Laundry Question #3

lucylea

Its official, we are laundry fools!!

My mom's group actually had this as a QOTD and I was surprised by some of the answers.  So, how do you sort your laundry?  

I do a load each of darks, jeans, whites, reds (including purples, pinks, and oranges), and towels.  Sheets get their own loads when we do them (ours in one load, the kids in another) and about every other week I do a load of just yellows as we seem to wear a lot of yellow clothing.  

clineak

lucylea:

Its official, we are laundry fools!!

My mom's group actually had this as a QOTD and I was surprised by some of the answers.  So, how do you sort your laundry?  

I do a load each of darks, jeans, whites, reds (including purples, pinks, and oranges), and towels.  Sheets get their own loads when we do them (ours in one load, the kids in another) and about every other week I do a load of just yellows as we seem to wear a lot of yellow clothing.  

That's intense!  I do darks, whites, sheets, towels, baby stuff. 

dairygirl19

I do whites, sheets/towels, barn clothes and then everything else.

I like to keep it simple.

boogerbearoriginal

Darks, Lights/Whites (occasionally I'll do a whites only load and bleach that stuff), sheets, towels and jeans, and diapers.

Sometimes I'll throw all the clothes - darks, whites, jeans - in ONE load 

Mason&Mama

What is this sorting you speak of?

s00z

I like living on the edge. I don't sort laundry!

MOONGIRL2467

clineak:

lucylea:

Its official, we are laundry fools!!

My mom's group actually had this as a QOTD and I was surprised by some of the answers.  So, how do you sort your laundry?  

I do a load each of darks, jeans, whites, reds (including purples, pinks, and oranges), and towels.  Sheets get their own loads when we do them (ours in one load, the kids in another) and about every other week I do a load of just yellows as we seem to wear a lot of yellow clothing.  

That's intense!  I do darks, whites, sheets, towels, baby stuff. 

^ yea! I don't think I'd have any clothes left to wear if I waited to have a decent load for each color! 

 

I do whites (maybe even towels), baby, jeans/dark colors, and colors. I'll mix items especially if the load is small (such as regular white clothes with white towels). 

Timshel17

Darks, Whites, Towels. If a white load or dark load is smallish, I throw the towels in there. And if something white needs washed and I'm washing darks, I'll just throw it in as long as there isn't something new that will bleed a lot in there.

kelsgreeneyes

I dont separate by color.... it all goes in together!  I do separate by baby clothes and things, our clothes, sheets, towels.

katie4253

Colors (Darks and Lights), Whites, Bedding/Towels, Work Clothes, Diapers

We wash whites, diapers, and bedding/towels on hot.  Other stuff on cold.  His stuff gets thrown in with ours.

lucylea

MOONGIRL2467:

^ yea! I don't think I'd have any clothes left to wear if I waited to have a decent load for each color! 

That's funny because with four of us I can easily do two full size loads of darks each week, and a regular size load of the rest.  Maybe I just have a small washer!

aow11

s00z:

I like living on the edge. I don't sort laundry!

This! I throw it all in, wash it on cold, and hope for the best

If I have a brand new pair of jeans, or something bright red that I think will run in the first wash, I do run that item separately the first time. After that, it's fair game.  

aow11

aow11:

s00z:

I like living on the edge. I don't sort laundry!

This! I throw it all in, wash it on cold, and hope for the best

If I have a brand new pair of jeans, or something bright red that I think will run in the first wash, I do run that item separately the first time. After that, it's fair game.  

Oops! Wrong board! Sorry to interrupt haha! 

scuba2011

I sort our stuff- whites, colored (non-dressy), colored (cold water/dressy), baby, and towels/sheets. If the colored, warm water/non-dressy clothes pile is larger than 1 load I will separate out the denim and sweatshirts from the pile and do them in load by themselves. I keep DDs hamper in her room so when it gets full enough for a load, I dump in the whole thing- no sorting for her! I only do this because I do baby laundry more frequently than DH & I. When we get a real laundry room in a few months, I will probably do laundry more often and sort everything together. 

nedmac1021

Darks, whites, towels/bedding, and Lacey's clothes

If there's room while doing darks, I'll put the towels or bedding in with them. I'll also sometimes do my dark jeans separately so they won't bleed onto the other dark clothes.

AmandaP678

Mason&Mama:

What is this sorting you speak of?

this! it all gets thrown in together lol

AmandaP678

Mason&Mama:

What is this sorting you speak of?

this! it all gets thrown in together lol

jssica2

i do my laundry on wensday. i put mine and hubbys and my 3 yeardols 2gether but i do my 9mouth olds laundey ever day becuas she has a lot of laundry 2 do babys make a lot of mess then we do..

CocoBrynne

Lights, Darks, towels, bedding

lisamoe

The only thing I sort is baby clothes and whites.  Sometimes if I have a ton of towels, I will just do them all together (more to make putting away easier).

swimiz500

I sort by mine & Lena's clothes in one load, DH's in another. Sheets and towels always get their own so I can wash them in hot. Everything else I wash in cold.

jssica2

when is your little ones b-day?

Little&BigPea

1. Blacks, including dark colors like navy and jeans.  DH wears a lot of back so I lays have enough for a full load and no matter what I do the wash water is always a dark grey.

2. Colors, usually DDs and my own clothes.

3. Whites

4. Towels, sheets (if there are any), rags, bibs, burp cloths, diaper liners if I've used non-CD safe diaper cream, etc.

FunNSunAZ

Whites, colors, darks, towels/sheets, baby clothes, diapers.

nbbride06

Warm darks, warm lights, cold darks, cold whites, towels, sheets, baby stuff

racscott1

clineak:

lucylea:

Its official, we are laundry fools!!

My mom's group actually had this as a QOTD and I was surprised by some of the answers.  So, how do you sort your laundry?  

I do a load each of darks, jeans, whites, reds (including purples, pinks, and oranges), and towels.  Sheets get their own loads when we do them (ours in one load, the kids in another) and about every other week I do a load of just yellows as we seem to wear a lot of yellow clothing.  

That's intense!  I do darks, whites, sheets, towels, baby stuff. 

 

SAME..

Amitchell0626

Sheets and towels. Everything else.

iheartmyllama

Colors, whites, jeans, towels/sheets, and baby clothes.

queeniecrayon

Darks, whites/lights, sheets, towels/undies, jeans, baby clothes. I wash almost everything on cold so I don't shrink DH's stuff....lol he's tall and skinny and looks stupid when his shirts shrink....

jesstellina

I'm perplexed seeing how many people sort clothes by wearer! I've never considered doing that. My loads are darks, lights, towels, sheets, diapers. If I do laundry often enough that the piles are small, I'll combine dark & light into one load. And we have enough sheets in each size that dirty sheets tend to sit in the basement for a looong time before I wash them.