How do you separate laundry?

This comments made my night 🤣

Theres plenty of mocking, meanness and making fun of people who do their laundry different to you. Cleaning threads always bring out the unkind comments from all directions.

Do I think you're weird for separating? No
Do I think people who don't are dirty fuckers? No. Some of the PPs make it sound they think not separating is equal to use the plate to wipe an arse.

Have you ever seen a toilet brush thread OP? Those are wild.

I LOVE doing laundry. It's my peaceful place.

Hot whites: Sheets and towels at 60C
Gentle whites: underwear, shirts etc at 40C
Blacks and darks at 20-30C
Lighter colours/ pastels at 20-30C
Tea towels usually on their own at 60C but it's a pain waiting until I have enough to justify a load.

I don't separate anything but then tea towels I just use to dry my hands really
Everything at 40c with bio powder and dettol laundry cleanser
Occasional 60 wash for flannels and towels

Do you not think your washing machine works? And also, washing tea towels & knickers together at 60 is more hygienic than doing dish towels by hand. I’d be more concerned about someone who washed dish towels by hand than chucking everything on a hot wash.

Yes!! So basically if poo & manky undercarriage stuff spreads around anything that pants are washed with then even if pants are isolated and washed alone they will still be contaminated with poo, so in this mindset you’d never ever have clean pants 🤷‍♀️

Slightly off topic… but for the record and from the food standards agency “You should not wash raw meat, fish, and poultry. Washing meat, fish and poultry under a tap can splash bacteria onto your hands, clothes, utensils and worktops. See our cross-contamination pages for further information.”
my bacteriology lecturer was very adamant about this being a risk factor for food poisoning as well. You should not wash meat.

All in together but separate whites of course ish

I agree with you, I think it's a bit grim to wash tea towels with underwear. I separate lights and darks (clothes), then I usually wash only underwear together, and then bedding and towels together. I keep dirty tea towels in a bag, and when I have a few I do a mini load of them on their own at 60 degrees.

If I waited until I had enough knickers to do a full wash of knickers I’d have none left to wear

I separate:
darks
lights
gym / sports kit - goes in with dettol
wet bedding / soiled pants (small children) again with dettol
dog beds and blankets - lots of dettol

ive got germ related ocd and even with that my tea towels go in with my knickers 😁

Sorry but the academic studying poo smear on knickers and hand towels needs to have their computer hard drive looked at by the authorities.

I separate lile this:

Bedding and towels
Dark coloured
Mixed coloured
Light coloured
Whites
Pink/purples/ŕeds
Undies and socks
Tea towels

I do realise that I am a bit strange

If I'm feeling keen then white get separated out. All on cold. Boom.

So you don't think washing machines actually clean what goes in them. You think anything that goes in with underwear will retain bits of poo but you aren't bothered about poo being on any of your clothes because you don't dry plates with your clothes.

It just seems odd to me that someone so worried their washing machine didn't work properly would be upset about wearing clothes with poo on them rather than only worrying about the tea towels.

I separate in a similar
Towels and tea towels and underwear and bedding go in together on a 60
Other clothes go in on a 40 separated by colours.
Some clothes go on a 30 separated by colour
Occasionally do a delicate wash if necessary.
Probably making a load of work for myself but it's what I've always done I actually don't think I could change it!

You honestly think that after being washed in a washing machine (with some pants) that your tea towels are going to be dirty enough to leave shit on your dishes?

What's so special about tea towels?? They bloody dry dishes that you eat from!!!! I couldn't care less if underwear is washed with other clothes but not with something I dry dishes with..but this isn't even an issue for my as I wash tea towels by hand only. However it'll make me think twice about eating at relatives/friends houses 🤣

Absorbed into the weave of the fabric? Guess it's an average that includes men and children?

Some please explain to me how it’s better to leave well over a weeks worth of knickers and pjs lying in a washing basket, which is just a huge breeding ground for bacteria than to wash everything immediately and together?
Maybe the reason some of you need to boil your pants is because they’re a month old!

I do:

All towels on 60.
Colours on 40.
Whites/lights on 40.
Mixture of colours and lights on 30. Loads of clothes seem to be wash at 30 nowadays, which I hate as it doesn’t get stains out. Not sure if they have to be or just encouraging you to wash at a lower temp.
Bedding on 40 (used to be a 50 setting on our old machine). Sometimes goes in with clothes if need to make up a load.

I generally don’t put towels in with clothes, although I have done if I need one washed quickly.

On that case the first figure is wrong. I definitely don’t have 1/7th of a peanut of crap in my knickers.

7 tenths of a gram would be roughly the weight of a peanut.