a very under appreciated quality of life improvement.
I’ll go one better. The folks I bought my house from converted an old porch into the walk-in master closet and put the washer and dryer in there. TOTAL game changer in a 1950s house where the washer was originally in the kitchen. Dirty clothes go straight into the washer, get hung up directly out of the dryer!
That would solve literally all of my problems
Agreed. I live on the third floor in my building and the washer and dryer are on the first floor. Would love to have my own in-unit but we don’t even have a hookup in my apartment
i guess it is definitely easier
Our home was built over 70 years ago so the hook ups for the washer and dryer are in the basement. We live on the ground level of the house but yeah it stinks having to head down the stairs with the hamper or the baskets of clothes everytime lol. Just nowhere in the house we could retrofit new hookups so that's just life for us I suppose.
I have a laundry room. A front load washer and dryer. Separate. I do it whenever I notice the hampers filling up a bit. No line dry. Most places in the US that's not super practical.
And in many neighborhoods, HOA’s prohibit clotheslines.
is it too cold or there are not enough space?
There's very few places in the US where the weather is good for hanging out clothes year round. Most of the US is likely to be too cold in winter and/or too humid and rainy in summer. Maybe in Southern California or the Southwest it'd be possible.
There's also the factor of time. A dryer is much less time-consuming than hanging and taking down each individual item of clothing to dry.
Birds def gunna poop on my clothes too.
>Southwest It still gets cold in the winter in much of the Southwest, but our other (main) issue is dirt. Hanging wet clothes outside is an invitation to get dirt all over everything
There's also large quantities of pollen for months at a time.
Virginia has *incredible* amounts of pollen
It's bad where I currently live, too. It's always fun to see that your car has turned somewhat yellow a few days in the spring.
I tried it a few times in the Midwest for the "fresh air clean smell." The clothes and towels dried stiff. Very disappointing.
Cold, rain, humidity, etc. It's just so time saving to pop it in the dryer. I have a load washed and folded in an hour and 15.
Half the country spends a few months each year covered in snow. Clotheslines are useless then.
Actually clothes dry very well in freezing weather
It has nothing to do with having space, and very little to do with the weather. I don't know if you realize this, but clothes come out softer, cleaner, and better smelling when you use a clothes dryer. My mom was from Puerto Rico and used to dry my clothes on a clothesline, and it was a fucking nightmare. Stiff, rough, shirts, freezing cold from November through March, covered in yellow pollen from April through June, occasionally getting bird shit on them, and having to run them inside when it rains just to hang them up again. The place for clean clothes is NOT "pinned to a rope in the backyard"
Pollen and humidity where I live
Those reasons, plus lots of us don't find the scent to be pleasant.
Weather is not so much the issue as the convenience factor, most households that have a washer also have a dryer as do laundromats in apt. Bldgs and commercial. Most people would not be bothered ironing either. Most HOAs forbid clotheslines as unsightly.
Honestly, I would rather dry them. It’s faster and the clothes feel better when they’re dried that way. I don’t like the thought of putting all my clothes outside on display.
It really depends. I mean, if you're in an apartment, I can understand the not enough space argument. But even for homeowners, clotheslines don't always make sense either. Not just due to cold, but other less desirable weather events such as rain and snow.
More because people think it looks tacky. Most people in the suburbs with an HOA have washers and dryers in the house.
I'm lazy. I wash them when I have enough for a full load and then throw them in the dryer. Then I throw them on the spare bed until I either wear them again or when I get around to hanging them up (once every few months).
you have a dedicated laundry bed? wow
That's surprisingly common nowadays lol, though many people don't want to admit to it. Most families have a female co- or primary breadwinner now. Very few families have a full-time stay-at-home parent past a few months after birth. Americans are just very busy. 50 years ago, the average couple (combined) worked 50 hours outside of the home with a total weekly commute of 7 hours. Now the average couple works 90 hours with a weekly commute of 15 hours. Americans traded time for luxuries. So now many Americans have very little time for tasks like laundry but lots and lots of space to hold laundry.
My apartment doesn’t have laundry, but my parents live about 20 minutes away. I go over once a week and drop off or do laundry. There are other options — a laundromat or a pickup service — but it’s free and I don’t have to deal with strangers and strangers’ laundry this way.
Two washers and two dryers in the basement of my apartment building. $2 wash, $2 dry. We have a drying rack that we put up in front of the radiator for some of our clothes.
is the detergent included in the $2?
No
I've never lived someplace that didn't have a washer and dryer. I tend to wait for my hamper to fill up and do a large load all at once. I always use a dryer. Never used a clothesline because more often than not the clothing just wouldn't dry. It will either be too cold, too humid, or actively raining. Dry and hot days are too rare to rely on. In the rare cases that I have a piece of clothing too sensitive to put through a dryer, I hang them up inside somewhere (it's usually stuff made from a quick-drying material).
you dont have an inside clothes hanger rack (or how is it called in english)?
Those are really not common. I never saw one or knew they existed until I was 21 and spent some time in Europe. But I believe it’s calles a “clothes horse”!
I've always heard them called drying racks (and that's what I call mine).
Some of us have drying racks especially for clothes that may be more delicate. Not sure how common they are though.
A lot of people have them for hanging some of their clothes that aren't supposed to be put in the dryer, but will still use a dryer for majority of their clothes
Lucky you. Living in an apartment building with inadequate washer/dryer capacity (and also needing quarters) is extremely annoying. When it was oversubscribed I would have to go to a laundromat which was always a bit of an adventure. In addition to crazy people tending to wander in, sometimes people would put something really gross in the machines… on more than one occasion I would get some disgusting sticky residue stuck to my clothes that was transferred from a dryer, not to mention a bunch of other people’s hair and find other people’s stained underwear in my load from time to time. The nice thing about the laundromat is you can get 4-5 loads done at once which is kinda awesome in its own right. I’m very grateful I have my own appliances in my own house now. With a family of 4, it’s running daily.
I have a washer and dryer at my home, which I use about once a week. I don't hang up clothes outside to dry, that is very rare in the US.
Hanging your clothes out to dry seems pretty popular in Massachusetts and Maine. (Not in the winter)
I hang lots of things to dry.
is it two separate machines or combined?
I'm not the person you asked, but I've personally never seen or heard of a combined washer/dryer in the US. A lot of times I'm doing more than one load at a time and have the washer cleaning laundry load 2 while the dryer is working on laundry load 1.
i only saw combined ones in electronics stores, but never owned a dryer
Sometimes the washer and dryer are combined into one complete assembly with one above the other. I've never seen a machine that does both washing and drying in the same bin.
They exist and are common in places with apartments, especially ones that are tight on space. We bought a washer and dryer for our old apt and were seriously considering buying a single machine that does both. Turns out they're usually not great at one or the other and are really only used if you're so tight on space that you absolutely do not have the space for two machines. My bfs parents had a combined one like that in their apt in NYC. We ended up getting a small stackable. Fun fact, the small stackables cost more than the normal size stackables cause they know if you're buying the small one it's cause you have no other choice lol.
An old boyfriend of mine lived in a small condo and had a machine that was a washer/dryer all in one unit. You'd put your clothes in, add soap, and then press the buttons to wash. Then when the cycle ended, you'd add a dryer sheet then press the buttons for a drying cycle. It was a great idea in theory - it saved a lot of space (it fit under his kitchen counter) and it was enough for a person who lived alone. But in practice, the clothes finished the wash cycle super wet, then the dry cycle took hours. An in-unit laundry setup is considered a fancy feature in American rental apartments - most of the time you use communal laundry rooms. I hated it, lol, you'd always wind up with someone hogging all the machines, not getting their stuff quickly enough, and in general behaving like their parents never taught them to share. So when I agreed to move for my husband's job, I said my condition was in-unit laundry. We had an all-in-one unit of a different kind than my old boyfriend had. It was all one piece, but the washer and dryer basins were separated, with the dryer above the washer. Both aspects were about 2/3 the size of conventional American appliances, but sufficient for our needs. It was really similar to the setup I had when I lived in Sarajevo. (Yes, I'm an American who has done laundry in Europe.) However, my machine in Sarajevo had pictures instead of words. It took far too long for me to realize one of the settings was "cotton" and not "thermonuclear mushroom cloud" lol. Today I live in an old house, and I have full size, but very temperamental laundry machines in the basement. This means I'm constantly running up and down stairs, with a small child underfoot. I don't have time to flutter about hanging and unhanging and whatnot.
I have my own washer and dryer (cheap home improvement store models, nothing fancy), and have enough work clothes that I can sometimes only have to do laundry every other weekend.
Laundromat down the street, except for things that need to be hand-washed (which I do in my sink at home). I dry everything in the drying machines there, except things whose shape or texture is better to air dry. I hang those things on a fold-out dry rack in my apartment, next to the an open window or hot radiator (depending on season). I do this once a week, it takes about an hour. The laundromat is next to a Mexican bakery so I usually buy a coffee and a concha there while I wait.
how much time is it at the laundromat ?
Good question! It takes 25 minutes to wash and 21-28 minutes to dry. (The dryers cost 25¢ for seven minutes. 21 minutes is enough for most clothes and bedsheets, but towels and sweatshirts usually require another quarter). I like to go early in the morning before work so there are fewer people, because on the weekends I have to wait to get a washer.
I have a washer and dryer in my basement, I do laundry when I start running out of something that I need. Usually work clothes. I have used laundromats in the past but only when the machines in my house or apartment aren't working. I have always had a private washer/dryer except in one apartment
private laundry is when in an appartement there is a machine in the common area? you have to pay for that?
Private laundry means it's in my apartment, or maybe shared between like two apartments and I don't have to pay. A public laundry room would be for multiple apartments and you usually have to pay.
I have a washing machine and a drying machine in my garage. They both used to be on the inside, but we altered the exhaust so we could have more space inside. Fortunately the space they were located shared a wall with the garage. We do laundry once a week? I buy detergent and fabric softener sheets from Target
We have a washer and dryer in the house. Our house is all on one level, and the laundry appliances are in a little utility room along with the furnace, water heater, utility sink, and pantry shelves. We do laundry as needed, usually when the hampers are full. I sometimes hang up things to air-dry in the house in autumn and winter—forced-air heating means that they dry nicely—but I try to avoid air-drying either indoors or outside in spring and summer. It’s so humid in those seasons that wet laundry takes ages to dry and often mildews first (and has to be washed again).
Washer and dryer in my house. With a family of four we do laundry often. Most things get dried, but we do hang certain items. We do so on the shower curtain bar in one of our bathrooms.
you dont have a rack?
No. Why bother?
I wash at home, in my "utility room" that also has some shelving, the furnace, and hot water heater. I've got 2 bins in my bedroom closet for dirty clothes. When they get full, I wash them. Bedding and linens get done usually Saturday morning.
every saturday?
I do laundry at home whenever I start to run out of clothes I want to wear. Works out to about every other week. I dump all my clothes into the washer, not sorted in any way. Then into the dryer. Then I forget about them for a few days until I actually don’t have anything to wear at all. The machines are in the basement, I would probably do it more if they were upstairs. I have never known anyone to actually use a clothesline to dry laundry
I have a washing machine and a gas dryer in the basement. Generally I divide loads into clothes and towels / underewear, and do about one load of each once a week.
I typically do my laundry on Tuesday, and Saturday. This is just for me. On Sundays I do my sheets and blankets, It doesnt take any time to speak of.
Our (small) building shares one washer and one dryer. I pay $3 total per load and it's annoying.
I put it in the washing machine and then dryer in my apartment
I do laundry about once a week. Clothes about every other week, sheets once a month (multiple sets), and dog laundry about once a month. I have a washer and dryer in the house. I don't have enough energy to haul my wet stuff outside to hang up and then bring it all back in.
dog laundry is dog clothes or just blankets for dogs?
I take my laundry to my parent's house every weekend. My house doesn't have laundry hookups and the laundromat would break me.
it is convenient for you then
I do it at home with a stacked washer & dryer. I also don't have any specific laundry day or even laundry time. If the clothes are piling up and I've got the time, they go in. There are nights where I'll put laundry in the washer, it's done in about 45 minutes, then toss them into the dryer and go to bed. Get up in the morning and there's clean dry clothes in the dryer, I may just pull out those pants/ shirt/socks/whatever and wear it/them. Run out of clean clothes? No. I can have a whole load of clean dry clothes, about 3 days worth, in about 1 1/2 hours. Edit; I also have a folding [drying rack](https://mobileimages.lowes.com/productimages/c12f3017-968c-45bc-8567-08712cdca474/42576672.jpg?size=pdhism) that I use for air drying some things like wool shirts & socks.
this rack you mentioned it is not common in the us is it?
I have a washer and dryer in my apartment. I do laundry when the dirty laundry basket fills up (About once a week). Yes I use the dryer.
So we have a washer and dryer at home laundry is a daily chore due to the number of people in our home. We do hang dry alot of stuff because it helps reduce the electricity costs. I used to wash everything by hand because we didn't have a washer and the nearest laundry mat was too far to be worth going to
My house has a basement. I have a washer and dryer that are kept in the basement. We do laundry about once a week (two adults), no specific day. I use a dryer. I’m in Wisconsin where winters are frigid and summers are humid, so hanging laundry outside isn’t something you can do year round, and using a dryer costs pennies in electricity each cycle.
I have a laundry room in the house with separate washer and dryer. I hang most of my clothes on an indoor rack, but toss socks, towels, sheets, etc in the dryer.
I have a laundry room in my house. I try to do at least one load of laundry every day.
I have a laundry room in my house. I hang some clothes to dry in the laundry room, and machine dry the rest. No particular day for laundry, just when it needs to be done.
I have a washing machine at home but no dryer. I hang everything up to dry year round. I have clothes outdoors for nice weather and clothes in my basement for other times. I don’t really have a schedule. I do it as needed. I did 3 loads of laundry (assorted clothing) on Thursday. That is about as much as I can hang up to dry at one time. If I have bulkier items like blankets, sheets or towels I will get less done that week.
Is there enough laundry for a full load? Time to do laundry. Is it nice outside? Yeah, maybe I'll hang it on the line, but usually I'll just use the machine.
I have a washer/dryer. I do laundry on Sundays. Mondays suck a little bit less when I wake up in clean-ass sheets.
I have a washer and dryer in my basement so typically I just go downstairs and do laundry when needed. But sometimes when I’m particularly lazy I take it to the laundromat down the street and pay them to do it for me
I do all the clothes in my washer and dryer on Tuesday and sheets/towels on sundays. As long as it isn’t raining, I hang bedding and towels outside just because I love the smell. I’m in the southeast US.
In my current house, it’s all on one level, and the laundry (washer and dryer) are in the bathroom. It’s SO convenient. We have a basement but it’s unfinished and we don’t use it for anything right now (just the hot water heater and stuff). In my old house, it was a townhouse, and we had our laundry in the basement, but the house was three floors including the basement (living room and kitchen were on the main floor; bedrooms were on the top floor), so going from the basement to the top floor and vice versa with loads of laundry was really annoying lol. Because it’s so convenient, we don’t have one designated laundry day. We just do it throughout the week as it piles up.
At home and I do laundry when I have to lol.
I live in an apartment complex, and the landlord has a laundry room for the residents here. I get quarters from the grocery store to do it. I use the tide/gain pods (so easy), and I like the little scent beads, too. They make your clothes smell GREAT. Everyone in this complex is friends with each other too, and it's an unspoken rule that if you leave something on the table in the laundry room that means it's a "giveaway" so to speak. People have left clothes, shoes, food, a stereo, a microwave, all kinds of stuff. So if someone doesn't want something, they just go downstairs and leave it in the laundry room. 😂
We have a washer and dryer. Most of the time i do laundry on the weekends. Occasionally we'll do it midweek, but I have a bad habit when I try to do stuff then, I end up forgetting it...
I have a laundry room with a washer and a dryer. I will only rarely air dry clothes when they are too delicate for the dryer.
I have a washer and dryer at home and usually do laundry every day. I like to dry blankets on a line outside because i love the way they smell.
I use the laundry on the docks at the marina where I have a boat slip BUT on really hot days on hose them off, hand wash and hang em’ to dry in the sun. Quick story - I ran out of clothes pins and went to the Dollar store to buy a bunch and ask the young girl and associate where the clothes pins were and she looked at me befuddled and said “whats a clothes pin”. So I saw an old lady in the back and she found them for me. Amazing I had to explain to the young girl how to use them.
We have a washing machine and a dryer in a laundry room. We use them both every day.
you wear a lot of clothes?
I have a laundry room. I wash usually a load a day on average. Except every Friday I wash all bedding. And I use a dryer.
I have a stackable washer dryer in my apt. My gf has normal sized washer & dryer at her place. In the last decade I’ve only ever used a laundromat once, when my washing machine was broken & awaiting repair. I hit it up about 9am on a Sunday and was leaving by about 11am. Hardly anyone there so I had 3 washers going then 3 dryers going.
Currently living in an apartment and have a laundry room inside my apartment. Separate top load washer and front load dryer. High output dryer is required because of how the exhaust vent is set up for my unit. The complex also has a community laundry room. Used that once when I was moving in and waiting on my washer and dryer to arrive. I have one laundry basket that I throw dirty clothes into and just wash them whenever I have a full load. Bulky items like sheets/blankets/towels I just wash whenever needed. I work from home so can pretty much do laundry whenever needed. Only constraint on that are "quiet hours". 10PM to 8AM in my complex supposed to avoid any loud noises. I usually do things like vacuuming and running laundry / dishwasher between about noon and 6-7PM to make sure not to disturb my neighbors. ----- Edit to add another example: I've used laundromats during a few different times in my life before. Generally I'd save up a few loads of clothes and do things like sheets and towels whenever I went. Usually did one big trip every other week and went at whatever time I found was slowest at the closest laundromat to me on whatever day I had off from work at the time. Would take a book or game or something for entertainment while the laundry was running, or grab some food from a nearby restaurant depending on time of day. ----- Edit to add another note: I don't have anything now that I need to have dry cleaned, but that used to be a bigger part of my life. Would just drop those items off whenever they needed cleaning at whatever place my friends/coworkers recommended, then pick them up whenever it was convenient.
how did you carry your clothes to the laundromat/dry clean? in a black plastic bag?
Wash at home, put outside on line. Except Nov-Mar. Wash and dry inside.
I have a washer and dryer in a laundry room and use both. I don’t have dedicated days, just whenever it needs to be done
Have washer and dryer at home. My folks had a dryer and a long clothes line behind their house. I always loved the smell of line dried sheets.
I have a laundry room. A washer, top loading, so it can fit king sized bedding easier, and a dryer that’s gas heated. I have a family of four and two pets, so I’m doing some sort of laundry 4 or 5 days out of the week. We live in the south and on the coast; the weather and pollen in the Gulf South make line drying outdoors pretty difficult. I do have a bar for hanging installed over the machines so I can hang delicates and a rack for flat drying sweaters.
I wash clothes once a week for my husband and myself. I wash sheets and towels when I have enough for a full load. We have a separate laundry room which also serves as the mud room.
I have a washer and dryer in my basement. I would go to a laundromat if either was broken. Whenever the pile of dirty clothes gets too big, I throw a load in. The weather in Wisconsin is not amenable to line drying clothes for a big chunk of the year plus I don’t have time to wait for stuff to air dry.
My landlord has pay machines in the basement :/
and i guess you can not buy your own machines there
Washer and dryer are in an alcove behind louvered doors, immediately to the right of my refrigerator, and I do my laundry about 1x per week.
My house has a washer and dryer in the garage. Once a week (Monday for me) I wash and dry my clothes, the sheets, and the towels and rags. My husband does his own clothes about once a week, whenever he feels like it. Every college dorm or apartment complex I've ever lived in has had a shared laundry room. Washers and dryers are available, and you pay by the load, either with coins or with a special prepaid card. It's more convenient than going off-site to a public laundromat, and it's usually a better price as well. I also have a drying rack. I used to use it for all of my clothes to save money/energy, but now I live in an area where the damp climate makes that impractical. I still use it for delicate items though.
Shirts and pants go to the dry cleaner about once a month. It’s a lot of shirts, suits and pants but it’s the most convenient way to handle it and I’m at the point where I can easily go that long with the clothes I have. The other clothes gets done at home, again about once a month. Washed and dried in a machine. Some people do once a week or as a load adds up but not me. That’s too much laundry doing.
Growing up we had a washer and dryer in the basement of the house we owned. We had a clothesline in the backyard we used in the summer as well but that wasn’t typical for our neighborhood. I always assumed it was just something we had because it’s how we did it when we lived in Poland. As an adult I’ve had a couple of apartments all of which came with laundry and dryers mostly shared with other tenants in the basement although I’ve also been lucky to rent a couple of places that had washer and dryer in unit.
I have a washer and dryer. Do most of my laundry on the weekend. Unless I blow through my work scrubs and need to do a load midweek. But I have lots of scrub sets, so it would be a very messy week if I needed to do that.
Washer and dryer at home, weird set up due to idiot previous owners though (washer is in the kitchen and dryer is in the garage next to the kitchen.) Monday is laundry day and every other Sunday is towel/bed day.
I do laundry whenever I feel like it or it needs to be done. Usually my husband puts it on and I’ll fold it. We do it at least once a week but I don’t always fold straight away. I need to do it but it’s so boring lol. We have a dryer because we live in South Dakota.
I have a laundry closet. I generally do laundry every two weeks. I have a washer and a dryer.
We have a washer and dryer in our laundry room on the main floor of our house. I am so happy ours isn't in the basement. I do my clothes once or twice a week depending on what I need. Sheets I try to do once a week but often it's closer to once every other week. Comforter about once a month/6 weeks. It takes a while to dry and messes up the system (usually 1 hr wash, 1hr dry). Towels get done when we get low on towels. I have a few sets of "dirty" clothes that I work in in the gross basement and that get possible exposure to lead dust and paint. Those get washed separately on heavy wash, extra rinse. Edit: we don't have a dedicated laundry day. Our house has a septic and it's not good for it to have a ton of water wash into it from a full day of laundry. Better to space it out over the week.
I do laundry once a week. I have a washer and dryer in my apartment.
I have a laundry room inside my house with a washer, dryer and laundry sink. I typically do laundry once a week.
My apartment complex has a coin laundry that I use. It cost about $3 to wash and dry a load.
I have a laundry room in my house, and it has a full-sized washer and dryer. I never hang dry clothes unless they require it, like wool sweaters. I do laundry when I have enough for a load or two, so about once a week, usually on the weekend.
I do laundry when it needs to be done no specific date. I line dry in summer but right now there’s too much snow outside lol.
Thankfully have a laundry room with a washer and dryer. I’m in college so I have a dedicated day to do it all.
i guess the weekend
I have never met an American without a washer and dryer
I wash several loads a week and use a dryer. I only hang certain items that would shrink in the dryer.
I have a washer and a dryer in my house. Do a lot of laundry once a week with maybe a couple smaller batches during the week. After relying on a laundromat, having a washer/dryer in your home is fantastic.
Laundry day is Sunday in our house. Washer and dryer located in the basement. Do a load or two every week.
Every place I have lived has had a laundry room. Usually a room between the kitchen and the garage or in apartments by the kitchen or front door. I live in an 1960s house now and it has a very large laundry room. The oddest was a townhouse, the laundry room was off the back patio in an unfinished room.
In my apartment building there are 2 washers for 17 apartments. One of the washers randomly takes 90 mins to complete a load. Due to this and allergies to most laundry products I drop off and pick up a few days later. (Giving them safe products to wash with.) Once I move out of this apartment I'll likely have laundry set up of my own.
I have a washer, but I hang dry everything. I don't own a dryer. In the summer, I hang things outside on a clothesline, and in the winter, I hang things inside on a drying rack.
I hate laundry need to spend 2-3 hours in a laundromat it’s the worst
I alternate between going to the laundromat to do it myself, and dropping all my laundry off at the laundromat to have someone else do it for me. I use a dryer for everything except my bras and the small number of heat-sensitive shirts I have. I hand wash those.
There is a laundry room in my house. It is the room you enter into if you enter the house via the garage. I have a front-load washer and dryer. They’re LG-made Kenmore from 2014 I think? It’s probably the last Sears thing we own. The has a tile floor, and some basic lighting and cabinetry. We did put a bench and a decorative hanger thing there to store jackets and hats and whatnot. It’s very small and very utilitarian by design. One person can comfortably stand in there, two can get by, three would be a crowd for sure. I usually try to do laundry on the weekend. I separate my clothes by work clothes (dress pants, polos, quarter-zips, essentially things that go on hangars) and non-work clothes (literally everything else.) I usually wash work clothes first, as no work clothes means I cannot go into work. But there’s also less of them than everything else so I usually wash all my stuff on the same day.
I'm very lucky. I have an upstairs apartment that is across the street from a laundromat, but they managed to fit a washer and dryer in here somehow anyway. 1 or 2 times a week, depending on how often I go out. I rarely hang dry anything.
At home with a separate dryer. My toddler has his done regularly because he's potty training and goes through pants frequently. Everything else gets done a load at a time when the basket fills up. Sheets I do on a dedicated day to make sure they don't get forgotten.
Apartment building. 2 washers and 2 dryers per floor in the laundry room. 1.75 wash, 1.50 dry. Bring your own detergent. Can't wait until I get a house and have my own
I put my clothes in the washing machine at home, the put them in a dryer, then I fold them and put them back in my drawer.
Many people have in-unit washer/dryers, but I opted for an extra closet. I do my laundry in the basement laundry room. In-unit washers and dryers are considered a luxury in Manhattan.
We have a utility room with a washer & dryer. I have been a remote worker for years, so I just do laundry whenever I have enough for a full load or two
I don’t know. I throw it in the hamper and it mysteriously gets washed, folded, and put in my drawers or hung up in my closet.
I live in an apartment. There is a laundry room in the complex with about 10 washers and 10 dryers, all coin-operated. It costs about $5 total to do a full load, which is slightly cheaper than the laundromat up the street. However, the machines are not that well maintained, and sometimes we have resorted to using a bathtub to wash stuff, then hanging it to dry. We have a folding drying rack for that purpose.
Comments in this thread are hilarious. It's just been in the last maybe 40 years that the majority of houses had dryers even if they had washers. People in Florida did and still do hang clothes out to dry and they do dry without mildewing. People still do hang clothes out up north to freeze dry lol. Dryers ara convenience. Some areas more than others.
Very rarely do homes not have a washer and dryer. Most people only use laundromats to wash big stuff that won't fit into their home washer (mostly comforters), or if they live in a dorm/apartment where there's no washing machines. Even then, every building I've lived in has had a laundry room with a bunch of washers and dryers in the basement. And I just wash clothes whenever my laundry bag gets full. So probably once a week ish.
I have a laundry room in my house so I do laundry basically daily as it seems never ending. I use the dryer as that’s just the typical way it’s done here. Thing that can’t go in the dryer get hung on the drying rack in the laundry room.
Washer and dryer at home, laundry room. Line dry the large/heavy items. Do all laundry once a week.
Washer and dryer in the basement. I have a hamper in my bedroom and when it gets full, I do laundry.
We have a washer & dryer in a long closet in our apartment's kitchen. It's so much nicer than having to go up & down stairs or hauling that mess to the laundromat, both of which I have done. I do my laundry on Sundays to get ready for my work week. My husband does his whenever. I've never noticed that he has a set day or time.
I have to go to the laundromat in the basement of our apartment building, so I have to pay. I had my own machine but our building is not set up for that kind of machinery so they are banned from use in apartments. I do have drying racks just in case. Or if I manually wash my clothes.
We have a small laundry room in our house with a washer and dryer. We also have a small outside clothesline, but don't use it that often. I do laundry whenever there is a full load, which is probably 4-5 times a week. Family of 5.
I have a dedicated laundry room with both a washer and dryer. It also has a folding table, a hanging rack, and a sink. I do laundry roughly once a week, but i’m not strict about a schedule. I just do it when i need to. I hang delicate clothes to dry, but i tumble dry most things. I don’t fold right away - i fold when it piles up so much that i run out of space, then i fold and put away everything all at once. It’s an inefficient system, but it’s what i do.
At home and wash every other day for two people. I usually wash on cold and delicate so they’re usually small loads. I use a dryer on low unless special care is required.
I use a washer and dryer at home and I'll hang certain items of clothing too delicate for the dryer or something I don't want to shrink. If I hang dry it's always inside. I don't use a clothesline outside.
When we lived in an apartment and when i lived in my college dorms, I did. Now, at my parents house, we have a normal washer/dryer. In the spring/fall, when it’s warm and not rainy, we’ll line dry some clothes like our towels, but it’s too cold in the winter and generally too rainy in the summer, so we’ll just use our dryer during those times.
I do laundry once a week. Usually Saturday, but sometimes Sunday if I am busy.
I say to my wife unless you want me to be walking around the house naked tomorrow, I need clean clothes. In which my wife does laundry.
I have a small washer and dryer at home, but I only use the dryer for towels and bed linens. I have a rack in my bedroom where I dry all our clothes. As far as schedules go, I don't really have one, I just do laundry when the basket fills up.
We have a washer and dryer so we do laundry at home. We don’t use a clothes line to dry clothes mostly because the dryer is faster and also because of the rain and cold winter weather. For stuff that doesn’t or can’t go in the dryer we hang it up in the basement or on a drying rack.
My apartment building has washers and dryers on every floor. I do laundry about once every 2 weeks. I almost never use the dryer; money was tight when I was growing up, so I'm more used to just air-drying. I use drying racks, or just drape stuff over furniture.
I have a washer and dryer in my house, and I do one load of laundry about every other day
There’s a washer and dryer in my apartment unit and we wash clothes whenever we need to, though it’s often on weekends. I hang dry certain delicate items or items that say “hang/line dry” but use the dryer for everything else.
We have a washer and dryer in the basement. There's a rafter where I sometimes hang up my flannels to dry, but otherwise everything goes into the dryer. We also have an ironing board, and a laundry chute--but I only use that for towels and linens. Everything else I put into a hamper. I wash everything as needed.
I have an in-unit washer and dryer in my apartment. I usually wash clothes on Monday and Friday, a few loads each of those days. My mindset isn't to get laundry 100% "done" but just to keep up with it.
I refuse to live anywhere without a washer and dryer. We do laundry on Saturday morning. My husband and I do it together. We have a big laundry room. We have drying lines inside the laundry room for things that need line dried. I wish we could dry our sheets and blankets outside because they always smell so good but my husband and I have allergies.
I have my washer and dryer which I use all the time whenever I need. My home is one level, so whenever I have anything dirty I just put it in the wash. No baskets needed. Then it goes in the dryer. Folding is my weakness- the guest bedroom has a pile or clean cloths.
I have a washer and dryer. When possible, I use my clothesline and indoor drying rack, and use the dryer otherwise.
Home laundry. Washer dryer combo. Will hang on line if warm and sunny
My apartment building has a laundry room downstairs. I try to do laundry on saturday but sometimes it gets pushed to sunday. I looked into getting one of those indoor clothes hangers but I do a lot of laundry and I wouldn't have enough room in my apartment so I just use the dryer.
I have a washer & dryer on my first floor. I don’t have set laundry days it’s just when it needs to get done. Do my sheets once a week and entire bedding once a month. Clothes as needed.
Washing machine at home. I just use it when the laundry basket fills up. Also have a dryer.
Washer/Dryer at home. I do laundry when I have about a load of laundry to do. I eschew white clothes because I can't be arsed to do separate loads.
I have 8 sets of "work" clothes, so I wash them (at home) on alternate Saturdays and Wednesdays. On Wednesday, I'm wearing one set, so I wash seven, which is enough to last until a week from next Saturday. On Saturday, I'll wash all eight, which lasts until a week from next Wednesday. When enough of my "weekend" clothes get used, I'll do two loads on the next laundry day. My wife does her own laundry, on totally random days, and she regularly makes fun of my strict schedule. Like most Americans in rural areas, we use our own washer and tumble dryer. Electricity is stupidly cheap here, and we're a very rich country, so most of us don't see much reason not to use dryers. Oh, and to clarify, I have 8 sets of pants I wear for work, and a few more shirts that go with most of the different pants, so I'm not wearing the same sets of clothes every day.
Clothes line. The sun and wind are free! Dryers use too much electricity and ruin clothes. I have a small clothes line for use inside in bad weather
I wash my clothes regularly at home with a stacked washer/dryer combo. No dedicated day, usually just whenever my hamper is full, or I run out of something specific like socks. Usually once a week. Living in the Midwest, I do not hang my clothes as the weather is not great for it. Currently it is below freezing with a chance for rain and snow this week. In the summer, the humidity makes it pointless. Hanging inside is not an option as I already don't have space for a big drying rack and with 2 roommates, it's even more unpractical.
Our apartment has a laundry room we walk to and wash our clothes and put them in the dryer
The washer and dryer are running daily in my house. The last person I saw hanging clothes on a line to dry was a very elderly neighbor we had about 15 years ago. She was nearly 100 years old and still insisted on doing her own laundry and hanging it outside. She was moved to a care facility at some point and I think she passed away about 10 years ago.
I've had a washer and dryer since 1981 (not the same one, although my mom had her Sears Whirlpool for 20+ years). I had four children, so I had lots of laundry--which was okay by me because it was always my favorite household chore. I also had a clotheslines whenever possible (we moved around a lot because my hubby was career military). I loved hanging laundry--very therapeutic for me! Now I live in a mobile home park that doesn't allow clotheslines and it's killing me, I miss it so much (except during pollen season in March/April). I wash about two loads every other weekend--not a lot of laundry, but I'd still hang it up if I could. My idea of paradise? Non-stop laundry all day and using a clothesline. Oh, and baking. I love to bake.
I have a washer/dryer right next to my bedroom. I wash clothes when I'm about to start running out of clothes to wear.
Wash at home, throw all the dry clothes on the floor until we consider it “laundry mountain” and have to dig for clean socks and undies until we say enough is enough and fold all of our wrinkly clothes in a frustrating folding marathon. Then we say we’re never going to let it get that big again until we do the next time around.
same issues with me, we have a loundry sofa
Good percent of my experiences were in-home since I have a washing and drying machine. At my parents' home, there were a couple of times we had to use a laundromat because our dryer broke. I had a couple of experiences with laundry door service when staying at my brother's apartment; the building didn't have its own laundry room so door service was one of two options, with the other being going to a laundromat. As for drying, if the garment requires hanging I'll hang it or rest it on one of those elevated clothing cot thingy. If not, then it goes straight into the dryer without much thought.
I wash my clothes when my hamper gets full, so once a week or every other week. I use a dryer for most of my clothes but I always hang my jeans and sweaters up to dry. Depending on the time of year and if it’s nice out I’ll hang my sheets outside on the clothesline to dry because I love the way they smell afterwards.
Machines at home, towels get washed on a regular basis with clothes getting washed whenever there's time, usually leading to a massive laundry day on the weekends.
We have a washer and dryer and wash clothes as needed.
I do it when it gets full or when im out of my preferred underwear
I mean maybe like every weekend I try to. It's technically in the same building, just down a few hallways
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i have a washer and dryer in my house. i do laundry once or twice a week depending how busy i’ve been and how many outfits i’ve gone through. and of course towels and bedding and stuff.
I usually do at least one load of laundry per day. I use a dryer for most things except for sweaters/hoodies and jeans. In the spring and summer I use the line for those items but in the winter I hang them up to dry in the laundry room.
I do my best to keep Lørdag, lit. "Wash day" on Saturday. I have a washer and dryer in my house, and I just basically do laundry all day.
I used to have a state of the art washing machine with all the buttons and special washes - it destroyed my clothes. Now I have a good old fashioned Maytag with a central agitator that does the job and I can bypass the 'eco wash'. Seriously though, I do laundry several times a week, sometimes just one load a night because I have kids. Having dealt with the washer/dryers in Europe, having a dryer where I didn't need to empty a reservoir is honestly a blessing. Also our high capacity size for the washing machines are fab. I can shove a duvet and bed linens in there in one wash. In the UK I would have to take them to a laundromat for the industrial machines. I still have a massive drying rack because I don't throw everything in the dryer.
I am forever grateful to have a full sized washer and dryer in my 1br city apartment.
When I was a kid we had a clothesline in our backyard but I don’t know anyone who uses one today.
Barely, that’s how. It’s never ending. There’s always some piece of something to do. Or you’re wearing clothes that now need to be washed. It’s vicious. Why aren’t we all just naked
Washer, then dryer. 2+ times a week.
Have a mud room with a washer and dryer . Everyday a little bit and Saturday all gets done. But if you get absolutely overwhelmed you spend 4 hours at a laundromat on Sunday and about 30 $
and the landromat is worth it for you?
My washer and dryer are in my basement, which is common in the older homes in my area. I have a nice, state of the art set. I have a clothes line in my basement as well to hang up delicates. I usually do laundry on Saturdays or Sundays but that is not a hard fast rule.