Laundry

I agree, cold water on all loads, but sometimes I will do warm if my load of whites seem to have a little bit more dirty clothes in the load.

Soap kills germs, so no real need to sanitize. Your clothes do not need to be sterile.

If there were sickies in the family, I might use hot for linens, but I figure I breahe worse germs in daily air than to worry about a few germs on my clothes or linens.

DH washes everything on cold, too.

I wash most of my clothes in cold and hang dry. The exceptions are my underwear, towels and sheets - I wash them all in hot and dry in the dryer. The rest of my family washes their clothes and towels/sheets in warm.

I wash things we hang up in cold, I wash socks and undershirts and other things that wouldnt shrink in warm, jeans in cold, towels and sheets on hot.
I only use the Sanitary cycle for serious sanitary needs.

I can’t remember the last time I washed anything in cold. I do have a semi warm setting, and use that for pretty much everything.

Hot water killed dust mites. Hot water is recommended by allergy immunology. It helps get rid of allergens. Cold water does not.

Same.  

I think most are washed in cold I run the towels button for towels and think it’s warm. I guess I will look tomorrow when I wash them.

I wash 99% in cold. It happens but is not often at all that I do something in warm/ hot. On purpose anyway, my well has an 50 gallon above ground reserve tank that sits in a old well house. When its upper 90s in the summer, our water isn't really cold unless you run it a long time(and we ain't doing that in potential drought conditions with a well). So in the summer at least some loads are warmer water.

I wash much of my clothing in cold water but all bedding, couch covers, blankets, and pajamas are washed often in hot water because my allergies are worse at night and when I’m laying down.

Unless there is a very specific reason for doing otherwise, we wash everything in cold water. The detergent is made to work with cold water and most of our clothing labels suggest using cold water as well. Plus it saves on energy usage.

Clothing on cold, but sheets and towels get hot water.

I don’t either.  Most things are done with a warm wash/cold rinse.  White sheets and towels get hot wash/cold rinse with a little bleach.  I put bras into these little mesh bags to keep them from getting pulled and tangled in the other clothing items.  Then everything except the bras go into the dryer on low.  Bras and the mesh holders are hung to dry.

I don’t have my own washer and dryer hooked up yet so I am using the set that came with the house.  My set was new and the washing machine has a silver ion setting that releases minute particles of silver into the wash water. Silver reduces 99.9% of bacteria, disinfecting everything in the wash load.  It does not harm the clothing and does not require a hot temperature.  I used to use it about once a month on everything, and with everything when I was sick.  I miss having that and look forward to finding my washer and dryer in my garage box jungle.

Most of mine is warm water... hot I use for bedding and undergarments (but honestly most undergarments are tossed in with my regular clothing)