How do you sort your laundy?

[MadAboutTheBoys]

I want to buy new laundry baskets and can't decide how many categories to sort my washing into. What do you all do? I have recently been using three stacking plastic drawers that separated my washing into delicates, 40 degrees with one line (as in the little picture on the washing label) and '40 no lines'. However am now wondering about adding in a category of whites and maybe combining some of the other categories, even though they do reflect how I do my washes. (hope that all makes sense!)

Also, does anyone know any good places to buy laundry baskets divided into two or three sections?

i don't sort by colour, only by temperature
so we have cold hand wash cycle for bras, wools and silk
bog standard 40
and 60 for bedding and towels.
if i set too many parameters it never gets done.

I have an awful confession to make. I sort it using a superstitious system which involves "nices" and "bulkies" and then I use the same programme for each pile anyway. I've tried to break this habit, but its some sort of compulsion.

Wow, thanks so much for all your answers. Haven't replied sooner as whole family have had tummy bug so have just been washing as much as possible as quickly as possible! Am planning to go back through whole thread with a notepad as soon as I feel better!

I have:
adult whites
adult darks
handwash
DS's basket

Bedding goes straight off the bed into the machine as do towels. I sort DS's basket when I come to wash it. Clothes go in at 30, bedding used to be 30 I think/towels at 60 (but I think I shall try bedding at 60 too after reading this thread)

I love the idea of laundry bags in the cupboard under the stairs, but fear it would result in even more of a clothing mountain beside DH's side of the bed than is already there. I HATE it when I empty the basket only to find it full again 5 mins later because he's cleared his mountain. I just refuse to pick it up. It's the only step of the laundry process he's even vaguely involved in!

Those of you who have loads of categories, do you end up doing really frequent washes, or do you have loads of clothes so it doesn't matter how quickly things are washed ? On the back of this thread I am contemplating sorting into lights and darks (easy tiger!) - I currently don't sort at all. But DS only has 3 school shirts, for example, which get changed most days, so if I only do a light wash every other wash (and I usu do a wash every other day), then he would get through his shirts much faster than I could wash and dry them (I don't have a tumble dryer). Am I misunderstanding?

Just 1 basket here. I wash whites, colours, towels and Dhs work clothes but seperate them as I go.