Not bothering to separate colours

Its really not a faff. Darks, lights, towels, bedding. No, I wouldn't put white shirts in with say a black dress.

I separate my whites big other than that everything else goes in together.

The worst thing is when you see people with very greying bra straps on show.

I separate whites but everything else gets chucked in together!

I never separate lights/colours/whites although I don't think any of us own any white clothes anyway.

A dirty wash! As my mum used to say 😂

So do I. Separating whites and lights from colours isn't exactly onerous.
Most of our towels are light, all of our sheets are white and the duvet covers and pillow cases are light. I wear a lot of white as well so I always have a full load for whites/lights.

I hate the look of whites that are greying and dingy looking.

I line dry when I can (which isn't very often these days 😒)

I’m incredibly
lazy but even I separate whites from darks and if I’ve got a big enough load I might even do a coloured wash.

You might not notice your grubby whites if you’re used to it but believe me others will.

I never separate anything either! I’ve a few pairs of really dark jeans that that the colour comes off on my skin so I wash them separately but other than that everting goes in together! Never had any problems.

As much as I can I separate clothed and they seem to last for ages a lot longer than before my mil taught me (yes unusual on here but we get on)

I separate into whites, darks and colours. I hate greying whites. And it really is no bother.

I separate into: whites, light coloured, dark/bright coloured, darks, sports kits, towels, bedding, tea towels/oven gloves.

But there's six of us so always plenty of washing. I really don't think I'd be as fussy if it was just me and dp. And I certainly can't get worked up about what other people do.

Never separate anything but don't have much that is white

I do whites, darks and lights.

Sometimes will throw the odd very pale light in with the whites.

Otherwise your whites do get less white, and if you put lights with darks, the lights get a bit darked.

3 baskets here - whites, darks and colours. Mum did some washing for me recently when I was unable due to injury, and she put all my bright colours in with the darks (I didn't ask her to, she just did it). They are no longer bright, just dull. I was not happy

In our house it's whites and lights, blacks and darks then colours. I wouldn't ever put darks in with whites; clothes lose fibres every time you launder them, so the white items would pick up dark fibres and look grubby (once accidentally put white item in with colours in the tumble drier and could see the difference immediately).

I tend to chuck awkward items like T-shirts with white panels and coloured bits in the colours, because there's only so much you can separate before you go nuts. Fortunately there's only the three of us so it's not like we're doing multiple loads daily, thankfully.

I’d be doing two loads at least anyway so why not split them.
I’ve had white clothes ruined by washing them with the wrong things in the past.
It literally takes me 1 extra minute.

White and lights go in together.

Sport stuff, like training kit and footie tops go in together

Bedding goes in together

Towels go in together

Everything else just gets chucked in

I separate colours.
White, dark, red/orange/pink/purple, blue/green.

I’m still doing the same number of washes (around 6 per week) just they are different colours loads rather than 6 mixed loads.

It doesn’t take me long to sort out.

I have enough of each colour to make a load.

It means I can say with confidence that I have or haven’t washed something if other family members are looking for it.

I prioritise whites and darks because of school uniform - I know they absolutely have to be ready for Monday morning. It means I can put aside some set time to iron them rather than waiting for them to come through piecemeal and get lost at the bottom of the ironing basket.
It helps me be organised. I would absolutely get snowed under if I didn’t sort like this.

Yes I separate, you might think it's fine but after a while your whites will be grey!
In fact I just accidentally put a pair of DD's white socks in with a dark wash and they have come out noticeably greyer, if you don't care then fair enough but I prefer to keep my light clothes looking nice.

I chuck it all in together. The only whites we have are the kids’ school polos and they do start to grey after a while but they also have loads of food stains on so a bit of greying doesn’t make a difference!

this made me chuckle. Every time oldest DS back from uni DH makes a big effort to get his t-shirts back to white with soaking and washing. I was joking the other day with the amount of vanish he uses could get new t-shirts.

in our house:
Whites
lights (sometimes split into general lights and light blues depending on how much of it we have)
bright colours
Navy blue and dark greens
Black
delicates

we wash towels and sheets separately on 60 degree washes.

i do use colour catchers sometimes but put in a net bag so they don’t go into the filter. Occasionally I forget but we do a maintenance wash once a month and check the filter then.

I do two washes: whites and light colours and darks and brighter colours.

BF mixes it all up.

You can tell when he's done the washing put it that way.

I wash whites separately but everything else in together. But honestly on MN you’d think everyone washes each item separately when it’s been touched for a minute.

I do light colours, dark colours and whites. Whites really must be separate if they aren't to end up greige eventually.