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.

Ace bleach for whites is good at keeping them bright if that helps!

If a 60 wash is not completely washing away bacteria, then there will still be bacteria in the drum from knickers and underwear? And then putting the teatowels in that same drum means the bacteria is then on the tea towels?

I also don't understand why bacteria on pj's is OK but not on tea towels...what's so sacred about tea towels??!!

I wash all towels including tea towels, and cloths at 60. I separate whites and coloureds (but add a colour catcher) and wash at 30. We don't wear much in the way of whites so I save them up and there's a white wash once or maybe twice a month. Then I do bedding at 40. I also do an occasional 'fluffy' wash at 30 for anything woolly or that I want to add fabric softener to as I don't add it to a normal wash.

Whites
Blacks/very dark
Reds
Mixed colours

I also put a colour catcher sheet in with them.

Wouldn't even think about separating underwear!

Just how dirty are these pants?? She said primly.

I also don't understand why bacteria on pj's is OK but not on tea towels...what's so sacred about tea towels??!!

I'll try and answer that one based on what others have said. With capitals for emphasis of course.

Because your tea towels will BE ON YOUR FORKS and that means then you are putting POO ON YOUR FORKS and that means you might as well lick the TOILET because you are a MINGER.

It doesn't matter that there is poo on your pyjamas because microscopic poo particles that have magically not been washed away will definitely transfer from tea towels to dishes in highly significant amounts but wearing clothes that are COVERED IN POO PARTICLES is not minging because wearing poo next to your skin is totally fine and not at all MINGING.

I think that's the answer. Nobody has provided a better one 😂

My partner thinks I care too much about laundry. I'm going to show him this thread and let him see just how much more seriously it can be taken.

The OP washes her bottom after every single toilet visit using her bidet but accepts that not everyone has her high standards of cleanliness. (I'm assuming she doesn't use the loo outside her house or only where there is a bidet available)

She also confirms that 60 degrees kills bacteria on tea towels but only when washed separately, 60 degrees also kills bacteria on underwear and pjs but if you combine all 3 on a 60 degree wash something scientific happens in the washing machine with that combination that means you end up with your tea towels swirling around in wee/poo and not coming out clean enough.

There was also a sudden change where tea towels then needed to go on a 90 degree wash and pants needed a seperate wash entirely but I'm not really sure what happened there

Christ on a bike, some of this stuff is insane.

It’s a washing machine. You put in dirty things, you get out clean things.

😂

I separate our stuff from the babies stuff for a start. Then colours by and whites separate, I’m not fussy over tea towels going in with the normal wash. Bath towels washed my themselves and bedding washed separate too at 60 degrees. I wash my cleaning cloths by themselves at 90 degrees.

Bedding
Woollens
Everything else

works for me.

I don't know how some people have time for other things with all the arse washing and militant sorting of laundry.

Towels/whites/dark/light coloured/any delicates….

Jeepers I think we've answered this about 20 times already!! It's because you are putting poo on tea towels that you dry dishes with...for no reason!! You could just separate them out from other stuff and not have poo on them. I need a 🍷

Hardly militant, it's only washing tea towels separately so as not to infect them with poo , wee etc

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All you folk who are pooing and peeing in your underwear and pjs have you ever thought of wearing a pad?

generally wash clothes and bed linen separately - tea towels can go in either batch though. Generally wash bed linen at a higher temperature.
About to do some washing and a lot more clothes than bedding, so may swap some clothes that will be fine with a hotter wash to even the loads out.

I don't.

Towels and bed linen go on separately but only because they fill the machine alone rather than for hygiene reasons.

"you might as well lick the toilet seat". I'm sure most people are aware that the average keyboard/phone contains more germs than a toilet seat (my toilet is cleaned after use) lots of folk on here, not bothered about the cost of electricity or worried about saving the planet from excess CO2 production. Even the packaging on washing products encourages you to lower the washing temperatures.

You've summed up the attitude here! 😂

I disagree.

90 degrees wash. I wash a load daily.

I'd seriously consider getting yourself a new washing machine if your pants are coming out, covered in poo after a 60 degree wash.

I am loving how you are so adamant your right and getting so worked up though. Ti's a shame you can't actually answer the question 😆

What level of skid marks are we talking here, with people going on about poo in the washing machine? (Makes me very glad I don't have men or small children to deal with if this is actually a thing.) The claims seem to have moved on from panic about particles to talking as if people throw soiled nappies straight into the washing machine.