How Do You Seperate Your Washing?

LauraStephens I would have thought that was normal and made sense. Whites, Darks, Colours, Towels.

I do whites, darks, colours, towels and bedding. Is that not normal?

I do mine exactly the same! Did she explain what the ‘norm’ was? I suppose five separate washes would work out quite expensive if you were having to pay on a regular basis.

I always did whites and darks but not having to wash kids clothes daily after school all goes in together

I do whites / dark+colour (I know, I know...) / towels / beddings

my friends works in a laundrett and she says when a customer brings a bag in they empty it all in one machine and put colour catcher in. Not my way of washing I separate

Pretty much darks and lights since there's only two of us these days. When we were a bigger family (before the kids grew up), I could do the odd red wash or blue wash but that was before huge drums too

I always separate the washing. Whites go into a longer cycle and in the summer I don’t hang out in full sunlight either.

These days on a 40 degree wash its not really necessary but I always wash new stuff separately as you never know .

Takes me back to many years when I was new recruit in the RAF . Of course had to do our own washing (for the first time in our lives ! ) , chucked it all in together (including the yellow dusters we used to polish everything ) max heat , max everything . 2 hours later a very strangely coloured load emerged from the machine .

Life lesson learned from that !!

I don't really separate the washing, apart from Whites then everything else

i only do whites and darks and throw colour catchers in lol

I separate my washing into likes and darks plus a separate ways for woolens, I think washing machines have come on leaps and bounds. To be on the safe side if it's new jeans or something I think will run I put a Colour Catcher in the wash https://www.amazon.co.uk/colour-catcher/s?k=colour+catcher

I used to do everything together using that papers which absorbs colours but after my last wash where all the white clothes were ruined, I will separate them.

I just do a lights wash and a darks wash.

I separate whites and colours, throw in a colour catcher and hope for the best every time lol seems to work for me

I don’t do that. I try to get a load done as quickly as possible, so anything I know that won’t dye, fray or isnt delicate to survive a wash goes in the machine, and I hand wash whatever is

Many times of putting them all in and hoping for the best