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.

This thread is gold 🤣

My tea towels are all white so go in with the towels and white bedding anyway. I didn't think I habitually have shit in my pants, but then I remembered when I went on holiday to Sharm 😳

I'm shocked you rewear underwear after the poo particles are ingrained into the fabric during the wash. 🤮
I incinerate mine and buy new every week.

@wendywoopywoo222 If you use moist toilet wipes and properly cleaned yourself after a poo you wouldn't have this issue.

I wash all towels together as they're the only thing I dry in the tumbler dryer to keep them soft and fluffy.

After that it's sorted whites, light colours and dark colours, my knickers haven't killed me yet.

I live alone and don't wear big knickers so it would take a year or two to get a full load. I don't fancy a year's worth of knickers lounging in the laundry basket so they go in with clothes according to colour.

I wash clothes at 40° so, according to the OP, I must be covered in poo particles. 😆

I'd feel more sick at the thought that there are some people who don't know how to properly clean their arse after a bowel movement tbh

As Yorkshire tea biscuit points out

If you use moist toilet wipes and properly cleaned yourself after a poo you wouldn't have this issue.

Hope that helps.

Don't be so bloody ridiculous, it's NOTHING like having overflowing bins and a dirty house.

You have issues.

Or a bum gun

Or a wash-dry toilet. That's what mine is. It is plumbed in and plugged in (cable hole drilled through wall into next room) and it's got a wall mounted squeezy thing. It shoots warm water up then when you stop squeezing the water turns off and you get your nethers blow dried.

I challenge any scientist on earth to find poo crumbs in my pants! 🤣

Mostly whites vs colours/ dark. I'll split colours and dark only if there's enough washing for 3 loads.

I have a 15 min cycle that I use for cloths to rinse off dust and bleach before they join the whites wash. When DS was little and had some accidents, those also got the 15 minute treatment.

We had an awful time when the new washing machine didn't work properly so clothes were not clean, and engineers didn't accept it. Eventually sent it back and got a lovely machine that functions. If you don't think your machine leaves everything clean after the wash, change the machine.

Darks go separate to lights. That's all.

No it's not because it makes no sense. Just separate the colours that's all you need to do. It's washing...getting clean you don't need to wash pants separate u less you shit and piss yourself.

Ah the Japanese toilets.

It's not about common sense. In a small household that might be way more loads, some nearly empty so basic separation is all you manage.

We do regular loads and I'll just manage a whites and lights every other week!

Growing up we had a weekly reds/purple load because we had some towels this colour and wore a lot of that in my house in the 90s.

We also use bidets in my household so bums are clean all around, that's for sure. People keep presuming things....

I guarantee that my bum is cleaner than most. I use a bidet every time I go toilet, we all do in our household, so ....

Might want to visit the GP if your shits are that sloppy you need to do this, when I wipe there’s nothing on the toilet paper as mine are completely formed.

I think people don't get that your arsehole is not sealed. Wipes spread sht around. Particles are not seen, doesn't mean there aren't there...imagine you had hands covered in sht and use a wet wipe to clean them. I wash my arse everytime and still choose to do knickers separately. According to your logic , as clean as my bum is, I probably shouldn't even wash my knickers.

Genuine question what do you think will happen if you dry a dish with a tea towel that’s been in the wash with your knickers? Are you afraid of getting sick?

So if you wash your tea towels at 60 and your pjs and pants at 60, why can't they be washed together?

Why that colour scheme? That's two loads of washing you've turned into 5

Pants and towels together at 60 degrees

I think they think that their washing machine only washes the pants and not the tea towels. Even more weird as the OP says she washes tea towels at 60, pants at 60, pjs at 60 but can't combine the wash because of poo particals and bacteria going onto the tea towels and not getting cleaned.

I'm still trying to work out why it's OK tk wash said pants with pjs. Even though there are still poo particles on the machine and the op has a sparkly clean bum hole because she uses toilet roll, moist wipes and bidet.

Eww no. I wash my tea towels with stronger detergents as I use them to wipe up spills and probably more likely to ha e pathogenic bacteria on them.

I wouldn't wash my underwear with them, cause I don't want my knickers swished around with sour milk water and I dont want my tea towels swished around with knicker water.

Yes, yes, I know it all comes out clean and rinsed and it's doesn't REALLY matter, but still...bleugh.