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Post by myshelly on Jul 16, 2018 23:56:31 GMT
I probably over-separate. I don't even care if a load is one item.  But, this topic reminds me of my DS when he went off to college. He wanted blue sheets, blue towels and black socks so that he would never need to separate. He didn't own one white article of clothing.  This is me. I over separate. I baby our clothes. They’re beautiful and last a long time. |
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Post by karinms on Jul 17, 2018 0:53:59 GMT
Towels get washed separately than sheets. Whites/lights go together and darks definitely get washed on their own with a laundry detergent for darks.
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Post by walkerdill on Jul 17, 2018 1:19:27 GMT
We separate
Towels
Everything else
Clothes that can't be dried all in same load
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Post by ginacivey on Jul 17, 2018 1:19:43 GMT
And I use bleach on sheets, so one load a week AND I have a septic system. Guess I'm just living dangerously! i have a septic system too - i bleach my whites...and my toliets i'm not using gallons upon gallons - the system can handle it just fine i just googled and it takes like 2 gallons to kill the bacteria in a septic tank i never use THAT much at once i do a bleach load every couple days - and the toilets get about a 1/4 cup weekly anti- bacterial soaps in large amounts would do the same thing and a garbage disposal is terrible for a septic system scraping food into the trash is a PITA but digging up a tank would be WAY worse but YMMV - |
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Post by maurchclt on Jul 17, 2018 2:32:55 GMT
Sheets are washed alone, and towels are washed alone. Other than that, everything can be washed together regardless of color. I learned from my girls when they were in college to just use ColorCatchers. Love those things. Another vote for Color Catchers, especially good for new clothes! I do separate my laundry, sheets go in their own load. |
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Post by artbabe on Jul 17, 2018 3:27:27 GMT
I wash my reds together. Besides that, I only have darks and lights. I have no whites. I don’t use white anything- not for clothes, underwear, sheets, etc.
I don’t care where the sheets or towels go. I live by myself- whatever needs washed goes in because I’d have so very many tiny loads if I separated. I’ve done it this way my whole life and haven’t had any problems.
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 17, 2018 3:50:52 GMT
I don't think I have as much laundry as many of you do. Even my whites take 2-3 weeks to have full load. My kids do their own.
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Post by moodyblue on Jul 17, 2018 3:53:42 GMT
The only white items we have are some white socks and white tanks and tees that I wear under other tops. I have a ton of those but it's still a small load when I do them, and I usually hang them to dry so they don't shrink in length. Nothing else is white.
Before my husband retired I would wash his dress pants and shirts together (lighter weight so less time to dry and I made sure to not overdry them), and then a load of jeans, underwear and socks, and any other heavier clothing items.
Now that he's retired he pretty much only wears jeans so all pants, shirts, underwear and socks get thrown in together (he usually does the laundry when I'm in school). I wash some of my things separately so that I can hang some to dry or make sure they are washed on the right setting; I control that by not putting them in the laundry baskets because he'll put everything in those all together in the washer - and so will I when I'm doing the wash.
Towels are washed separately, on hot, as are sheets. We have a king bed so sheets and pillow cases are a good sized load.
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Post by MerryMom on Jul 17, 2018 4:27:38 GMT
Back when I lived alone or when I got married, there weren’t enough sheets for a full load. It is one set of sheets. If I put the 2 towels, 2 washcloths, and the bath mat, it was close to a load.
I will put white sheets in with white clothes, I put darker sheets in with dark clothes. In the winter, when I wash jeans, I put dark towels in with sheets.
I don’t get all this segregation of sheets and towels from clothes. Other than a concern about new towel lint, I wash those separate. Otherwise I wash whites and lights together and dark clothes together.
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Post by PaperAngel on Jul 17, 2018 5:05:23 GMT
I separate as follows:
- Whites/lights
- Darks
- Towels (all are dark colors)
- Sheets (all are light colors)
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Post by summer on Jul 17, 2018 12:20:34 GMT
I don't separate anything. Clothes, sheets, towels all go in together. I don't have any whites, I don't use bleach. I've never ruined anything in the laundry. She's not lazy or hasn't been taught how to do laundry "correctly", she just does it different than you, and that's ok.
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Post by TankTop on Jul 17, 2018 12:43:15 GMT
I separate by the weight of the fabric and not the color.
Towels are their own load.
Brand new reds are their own load as well.
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Post by hockeymom4 on Jul 17, 2018 13:03:33 GMT
Mostly just:
Sheets/towels/dish clothes in hot
guinea pig stuff hot with vinigar
Whites and lights in cold
Darks in cold
Hockey gear a few times a season in hot with as much product to kill the smell as I can get in
Winter also I usually do DD’s hoodies in a load as she wears a new one every day!!!
Now I have to go do laundry!!!!!
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Post by Tamhugh on Jul 17, 2018 13:08:01 GMT
I only have 4 categories:
Sheets and towels together
darks
whites
brights (reds, oranges, pinks)
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Post by muggins on Jul 17, 2018 15:39:27 GMT
I don't separate anything. Clothes, sheets, towels all go in together. I don't have any whites, I don't use bleach. I've never ruined anything in the laundry. She's not lazy or hasn't been taught how to do laundry "correctly", she just does it different than you, and that's ok. This. I’m almost 50 and I throw everything in together. I’ve never bleached whites or bothered about different temperatures. Our clothes look great. The last thing I want to do is touch dirty or sweaty clothes to separate them. Just lifting the pile out of the hamper and stuffing it into the washer is enough for me. Just because someone does chores differently from you, doesn’t mean it’s wrong. |
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Post by wimom on Jul 17, 2018 17:45:21 GMT
My king sheets and cases are a full load, but I would not put towels in with sheets because my towels take longer to dry. Towels go in a separate load and are done last for that reason.
Otherwise, I separate whites, heavier clothes (jeans, sweats, usually darks), and delicates. Depending on what is waiting to be washed, T-shirts and other items might go in with the heavier clothes or the delicates. I am not as picky as I used to be because of my son. He throws everything/anything together, except for dog towels, which get there own load. He even showed me a Wall Street Journal article about doing laundry this way -- apparently this is how most young men do their laundry? Anyway, his clothes seem fine, which has led me to loosen up a little on my sorting -- and my clothes seem none the worse.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Jul 17, 2018 18:34:02 GMT
I don't think I have as much laundry as many of you do. Even my whites take 2-3 weeks to have full load. My kids do their own. I think that is our household too
Dd does her own laundry. I do my own laundry because dh over washes and over dries everything causing all my clothes to shrink in length. Then we just separate by lights/whites and dark.
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Post by rickmer on Jul 17, 2018 18:39:27 GMT
47 years old here and towels go in with clothes. i was taught to separate laundry by colour, based on temperature. i wash almost everything on eco-warm setting (except blacks/dedicates on cold) so no reason a green towel can't go in a load of colours.
turns out my washer had a recall a couple of years ago and were catching on fire on spin cycle with very heavy loads. their revised instructions were to not use a certain setting and i thought it was a good thing i rarely do a load of just towels (which would be very heavy and risk burning down my house).
sheets i usually wash on their own just cause smaller stuff gets wrapped up in them.
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Post by bc2ca on Jul 17, 2018 19:26:29 GMT
ds has a girlfriend who pretty much lives here. She does weird things with their laundry  I moved some laundry they were doing yesterday and it got me thinking. So she puts towels in with their clothes, which I find weird.... Because towels are a separate load. Their whites are grey because they just wash with everything, including towels  I'm a separator - whites, lights, darks, towels, sheets. Today i'm randomly thinking do people wash sheets and towels together? Do they go together laundry-wise? I think they've all really gotten in my head now, lol. I'm a separator when doing laundry for a family of four, but not so much when I was in my 20s and lugged everything to a laundromat. I also didn't separate when I lived in a basement suite and had use of the owner's washer & dryer. I never wanted to tie up the machines for the time it would take to do 4 different half loads. |
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Post by myshelly on Jul 17, 2018 21:00:45 GMT
I don't think I have as much laundry as many of you do. Even my whites take 2-3 weeks to have full load. My kids do their own. Doesn’t your washer have different size loads or a censor? |
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Post by genny on Jul 17, 2018 22:54:04 GMT
I do it like you, OP. White, grey/khaki/light blues, darks, Pink/purple/orange/reds, towels, sheets and blankets.
A few years back I donated ALL of our towels (several different colors) to the animal rescue and went to TJ maxx and bought all new white fluffy towels. I found over the years that i never felt like I got them fresh and they had gotten stained here and there. With all white towels I can toss i some bleach and vinegar and they are fresh and unsteadiness (think teenage girl and mascara) every time. I wouldn't have a problem mixing sheets and towels if they were the same color (but I ain't getting white sheets, they'd be ruined post-haste).
My son is the only one in the house that does his own clothes - a couple of the kids' friend come over to do their clothes weekly (I'm trying to help them save on laundromat money) and I have seen that the kids (DS included) throw everything together like that. The whites are all dingy and it drives me crazy! And let me point out I am NO Martha Stewart over here. I just want my whites white!
DS is moving off to college next month and will be in an apartment with roommates, I'm trying to teach him the value of separating before he leaves!
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Post by lizzy on Jul 17, 2018 23:01:47 GMT
I separate everything – whites, reds, blacks, blues and other colours, sheets/bedding, and towels. But if I don’t have quite enough sheets or towels to make a load, I will combine them as long as they’re similar colours and “textures” (the towels and sheets are of similar “fuzziness”). I also sometimes combine blacks with blues in other colors, but usually not. And I never put whites in with anything else. I’m a pretty regimented separator! LOL.
Edited to add: I don’t wash a load unless it’s a full load. So whites may only get washed every few weeks because we don’t have as many of them, whereas we could do two blue loads in one week depending on what we’re wearing.
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 17, 2018 23:03:02 GMT
I don't think I have as much laundry as many of you do. Even my whites take 2-3 weeks to have full load. My kids do their own. Doesn’t your washer have different size loads or a censor? It does, but washing so few things for an entire 45 minute cycle seems wasteful. We really don't have many whites. I also don't want to spend the time on them when no one needs them. I'd rather wait and do it when I can have at least half a load. |
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 17, 2018 23:06:48 GMT
Today i'm randomly thinking do people wash sheets and towels together? Do they go together laundry-wise? I think they've all really gotten in my head now, lol. The only thing I separate out is the whites, which is mainly DS's school uniform shirts. EVERYTHING else gets washed together at my house. Towels, sheets, clothes..... everything gets chucked into the washing machine then when it's full it gets turned on. |
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Post by ametallichick on Jul 17, 2018 23:26:49 GMT
I wash everything separately. Darks, colors, towels, whites, sheets, dh’s work clothes. I just started washing my sheets separately because I have an old Maytag Neptune and the drum is ridiculously small. So my flat sheet goes in with two pillowcases and the fitted goes in with two.
I bet your ds’s gf never learned to separate laundry. If you have a good repor with her, you could ask her about it or show her. If she already knows she might just be lazy or she doesn’t care.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Jul 18, 2018 0:09:47 GMT
I do sheets alone -- mostly because our sheets are king sized and get tangly and catch things. All our sheets are white, but I only do the kids' beds when they are home visiting. Their sheets together are a full load. I do towels and jeans because they set the washer off balance if I only put one in a load. I just gather them all up a couple times a week. Dog and cat beds get their own load once a week. Most clothes go together. I may break it up into dark/light if there's something I know will bleed. I sort more on heavy/light fabrics because my washer is touchy about being off balance. I am also less concerned about color than fabric type. Lightweight fabrics get washed together so that (1) the washer stays balanced better and (2) the dryer runs more efficiently. I don’t want to dry t-shirts with heavy fleece items because they do not dry in the same amount of time. |
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Post by rickmer on Jul 18, 2018 0:16:55 GMT
Doesn’t your washer have different size loads or a censor? ugh. mine doesn't and it sucks. i didn't like using it before, figure it uses just as much energy to do a smaller load but at least nice to have the option. |
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Post by gritzi on Jul 18, 2018 0:42:58 GMT
I'm a laundry freak. Very few pieces are ever dried, except for towels, kitchen towels, and bed linens.
I was jeans separately, towels alone, kitchen towels separately, only bed linens together, grays and darks, purples alone, blues and dark clothing, whites only with whites.
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Post by ntsf on Jul 18, 2018 1:00:17 GMT
I am thinking laundry today.. dh fixed the dryer hose back on the dryer.. and now it does not heat!! he will look at it tomorrow.. maybe time for a new dryer.
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Post by janeinbama on Jul 18, 2018 14:59:51 GMT
And I use bleach on sheets, so one load a week AND I have a septic system. Guess I'm just living dangerously! i have a septic system too - i bleach my whites...and my toliets i'm not using gallons upon gallons - the system can handle it just fine i just googled and it takes like 2 gallons to kill the bacteria in a septic tank i never use THAT much at once i do a bleach load every couple days - and the toilets get about a 1/4 cup weekly anti- bacterial soaps in large amounts would do the same thing and a garbage disposal is terrible for a septic system scraping food into the trash is a PITA but digging up a tank would be WAY worse but YMMV - I will pour leftover milk, buttermilk or sour cream down our sink to give our septic system "good" bacteria. DH the plumber removed our disposal when we moved in. A coworker has lived in her house 18 years, uses her disposal regularly and has never had septic tank pumped - she is due a big stinky surprise! |
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I moved some laundry they were doing yesterday and it got me thinking.
