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

[EleanorReally]

will they run?

I was towels and bedding separately though

I mix all my washing. Don't separate any of it. Do it at 30C and never had an issue.

@Plexie
I have white shirts for work, i also wear white underwear, my husband wears white sports socks to the gym and i also have white tops and t.shirts.

Other people may have kids with white schoolshirts / blouses.

So plenty of white's

Everything in together do about 5 loads a week for 5 of us. Never separated except we put all dh shirts on every 2 weeks or so & bring them to get ironed. To be fair tho we have barely any white clothes except those shirts.

Some of you should try out colour catcher sheets. They'll reduce the number of loads needed and save water! I combine everything now that can be washed at the same temp and cycle.

Whites, darks, brights, lights

I've never separated clothes in my life. I barely have time to wash as it is.

I sort, but exactly how depends on what needs doing.

And I've never trusted reds since a not particularly new red sock got stuck to the drum and the next load included most of DHs work shirts. So I save up a loads worth of reds/purples/things which wouldn't be terrible if they got a bit pinked.

I do lights, brights and dark.

Yes I do.
Towels / bedding at 60
Whites at 60
Brights at 30
Darks / black at 30

I agonise over silly things eg I have a white floral print top and can't decide to put it in with whites or colours! It's been in the basket for 2 weeks now 🙄

@NoYo I hand wash things like that, as I can't make my mind up either!

Hand wash it @NoYo.
I wash quite a bit of 'i can't decide' stuff like that by hand.

Yes I have whites, light colours, dark colours and blacks. The though if mixing them all up makes me feel a bit 🤢 even though I doubt we have anything that would run!! Totally unreasonable on my behalf.

Whites, brights and darks. Anything really pale I put in the white wash otherwise in with the brights.

It's the only way to keep stuff bright and not dull.

Can someone PLEASE EXPLAIN how to wash things with bloody stripes?! Every week I risk them in the whites and every week I feel like a fraud pretending to be a grown up!

We're terrible when it comes to doing washing regularly so it builds up a fair bit. Our clothes are all pretty similar colours too so we end up doing whites, greys, blacks (with dark browns and anything navy), blues (sometimes featuring greens) and pinks/reds all separately. Our laundry piles are like a weird rainbow!

No. We just throw them all in at the same time and be done with it. Cba with the hassle.

All whites together.

All darks together.

All towels (light & dark) together.

All bedding together.

Curtains that are machine washable - once a year.

Towels and bedding on the hottest wash possible.

Everything else on a 30/40c.

I like to keep it as simple as possible. And they all get washed with the same tabs/liquid, as I like to keep the 'smell' consistent :)

oh hell yes, it's complete segregation here

I don't really even like mixing people's laundry much, especially really yicky stuff with ordinarily grubby stuff. I'd do the really yicky stuff on its own.

towels and bedding get their own wash, and no mixing of kitchen with bathroom towels

I sort by colour, fabric, type of item and person...but I do combine loads ...yicky stuff excepted

I love laundry rules.

There are 6 of us in the house so it's easy for me to do seperate washes as I have a ton of washing! Darks, whites and pastels usually!

Blimey - never separated anything, never had any issues with colour run. All the systems above sound like a lot of hard work!

I normally separate into lights and darks. If I have a pile of grubby white stuff (ds1’s karate suit comes to mind) then I put that on its own with some vanish. Also if I have a lot of brights they get their own wash. Towels are one wash (get washed hotter than clothes) and one bed’s worth of bedding = one wash. I know stuff probably won’t run, but I had sorting it drummed into me for years, and I’ve got to separate it somehow, so this just makes the most sense.

I just separate into lights and darks. we dont have enough white stuff for a full load and if I separated all the colours I'd be washing clothes all day every day

I do towels, tea towels and bedding on a hot wash. I separate my clothes into lights and darks and my darks again in that I wouldn't put a black sweater in with jeans. My husband shoves his all in together and you can tell.

Whites and lights together
Darks together
Towels separately with no fabric conditioner
Bedding together

Colour catchers in everything. They are brilliant.