<p>How often do you do your laundry in college?</p>
<p>Usually every other weekend. If you get up before 10:00 AM, the laundry room is empty.</p>
<p>Every two to three weeks. I try to do it on weeknights, thee are lines on weekends.</p>
<p>I'm just curious. When it comes to clothes such as jeans or sweaters, how often do you usually wear 'em before you wash them? Once, just like any old thing? Or do they not get dirty as quick? thanks</p>
<p>hahaha depending on desperation, Jeans can go a LONG way :-p</p>
<p>once a week is usually good enough, unless you somehow have obscene amounts of dirty clothes in less than that time</p>
<p>Look into a laundry service: by the time you buy soap,feed the machine.....use up time. Many schools have services.....check it out.</p>
<p>pshhhh....</p>
<p>laundry services are for kids whose parents didnt teach them how to do stuff for themselves</p>
<p>When I can no longer breathe in my room because of the massive piles of dirty clothes that obscure all sunlight, I toss it all out the window and go shopping for more clothes.</p>
<p>Honestly, I have one basket for white clothes and one basket for colors, and whenever one fills up, I do a load of laundry. It usually take a week for the colors to fill, a week and a half for the whites.</p>
<p>When I run out of socks or underware I do laundry (well, when I notice I have like 2 or 3 pairs left). Usually it's every other week. About that time too my laundry bag is generally pretty full. I do a load of colors and a load of whites/beige/yellow. I do have to do laundry more often at the start of the school year and the spring, because I go through clothes more quickly
As for jeans, you can get a lot of wear out of those. Same with sweatshirts and sweaters. That'd be one of the reasons I do laundry less frequently in the winter</p>
<p>Thanks everyone :)</p>
<p>to extend the question.. how about sheets? how often do you change them ;o (if you do :P)</p>
<p>usually i just throw everything in the machine at once, no matter the color, unless i have alot of clothes one week for some reason, or sheets to wash as well. cold water works on stuff that isn't like soiled, and your whites won't turn pink even if washed with red things (well at least mine don't)..</p>
<p>I wash my sheets once a week now - I bet it may turn into every two weeks when college starts up. However...my boyfriend seems to think that changing your sheets is something connected to the change of seasons. Yucky.</p>
<p>When they noticeably change color. And I'm partially colorblind.</p>
<p>Cold water works for 90% of stuff, the other 10% being white socks and undershirts as well as towels.</p>
<p>Check your tags--sometimes it will say warm on certain items. I believe jeans are warm. Most polo shirts and tees are cold, and it doesn't hurt a warm water polo if you throw it in cold. I think khaki pants and shorts are also cold, as are boxers.</p>
<p>In general, cold is the best bet if you're in doubt. It doesn't shrink anything.</p>
<p>If you have something that runs (like Abercrombie's new destroyed polos, which have a disclaimer tag on them) make sure you wash it seperately, or with stuff you don't care about (like boxer shorts, since nobody sees those). Also avoid putting new clothes that are colored in with any white stuff just as a precaution.</p>
<p>If you swim, wash your bathing suits seperately, and rinse them out good in a washtub or bathtub before you wash them.</p>
<p>Let's not forget about sheets, either. CHANGE YOUR PILLOWCASE WEEKLY. You can go two weeks on the sheets, but dirty pillowcases can cause acne. And don't forget to wash that bedspread and your blankets now and then either--dust accumulates on those quickly. Also, if you eat in bed like I do, make sure you wash your stuff on a weekly basis in case you have crumbs or spills.</p>
<p>I wash my sheets whenever I go home. So every 2-3 weeks. I've washed my blanket twice since school started: once because it was loaded with pollen from having the window open for two months and I was waking up struggling to breathe (yeah allergies are fun...), and once because I was moving rooms so I figured I might as well wash it since I was taking it off the bed anyway. I know I should wash it more, but I'm not a fan of spending any more money on laundry than I absolutely have to. The comforter hasn't been washed at all, despite my mom flipping out about that repeatedly.</p>