Separating your laundry

7roland8

Must be me - I'd wash by hand if new in case it ran - but unless I have a special white blouse I just wash everything together.

Westywoodpecker

I must be a bad bad girl, I just shove them all in!

ciderwithrosie_2

I would probably wash an item like that with mixed lights

I do seperate loads for ...

• Black, navy and brown
• red/orange/pink and green/khaki
• whites
• socks and pants
• football kit
• tea towels/flannels/hankies (boil wash)
• bath towels (60c)
• bedding
• lights - e.g pastel coloured things or white/cream and striped
• the odd woollen jumper (DS3 bought this hideous orange one at a festival, I keep trying to 'forget' to wash it!)

luxor4t

Fruball wrote: »

I do whites with lights in one wash, darks with everything else in another......I wash at 30c with hardly any powder. No accidents yet

Same here.

I wash woollies on the rinse/spin cycle and bedding & towels on a hotter wash.

If in doubt, hand wash it

glitterkitty

I do
dark t shirts/shirts
Jeans & jumpers
Socks & underwear (dark ones)
Light stuff (everything that falls under this category)
Separate towel wash - all of ours are black.

JuC

Westywoodpecker wrote: »

I must be a bad bad girl, I just shove them all in!

Me too!! :rotfl:

ash28

ciderwithrosie wrote: »

I would probably wash an item like that with mixed lights

I do seperate loads for ...

• Black, navy and brown
• red/orange/pink and green/khaki
• whites
• socks and pants
• football kit
• tea towels/flannels/hankies (boil wash)
• bath towels (60c)
• bedding
• lights - e.g pastel coloured things or white/cream and striped
• the odd woollen jumper (DS3 bought this hideous orange one at a festival, I keep trying to 'forget' to wash it!)

Wow that's a frightening list.....especially the boil wash....it takes my machine 3 hours to do a boil wash.

I do a white wash...with very light coloured towels too and the bedding - all either light coloured or white
a wool wash...in the winter
a coloured wash

If I'm concerned about runs or colour seepage I shove in a Colour Catchers sheet.....they are good.

ciderwithrosie_2

ash28 wrote: »

Wow that's a frightening list.....especially the boil wash....it takes my machine 3 hours to do a boil wash.

Yeah I know! Good job I enjoy doing laundry - it's ironing I can't stand!!

Family of 5 adults (4 blokes) 3 sets of uniform, my work stuff, bath towels left in soggy heaps, teatowels often used as dishcloths (by said 4 blokes), which is why they need a boilwash (mine takes 2hrs 10 mins I think)

DS1/DS2 run a football team so during the season I have theirs plus all the spare kits to wash. DS3 is a muck magnet and is always getting paint or food down him (sounds like a toddler - he's 18 but always in a rush). So I have full loads for all those categories during a normal week.

I usually do about 5 loads on a weekend and one or two most days during the week. I often put a load on as I'm going to bed so its ready to sort out in the morning.

daisiegg

Oh gosh. Some of you must have too much time on your hands!! I do lights and coloureds....

I suppose towels and sheets go in separately but only because I am sick of clothes getting tangled up in sheets and duvet covers. Bras get done separately on a 'hand wash' cycle and any delicate/hand wash only clothes get shoved in with them.

Nothing has been ruined yet!

ciderwithrosie_2

daisiegg wrote: »

Oh gosh. Some of you must have too much time on your hands!!

No, I work full-time, I just like to be organised. If I didn't keep on top of the washing I'd be drowing in it within a couple of days.