Alessandra Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 regular clothes, colored -- warm, perma press cycle white shirts -- warm, perm press cycle, bleach white underwear & socks -- hot, bleach, oxyclean, prewash, then regular cycle fleece, basketball ball short material (don't know what the fabric is called) -- cold, perma press cycle white sheets -- hot, bleach, oxyclean, bluing, lavender Mistolin, prewash, then regular cycle, then extra rinse towels -- regular cycle, hot, bleach for white towels I usually wash the white socks/underwear on hot, but don't spin dry; then I rewash with the white shirts on warm -- neither load is that large. And I have to add that I love, love, love my new Speed Queens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfgivas Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 :lol: :lol: :lol: sort? really? for the first twenty years of doing laundry, i sorted. i had a perpetual mount washmore. for the last 13, i have only semi-sorted, and now almost everything is clean, almost all the time. a) i wash everything on cold B) jeans, and sheets+towels, get their own loads c) if there is enough for two loads, i do a cursory sort at the moment into "darker" and "lighter", but rarely. d) we have a handwash cycle, so handwash things get done on their own.... and just about everything gets to share the dishtowels load the first time its washed, just to see what happens. fwiw, ann ps. i reckon its like anything else; it depends what your goals are what your approach is, kwim? i need things to be clean. i don't need things to last forever. hth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 mine and theirs, chuck it all in regardless on cold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutor Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Delicates get washed seperately. Whites get washed seperately in hot water and bleach. Everything else gets tossed together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 1. Jeans & Greens 2. Dark colors- black, navy, etc. 3. Reds, oranges, purples, browns 4. Light colors 5. Bleach load Most everything gets washed in warm (which is really lukewarm the way the water comes out of the hose). Bleach load and sometimes light colors get washed in hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melbotoast Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Colors, whites, sheets, towels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Dump until full. Viola. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Ideally, by color, if I have enough for more than one load (and time to get through them). Often, I just throw everything in together. I got a little more picky once my kids started having to wear white/pastel collared shirts to school. I want the shirts to look decent until they grow out of them, at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 My mom taught me to have at least 6 categories. Bleached cottons, light perm press, dark perm press, and everything else in light, medium, and dark. Ha. In those days, we had 20 loads of laundry per week (family of 8). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemongoose Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Whites- warm Lights-warm Darks-warm Diapers-very hot Hand Washables-cold Swim Clothing/Swim Towels-warm Seat Covers (The high chair has removable seat covers. I have 4, when 3 are dirty, they get washed.)-warm Kitchen towels/dishclothes- sanitary cycle I have a laundry chute for the upstairs bedrooms that drops into my laundry room. The clothes are sorted into a 3 compartment laundry hamper from there. The nursery and my room have a laundry basket that I bring down and add to the sorting on laundry day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Socks are turned inside out and done separately. That's my big one. ;) Foot flakes floating about and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Whites Colors Dark Towels and sheets separate All cold. Everyone's laundry all together. I'm trying to decide when to start ds12 doing his own laundry. He usually helps switch out the loads now anyway. It's just easier to do everyone's wash together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Bleachables -- towels (all of ours are white), white socks and white underwear Whites/light pastels Colors Darks Sheets go in a separate load Dish towels and cloths go in a separate load Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypatia. Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I don't sort. Each bedroom (boys share a room, girls share a room) has a laundry basket. Kitchen has a laundry basket for napkins, dish rags & dish towels. Bath towels usually just go in whatever laundry basket is closest, occasionally I'll do an entire load of towels. Diapers in the diaper pail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 First by family member. Then each member by sub-groups of fabric type and colour range. (This dictates the wash water temperature by definition.) DH prefers your last method of "chuck it all in an let it rip." He favors this method for using the dryer, too. After he shrank two of my favorite all-wool sweaters such that they would fit a small mouse afterward, I forbad him to touch my clothing ever again! by family member? by type of material? by color? by wash water temperature? or just chuck it all in and let it rip? :leaving: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 This caught my interest. Don't the gacky elements get rinsed/drained away? I always have turned socks right-side-out for that reason. Nothing like finding squeaky-clean dried grass inside a sock when donning it in a hurry! . . . or a couple of sticker burrs. Socks are turned inside out and done separately. That's my big one. ;) Foot flakes floating about and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne J Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I sort by "be prepared for..." This pile is dark stuff, like jeans. If you put other stuff in this pile be prepared for it to come back dingy. This pile is for bright and colorful things. If you put other stuff in this pile be prepared for it to come back pink. This pile is for whites. If you put other stuff in this pile, especially colorful stuff, be prepared for the wrath of mom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icecream Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Just darks and lights. But everyone's laundry along with anything else that needs to be washed are combined until I have enough for a full load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom in High Heels Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I do all of our whites together, but I wash my laundry and Han Solo's (separately), Indy does his laundry and James Bond does his laundry. We have color coded towels (one color for each person), so they get washed with whatever color load they fit in for that person. For my personal clothes, I do a load of darks, lights, and pinks/reds. If anyone else has something red, I will toss it in with my pinks/red so they don't have to do a separate load for those. When Han Solo is around 6ish, I'll teach him how to do his laundry, and then it will be his responsibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeacefulChaos Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 by family member? by type of material? by color? by wash water temperature? or just chuck it all in and let it rip? :leaving: Ok. See I've been thinking about laundry a lot lately. But anyway, here's how I currently do it. -by family member -by color And that's pretty much it. I do the boys' laundry, Pink's laundry, and our (DH/I) laundry. Aside from that I don't do a heck of a lot - I don't necessarily sort the kids' clothes by color, but I do ours. I do the towels separately. I feel like there has to be a better way to do this, but I can't do all of our laundry at once without having an UNBELIEVABLE amount per load - as it is, each 'group' takes 2 loads (except Pink), plus a load of towels and a load of delicates. Not to mention if I want to wash sheets and whatnot. Does anyone else NOT sort by color? Oh, and how does everyone dry everything?? I dry our clothes on the LOWEST heat setting, and still it will shrink stuff (that SAYS ON THE LABEL to dry on low. So I'm like, REALLY?!?!) - it'll shrink jeans, shirts, whatever. I've gotten to where I hang all of our shirts (except t-shirts/shirts we don't care much about) to dry, but I have no idea what to do with the pants. It's frustrating. I still dry all the kids clothes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naturally Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Sheets Blankets Towels Clothes that get dried in the dryer Clothes that get hung out of the washer Sorting clothes this way makes it easy for us - I can send oldest (8) down to switch laundry if it's all "dryer" clothes. Then, once washed, we sort clean clothes into each person's pile and they put their own away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I hang-dry all of my garments except for jeans. Same for DD's clothing. Shift gears now: Easier to say what I do put in a dryer: sheets, towels, jeans, men's dress pants, bedsheets, men's shirts, men's socks/underwear. . . . This is for a family now reduced-in-size to six people. Oh, and how does everyone dry everything?? I dry our clothes on the LOWEST heat setting, and still it will shrink stuff (that SAYS ON THE LABEL to dry on low. So I'm like, REALLY?!?!) - it'll shrink jeans, shirts, whatever. I've gotten to where I hang all of our shirts (except t-shirts/shirts we don't care much about) to dry, but I have no idea what to do with the pants. It's frustrating. I still dry all the kids clothes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baseball mom Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 sheets = hot towels, unders, socks = hot clothes = cold New dark or red clothes get soaked in salt water overnight to set the colors then washed the 1st time alone. Not a lot of sorting going on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Darks and lights are separated, everyone's clothing together, don't separate towels and jeans, all washed on cold, normal cycle, All Free and Clear HE detergent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misty.warden Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I wash everything on cold, sometimes if I'm feeling really domestic I'll separate the towels but since it's just me and ds I don't save up for "laundry day" and chuck everything in as it gets taken off and when it's full I run it. Sports bras don't go in the dryer is my only real rule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TranquilMind Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 by family member? by type of material? by color? by wash water temperature? or just chuck it all in and let it rip? :leaving: Each individual has a basket in the closet. All are washed when the baskets get full enough. Kids have mainly dark stuff anyway. I have a dark and a light basket. I then separate lightweight whites and heavy towels in the laundry room and wash those separately. I wash a load pretty much daily. Kids' clothes (one is away at school, but when she comes home, I wash it for her because I want to), our darks, our lights, towels. Sheets once a week (all together). Blankets and mats regularly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaceyinLA Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 straight whites that get bleached (mostly my bath towels, but also any dingy-looking white clothing/socks) dark colors (jeans, dark shirts, sweats, etc.) light colors (will mix with whites when I don't need to bleach) delicates (anything that I don't want dried - wash on delicate then hang) sheets and blankets get washed separately due to volume of course Right now I can't wash a thing because my washer broke yesterday. I don't know if I should be sad, or jump for joy!! ;-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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