Laundry - how many different loads do you sort it all into?

ripplyuk

Does everyone do lots of different washes for everything? I do separate washes for:

Bedsheets 60 C
White clothes (hardly any) 40 C
Darks (Jeans/clothes) 40 C
Colours 40 C
Delicates (wool stuff) 30 C
Bath towels/Tea towels/cleaning cloths 60 C

It's six different washes, with different laundry baskets all over the house to sort/store the stuff.

Usually, each wash is less than half full which seems very wasteful, and it's time consuming. It would be different if I was doing laundry for a whole family but it's just me, so there's never that much stuff. I can't save up enough for a full load as it would take ages and there's always things I need regularly.

Is there any way to reduce this? I was thinking of adding the white clothes into the 60 C wash with the bedsheets, but would this shrink them? Is it unhygienic to add the towels in to the 40 C clothes wash?

Jackieboy

Whites (or very light colours) and darks - all done at 40 degrees nearly always. If I have to mix, I use a colour catcher.

Silvertabby

I do the same, but just put all clothes into the same laundry basket and sort it out at the washing stage (towels and bedding are just carried straight downstairs). Not too bad for us, as there's two of us and so double the clothes washing.

Rachiedabbler70

I do the same as mentioned above. One lights wash one coloureds at 30 or 40 degrees and I don't iron anything except shirts. 😁

trolleyrun

Bedding/towels/teatowels
Everything else goes in a 40C wash. I rarely buy new clothes so they've all been washed plenty of times and won't run. When I wore white shirts for work I washed them separately with Napisan as otherwise they'd go grey and the Napisan would bleach the coloured items.

prosaver

When i wash whites and towels i pour bleach on the towel b4, to give it a good clean. BTW 40 degs

Jamiesmum

Everything goes in at once unless labels state otherwise. I've a lot of clothes that I hand wash to avoid ruining. But anything of the partners, my son, our uniforms + and towels and bed covers all go in together. Never do any whites/pinks with jeans but tend to do jeans with towels. We always have a million towels to wash, and there is only 3 of us.

Frith

All goes in same wash

Linda32

I put everything in the same washing basket.

Then at the end of the week I put our work clothes in (coloured) along with socks and pants (coloured)

Then I put the bedding and underwear in (whites) or bedding and dishcloths and tea towels. Every month or so I will do this wash at 60 otherwise its 40

I change the towels and flannel twice a week and put in anything that is left over. I use fabric softener on this wash for the towels.

Then about every 4 weeks when I have a load of my nice clothes, I put these on at 30.

Two adults at home.

coffeehound

With the home washing machine currently kaput, it's all in together in a 25-kg launderette washer on the 'warm' cycle with two dye catcher sheets. All seems to work without tears using colour powder.

SmlSave

I never used to sort clothing but since I've got a new machine I now separate into a white wash and an everything else wash.

Even the cloth nappies go in the normal wash