The senator's low key nature has been documented around D.C. as well, where he's been photographed carrying around his dry cleaning

Over the course of the interview, Sanders is doing his own laundry

Bernie Sanders and his family sat down with People Magazine at their 'modest colonial home' in Burlington, Vermont

Bernie Sanders just checked off another rite of passage as his presidential campaign gains steam – the People Magazine spread.

The Vermont senator was photographed in his 'modest colonial home' in Burlington, Vermont, alongside grandkids Dylan and Ellen last month.

Parts of the interview popped online today.

Sanders was interviewed alongside family members, while he was in the process of doing his own laundry.

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In People Magazine, Bernie Sanders is photographed alongside his grandkids Dylan (left) and Ella (right). Jane Sanders (far right) is also interviewed for the piece

'If Bernie has seven sweaters, that's three too many for him,' said wife Jane to the magazine, portraying her husband as a down-to-earth individual.

At one point her husband jumps up as dryer buzzer dinged.

'That's my cue,' Sanders said, as his wife was trying to brag about some of his accomplishments.

'He doesn't like to talk about himself – or hear about himself,' Jane Sanders said.

Instead of political talk, Sanders' family continued to share tidbits in an attempt to make the quirky senator seem low key.

'If they still sold cars with manual locks and windows, that's what Bernie would have,' said Heather Titus, one of Jane's daughters from her first marriage.

Carina Driscoll, Jane's other daughter, discusses the candidate's diet.

'He was Paleo before Paleo was a thing' Driscoll said, noting that the 74-year-old Democratic socialist mainly eats meat and veggies.

People also includes that Sanders chops his own firewood and is handy around the house, though not 'with a lot of attention to aesthetics,' said Jane Sanders.

In September an ABC News reporter caught Bernie Sanders walking around Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., carrying his dry cleaning

D.C. resident Erick Sanchez also saw the senator with dry cleaning in November, walking around Capitol Hill's Eastern Market neighborhood

Bernie Sanders is again spotted carrying around his dry cleaning in December by reporter Matt Laslo, as the Vermont senator continues his presidential rise

She told the magazine reporter the story of how Sanders added a new screen to a window without cutting the excess away from the window frame.

'So we had a window with a tutu,' Jane Sanders observed.

'Well it works!' the candidate inserted.

The rest of the People interview is slated to come out in the magazine's print issue on Friday, but Sanders' man-of-the-people behavior has been well documented around Washington as well.

For instance, he's been caught on camera several times on Capitol Hill hauling home his dry cleaning.

He was observed in September by an ABC News reporter who put the picture up on Instagram.

In November D.C. resident Erick Sanchez noted the same thing.

'Just saw Bernie Sanders carrying his dry cleaning alone, walking down the street, carrying an umbrella near Eastern Market,' Sanchez wrote, using the hashtag #ThisTown, the nickname for the capital city

Journalist Matt Laslo also observed Sanders in December carrying around a bag.

Of course, 'Saturday Night Live' aired out Sanders' laundry on the show too, as Larry David playing Sanders joked that the senator only had one pair of underwear.

'That's it,' David-as-Sanders cracked. 'Some of these billionaires have three, four pairs.'

'I don't have a dryer, I have to put my clothes on the radiator,' the comedian continued.

Sanders is getting close to embarrassing Hillary Clinton in the first two contests of the presidential race.

He's now neck-and-neck with her in Iowa, where voters will caucus on Feb. 1.

In his neighboring New Hampshire, the most recent CNN/WMUR poll has Sanders 27 points ahead of his Democratic rival.