to not want white and colour together

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In the washing machine.

Am I clotheist?

Lol winkly

MrsRobertDuvallHasRosacea 'I even separate my coloureds.
Reds and blues.'

And black. And others if there's enough.

I don't separate.

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I wash dark items with other darks when they're new, but after a few washes I assume no more dye will come out and bung everything together. None of us really wear white though, apart from some of my underwear; maybe if I was washing school uniforms or work shirts I'd be more cautious.

But what do you do with clothes that are white AND coloured on the same item? DH has stopped buying red and white t-shirts now the ones he has got are red and pink.

I wash my white & colours in their own wash with vanish oxy action crystal white , seems to keep the white part nice and bright.

I separate white and colour for mine and my husband's, but don't bother for our son's as he has almost nothing that is white.

He's 3. White would be silly. And dirty!

(except that he starts pre-school on Monday and his uniform includes a white polo...)

Like Winkly I do a separate "white and...." wash. It'd be helpful if the labels told you what similar colours were rather than having to leave it to your own judgement!

Lol , Defo wash pants and socks on their own !!! :-)

I bung all mine in together, sometimes I use a colour catcher, sometimes not. But then again my pants are all grey.........

Life is too short to do washing - that is what my dh is for separate colours

Life is way too short to dicuss washing in this much detail - just stop it all of you NOW

Depends how you feel about your white clothes turning other colours.

It's not quite so bad if a formerly white item ends up with a pink/blue/green/whatever tinge all over, but I've had a few items that went blotchy. We have a few mostly white things with a blue splodge or line stained into them after a mixed wash.

I separate whites for the simple reason that I stick one of those whitener thingies in the machine - what we can do with white clothes in this house has to be seen to be believed!

Beyond that, everything gets washed according to type rather than colour. So I sort into towels, sheets, underwear etc.

I do have a friend who is so bonkers rigid about colour separation that she'll separate peach coloured clothes from pink ones. But then I suspect she has too much time to fill.

I don't have any whites. I do my stuff in one load, DCs in another and towels/bedding in a third, slightly hotter, wash. DP does his own washing, and the iron hasn't been used for about 10 years!!

How many loads do you all do? I wash for 3 adults and a child and only do 3, max 4 loads a week. Delicates, whites(including lights), bedding and colours

Does all your bedding fit in one wash? , do you have a massive machine?

We do about 8 I think, a load most days of just clothes, another of bedding and another towels.

Handwash the red trousers in lukewarm water!

You only need to do it the first few times until they stop leaking excess dye

And hell yes I separate. I didn't buy clothes to trash them in a maverick washing scheme

My bedding fits in 1 wash. It's 2 singles and a king size. It won't all fit in when dc3 comes.
And my machine isn't huge but I probably overfill it tbh

Always separate! I do whites, reds/pinks, blues, other coloureds, beige towels, dark towels, bedding from our bed. Oh plus one for bath mats, and errm slippers .

I don't separate any washing. If it needs washing, it gets chucked in. And it's not all discoloured and skanky, it all comes out fine. You're all tools of the washing powder, Vanish, fabric softener and electricity marketing boards. Probably.

We have a large 7kg machine and can only fit one set of bedding in at a time.. any more and its too full.