Mums spend a week a year per child doing laundry

Laundry is a vital part of life which unfortunately only increases as your family grows – you shoukd never underestimate the amount of time spent on washing and ironing every week!
A survey by Ecozone of 4,400 mums which shows that by the time a child is 18 his mum will have spent five months doing laundry!

The survey found that on average mothers spend two hours and 36 minutes per week per child doing laundry – as a mum to be I have to say this concerns me somewhat! And with an extra 55minutes doing ironing this adds up to a mammoth 183 hours per year, per child – which equates to more than a week of laundry every year.

With this in mind I thought I’d mention some time saving options for making the laundry experience quicker:

1. Use anti-crease programmes where possible to reduce ironing
2. Retain a little moisture in tumble dried clothes to make ironing easier
3. Use a refresh or steam refresh function (like that found on a Samsung Air Refresh WF8702RSW washing machine) on slightly dirty clothes rather than running a full wash cycle
4. Use sensor dry cycles so you don’t over estimate the drying time
5. Train your kids to sort their own washing – coloured in one basket, white in another. Of course this depends on whether you can get your children to use any washing basket whatsoever, or if they just prefer the floor...

If you have any suggestions on how you speed up laundry, please feel free to share them below!