So how do you do laundry? Whites, Colours, towels, underwear separate?
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Anonymous
| I get chastised here at school, I wash all in warm. I have suffered the effects. How do you do laundry? I change sheets every other week. I wash underwear and bras separate |
Anonymous
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Towels, sheets, underwear and clothes that can take it are washed in warm, separated into lights and darks. More delicate clothes are done in cold, also separated into lights and darks.
"Laundry rules" are surprisingly personal, and everyone is convinced their way is the only right way. If it works for you, keep doing it. |
Anonymous
My mama always said to separate the whites from the coloreds, but she grew up in the South. |
Anonymous
| I am too lazy to separate - everything gets washed in cold. If I happen to have a load of just towels, I wash them in warm water. |
Anonymous
| I only separate whites (whites that matter like dress shirts) and towels. Towels will damage the other clothes if you wash them with regular clothes. They're very rough. Everything else gets washed on Warm/Cold. |
Anonymous
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Whites on hot - sheets, towels, DH's undershirts, white socks and underwear
Darks on warm - jeans, dark socks and underwear, dark sweats and t-shirts, dark kitchen towels Light delicates on warm - light baby clothes, DH's non-iron dress shirts, my light delicates Dark delicates on warm or cold - dark baby clothes, my dark delicates, yoga pants We usually end up with two whites loads and one each of the others. |
Anonymous
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We go through tons of laundry, so I separate out a lot. If we had much less laundry I probably wouldn't separate as much.
Hand wash items like sweaters get cold water. Darks- unless they are delicate/hand wash type items, most darks (black, gray, brown, etc.) go together in warm water. Colors- I group like colors together. Reds, oranges and pinks can go together, green and blues, etc. Very light colored items and non bleachable whites all go together. Almost everything gets a warm wash and cold rinse, but the dirtier the items the hotter the water unless they are delicate or fade easily. Bleachable whites go together in warm water, not hot (hot can deactivate the bleach). Towels and sheets generally get hot water if they are in their own load, warm water if I'm throwing them in with a small load. What is your laundry debate about? Water temperature? |
Anonymous
| I wash light colors with other lights, dark colors with other darks and athletic wear by itself with special detergeant. I usually try to do towels together just because they have a different drying time than other stuff. |
Anonymous
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white towels - hot,
white clothes - warm dark clothes - cold reds - cold (we wear a lot of red) |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
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White - hot
Towels - hot Darker clothes - cold light clothes - cold sheets - warm or cold, depends on the sheet |
Anonymous
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Towels--in hot water
darks--cold water lights --cold water We don't have a lot of whites so usually I will throw them in with the towels if they are things like socks (I figure the hot water will help kill any odor causing bacteria!) or lights if it is something more delicate. We are a family of 6 so I do several loads of laundry every day. It's exhausting. |
Anonymous
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I wash everything in cold.
Different washer cycles. I have a smart machine you seriously cannot fool. If you do it screams and leaks. Towels. white underwear. We don't buy white towels sheets and blankets colored clothes. colored underwear rugs |
Anonymous
| Pre-kids I used to separate stuff. Now all clothes are washed together. Clothes really don't bleed perhaps in the past they used to more. If I have a new bright red cotton shirt or something, I will just avoid putting any light clothes in that load until its been washed once or twice. I do separate out separate out towels and sheets on warm. |
Anonymous
| White, lights, darks and gentle. Can't be bothered with more. |