do you sort your washing in colours, even though the items are so old they wont run?

[EleanorReally]

will they run?

I do a whites and then ‘others’ all together. Never had a problem

Yes
I have whites, lights, colours, darks and two delicates bags one light, one darks.

I try to keep whites separate as I find they can still go a bit grey looking

White, lights, colours, darks.

I just use colour catcher sheets (there's just me and DS in the house though so I'm not sure we even own a full wash worth of whites/lights)

Saw a Fab tip on you tube, which saves on the electric bill, wash towels and bedding on a hot wash, everything else on a cold wash, have a sprayer of stain remover to hand and just squirt the stains as you put the clothes in. Most clothes just need a rinse through and are not dirty to the eye. I've found that clothes look just as clean this way and stay new looking longer. The only whites I wash together are school shirts. They rest get bunged in together. Never had anything come out a different colour!

I do whites and then everything else. Never had an issue.

I do towels separately too as I like them on a hot wash.

It depends on how much of which colour I've got to wash.

Black, white, pink/beige/flesh, green, blue, grey etc.

If there's not a lot of grey, then I throw the greys and blacks together, if there's a lot of greys, they go into their own wash.

I'm a sucker for all the wash stuff. Darks detergent, dark sheets, colour catchers, whites detergents, colours and whites stain removers, delicates detergent, hand wash detergent, little ultra white sachets as well as pre-wash sprays and those squirty bottles with bristly heads to rub into any stains.

I don't so much do the laundry as commit acts of chemical warfare....😳

No I just do everything together.

Yes, from habit. I do a white wash, a coloured one, and once a week I do a hot wash for sheets and towels.

I do different types of fabrics where possible except whites as they're all the same fabric. So whites, Mr Noodles work clothes, jeans, coloured/dark cotton, and then anything that needs a delicate wash. I find it helps with preventing bobbles.

Lights and darks. But I own a lot of things with a navy and white stripe which is perplexing. When my kids were really little everything went in together but the whites really do grey if you don’t separate them

Nope, never separated anything. Just wash entire contents of basket every 2 days.

If it’s really old, I’d wash it altogether, otherwise I’d separate whites, dark/jeans, lights, brights and delicates. But that’s because I do a lot of washing. Sometimes I’ll throw it all in together if I’m doing the essentials.

No, I don't sort by colour (apart from when a dark item is new and might run). But then I don't have any white clothes. (What are all these 'whites' that people have?)

And use a colour care laundry detergent so as not to fade the colours - most normal laundry detergents contain optical brighteners to give the illusion that white items are cleaner, but they fade coloured clothes.

Nope, I have not done in years, however then I have literally no white clothes (towels done separately), and neither did DD when she lived at home.

I only did DD's school shirts separately.

I'm really shocked that anyone separates more than lights and darks ever, tbh. And no, if they are older clothes, they aren't going to run. Most things don't run at all, but you do have to watch e.g. newish jeans and things like that.

Yes I do whites (washed at 60°), lights (at 40°) & dark (at 40°)
Towels together at 60°
Kids bedding 60°
Our bedding 60°
Then every few days sofa throws at 40°
...I do a lot of washing though

I always wash the whites together on their own wash with a dab of bleach.
Towels and bedding get their own separate hot wash.
Light and pastel colours get their own wash as do dark clothing.

I also clean my machine once a week with white vinegar on a boil wash.

Whites, light colours, dark colours, and often mid colours on their own because they are usually mine and I use a sensitive detergent on mine whereas the other stuff needs bio.

Nope, if there's something brand new that might run (jeans or something similar) then I'll wash it separately first time. After that i never separate (except towels & bedding as I wash them hotter), I've never had an issue with clothes running. We don't wear many white clothes so I'd be waiting forever before I could do a 'white wash'

Yeah I do think it can depend on your wash load.

It was just DD and I for many years, between us two I think I only did about three loads per week for clothes so certainly does not justify seperate washes of delicates, white, lights, brights etc

My whites consist of children's vests, baby grows, socks and t-shirts. Nothing for adults.

I wash proper whites separately but if it's white with colour it tends to chucked in with the other stuff. I don't have enough washing to separate it all

Jeans go separately but otherwise whites and towels together at 40, colours at 20 (my machine doesn't have 30).