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.

Towels, divided into white/deep coloured loads 40/60
Light coloured clothes-30
Dark coloured clothes-30
Bedding, divided into light and dark. If there are small amounts of light and dark clothing, add them in-30
Tea towels, on their own always 60

OMG!

Well sure it would make me concerned some of them were in an insecure domestic situation. But I wouldn't worry about it cleanliness reasons!

Thanks. I was getting worried here.

Whites - 40 degree wash
Darks - 40 degree wash
Sports - 60 degree wash
Towels (including tea towels) & bedding - 60 degree wash
Underwear - 60 degree wash

Maybe people are using tea towels differently.

I use them to dry already clean items so they aren't particularly dirty so it's like towels in that they are also drying clean things.

Hence why they could be washed with anything. The only reason both are washed together is they leave fluff sometimes on other items.

Of couse one might surmise that those who did die, pointed at the laundry basket gasping...
" It was...it was the MIXED washing that done it."
before slumping on the floor on a heap.

That's quite a standard you've set...

I know I am uptight about separations. Cleaning cloths, tea towels, bathroom towels, knickers, etc all go in separate loads. I just make sure I have enough of everything that I can run a full wash when I do run them.

Oh lord. I only separate whites/ creams and they go in on 40'C. Everything else in together on 30'C rapid wash. It all smells clean and fresh when it comes out, that's the washing machine's job surely?!

Agree with PP that with a dishwasher, my tea towels are only used for drying already clean things. But I wouldn't dream of separating them from my pants 😂 Life is TOO short.

Pretty much everything on a long 30degree wash cycle.
Split into whites, lights, darks.

Bedding tends to take one wash because size.
Most of my towels are white,so anything else white go in same time. Most of my teatowels are dark they go in with anything dark. Lights, well I don't have many so i have a long wait for a big enough pile.

However I do not care about types of clothing mixing. Might be the filthy job I did for years, all clothing was minging at the end of the day.

Do you find 30 and 40 are enough? I ended up having to rewash things so now everything apart from wool and delicates gets done at 60.
What washing powder do you use? I use Tesco tropical sunshine. Maybe I need to swap to a better one.

Everything at 30 here. Separate whites and coloureds only,

Whites
Colours
Darks
Bedding on 60
Towels on 90

I use the persil one that works at 15 degrees I think it's called Persil Mighty

Thanks. I'll give that one a go.

@Bignanna
What's yuk about what I do?
I grew up in a house that had no washing machine. My mother, and later my siblings and I, hand washed everything. We certainly didn't get to boil levels of water temperature. The obsession with germs and bacteria and cleanliness is not healthy.

If I'm putting on a hot wash (60) then I would be more likely to throw in anything that I think would benefit from a hot wash, not less. So absolutely underwear with towels and tea towels and the mop.

What’s with all the threads about laundry recently!?

I only separate whites and darks. Everything else gets washed together. I can’t be bothered doing 5 different loads in which most would be half full unless I waited weeks and by that point I’d be looking for the stuff that hasn’t even been washed yet. A washing machines job is to wash the clothes. If it doesn’t come out clean then it’s not done its job surely.

my washings are
All darks 30 degree
white 30 degree
light colours 30 degree
towels 40 degree
bedding 60 degrees.

How long does it take you to get a full load of knickers?

Lights
Darks
Reds and pinks
Towels
Bedding

I split mine in to 4 main washes
Whites
Colours
Darks
Wool

I do also separate my cloths but only because I'm a cleaner so I do 2 full loads a week of cloths alone, before I was a cleaner, they went in with mixed colour washes.

To be honest, I'm very much of a mind to say each to there own. If the op feels more comfortable separating and other don't, it has no impact on each other, unless op is running almost empty loads (bad for the environment)

I wash by room, ie the kids who share one room go in one wash (or rather, their clothes do) and the others go in a different wash. So much easier to sort and put away.

But I agree, I'd feel icky putting something actually dirty in with just grubby clothes. My husband chucked swimming stuff in with school uniform once, and the kids smelt like chlorine all week!

Bedding and towels of all description goes in together, then clothes all go on together and except for my husband’s hobby clothes, no way is that going in with my clothes 🤣🤣🤣