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How do you separate laundry?

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Moonlightdancing · 12/07/2024 19:32

So.. need some honest opinions here. I posted a comment on a previous thread mentioning that washing tea towels together with knickers is gross IMO. Received quite a few comments telling me I'm uptight and bizarre. I honestly think that even if you wash them at 90 degrees, you still shouldn't mix tea towels and underwear. Am I in minority then thinking this? Genuinely curious.

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TimetoPour · 14/07/2024 08:25

Whites
Colours
Darks
Bedding
Bath Towels & Flannels
Dog bed & dog towels

Unless we have had a party and used all the dishcloths, towels and table cloths, tea towels are white so go in the white wash (60 + dose of oxy) with white knickers- the horror! I’d never have enough to make a full
load and don’t want wet towels hanging around for a week.

DappledThings · 14/07/2024 08:16

Mystro202 · 14/07/2024 08:13

At least I'm not eating poo particles like you 🤣

I mean I'm not either cos my washing machine works but try not to start worrying about how when you touch your clothes you're picking up those pesky poo particles and transferring them to your hands and to your food or toothbrush or other people.

Makes about much sense as worrying about tea towels

Mystro202 · 14/07/2024 08:13

At least I'm not eating poo particles like you 🤣

DappledThings · 14/07/2024 08:09

Mystro202 · 14/07/2024 08:03

You're like a child, you keep asking the same thing over and over. We've answered, do you think if you keep asking you'll get a different answer or something? You do you, keep washing your tea towels in poo 🤣

Because your answers are hilarious. You happily walk round in clothes covered in poo but your tea towels are sacred. That's pretty funny.

Mystro202 · 14/07/2024 08:03

You're like a child, you keep asking the same thing over and over. We've answered, do you think if you keep asking you'll get a different answer or something? You do you, keep washing your tea towels in poo 🤣

Sherwil16 · 14/07/2024 06:33

Sorry, that should have said in response to YellowphantGrey re laundry sort

Sherwil16 · 14/07/2024 06:31

I'm patient. I don't do small washes. I do each set of colours when there's a washload. Towels help as I've got a few different colours to bulk up the load.

Catsmere · 14/07/2024 00:03

What level of skid marks are we talking here, with people going on about poo in the washing machine? (Makes me very glad I don't have men or small children to deal with if this is actually a thing.) The claims seem to have moved on from panic about particles to talking as if people throw soiled nappies straight into the washing machine.

YellowphantGrey · 13/07/2024 23:58

Mystro202 · 13/07/2024 18:07

Jeepers I think we've answered this about 20 times already!! It's because you are putting poo on tea towels that you dry dishes with...for no reason!! You could just separate them out from other stuff and not have poo on them. I need a 🍷

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I'd seriously consider getting yourself a new washing machine if your pants are coming out, covered in poo after a 60 degree wash.

I am loving how you are so adamant your right and getting so worked up though. Ti's a shame you can't actually answer the question 😆

Theoldwoman · 13/07/2024 23:40

Bignanna · 13/07/2024 15:07

Why mix tea towels with towels you’ve wiped your body with? Tea towels should be washed separately!

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I disagree.

90 degrees wash. I wash a load daily.

Catsmere · 13/07/2024 22:08

DappledThings · 13/07/2024 16:44

I also don't understand why bacteria on pj's is OK but not on tea towels...what's so sacred about tea towels??!!

I'll try and answer that one based on what others have said. With capitals for emphasis of course.

Because your tea towels will BE ON YOUR FORKS and that means then you are putting POO ON YOUR FORKS and that means you might as well lick the TOILET because you are a MINGER.

It doesn't matter that there is poo on your pyjamas because microscopic poo particles that have magically not been washed away will definitely transfer from tea towels to dishes in highly significant amounts but wearing clothes that are COVERED IN POO PARTICLES is not minging because wearing poo next to your skin is totally fine and not at all MINGING.

I think that's the answer. Nobody has provided a better one 😂

You've summed up the attitude here! 😂

Nannyfannybanny · 13/07/2024 18:49

"you might as well lick the toilet seat". I'm sure most people are aware that the average keyboard/phone contains more germs than a toilet seat (my toilet is cleaned after use) lots of folk on here, not bothered about the cost of electricity or worried about saving the planet from excess CO2 production. Even the packaging on washing products encourages you to lower the washing temperatures.

ricecrispiecakes · 13/07/2024 18:19

I don't.

Towels and bed linen go on separately but only because they fill the machine alone rather than for hygiene reasons.

ThinWomansBrain · 13/07/2024 18:18

generally wash clothes and bed linen separately - tea towels can go in either batch though. Generally wash bed linen at a higher temperature.
About to do some washing and a lot more clothes than bedding, so may swap some clothes that will be fine with a hotter wash to even the loads out.

Crushedcandy · 13/07/2024 18:13

All you folk who are pooing and peeing in your underwear and pjs have you ever thought of wearing a pad?

TwistedSisters · 13/07/2024 18:08

DappledThings · 13/07/2024 16:44

I also don't understand why bacteria on pj's is OK but not on tea towels...what's so sacred about tea towels??!!

I'll try and answer that one based on what others have said. With capitals for emphasis of course.

Because your tea towels will BE ON YOUR FORKS and that means then you are putting POO ON YOUR FORKS and that means you might as well lick the TOILET because you are a MINGER.

It doesn't matter that there is poo on your pyjamas because microscopic poo particles that have magically not been washed away will definitely transfer from tea towels to dishes in highly significant amounts but wearing clothes that are COVERED IN POO PARTICLES is not minging because wearing poo next to your skin is totally fine and not at all MINGING.

I think that's the answer. Nobody has provided a better one 😂

😂😂

Mystro202 · 13/07/2024 18:08

Sparrowball · 13/07/2024 17:49

I don't know how some people have time for other things with all the arse washing and militant sorting of laundry.

Hardly militant, it's only washing tea towels separately so as not to infect them with poo , wee etc

Mystro202 · 13/07/2024 18:07

Moonlightdancing · 13/07/2024 16:20

If you read her comment she just answered you. Why you keep asking the same thing?

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Jeepers I think we've answered this about 20 times already!! It's because you are putting poo on tea towels that you dry dishes with...for no reason!! You could just separate them out from other stuff and not have poo on them. I need a 🍷

tuvamoodyson · 13/07/2024 17:51

Towels/whites/dark/light coloured/any delicates….

Sparrowball · 13/07/2024 17:49

I don't know how some people have time for other things with all the arse washing and militant sorting of laundry.

Borborygmus · 13/07/2024 17:44

Bedding
Woollens
Everything else

works for me.

MammaTo · 13/07/2024 17:32

I separate our stuff from the babies stuff for a start. Then colours by and whites separate, I’m not fussy over tea towels going in with the normal wash. Bath towels washed my themselves and bedding washed separate too at 60 degrees. I wash my cleaning cloths by themselves at 90 degrees.

YellowphantGrey · 13/07/2024 16:52

DappledThings · 13/07/2024 16:44

I also don't understand why bacteria on pj's is OK but not on tea towels...what's so sacred about tea towels??!!

I'll try and answer that one based on what others have said. With capitals for emphasis of course.

Because your tea towels will BE ON YOUR FORKS and that means then you are putting POO ON YOUR FORKS and that means you might as well lick the TOILET because you are a MINGER.

It doesn't matter that there is poo on your pyjamas because microscopic poo particles that have magically not been washed away will definitely transfer from tea towels to dishes in highly significant amounts but wearing clothes that are COVERED IN POO PARTICLES is not minging because wearing poo next to your skin is totally fine and not at all MINGING.

I think that's the answer. Nobody has provided a better one 😂

😂

JurassicClark · 13/07/2024 16:51

Christ on a bike, some of this stuff is insane.

It’s a washing machine. You put in dirty things, you get out clean things.

YellowphantGrey · 13/07/2024 16:49

redalex261 · 13/07/2024 16:43

Just how dirty are these pants?? She said primly.

The OP washes her bottom after every single toilet visit using her bidet but accepts that not everyone has her high standards of cleanliness. (I'm assuming she doesn't use the loo outside her house or only where there is a bidet available)

She also confirms that 60 degrees kills bacteria on tea towels but only when washed separately, 60 degrees also kills bacteria on underwear and pjs but if you combine all 3 on a 60 degree wash something scientific happens in the washing machine with that combination that means you end up with your tea towels swirling around in wee/poo and not coming out clean enough.

There was also a sudden change where tea towels then needed to go on a 90 degree wash and pants needed a seperate wash entirely but I'm not really sure what happened there