Do you actually handwash laundry?

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Or do you throw it in a "Handwash" setting (or other) in your washing machine?

I never used to buy handwash only clothes on the basis I'm not going to do it. But I do love cashmere/wool and have slowly been accumulating jumpers and cardigans that are handwash only. I mostly don't wear them a lot because, again, I'm not going to handwash more often than I can avoid.

I have a good washing machine, it has a handwash cycle - it's fine, isn't it? I'm not going to ruin anything, right?

I always use the handwash cycle and I haven’t ruined anything so far. Make sure you’re using the appropriate detergent too don’t just chuck your usual one in.

No I haven't got time to hand wash stuff. I'd just put it in on a delicate.

If it's something expensive or I'm really bothered about, I turn the temperature down to 0° too as well as using the handwash or delicates or woollens wash.

I use the hand wash settting. It's supposedly been proven to be gentler than actually by hand.

cashmere/woolens go in the washer on the woolen settings here.
make sure you select no spin or very slow short spin as that's what tirns it into felt ruins it.
use shampoo or shower gel if you don't have specialist detergent.

Never.

I can't be doing with complicated washing instructions. Everything just goes in. Machine on. Bob's your uncle.

When I had young children no.
Now they are virtually self sufficient I've gone back to buying the occasional fancier things and handwashing them. They'll end up in the machine eventually!

Putting it in a mesh jumper bag helps, too. It means that the sleeves cant mysteriously stretch to twice their size, and it's less likely to snag.

Nope, no hand washing and no ironing. Don't buy stuff that needs it, unless I REALLY love it and then if it doesn't work with washing machine/not being ironed, I don't love it that much anyway 🤣

Not ruined anything so far!

This has always been my policy, but I seem to have accumulated so much in the last couple of years that haven't been cheap that I think I need to actually try to deal with it.

Going to give the handwash/woolen cycle a go with the least favourite items! I've got wool detergent so hopefully I don't destroy anything and will have lovely clean wool clothes.

I've got mesh bags, so I'll try that tip as well!

Thanks!

I handwash some things. Merino base layers. Do not wash fancy leotards or dance clothes in a washing machine on any temperature.

I hand wash cashmere jumpers and underwear.

Hand wash cycle - haven’t destroyed anything yet 🤷🏻‍♀️
The only thing I actually wash by hand is a beautiful, fine knit cardigan that my 2yo Dd has. It was handmade, and is absolutely beautiful! I don’t quite trust the washing machine with it 😬

I use hand wash cycle and a delicates detergent

Good God, no. In the washer on the delicates cycle for anything shrinkable or feltable

I've accumulated a lot of secondhand cashmere and wash that by hand, just because I'd be gutted if those got shrunk. I do wash merino jumpers in the machine on the wool cycle with mixed results - some have shrunk a bit but not to dolly size, I can still wear them - and I don't hand wash anything else.

I hand wash. It takes virtually no time and I find it quite meditative. I also know I’m a bit weird.

I knit my own wool socks and hand wash them with a no-rinse specialist wool wash (Eucalan) that contains lanolin. After all the effort of knitting them, I want them to last as long as possible!

Otherwise, I don't buy anything that needs hand washing.

No I don't. Woollens go on the wool cycle, I don't own any silk or viscose (which shrinks like mad no matter what you do with it - lesson learned).

Mind is boggling at pp who hand washes underwear. I guess my giant cotton Sloggis can carry on going in a 40 or 60 wash (depending on what else I'm washing) they seem to be fine.

If I hand washed underwear I'd be hand washing 14 pairs of women's pants and 14 pairs of boxer shorts every week. Never going to happen.

My machine has a programme with a little hand symbol on it - I use that, with the jumper in a mesh bag and appropriate detergent.

I'm sure this is probably better than me using my actual hands, and in any case, life is too short to do handwashing