AIBU To Wonder About This Laundry Travesty?

[TheShellBeach]

I am forever reading threads on here about laundry, in which some people admit to putting all their washing in the machine UNSORTED.
Yes! Whites, coloureds, woollens, sheets, towels etc. etc. etc. all put in together.

How can you do this? It's just wrong, isn't it?

(lighthearted)

@Rocksludge if my DC’s school had white shirts I probably would do the same. Thankfully they have grey! 🙌😂

It's fine as long as you don't buy anything white, or that requires different wash types. To be honest, it's kind of survival of the fittest for the washing in our house, it either washes well like this or doesn't last long.

Mostly lights/whites, brights and darks - but I have been know the tip the whole children’s basket in without a second glance.

This! A thousand times this. I have never once heard a man worry about laundry.

I wash whites separately, once a week. Everything else goes together.

My eldest loves white socks, and I hate them, as he wear them while playing sports and they just don't stAy white. Can't get them back to while either. Evil socks.

I mix everything but pure white clothes that I'd like to keep looking bright, and will set them aside for when I get a full ish load. I don't separate lights and darks unless there's something new and dark and the dye might run.

I do light, dark, woolly, and bedding/towels.

I have friends who claim it's unnecessary to sort. They are wrong. The once-white-now-blue clothes I have prove otherwise (made the mistake of washing a white t-shirt with blue animal logo with lights and the blue animal ran).

We wouldn't have enough to put a load on either. Not enough clothes to wash less than weekly, nor enough washing for more than two loads a week. So can only split into a clothes wash and a towels/bedding etc wash. If we were four rather than two people then we would be able to split into lights and darks.

My husband’s laundry related anxiety and faffing is incredible. I stopped even considering washing so much as a sock of his long ago.

His clothes are the snowflakes of the laundry world it seems. Mine and the kids are fine without the fuss.

The last if DS's GCSE exams was a very good day, no more white shirts! He wears business dress to college but has two blue and three grey shirts.

Ours can't build up, we'd run out of clothes to wear. I need to wash weekly, organised or not.

I'm hyperventilating

Having once had the shame of all my white PE kit being an unattractive pinky grey thanks to Dad deciding to help with the laundry I do sort my washing to an extent.

Not colour by colour though! That's insane!

I keep an eye out for new dark/bright colours that might run and only wash them with darker stuff.

I put all white stuff together but bulk the load out with light grey, pale blue, pastels etc that have been washed before.

Never put white stuff in with dark denim.

Some towels and most sheets are colours that could be washed with white to help. White, cream, beige, pale blue etc.

I always colour code my laundry. In other ways I'm a slattern.

I think if people think they can just throw a load of fluffy fleeces in with black tops and jeans etc because they “don’t sort anything”, they deserve everything they get.

Wash them on their own at a low temperature until I am quite sure that the small amount of colour will not run.

Then they go in with the rest of the whites.

However, I do not wash sheets and small white items together. (All our sheets and duvet covers are white. So are all our towels)

Now I come to think of it, we have a LOT of white washing in our house, because I prefer white bed linen and white towels.

I also like white knickers.

White T-shirts, shirts and blouses are worth looking after as they are the key to looking smart and 'put together'.

White shirt and skinny jeans, plus smart trainers, ballet flats, stilettos etc and I'm good to go. Anywhere - pub or Royal Opera House or anywhere else.

"I have never once heard a man worry about laundry"

Ha! Neither had I, until I was employed to look after a very sick elderly patient at her home, and her family came to stay as she was so ill.

The son-in-law (who was a Commander in the Navy) decided to do all the washing.

Cue hours and hours and hours of him standing worriedly in the laundry room, sorting stuff out - and re-sorting it - and making small piles here and there - and not actually getting anything into the washing machine.

@Toomanysleepycats · Yesterday 22:20
I generally do whites, lights and dark. Except for when my DD was young and I regularly had an entire pink/purple wash.
I’m quite proud of my ability to keep my whites, white. But then I lead a very quiet life and don’t get out much.

This made me smile

Whites tend to go in with sheets. Towels and tea towels tend to go in together. Everything else gets bunged in as one - on a one hour, 30 degree wash. Honestly my clothes are never really properly dirty, they just need the sweat and skin particles swished out of them.

(I wear tops a couple of times before washing and bottoms and outer layers multiple times. Knickers only get worn once though of course!)

Chuck a few colour catchers in and it’s fine 😄

I have two washes...'black wash' and 'everything else wash'. And if I've only got a small amount to do, everything goes in 'one wash' on 30 degrees 🤷‍♀️

@Barwickunited

You have clearly never been to my house.

DH has very definite opinions about laundry.

I work in the clothing industry - I often decide what goes on thelaundry label.

I am still often wrong apparently

I use Dr Beckmann's colour collector sheets. Is it a swizz?