How do you separate laundry?

As Yorkshire tea biscuit points out

If you use moist toilet wipes and properly cleaned yourself after a poo you wouldn't have this issue.

Hope that helps.

I'd feel more sick at the thought that there are some people who don't know how to properly clean their arse after a bowel movement tbh

I live alone and don't wear big knickers so it would take a year or two to get a full load. I don't fancy a year's worth of knickers lounging in the laundry basket so they go in with clothes according to colour.

I wash clothes at 40° so, according to the OP, I must be covered in poo particles. 😆

I wash all towels together as they're the only thing I dry in the tumbler dryer to keep them soft and fluffy.

After that it's sorted whites, light colours and dark colours, my knickers haven't killed me yet.

@wendywoopywoo222 If you use moist toilet wipes and properly cleaned yourself after a poo you wouldn't have this issue.

I'm shocked you rewear underwear after the poo particles are ingrained into the fabric during the wash. 🤮
I incinerate mine and buy new every week.

This thread is gold 🤣

My tea towels are all white so go in with the towels and white bedding anyway. I didn't think I habitually have shit in my pants, but then I remembered when I went on holiday to Sharm 😳

Lights and darks at 40, towels and bedding at 60. Very occasionally just whites. Dishcloths and tea towels go in with towels and bedding. My very favourite clothes I tend to hand-wash. I'm with you OP, never put teatowels in with underwear, seems nasty to me. Actually I think I prefer your way of separating out pj's and underwear completely, might give that a try see if I can make a load up. Would make drying more straightforward on wet days

I admire your dedication with this. I think it would probably take me a year or more to have yellow wash though

Cmon it's s not about having nothing going on in your life. I work full time and have kids and a husband. I don't have time to worry about silly things this is as disgusting as having overflowing bins and a dirty house.

I don't separate anything. If I did it would take forever to get a decent load.
You'd hate me, I use reusable cloths for kitchen stuff and wiping after using the toilet. All go into a 30° wash, I also use an eco egg.
Washing liquid/powder/egg are formulated to be used at low temperatures.
Everything smells clean.

There was actually a meme on fb a few months ago of a tea towel on a washing line next to a pair of boxers with holes in them. The caption was something along the lines of "this is why I don't trust the food at other people's houses" and I honestly thought it was a joke but going by the responses here - obviously not 😆

Wash your meat,do you use soapy water at 60c! I separate whites and pastels from dark. First go on at 40c, yup,that includes tea towels, towels,which are used on clean crockery and bodies. DH walks about in white socks,no slippers/shoes. Lidl none bio pods. The rest at 20c,my machine doesn't have 30c. It's a fancy LG, direct drive. My towels are expensive Sanderson.

This thread mostly convinces me a lot of people have no faith that their washing machines actually work.

I really can't imagine having so little going on in my life that I need to spend time worrying about tea towels being washed with knickers. The only reason mine aren't is that all but one pair of my knickers are black so would be in the dark wash and the tea towels wouldn't.

And I wash things in cold water, as is usual in this part of the world.

Oh and bedding although sometimes that goes in with towels!

Towels/cloths - hot wash and tumble dry

Underwear - so that it can be chucked in the tumble dryer

Whites/light coloured clothes

Dark coloured clothes

Darks in one load
Lights and pants and socks with a colour catcher. These two loads are done on a Friday afternoon.

White towels (whole family) done every Thursday

Our bedding and child's bedding done alternate weeks

Cleaning cloths, kitchen cloth, oven gloves, tea towels, bathmat, toilet hand towels and kitchen hand towels washed Friday mornings (teatowels changed daily)

My pillowcases changed daily and washed weekly (Satin so delicate wash with bras)

Unless you're putting pads under your arse then you're going to have poo particles in your pants, you may not see them but they are there!!

Towels
Darks
Whites
Wools
Bedding
Dog Bedding with a drum clean wash after.

Isnt that how you are supposed to do it?

1. Whites/light colours, including white bedding (30 degrees)
2. Dark colours including dark bedding (30 degrees)
3. Towels and tea towels (60 or occasionally 90 degrees)
4. Technical fabrics/gym kits (that need no fabric conditioner, 30 degrees)
5. Delicates (rare!)

Whites and lights
Brights
Darks
Towels inc tea towels which I wash hot with laundry sanitizer

Well I only dry stuff that comes out of the dishwasher with my tea towels with clean hands so there aren't many germs on them when they are washed!! Sorry to disappoint you 😅

Whites
Colours often split Into delicates/non delicates
Towels
Bedding

Pretty much this, although I do a dark wash and a light wash and tea towels, knickers etc get chucked in with either.

The world has not ended