Laundry Question: Do you still separate colors from whites?

[quote] That sounded sus to me.

You sound like a 14-year-old girl.

How embarrassing.

Yes. I wash my whites in hot water and bleach, which will ruin colored clothing.

Oh fuck off R1. Either answer the question or crawl back under your rock.

People used to scrub their clothes on big rocks

I was molested by a colored man.

Non-question. As R2 says, hot/warm water with bleach for whites. Don't bleach colors. It's not rocket science.

Only if they’re new. After that I’ve never had a problem.

OP, take a pic of your dingy, unbleached whites, and get back to us.

I separate socks / underwear and towels from other clothes, but wash everything in hot with equal amounts Tide Bleach Alternative and Lestoil - I do big loads 2x a month at a laundromat.

My towels are blue, all underwear is black and all my socks are identical grey crew so I don’t have any true whites, but adding the Lestoil really gets everything quite clean.

I don't feel comfortable segregating my laundry.

It's so easy when you use Lestoil.

Are you easy when you use Lestoil, R9?

I wouldn't use hot water all the time when washing whites (or any clothes for that matter). It's not good on the fabric. And it is not necessary, unless you are digging ditches all day long. Warm water is best.

Try washing a red garment that isn’t colorfast with whites and watch what happens.

I’m deeply offended by this thread.

I mix it altogether. If I have a concern about a color running, I throw in a few sheets of a generic color catcher.

I wash everything in cold delicate and have noticed no difference.

New clothes/items, yes. I don't have a ton of white-only clothes or towels though as they're so impractical.

So maybe buy less all white stuff?

I don't buy any whites. I have 3 bins for sorting: 1 for things that get hung up at the end of the day, 1 for sheets/towels, and 1 for everything else.

Who really has whites you can bleach anymore? All of my traditionally white items (towels, socks, underwear) are every color BUT white. I still wash them in hot. All other things get my washer's "Eco Warm" setting.

Well Sylvia, I do. I have a drawer full of white, 100% cotton T-shirts that I wear everyday under a dress shirt. If you like them staying white and stain free, they need bleach..

I wash everything together in cold water, and I've been doing it forever. And I hang my clothes on the line.

But then again, I'm a lesbian

R21, exactly. I guess a lot of people here don't ever dress for business.

OP, your question is so “mid.” Certainly not “iconic.” Definitely not “fire.”

You’ve “taken an L,” OP.

Seriously, OP? You pay monthly for this?

i do two white loads with detergent and oxibleach for white clothes. If weather allows, it goes on the line outside. This keeps white beautifully white. You can add pastels, too. ITs not about chlorine bleach and its not about the fear of bleeding colors, if you ad some lights. Its the brighteners and stain removers in the products for white.

If you dont or wont do this every time, you can do white washes sometimes.

by the way there is oxibleach for colors now and it works on stains and dirt and does not fade the color.

blacks, navy, dark grey and dark brown get black wash detergent and no oxi. this black load is effective in slowing the dulling of dark clothes. If you tumble dry darks, remember turn turn them inside out. IN fact turn them inside out to wash and try. this cuts down on the friction of the visible side of the cloth, and also keeps the black from going grey or uneven. Jeans as well.

I drop my laundry off. They separate the whites from colors. Other than that I have no idea what they do.

No, never done that

If I'm on a mission to wash everything in a day and have just, say, a couple towels and white socks/tshirts as a last, small load, I'll throw them together. Your whites will darken a bit if you regularly wash with darker clothing.

Honey, the only thing I still bleach is my hair.

[quote] I guess a lot of people here don't ever dress for business.

WFH, bitches.

And the rest of DL retired 25 years ago.

I don't see color.

Wait, you shouldn’t wash colors in hot water?

the only think that can be in hot water are bath kitchen and bed linens. And they don't have to be with modern wash chemicals. But it's fine, a swiss machine will give you 95C wash if you want it. Constantly chlorine bleaching linens doesn't do them a lot of good but occasional bleaches sure. Or maybe you don't care about the duration of your linens.

R21 is the only person I've ever heard of so concerned about the whiteness of his undergarments. That's fine - but seriously, who cares about the whiteness of a t-shirt that no one sees under a dress shirt?

Do you all wear white briefs too? Sock garters? Pocket watch? Monocle? Handkerchief in the back pocket to wipe your brow?

I separate colors. I wash my dress clothes separately too. Gawd, some of you are simply barbaric!

No. Takes too much effort. I throw it all in the washer and hope for the best.

R39's clothes have a "tie-dyed" look to them.

I didn't realize until today that lesbians have their own laundry style

I've been partnered for 30 years. Early on I almost decided that the relationship wasn't going to work because he washed underwear with rugs. That was a sign of mental deficiency. He isn't allowed to touch the wash now.

"Oh, you can use Oxyclean on colors." "Oh, you don't need to bleach whites anymore." No, just no.

White socks, dress shirts, towels and washcloths get hot water and chlorine bleach. I go through enough to make a full load every other week.

Sheets and pillowcases get hot water in their own load.

Everything else (socks, underwear, t shirts, jeans, khakis) gets warm water since that’s the default setting on my washing machine.

Only some things like my daughter’s nice dresses and blouses are washed in cold water unless they’re really soiled.

R42 😂

oxygen bleach most definitely has a color safe version in europe.

I separate and I wash with cold water. Line dry.

r1 is correct. OP/r3 sounds like an idiot.

Wow. Color catchers? I never heard of these. Learn something new on Datalounge.

R42 had me dying - underwear with RUGS?

Isn't Vanish for toilets?

And what we call a Milky Way, they call a Mars Bar, R50.

[quote] This keeps white beautifully white.

I always wondered whatever happened to the Madison Avenue copywriters for 70s commercials, and now I know.

I divide laundry into muliple piles:

Blacks/very darks

Mediums/brights

Lights/pastels

Non bleach whites (t shirts/sheets)

Bleachable whites (bath and kitchen towels)

I used to only use hot for the bleachable whites but the water in our building isn't that hot. And, our laundry facilities are so gross I now use hot for pretty everything except more delicate fabrics.

R53 do this wash first: the one that gets bleach or germ eliminating oxi bleach

I use hot water for sheets and towels. Warm for whites, cold for darks. I separate all of these. I've never heard of"you don't need to separate with newer machines" either,

Around 1990 I stopped.

A photo of OP.

Hell yeah, R48! Color catchers even helps after the fact! When some underwear came out pink from a bleeding shirt in the load, I rewashed the pink items by themselves with a couple of Color Catcher sheets, have a slight pink tinge in certain light, but look white while wearing them: situation resolved.

New jeans are prime candidates for a catcher sheet in their first wash.

OP's unseparated, free for all, everything goes in at once, pile of freshly washed laundry.

Whites and light colors, then dark colors. Both in cold water. Line dried.

Sheets and towels in hot water, machine dried.

Lestoil washes for everything? What kind of greasy fat pig are you? Do you work in garbage? A sewer?

I discovered they still make Biz, so I got some the other day because I remember my Mom using this in the late 70s. It works.

No. I wouldn't throw bright colors in there, or something that bleeds, but I don't really have a lot of that, anyway. Nor do I have a lot of white. I'd probably wash white with my towels that are also light and go on hot.

My husband! Some hotshot! Here's his ancient Chinese secret: Calgon!

For over 40 years this bitch has been sabotaging my laundry business. Every. God. Damn. Day.

Make me another double, Sam - I ain't in no hurry to go home to that cunt.

I wash them on a rock

Stealth racist thread

They tell you that your clothing is bigoted - like colors, like fabrics. You could take a random sampling of labels, read them, and follow directions.

If your wardrobe is all sports jerseys and nylon culotte shorts, you can wash in any temperature as long as you use only one quarter cup and don’t put your fingers in your mouth after filling the machine. Wash your hands.

If the clothing is new, start it off in cold with like colors. Factories now offload the dye rinse onto consumers and British khaki needs to wash with darks that don’t pick up color.

Also, if you have button-fly pants, turn them inside out so the buttons don’t fuck with your other clothing.