How do you sort your laundry?

[Mooos]

I nearly boaked when I saw my friend put her underwear (pants) into the washing machine with her dish towels.

I was feeling squeamish about putting underpants in the washing machine with floor clothes (how do you wash your clothes that have cleaned the toilet floor?)

Am I being too fussy? How do you separate your washing?

Hi Mooos! I think that's really funny! I'm with your friend on this. A washing machine...washes! They all come out clean in the end. What's the difference? I just worry about colours running tbh!

fraid I agree with Bebebelge- you are being too fussy.

DD's pooey clothes get washed with everything- I shove in a bit of vanish extra hygeine in though- but yes all comes out clean in the end!

Agree with Bebe/Thandeka - sort by colours, but not fussed about what each item has been used for - they're all clean when they come out...

Sort by colour only, same as previous posters; pants with tea towels with baby stuff, don't mind so long as they're in the same colour category.

I also sort by colours apart from towels - someone once told me that they make your clothes go bobbly. I also prefer to do them hotter.

sort by colour,(bare in mind theres 6 of us.)really dark-dark-lights-whites.(and sometimes a brights)wash at 30-40
flannels,tea towels,towels,bedding ect,are put in a hotter wash.50-60

Same as the others, I sort colour/white + do a different wash for things like bed linen towels at a higher temperature and higher spin.

Just sort by colours, but with a four year old girl in the house, the groups are usually: darks, lights, pinks, whites!

I do my dish towels at 95 along with flannels and hankies, so I wouldn't put any knickers in with them. But just nto to ruin the pants, not for any hygiene reasons!

Everything else just gets sorted by colour usually - dark / greige / white. Though quite often I'll do a batch which is just jeans, or towels, or bedding simply because it is a full load on its own.

{grin] at the need for a "pinks" wash!

Amiable - I do a 'pinks' wash too

@ floor clothes

The point of a washing machine is that it cleans dirt out of everything. I do light hot and dark hot washes in which I chuck anything that fits the description (underwear, bedlinen, cloths, tea towels etc)

No one has died of contaminated knicker syndrome yet

Hhhhmmm is it necessary to do a hot wash? I only ask because I have a couple of Eco friendly modes on my washing machine and prettymuch do everything therefore with cold water... Wondering now if I should be changing the mode for certain items?

My mum does knickers with everything too. Never killed us but I don't like it and don't do it.

I have two laundry baskets upstairs - one lights and one darks - mostly on 40 but sometimes on 30. Then I do towels, tea-towels, face cloths etc on 60. Bedding also done on 60.

My washing machine is 6 years old and there is no lower option than 40.

I think most stuff can be done at a pretty low temperature - tbh these days we wash things that in earlier generations would have been hung neatly and worn again a number of times before anyone thought they "needed" a wash.

I do have a bit of a thing about flannels etc, possibly because I forget to change them till they get whiffy and so I reckon they are in need of a serious temperature by the time they get done... if I washed them after a couple of days, I'm sure I'd be happy to throw them into a normal wash with everything else.