How do you separate laundry?

My partner thinks I care too much about laundry. I'm going to show him this thread and let him see just how much more seriously it can be taken.

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 😂

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

Whites
Blacks/very dark
Reds
Mixed colours

I also put a colour catcher sheet in with them.

Wouldn't even think about separating underwear!

I wash all towels including tea towels, and cloths at 60. I separate whites and coloureds (but add a colour catcher) and wash at 30. We don't wear much in the way of whites so I save them up and there's a white wash once or maybe twice a month. Then I do bedding at 40. I also do an occasional 'fluffy' wash at 30 for anything woolly or that I want to add fabric softener to as I don't add it to a normal wash.

If a 60 wash is not completely washing away bacteria, then there will still be bacteria in the drum from knickers and underwear? And then putting the teatowels in that same drum means the bacteria is then on the tea towels?

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

Ace bleach for whites is good at keeping them bright if that helps!

But you or the other poster haven't actually answered my question.

What you both keep doing is inventing ficticious situations and actually avoiding the question.

It's really quite bizarre.

I know exactly what lightly soiled means. I also know what kills bacteria and how washing machines work, a concept lost on some here.

I separate it by how much fits in the drum. Whatever doesn’t fit goes in a separate load. 😂

No. You've decided to create that situation on your own logic.

Tea towels should be used for drying your washing up or drying things that are still wet after going through the dishwasher. They shouldn't be used for anything else.

If you did wipe your toddlers wee up with a tea towel and washed it at 60, why do you think it wouldn't be clean if 60 degrees kills bacteria?

But your washing tea towels on a 60 and pjs and pants on a 60 but refuse to wash the two together and can't answer why. They will all come out equally clean.

Very enlightening.

I separate stuff firstly into "will need ironing" and "won't need ironing"

Each is then split white/coloured.

Bedding is a separate load.

Towels, including tea towels, have their own load.

Everything gets a quick 60 degree wash, around 45 minutes.

NRTFT
I wash towels and tea towels together as they don't get softener and I sometimes put them in a hotter wash.
I wash underwear in a separate load because I hate doing it and save it up, I hate socks being mixed up with other clothes.
I wash whites separately.
Then jeans, leggings and dog walking clothes together.
I'm a weirdo with washing.

Tend to wash one load per day (ave), in separate groups:

Hot wash sheets, towels and tea towels.
Dry in sun.

Hot wash knickers and white/light clothing.
Dry in sun.

Warm wash brights.
Dry inside out, in sun.

Warm wash darks.
Dry inside out in sun.

Warm wash dirty. (gardening, paint specks, work, or pre-soaked) Dry in sun.

Cool wash delicates and woollens.
Dry outside, flat, out of sunlight.

White, colours, black.

Will do towels- bath and tea and bedding together at 60c

Tea towels and clothes does feel yucky/ though have done it some times

If you think it's not clean after a 60 wash, why aren't you washing them at 90?

Objectively it's either clean or it's not.

I don't understand why pyjamas and knickers are clean after a 60 wash, but teatowels are never clean after a 60 wash even if in separately.

Or pyjamas and knickers are not clean but it's ok to wear them?
Do you all do a drum wash after every wash too?

I will add I've not got little kids missing the potty so I wouldnt use a teatowel to clean up, I had old cloths specifically for the purpose of cleaning up spills etc.

Also wondering if napisan will keep my whites white longer. Becayse I'm all for that.

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I will ta. The bodily fluids will continue to swirl around as you say as part of them being entirely washed out and everything will continue to clean.

But why would you put them in with poo, pee and whatever else and mix them around with it when it can easily be avoided? They can be cleaned without the extra (disgusting) bodily excrement

Bacteria remaining on pjs is not the same as bacteria remaining on a tea towel used to dry cutlery and crockery- it’s pretty obvious. A 60 wash won’t eliminate bacteria either, and many are now using 30 or cold water, so all the more reason to wash tea towels separately.

With your logic I could mop up my toddlers pee with a tea towel (potty training) wash it at 60 then use it to dry my dishes. Does that still sound OK to you? I seriously shudder