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.

"Putting them in with body fluids" I think the PP was right who said some people must be crapping (and pissing) into their washing machines.

I think a lot of rhis is justifying thoughtless process. I wonder if people have seen a parent or grandparent do it, and kept up the habit without asking why. The main reason in the past not to mix cloths with knickers is if you do a hot vinegar wash for the cloths, because vinegar will damage elastic. I do an occasional vinegar to drum clean and get any stains off cloths (DH bike grease for example), and I wouldn't put delicate clothes nor elastic in. So I suspect this is the true cause, rather than people truly believing that a hot wash doesn't kill bacteria.

I do:

white wash
pinks and pale colours
blues and dark colours

Wow, your underwear must be really filthy…

"Gusset residue" 😆

There are these things called incontinence pads if it's that bad ...

I think Gusset Residue are heading Download next year. Feacal Swirling is my favourite album of theirs

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Faecal- get it right!
Sorry intended for previous poster!

Whereas
Limp bizkit
Def leppard
The monkees
The byrds
The weeknd
Etc all fine bands, deliberately spelled wrongly.

Feacal swirling is not only imaginary but in the company of stars.

It makes more sense than separating your tea towels from your knickers before washing!

You'd hate me washing my reusable pads with everything else...

If that’s what you want to do, do so, it doesn’t affect me! I don’t think I alone with not mixing underwear and tea towels! What I can’t understand is how some of you don’t understand why!

I only separate whites (which is about once a month as we don't buy anything white!) and colours, plus a 60 degree wash for bedding and towels.

I'm absolutely not separating anything further, it already takes too long.

Should have given them a metal umlaut really. Maybe Fekal Swirling by Güsset Residüe

Ummm you havent explained it very well.

Teatowels must go in their own wash load, because faecal matter, and/or washed by hand in a super hot wash despite them never going near disgusting gussets.

No one yet has admitted doing a drum wash between loads, but surely you all must, because fecal matter. And the other option is dettol or similar in each wash load, then no need to separate anything bar colours.

I'm stumped because even on the worst cooking day, I dont go through a 8kg wash load of teatowels, and I dont have that many teatowels anyway. Christ I struggle to get enough whites weekly. And if you do have enough teatowels to fill a small bunker, they must be left in a stinking pile until theres enough to make up a whole load.
Or your washing a few which is a massive waste of water, detergent and energy.

I’ve got loads of tea towels, and yes, I wait until there is a decent sized load, but not 8kg. They are not stinking.
Dettol would not be sufficient to kill bacteria!
The filter in the base of your machine should be cleaned regularly. The pipe also releases any stagnant water in the base.

It seems 84% of us are happy with our tea towels swirling in gusset residue and poo particles.

Has anyone ever seen a death cert with "Death by knickers" as the cause of death? No, me neither.

"Death by Knickers", Güsset Residüe's almost forgotten first album!

Separate white from colours.

Separate towels (all kinds) because they are going on high temperature (to kill lovely bacteria feasting on dead skin cells and get rid off grease from kitchen towels)

Bedding goes with everything else,however washing machine dislikes it (duvet cover/sheet seems to wrap itself around smaller items creating uneven load).

I'm surprised at how filthy people seem to get their tea towels. What are they being used for, apart from drying clean things? (And the same people seem to be freaking out about putting them in the wash with underwear ... )

Tea towel separated. I only wash it on its own or with any other cloth (like for wiping indoor windows, worktop etc).

whites and dark separated
bedding and towel together

all in 40 degree

@Bignanna the dettol laundry sanitiser does - that's what it's for. 99.9% of bacteria
I use it for gym clothes if they're sweaty but I still wash everything together

Immunocompromised and don't even think about it and I'm not dead yet. But I don't dry my dishes with a tea towel anyway

Whites, light coloured, medium coloured, darks. No matter what the item is I go by the colours and wash at mainly 40 degrees!

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Sheets - 75 degrees

Bath towels - 75 degrees

Underwear - 60 degrees (only temperature to kill germs fully, can't believe anyone would wash on less than this)

Darks
Lights
Whites all at 30 degrees unless dirty in which case 40 degrees

Sometimes separate jeans and do those at 40 degrees