To be extraordinarily angry at clothes that aren't dark/light/white?

[AgentZigzag]

I mean, where the fuck are they supposed to go in the wash?

White & work shirts
Light (Inc stuff with White stripes/collars on darker background colours grrrrr)
Dark
Bright (red, yellow & orange)
Handwash only on delicate cycle

I feel your pain, have a

I just wash everything together i dont think i have ever seperated anything and yet I have never had colours run either my MIL looks at me in horror when i peg out little white babygros alongside mans jeans and woolly jumpers!

My laundry is sorted

whites/lights (which includes bedding)
darks i.e black/grey/navy
colours
towels

depending on volume white towels may end up in with the white sheets and white clothes.

Everything is washed on 40, except handwash which goes on the handwash setting (not ruined anything yet fingers crossed)

Same as Georgimama. Except the handwashy stuff, it just gets lobbed in with the rest of it!

Colour catcher sheets are the future. I am no longer paralysed with horror when I catch sight of that erroneous black sock whizzing around with dd's school blouses. They have changed my life .

In my family the law of laundry. as handed down from my granny, states that you shall separate washing thus....

snowy whites (anything entirely white)
whites (anything with a tiny pattern, but mainly white)
lights
darks
work darks (gardening clothes, manky jeans etc)
reds and pinks. (must be done last on washing day to minimise risk to whites)

I still end up with some mouldering bastard thing at the bottom of the basket that I just can't categorise.

All you non laundry sorters....you may not realise this, but your 'whites' are in fact 'greys'

I simply don't have enough clothing or bedding in my house to wait until all those things are dirty and can be sorted into those sub sections, tbh. My whites are snowy white, I assure you! We don't have a tumble dryer so everything goes on the line when it can - the bleaching powers of the sun are quite marvellous. DS's cloth nappies used to go out on the line with tiny stains on them, by the time they'd been on the line for a few hours they were gone.

I feel your pain, OP.

My personal bete noir is one of DH's white work shirts which has (on the inside) BLACK cuffs and yoke. I mean, wtf?

what's the problem.

Mine all goes in together, whites included, except things that are brightly coloured and new. They get one chance in a wash on their own/with darks.

Have you thought about assigning each member of your family a colour and a laundry day? That's what I do. DD only wears yellow and Wednesday is her wash day.

justgetemout, my Mum washes everything together and she really doesn't realise her whites are grey. But she insists on doing the same when she stays at my house and I ended up having to get a whole new set of bedding for the spare room when she washed the white belinen with a load of darks. She thinks she is helping.

I hate it when you get something that is striped black/bright coloured and white and the washing instructions say you must 'wash whites separately from colours' yet have never given any indication of howthis is to be done for stripy clothes...

Yet you know if you were to take them back to complain about colours running you would be in the wrong fir not following instructions!

Agree that colour catcher sheets are great.

DS gets eczema from washing with normal washing powder and I get it from his baby washing powder.

So, in our house we have:

Ds's whites and lights.
Ds's brights/his bedding.
Ds's darks.

Our bedding/towels.
Our whites and lights.
DF's work stuff (he works with chemicals which also set my skin off).
Our darks.
Our brights.

It's a proper pain in the lady garden (or at least it is when I wash my knickers in the wrong wash!)

Love the idea of making everyone wear their own colour.

I dreamt of a mangle too. I used to feel like a Maggie with my blistered palms!

Jutgetemout I do the same as you, except that I also have a separate woollens wash, and a nappies wash. And I only wash one person's laundry at a time (but always a full load using ecover at 40 except for bedding, nappies and towels at 60). I can't stand grey whites - what is the point in buying clothes only to ruin them. I like things to last and to look nice. The thought of a white babygrow in with a pair of man's jeans gives me the horrors!

yabu if it's you who buys most of the clothes????