Does anyone not separate laundry by colour?

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I'm drowning in laundry. It takes fecking hours if my life every week to do laundry for 5 people, wash, dry, separate into piles, put away and start again. We are not mad bed changers or towel users but have 3 small kids and they make a lot of mess.

Anyway I'm considering a laundry system where each person has a basket of their own clothes which is washed once a week. Everything dirty is collected in the basket over the week, washed, dried and put away. No sorting, no piles of clean washing everywhere. The only thing is I'd probably not separate by colour, if just shove it all in.

Will this work?

And yeah sorry I know it's a contender for world's dullest thread...

Any need for such an aggressive reply? Washing is the the biggest pain for a lot of people. Nothing wrong with asking for how people operate their washing system when most people deal with it everyday.
I think you need to calm down, honestly.

Towels, teatowels, dishclothes-90
Bedding-60
Everything else-40 (occasional 30 or lower for delicate items or trainers.)

If something is likely to run eg new jeans I'll wash separately or with other jeans, but find jeans don't seem to run after a few washes.

I've had very few washing disasters. Last week I washed a beige throw we use to protect the sofa from the dog, with a red cushion cover, which resulted in the throw being pink, though I did actually wash at 30. But it's only a cheap throw from Dunelm, it's not seen outside the house and in fact looks OK....it's even throughout and looks better than it did lol.

Towels, teatowels, dishclothes-90

You're nearly boiling them!

Yes....I do know the boiling point of water!

I’ve never separated aside from whites obviously but you get tops with white and another colour on it so I’ve never really been sure what to do with those… Anyway, I’ve never had any major washing disasters.

I have never separated by colour and not had an issue.

I don't separate by colour. I separate by method. I have a washer/dryer. I separate into tumble dry load (I set dryer to go on automatically after the load), hang dry and hand wash (I don't handwash my clothes, I use the handwash cycle).
But I have very few white clothes, not enough to make a load.

There's no need to wash anything at 90° surely. Washing machines and modern washing powders/liquids/pods are efficient at cleaning everything at low temperatures. I use a capful of anti bacterial liquid instead of fabric conditioner for towels. 30° washes are much better for the washing machine, and the environment.

I only separate my special whites, ie the ones i dont want to accidentally dye. Everything else gets thrown in together regardless. I use a colour catcher if i worry about colour bleeding

I live on my own so not enough laundry to do two separate loads. If I buy something new I will wash it with other darks or coloureds to test for colour fastness. Every few washes will do a bedding hot wash, very occasionally a machine handwash. Only ever had one colour run in over 40 years, have used a colour catcher if there is an item that I would be upset if it took on another colour. Otherwise laundry always looks bright and surprisingly less "aged or worn" than other people's.

I only seperate towels ,jeans and bedding (Higher heat wash)
Everything else just goes in together- No problems ever had (Family of 6, Its NEVER ending!)