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Washing knickers and tea towels together

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sirmione16 · 16/07/2019 16:24

Who REALLY separates their undies from towels in the wash Hmm am I and everyone I know grubby ?! I feel this is a waste of water, electricity, time and money!

www.facebook.com/ThisMorning/videos/397975490837957?s=524614358&v=e&sfns=mo

(Video is Lynsey on This Morning telling us we should make sure our bras are clipped together and separate them from towels before we wash) I wanna know how she has the time.

OP posts:
DarlingNikita · 16/07/2019 17:08

I do it separately but only because I wash tea towels, bed linen etc at 60 and underwear at 40.

Lolimax · 16/07/2019 17:08

I'm just a minger. All goes in together in my house. Everyone has survived this far and my coffee cups don't smell of sweaty bollocks (they would be DH's not mine).

WidowTwonky · 16/07/2019 17:09

Towels and tea towels together (hot wash, no fab con)

avocadochocolate · 16/07/2019 17:11

Knickers and towels get washed together at 60 or 70.

Tea towels and kitchen cloths are washed together at 95.

EdWinchester · 16/07/2019 17:12

We wash towels on their own, but only because we get through so many. I don't possess any white underwear anyway.

I wash my underwear on a delicate cycle on its own, but only about once a week - so that's at least 7 bras and even more pants.

Boys' pants get chucked in with coloured washes.

GibbonLover · 16/07/2019 17:14

All I use tea towels for is absorbing clean water from clean dishes. So yes, they do go in with all the other stuff. The only thing I keep separate is cleaning rags. They go in a carrier bag, then soaked in Zoflora for an hour or so when there's enough of them to justify a washload.

ethelredonagoodday · 16/07/2019 17:15

Separated by colour only here. Might occasionally do a towels or bedding only wash, but more due to capacity in the washer than anything else.

FrogsAreMean · 16/07/2019 17:16

It’s NOT time consuming nor difficult NOT to wash t towels with your knickers. That’s just GRIM.
@IncrediblySadToo
Ha ha ha - GRIM - I've heard it all now! You need to get a fucking life love. And you're right IT IS INCREDIBLY SAD TOO!

stucknoue · 16/07/2019 17:18

I throw everything in though towels are often separate on space grounds

ChipsAndKetchup · 16/07/2019 17:19

Just how grim are people's knickers if they are so horrified about washing them with tea towels? I'm genuinely baffled about the issue.

And for people that do a tea towel wash only - how many do you use?!

This is most enlightening. In my house open door, put in dirty clothes/tea towels/bath towels. Wash. Open door and voila! It's all fucking clean!!! Why would this make me gross?!

I'm also horrified at the environmental impact of people constantly using the machine to wash half a load or less. Get a grip maybe?

mogtheexcellent · 16/07/2019 17:21

everything goes in at 40 with a colour catcher. Apart from the first 3 months of school year when the red uniform is washed seperately as the colour runs terribly (looking at you Sainsburys and Asda cardigans).

If I have a huge pile (like after a holiday) I may vaguely wash darks seperate from the lights and coloureds but that is it.

EBearhug · 16/07/2019 17:21

I'd probably be more worried about a tea towel contaminating my knickers than vice versa. If I was going to worry about it either way, which I'm not.

sandyfoot · 16/07/2019 17:21

Wow! Ridiculously delighted that I am doing some housework better than others because I'm a total skank. Don't understand how your dish cloths etc could be washed properly on the same temperature as your smalls. Wash my towels etc hot and sometimes even bung in some napisan

Coralfish · 16/07/2019 17:22

Oooh I do do towels separately because I don't use fabric conditioner on those but I do put my cloth sanitary towels in with the towels so that is presumably more disgusting?! That said kitchen towels go in a separate wash but that is because they go in the 'downstairs' laundry bag with dishcloths, napkins and dusters and that all gets shoved in when the bag's full.

Bobbybobbins · 16/07/2019 17:23

I put everything in together at 40 and wash it. Done.

FrogsAreMean · 16/07/2019 17:23

Megan2018

We have huge towels so a towel load is enough on its own.

Every week I have:
2 loads of superking bedding
1 load of towels (bath and kitchen)
1 load of ecloths and mop heads used for all the cleaning jobs
1 load of pet related items
2-3 loads of clothes

i do them all on different days though - its not a deliberate thing to split them by type, it's just the way it works. The tea towels go in with the towels or ecloths depending.

Heatherjayne1972

I’m a sorter
Pants and socks on a hot wash
Whites at 30
Darks at 30
Towels tea towels and flannels on a hot wash
Everything else at 30

Doesnt take long to sort with a system

Quick question - Do either of you have a fucking job OR life? And what about all the water you use! Really eco-friendly there! I hope you have water meters.

ohnoessexgirl · 16/07/2019 17:23

Life is too short for shit like that.

beckywiththecraphair · 16/07/2019 17:24

How is it grim to wash knickers with towels?! How badly soiled are your knickers that this is grim?! Confused

DramaAlpaca · 16/07/2019 17:24

It wouldn't ever occur to me to wash knickers & tea towels together. My rather prim mother taught me that one just doesn't do that Grin

I'm another laundry sorter, and I like having a system. I do separate washes for towels, bedding, tea towels, white clothes & dark clothes. Brights might get a wash on their own if I've enough for a full load. Towels, bedding & tea towels get done at 60, clothes at 40.

Riv · 16/07/2019 17:26

Did she really suggest that bras should be washed at 60! The labels all say hand wash at 30.
They’d be wrecked and not have any support or functioning elastic left after a week if daily washed on 60!

sandyfoot · 16/07/2019 17:29

Am I the only one not to wash their bra daily?!

YoThePussy · 16/07/2019 17:29

Gentle MNers, please tell me you don’t hang your tea towels and knickers on the same washing line outside. That would be beyond gross and quite possibly a flogging offence. And that is leaving aside issues of darking and spider willies. The thought of the latter prowling the line to sleep in my knicker gussets is quite giving me the vapours.

MarshaBradyo · 16/07/2019 17:29

Tea towels go alone as do bath mats

It wasn’t because of the underwear though I hadn’t thought of that until now more they are the bottom of the laundry hierarchy

I really care about wash separation woe anyone who mixes

Veggijacks77 · 16/07/2019 17:30

I always wash my towels and tea towels together on a 60 wash with a little bit of anti bacterial wash. Never ever washed my undies with them they get chucked in ( colour matched of course) with everything else on a 30. Bras are always hand washed .

Ivy40 · 16/07/2019 17:30

Clothes go in on a 30 degree wash, whenever I’ve got enough for a full load.

Weekly towel and sheet wash on 60 degrees.

If I have to start washing my pants on 60 degrees, they’ll be going in with the sheets and towels.

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