How do you separate laundry?

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So.. need some honest opinions here. I posted a comment on a previous thread mentioning that washing tea towels together with knickers is gross IMO. Received quite a few comments telling me I'm uptight and bizarre. I honestly think that even if you wash them at 90 degrees, you still shouldn't mix tea towels and underwear. Am I in minority then thinking this? Genuinely curious.

I wash everything together. Knickers, tea towels, t-shirts, jeans ....At 40 degrees.
Nobody has died yet.

I only separate whites and the only whites I have are cricket kit and school tops.

Tea towels and cleaning cloths go in with whatever load is next ready. I entirely agree it's uptight and weird to worry about tea towels being washed with pants. Everything gets washed so it's clean.

I used to have a flatmate who would remove any tea towels from the machine before washing her clothes. It was just one of her weird obsessions

I do:

• Whites
• Darks
• Light colours

All at 40 degrees

Then delicates (bras, handknits) on the handwash programme.

Have never separated out pants etc

I'm another one that throws it all in together!

I separate whites from coloured. That's it. Definitely uptight to not wash tea towels and pants etc. together. It's all clean when it emerges.

I’m a chuck it all in merchant. I may wash a bright top separately on the odd occasion. By that i mean i think I’ve done it twice in about 30 years.

I tend to wash towels and tea clothes together as they make a full load and they tend to leave fluff on some clothes if washed together.

Bedding is washed with clothes as the sheet is washed with other whites and the duvet cover with coloured clothes.

I think with powerful detergents and cleansers it's not really an issue any more. I use dettol cleanser and persil bio and 40 c wash 30c for clothes . Towels and sheets 40c long wash. All good so far! Tend to tumble dry .which is good for killing germ killing too

I wash cleaning cloths completely separate on a quick hot wash. Everything else goes in together but I've started to properly separate whites and darks as my white tops were going grey.

I separate whites from colours. That’s it.

Pyjamas and pants are usually washed together in a hot wash. Bedding and towels together. The rest based on colours and needs (delicate, etc). I really thought that's common sense. Apparently not.

Lights and darks, very occasionally I separate nicer white items in with white bedding but for the most part 2 washes.
Who the fuck has time to separate colours, tea towels, bedding, knickers etc??

I think it’s way more important to wash things quickly than to itemise to that level. I hate the idea of anything festering in the basket for any more than a day.

I separate whites and colours, plus a 60 degree wash for bedding and towels (all white)

No it’s disgusting to wash underwear with cloth you wipe plates with.

But people are mingers. I can be in the supermarket and see people who look perfectly nice and ordinary - but they clearly don’t wash or dry their clothes properly and they’ve gone nose blind - as they stink. Low temps, non-bio… it all keeps the bacteria hanging about and thriving.

Keep separating op. The dirty fuckers will say ‘no one died’ but yeah, that’s a low bar.

I chuck tea towels straight in the washing machine as they need washing and they get wasted with whatever load goes on next.

Apart from that I only tend to wash towels and bedding separately as they tend to take up a full load, nothing else gets separated at all. I tend to avoid white clothes in general anyway.

I think for some people it's the thought of things that cover the genitals coming into touch with things that dry your plates. I can see why people find that squeamish but what I don't understand is that the same people don't seem to worry that their knickers are still dirty after the cycle has finished and happily wear them again and again after washing.

If the concern is that your machine isn't cleaning properly and dirty knickers end up contaminating the things in the machine with it, then it means nothing is clean, including your knickers and clothes.

I don't put underwear in a separate load, they do go in with my clothes though.

I wouldn’t end up with a full load just of PJs and underwear though, and I wouldn’t want to run a half load.

When you say hot wash, how hot do you mean? I wash my pants at 40 (chucked in with whatever including tea towels), I don't feel the need to boil the bejeesus out of them though, should I!? 😆

Whites, Darks, coloureds. But it's your washing so do whatever you want

Yeah I agree, if pants are going to contaminate other things in the machine so nothing’s clean then there’s something wrong with the washing machine.

It’s either all clean when it comes out or nothing ever is.

No it’s disgusting to wash underwear with cloth you wipe plates with.

Both should come out the washer clean and hygienic whether washed together or separate otherwise I would be looking at replacing my washing machine.

I don’t, I don’t think my bum is that toxic 🤣

I don't separate anything. It all goes in together at 40 degrees.

No it’s disgusting to wash underwear with cloth you wipe plates with.

Get a dishwasher.

Genuinely can’t remember ever wiping a plate with a tea towel.

Clean and dirty.