Laundry and Linen Schedule

Who this is for

A week of washing, written down before it piles up. Each day has a line for what goes in, who is doing it and a tick for washed, dried and put away, with a separate round for the beds, towels and spare bedding.

Households where the washing is done by whoever notices it, families with more loads than days, and shared houses that need to know whose turn the machine is.

What this helps you track

• What is being washed on each day of the week, and by whom
• Whether a load has been washed, dried and actually put away
• The linen round — beds, towels, tea towels and spares — ticked off
• Loads that need something particular: handwash, line dry, no tumble
• Which days the machine is free, so nobody starts a load at midnight

How to use it

1. Write the household and the week beginning at the top, and any note about the machine or the drying space everyone should know.
2. Fill the day rows with what you intend to wash — towels, bedding, sports kit, work clothes — and who is doing it. The days are already printed.
3. Tick washed, dried and put away as each stage happens; the last tick is the one that matters, because a dry load on a chair is not finished.
4. Use the note column for anything the label says — cool wash, no tumble, wash separately — rather than trusting anyone to remember it.
5. Work through the linen round when you come to it and tick what has been changed; the blank lines are for the beds and linen your house has and ours does not.
6. Start a fresh sheet each week, or fill the browser version in once and reprint it.

Formats

• Printable PDF (A4 and US Letter)
• Fillable PDF with form fields
• Fill in online, saved in your browser

The printable is laid out inside a box that fits both A4 and US Letter, so the two files are identical and neither one is scaled. The fillable PDF has real form fields. The online version keeps what you enter in your own browser and builds the completed PDF on your device.

How to print

Download the A4 or US Letter file to match the paper in your printer, open it in a PDF reader and print at 100% — not "fit to page", which shrinks the writing space. Both files leave a 14 mm margin, which clears the unprintable edge on home printers. To print the online version with your entries in it, use the Print this sheet button, which prints only the sheet and none of the page around it. More on printing.

Questions

How often should bedding and towels be changed?

The sheet does not say. Households, seasons and skin all differ, and so do the standards people keep. The linen round is a list of what to change, not a statement of when; write your own rhythm in the notes.

Can two people use one sheet?

That is what the who column is for. Put the sheet where the machine is and let whoever runs a load write their name against it, so the next person knows what is already in there.

What if we do not wash on a fixed day?

Leave the days you do not use blank and write the loads on the days you do. The sheet is a week to fill in, not a timetable you have to keep.

Is there room for washing symbols or temperatures?

Write whatever the care label says in the note column, in your own words. No temperature, cycle or dose appears anywhere on the sheet — those belong to the label and the machine, not to us.