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What would you (over)think? (Actually laundry related!)

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ForgotwhatIcameinherefor · 29/01/2018 21:50

So I was round at a friend’s house for a catch up on our day off, and we were chatting in her kitchen diner while she carried on wiping sides down etc.
Her washing machine finished its cycle and she bent down and hauled out the contents of the load which was exclusively black/dark grey - jeans, leggings, tights, T-shirts etc; not a colour or pastel in sight.... EXCEPT ... entangled in all this was my DD’s school cookery apron that her DD had borrowed. It’s WHITE AND YELLOW.
I was standing there watching so she had perhaps forgotten that it was in there and couldn’t just stuff it back in so she styled it out “Oh this is yours, I’ll get it dry so you can take it with you.”
Now I know I am very picky when it comes to dividing colours for washing -- those “Chris Martin” coloured T-shirts with white sleeves are my worst nightmare laundry-wise - but... seriously??? Because it wasn’t just a random mixed wash Hmm it was definitely a very dark wash with my DD’s white apron stuffed in.
I’ve obviously got plenty worse things to worry about (oh I really have) but even though we met through school, I did consider her a close friend and she has voiced the same to me. I’ve tried to just forget about it but it keeps coming back to me! Was it really mean of her?
AIBU to take this personally..?

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Nanny0gg · 30/01/2018 22:21

Yellow and white definitely isn't dark...

ForgotwhatIcameinherefor · 30/01/2018 23:17

I like that idea JustBreathing

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MagicWillHappen · 30/01/2018 23:23

All my washing goes in together. I don't even use a colour catcher. Never had an issue at all.

Half the people on this thread are properly nuts.

ForgotwhatIcameinherefor · 30/01/2018 23:23

Just leaving this here www.goodhousekeeping.com/institute/a24357/laundry-stain-product/
As Nanny0gg was saying Confused
I’m still sorting my laundry after all then!

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Zintox · 30/01/2018 23:37

Wow.

I don’t separate anything! Just chuck it all in once I have a load. I wash every day no time to wait for little loads to build up we’d run out of pants!!

Chienrouge · 31/01/2018 07:28

Regardless of any environmental impact/judginess from some random parent watching the school play whose opinion I couldn’t care less about... I can’t be arsed. I’ve got more interesting things to do with my time.

TenancyTroublesAgain · 31/01/2018 07:32

Christ........

speakout · 31/01/2018 07:50

I don't want to waste clothes. I do lots of washes on a 15 minute cold wash.
Some on a hot long wash.
Even if you don't separate colours then some clothes are being washed on the wrong cycle- either not getting clean enough or getting damaged.
Delicates need cooler shorter cycles, smelly or soiled stuff, sheets and towels need a longer hotter wash.

I don't need to save up washes- I do 10 loads a week. So never more than a day or two to wait until I have a full load of similar clothes of a similar colour.

maddiemookins16mum · 31/01/2018 07:57

I haven't done seperate colour/white washes in decades. I've just put on a white shirt (albeit with pink polka dots) that I washed in with navy check pyjamas at the weekend, it's fine.

speakout · 31/01/2018 08:07

It's over time that the difference is noticable.

maddie- what type of detergent do you use?

he,If you use the normal stuff that has bleach in it- Ariel, Persil etc, black clothes fade- especially hoodies T shirts and jeans.
If you use a detergent for colour, it doesn't get white things very clean.
I have sheets that are 20 years old and as pristine white as when I bought them.

Black clothes do tend to fade anyway, even with regular washing and line drying.
From time to time I gather faded clothes and do a a black machine dye. Black jeans, leotards etc come out jet black and look like new.
I daren't wash them with white things.

Clothes are expensive- I like to keep them in good condition.

LakieLady · 31/01/2018 09:21

why on earth can’t pants and socks go in together??

You risk contracting athlete's arse if your pants have been washed with socks. Or veruccas on your fanjo.

UnimaginativeUsername · 31/01/2018 10:35

I don’t own any black clothes.

UnimaginativeUsername · 31/01/2018 10:35

Well other than pants and tights, and they have not faded in the wash.

llangennith · 31/01/2018 10:43

I’d be cross too because I’m a stickler for separating my white and darks and pale things.
I’m sure it wasn’t a deliberately nasty thing your friend did. My youngest DD shoves everything in the drum together, mixes colours with whites and delicates with cottons. And everything comes out okAngry

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