How do you categorise clothes for washing?

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Hey Ladies. I think I may be making more work for myself with my washing. I think I might be over cautious- and do so many separate washes! Usually, I do:
White wash
Reds/pinks wash
Dark wash
Light wash
Towels/underwear/ bedsheets for hot washes.
Is this necessary? How do you categorise washing? Do you ever have any colour run mishaps?

Any thoughts appreciated!

Light and dark, that's it, lol! If I have a pale coloured item that's been washed a few times it goes in with the whites.

I wash the kids stuff separately as they have sensitive skin so I don't use softener. Their stuff gets washed so much I don't even separate colours, I just bung it all in together.

The only colour disaster I had was putting a dark green towel in the light wash, it hadn't been washed before. I now have a nice matching mint green bra, knickers, vest and t-shirt!

Another one here to say that i just do laundry. Towels together, bedding together, both on high temp, clothes together on low temp. That's as fancy as i get.

Whites/Light colour/Dark Colour/Black

My towels are white or black so go in a load of either colour just towels.

Black washing is the biggest load - workwear, socks, DH gym gear

Anything delicate or liable to tangle (leggings or fine jumpers) go in laundry bags .

Whites soaked in a bowl with oxy action stuff.

Everything else in washer.

Whites
Lights - cream/light beige/light grey etc
Colours
Darks - black/navy/dark brown/dark grey
Towels/bedding

Dark 30 fairy
Light 60 Ariel
Towels and bed cover together 60
My son clothes fairy non bio 60 and rince them twice

DS school polo shirts
Everything else.

None of us wear white apart from DS for school. I've found everything else can go in together at 30 with no harm.

Lights
Darks
Delicates
Would ensure that jeans were washed only with navy/black clothes the first few times.

Woollens/ silks / delicates (they get a different laundry liquid as bio is bad for wool and silk)
Whites (sometimes with one or two v pale colours say baby blue or light beige)
Everything else.

Sorry, forgot: towels or bedding often get a wash to themselves because of the volume.

Darks
Colours
Whites
Bedding
Towels/tea towels

Darks, colours and whites all washed at 40, bedding and towels washed at 60.