What laundry rules do you follow or ignore? Share with Fairy Non Bio for a chance to win a £300 voucher! NOW CLOSED

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With laundry stacked high and always increasing, it can be tempting to break even the most basic of laundry rules in order to keep on top of the task. Fairy Non Bio would like to hear about the rules you implement (or ignore!) when you’re doing the laundry.

Here’s what Fairy has to say: “We want to know what’s important to you. Have you found a way to save time? A way to get the best stain removal? A way to keep clothes huggably soft? Or even just a way to not lose matching socks! We would love to hear your tricks of the trade.”

What’s your perspective on laundry rules? Either way, Fairy Non Bio wants to know. Do you obey temperature regulations or simply stick everything in at 40? Perhaps you’re the kind of person who avoids overfilling and never fails to air-dry fine fabrics. Or, maybe you fill the machine to the brim and adopt a one size fits all approach to drying that would make manufacturers weep. Whatever they may be, divulge your laundry indiscretions.

Share the rules that you follow and those you ignore on the thread below and you will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck

MNHQ

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"hand wash only" - no such thing!

I wash similar colours together

Towels, bedding, tea towels, flannels, dishcloths - on the 2 hour cottons wash at 60 degrees. I usually use Persil bio powder on special offer, or Sainsbury's own brand, in the big box. Sorted into colours or whites.

Clothes - on the cottons wash at 40 degrees, sorted in to whites, pastels, brights, darks, denims & trousers. Big box bio powder on whites, big box colour powder for the colours and darks.

Woollens and silks on their special programmes with the special liquid stuff.

Every load is a full load here, dried outdoors whenever possible, on a clothes horse in the study in the winter, emergency pants and socks dried on the radiators when necessary.

Pretty much everything goes on at 40, I generally only sort colours into a 'whites' and 'other' pile :D

i do whites, coloureds and darks. I dont really have any other rules only DO NOT TUMBLE DRY MY HUBBYS CASHMERE JUMPER lol after i ruined his first one

I ignore them all! Stick anything and everything in the machine and always at 40 degrees!

I ignore everything, I'm terrible. Everything goes in on 40 and I don't seperate colours I do with my daughters clothes but I'm not fussed, I don't wear fancy clothes so they all go in on the same settings

Always follow the light load dark load ,colours and delicate load

I mix colours all the time and just stick in a colour catcher! I also wash most stuff on a normal 40 degree wash.

just to try and keep on top of it is a struggle sometimes

I don’t always separate whites 🙈

Everything goes on a 30 on the quickest wash possible. I wouldn't even know what some of the other settings can do.
If I get a stain, I tend to be lazy and wash it, wash it again and if it still there, in the bin/charity bag (if its not too bad) it goes.

We don't separate white and colours, we do light colours and darks and so far no issues

I just wash everything on 40 except bedding which I wash at 60 to kill all the dustmites.

I keep whites separate, dark denims separate & then coloured garments all go in together. Each load had a colour catcher sheet in a net bag 'just in case!' - it's amazing to see how much dye/dirt they catch when the wash has finished!
I wash each load at 40 unless the label says 30.

whites are whites only - all whites, no beiges, no whites with prints etc
my mother despite having lectured me in the past about how my whites would go beige now mixes them up
my 7 year old put her straight

I ignore pretty much every rule, I put anything in together and so far, fingers crossed, I've always been lucky.

I use a scoop of eco mineral bleach in every wash (except wool & silk!) along with my normal fairy powder - sorts most stains out without any effort and keeps whites white and colours bright!

I follow no rules. I throw everything in together and hope for the best. Unless it's new, I chuck it in.

I, too, just do a lights and darks wash on the general setting. Everything comes out fine and clean. Due to my sons' skin, I can only use Fairy.

Try to follow them all - but its confusing

wash most things on 30 always ok for me

Dry Clean Only - Follow
Do Not Tumble Dry - Follow
Hand Wash Only - Ignore
Temprature Restrictions - Ignore (It all goes in at 40 anyway)
Seperate Whites and Colours - Ignore

Everthing seems clean and fine (One of DHs white cycling tops is currently slightly pink though)

I do not separate lights and darks ,usually wash at 30 degrees except towels and bedding.Anything expensive and delicate I wash by hand.