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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t you guys have a lot of “special” laundry? I feel like I have so much!

Wool socks. Wool sweaters. Wool everything in winter. Kid coats.

Things with oil stains.

Swimsuits and pool towels all summer.

Actually part of it may be that I don’t like to dry clean anything I don’t really have to. But, I’m also not usually overwhelmed by laundry. I’m often ANNOYED by laundry. But never obsessed.

My brother got divorced and non of his white things are white any more, the kids clothes are all dingy and they can’t have wool anything. They’re fine! But I don’t want to do it that way. [/quote]
Personally, I refuse to buy any special clothing that requires special treatment lol. No dry cleaning, no ironing, none of this delicate stuff. But I'm pretty poor, obviously I'm not buying incredibly expensive items that fit this box. [/quote]

Women's business clothing often requires special care to stay looking new enough to be professional.  Blacks remaining crisp instead of rubbed and graying (so different pieces match).  Blouses often require stain removal (ink, sweat, spatters of tea, yogurt, whatever).  Pant suits and skirts are often dry-clean only.  Clothing quality in mid-priced lines is typically much poorer than 30 years ago because of competition from fast fashion.  Buying frequent replacements is worse because I'm a hard to fit body type and have to look hours for pieces that fit or will alter well.

I look for durable, washable fabrics and treat the items gently.  Usually that means color-sorted delicate wash and hang to dry or lay flat to dry.  Drying flat gets in the way and creates long queue times because I can only dry a few pieces at a time.

Pilling is disastrous because it takes a long time to clean by hand and since my best battery-powered pill shaver broke, the replacements don't work as well and sometimes cut threads.

A good drycleaner is hard to find.  I have a good enough one.  But they mis-pressed my son's new black suit and made it shiny in patches.  Broke a working zipper pull off my husband's wool outerwear jacket.  They also refused to clean some garments that had no mention of dry cleaning on the tag. They also don't get stains out of wool that I can get out with Woolite.

I separate lights from darks.  Primarily because blue jeans bleed so much now.  They didn't use to.  But about 15 years ago, with 4 jeans wearers, the dryer started turning blue wherever it had plastic components.  The final straw was when I started to notice blue jean dye from the dryer transferred onto white and light-colored items washed separately. Dark wash jeans are an excuse for crappier dye and colorfastness.

I don't want more laundry work.  But the fashion industry keeps making it for me. [/quote]

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