S/O towels

dizzycooks · May 2013

Do you do separate towel laundry?

Why?

I have stopped separating all laundry and I feel like I should go back to separating it, but DH has really quit following my system and I'm too lazy to sort it before washing. I just wait until a basket is full and then into the wash it goes. Everything gets washed on cold.

kmc217 · May 2013

I separate sheets but otherwise am so lazy I don't separate anything. No one in my house can bother to pull out whites so DH just has gray-ish undershirts and socks. I do try to pull out my own white shirts but I don't wear many. Towels tend to get thrown in with everything else too.

holz · May 2013

Yes. I wash/dry everything differently... Clothes I always dry on low, but towels I dry on high and for an extra 30 min.

thechickencoop · May 2013

I separate by 'type' (I guess?), but not color. Like, I do DHs work laundry by itself because he works on engines so, yea, I'd prefer to not wash our clothes with diesel and antifreeze lol, then I do out regular clothes and DSs clothes, sometimes together sometimes not, I do our jeans separately, and I separate towels and sheets.

I don't separate whites and darks because we usually don't have a lot of white or light clothes so it would be forever before I had a full load.

notkateanymore · May 2013

Because they're a full load to themselves and then they can be washed on very hot.

joyfullyfound · May 2013

No, I don't have enough towels for them to make up a load all by themselves. DH's towels are navy blue and mine are white, so his go in the dark loads, and mine go in the light ones.

shortstuff15 · May 2013

I seperate into jeans, darks/colors, reds/pinks/purples, whites, towels and delicates. Sheets go in wih regular loads according to color. Towels are washed on hot and the rest on warm. Depending on the time of year everything is either dried on medium or line dried.

LatteLady5 · May 2013

It depends. If I'm feeling lazy or don't have enough to do a whole load I just toss them in with similar colors. I only always separate whites and darks.

hmd · May 2013

Yes, I separate it and wash them on hot. I also wash sheets separately and on hot. Then I do colors and whites separately, and another separate load of DH's work clothes.

jenniann87 · May 2013

I separate everything. I do it because I was everything differently.
All the towels and wash cloths get washed together on hot, as do the kitchen towels. All of the whites and underclothes get washed together, I throw all of my clothes and DH's clothes in together. DS's clothes get washed separately since he has super sensitive skin and cant have his clothes dryed with fabric softener sheet like I do for DH and mine.

vettymama · May 2013

I separate everything.

Towels are their own load. We go through a ton of towels since the dogs get rinsed off almost everytime they come in from outside.

Jeans, darks, lights, whites, DS's clothes and towels, and DH's clothes when he is in the field or working on machinery are all seperate loads.

bumpuser8448316 · May 2013

Yes. I have separated laundry hampers in the laundry room where I throw everything before it gets washed.

karen_loy · May 2013

I separate reds, darks and lights, towels go into wathever load they match by color

Also, each kid gets a separate load; DD because I wash it with hot water and hipoallergenic soap and DS because he has his own hamper in his room so it just easier to pick it all up and throw it in the washer (his doesn't get separated by color)

sbevmc09 · May 2013

No, I don't separate because I don't see the point. I wash everything together and it's always been just fine.

JaysonandKristin · May 2013

We have a rolling separated dirty clothes hamper, the boys have a hamper and we have a CD hamper.

I don't separate except when I'm putting the clothes in the actual hamper. White socks come off my feet and go directly into the whites portion of the rolling hamper. Towels go into our towel portion of the rolling hamper. Darks and colors come off our bodies and go directly into the third section (I don't separate colors from darks).

Boys clothes get washed separately because they need special treatment (no fragrance, no fabric softener, etc).

CDs get separated because, well, they're CDs.

So, yes, I separately wash my towels -- they do get washed with blankets and other bedding.