Do you finish family members' laundry?

We live in an RV full-time right now we are park next to my sons house for the holidays and use their laundry ,of course I regularly put stuff in dryer and fold a load that don’t belong to me but we’re family no big deal.

DH is the primary laundry person at our house. It's just the two of us, so there is no "mine" and "his".

I’ve always done all the laundry and now it’s just us two I still do it all. He’s works long hard hours, I don’t. When DDs were here they had chores but laundry wasn’t one of them.

Not really because my husband usually really stays on top of the laundry. But yes my two younger kids are notorious for leaving laundry in the drier - if my 21yo is home, he’s pretty good with his laundry.

Rarely. My kids (20 and 22) do their own. They’re pretty good about getting it done themselves. I will offer to switch it to the dryer for them if they are doing it in the evenings and maybe will go to bed before me. Usually that’s for my son, and I know he may need something in the load for work the next day. At least it’ll be dry for him.

I do the laundry that is in our closet hamper, but won’t touch the clothes on the floor or by DBFs side of the bed. I don’t put it away for him though.

It depends on my mood, how long it’s been left, and what the load consists of. If there are shirts in the load I won’t finish it because DH does not put all his shirts in the dryer. If it’s been more than 24 hours and several reminders have been given, the load gets tossed in a basket (or on the floor of the person didn’t have the courtesy to leave the basket) and it can be dealt with later.

I have a permanent reservation for the laundry room on Sundays. That’s when I do my work clothes and DS’s laundry. The rest of the week I give ample warning if I’m going to run a load.

Finish? this is a concept I know nothing about. I did all the laundry. My dd still brings hers home for me. I have no problem with that, because I LOVE doing laundry! I do. It's my favorite thing, after that is grocery shopping.

I do 98% of the laundry in my house. Between having six kids, two of whom do a lot of sports, one of whom does some sports and some arts performance, and my daily workout clothes, the bare daily minimum is two loads of laundry. Every once in a while, one of the teens or my husband will throw in a load, but they never remember to move it. Never!

It’s just dh and I at home and I will toss his into the dryer - and also run the dryer longer as needed if his stuff isn’t dry. I did his laundry for over 20 years, so I’m used to it (I gave him his laundry “back” when I started working outside the home and long commute). But now I telework and I’m home more than him so I don’t mind helping him. His memory and attention to this type of detail isn’t the best.

I won’t fold or put his away though since his “system” is terrible.

If I find someone's clothes in the washer when I need to use it I'll switch that to the dryer. If I find clothes in the dryer I'll dump them into a nearby laundry basket. I'm not about to fold someone else's laundry because everyone folds stuff differently. If dh or dd tried to fold my teeshirts for example I'd have to refold them all anyway. lol  I have to refold towels if dh does them because they don't fit well in the closet when folded his way.

We don’t do laundry separately.

I do all of the laundry all together.

Laundry is my favorite chore. I love it. I find it relaxing.

I believe in sorting by color (and sometimes also by type, for example, jeans only get washed with jeans), so if we did individual loads, no one would have loads big enough to justify doing them.


My kids now how to sort, how to do laundry, which laundry gets which settings and which water temps, which load gets which detergent, what gets hung to dry vs what goes in the dryer. They can do the laundry or move the laundry to the next step if I ask them to, but beyond making sure they all know how to do it, I prefer to do it myself.

Laundry is SO's chore, based on mutual agreement in the division of labor. However, the laundry room is attched to "my" bathroom, so if I go in to take a shower or put something away, and I see there's a load that needs to be moved to the dryer, I will often throw it in.

I will also start a load before I get in the shower if there's stuff in the hampers. SO prefers small loads so it takes less time to put away. (Don't worry, we have load size settings.)

Nope.  Not just nope, but NOPE!  Everyone does their own laundry.  It's very nice, I must say.

My kids started doing their own laundry when they could reach the bottom of the washer's tub to get things out. I would move wet laundry to the dryer but dried laundry went to a laundry basket to to their bed to be folded (or not.. their choice)