Granted, depending on where you live, your diet and your choice of attire, this may vary. For example, if you eat highly processed foods, your body will excrete more oils, toxins, urea and lactic acid through sweating. The latter two are more commonplace for everyone regardless of diet, but certainly the quantity of these will increase with a poor diet.

If you live in New York and sweat a lot, you probably should change your undergarments daily, but perhaps not your trousers. You might think about purchasing clothing that breathes a bit better, effectively evaporating excessive sweat and in turn keeping your attire more fresh.

If you live in Washington, Alaska, or perhaps winter has rolled around, you can easily get away with laundering less often, saving yourself money and saving your clothes from wearing out so quickly.

My point is, don’t wash your clothes arbitrarily after wearing them only once. Think about it before tossing it into the hamper. Perhaps its not as as bad as you think.

10 times better then the apartment washers, which in every apartment I have lived in has been old, slow and dirty. plus you get the rude tenants that take your loads out the minute they are done, not giving you the courteous 10 min to come get them.

This is a great post! Most people living in apartments don’t understand how much easier it is to just get all their laundry done at once at a Laundromat. I personally on several Laundromats, and my customers love the fact that they don’t have to wait in line at their apartment to use a small washer, or take all day to do the wash.

For me, small batches works. I *LOVE* my clothesline. I have a microscopic backyard in my tiny townhouse, with a single strand of clothesline running from fencepost to fencepost. Being able to put a load of whites out on a sunny morning before I go to work is cathartic.

I don’t use fabric conditioner with the towels as it can affect absorbency. A splash of white wine vinegar in the conditioner drawer works well, and may help keep the fabric conditioner drawer a bit cleaner.

I have a day for basic loads – M=bath towels, T=sheets, W=white kitchen towels (corresponds to the cleaning day for those rooms), and do other loads when the baskets are full. Most items can be hung, although towels feel softer when they’ve been in the dryer (we can’t use fabric softener), and sheets can be unwieldy when dried inside. I have a ribbon line stretched from one towel bar to another in one bath and dry most things on the line or on hangers over the line. Four socks can be pinned to a hanger with a clothespin clipped on the line as a spacer to be able to dry more things at once. Longer items dry on hangers on an over the door rack in the laundry room. When desperate, I hook hangers over a slat on my son’s bunk bed. In moderate to warm weather, I use a retractable line outside – one side is attached to the fence and the end loops onto a hook across the patio. I just retract it when it is not being used, so we don’t have to deal with clotheslines 24/7. Again, some clothes are on hangers and others pinned to the line. I learned the hard way not to fold colored t-shirts over the line, as the sun often bleaches the fold line.

We will have a new soaking sink, as my husband is tired of tupperware containers scattered around and I’m not happy with the 2 hour “presoak” in cold water that the Asko offers. If I could find the perfect method to treat tomato sauce and chocolate stains, my life would be easier. I’ve given up on fountain pen ink.

Of course it does help that we’ve used some of the tips found here about decluttering our wardrobes and 80% of what we wear doesn’t need to be ironed. One of my favorite tips is using a spritzer bottle of water to mist wrinkled clothes; hang it up and the wrinkles fall right out again. For tough wrinkles like on denim, use more mist and toss in the dryer for a few minutes. Works every time.