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The ultimate -parent- hack is to only buy colored clothes (no whites... And if you happen to get any just wash them with the colored clothes anyway) non shrinka

• seventh-chord 5y ago
  I've been doing that for my own clothes. White t-shirts turn pink, but pink is a good look too so I don't really care. Maybe that means I'm still a kid :)
• fanf2 5y ago
  We do that but how on earth do you manage with only one load every 5 days? We are a family of 4, one teenager, one under 10, and we’re doing one or two loads of laundry every day.
  • leetcrew 5y ago
    pants can usually be reworn 2-3 times. occasionally a shirt can be reworn if it was only used for part of a day. this might require an unusually clean child. as a single adult, I do laundry on a two week cycle. and that's driven more by my inventory of season-appropriate clothing than the capacity of my washing machine.
  • mb7733 5y ago
    1-2 loads of laundry every day for 4 people? How small is your washing machine?
    • piceas 5y ago
      In retrospect a 5.5kg front loader was a mistake for more than a couple of people in my experience.
    • fanf2 5y ago
      It’s a Miele W5780 which has a 7kg capacity