I do laundry every day, and fold every night. I buy just about NO whites, so heavy staining isn’t a big issue. If there are any stains left after washing (and before drying) I let it go another round or treat it.
Right now the kids are still small (9 months), so the loads are really only half loads. I expect that as they get bigger the loads will get bigger.
Oh, and I gave up washing all of our clothes separate. Adults and babies all in the same load.
I do have a reflux baby, and one with an explosive butt, but rinsing off before hand helps.

I use to try to do the laundry every couple days or whenever the laundry was full. While that got stuff washed, it also made a massive fold pile. The washing part isn’t the hard part, it’s the putting away. Everyday laundry limits the toughness of that.
I use this same method on dishes. No dishes left in the sink overnight, dishes run every day.

Lest you think I’m some sort of domestic queen… perish the thought. This merely keeps things from the massive overwhelming tsunami of chaos that is ever threatening to wash over the household.
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We used to do laundry every other day. The nanny does it during the week and I would always do a load on the weekends. Now we do laundry twice a week – Wed & Sat. The laundry goes in in the morning, to the dryer when I remember and folded and put away immediately.
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And I agree on eating only in diapers, and sometimes we eat in the tub! Yes, when the house has to be super clean for some reason, dinner is served in the empty tub, easy to clean up!

I go through lots of Totally Toddler stain remover spray (Toys R Us/Babies R Us) and think it’s the best product ever — I wish someone had given this to me when I first got AF; it would have saved many pairs of underwear! I’ll have to try Oxiclean.

My favorite tip for laundry is to use old-fashioned large diaper pins to pair baby socks before putting them in the wash and dryer. I also use cheap, collapsible mesh bins instead of plastic laundry baskets and immediately sort upstairs (clothes, bath towels) vs. downstairs (kitchen towels, burp cloths, diaper bag clothes) items as soon as they’re out of the dryer.
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I’m an advocate of a little every day…mostly because looking at large piles of laundry makes me crazy. One load goes in the washer every night. If I wake up during the night, the load goes in the dryer. Otherwise, it goes in the dryer in the morning. Like Krissy, I purchased the largest capacity machines I could find, waited for them to be on sale, then checked on line and discovered that our state was giving a $300.00 rebate if you purchased these energy saving machines … sold the old pair and reduced my overall cost by just over $500.00.

As for stains, I discovered that about 50% of the stains come out without pretreating … just check everything before it goes in the dryer … saves money on stain removers.

Lastly, I recently came across a new stain remover called Oxyclean Max Force … love this product but it only comes in small containers and I sometimes use the entire bottle on a single day.

I do 9-12 loads a week, and split it up over 3 days. And, yes, one kid had reflux for ONE WHOLE YEAR!

However, my pile of clothing to pretreat has shrunk drastically since I started feeding my kids in diapers only (a suggestion from my daughter’s nutritionist). It only takes a minute to skin the rabbits, and saves tons of time worrying about what’s dirty. My daughter is so used to this routine that she cries and pulls on her clothes if someone puts her in her seat with her clothing still on. Now most of our stains are from outdoor play and come out more easily than blueberry and spaghetti sauce stains.