Tag says cold. Thank you, meara!
Reynolds, I'm a dangerous-minded man on a ship loaded with hurt. Now, why you got me chatting with your peons?
Womack ,'The Message'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - May 25, 2015 6:56:59 pm PDT #27157 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
aurelia - May 25, 2015 7:05:04 pm PDT #27158 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I pretty much wash everything warm and dry everything on perm press other than the hand wash and dry flat stuff.
-t - May 25, 2015 7:34:00 pm PDT #27159 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I default to cold wash and regular dry, mostly. My dryer always wants two cycles on permanent press to actually get things dry. Silk, delicates and high tech fabrics get special treatment, though, and I like to use the "super sanitary" setting for sheets and towels although I have no rationale for that and don't know what it's supposed to accomplish.
meara - May 25, 2015 7:51:59 pm PDT #27160 of 30000
I use hot for sheets and towels, warm for most other stuff, and cold for things that might shrink. I try to only do separate loads of hang dry, and dry sheets on hot and everything else on low.
Theodosia - May 26, 2015 2:32:34 am PDT #27161 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Hot for towels and sheets, to keep down the dust mites, cold for everything else.
Laura - May 26, 2015 3:24:14 am PDT #27162 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I use cold for everything, mostly because our water is never actually cold. When I go north for the summer I change to warm for the opposite reason. Laura logic at work here.
Jesse - May 26, 2015 3:32:56 am PDT #27163 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was raised to separate by color and then wash everything in warm. Now I wash most of my clothes in cold and air dry.
Everything is coming up Hazel this morning! As I was trying to fall asleep, she knocked something off somewhere and it broke, but it turned out to be something I don't care about and should have thrown away anyway! And then she peed in the litter box! Phew. Still yowling at 4am, but fingers crossed she cuts that out.
-t - May 26, 2015 3:55:00 am PDT #27164 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good job, Hazel! Make yourself at home.
Sometimes it is agony deciding what load a print should go in, speaking of separating by color. Especially something mostly white with bright contrasting colors, which I like to wear but get flummoxed by when sorting. I sort by temperature + special handling for silk, wool, delicates, and hand wash (so glad my machine has a hand wash setting!) and then by color (dark, light,and red, usually).
Jesse - May 26, 2015 3:58:03 am PDT #27165 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't separate by color now because I don't make that much laundry! I usually do one load a week, either for the dryer or not.
-t - May 26, 2015 4:23:44 am PDT #27166 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'll lump the same color together and wash it all cold (or maybe delicate, depending on what the clothes are) rather than wash different colors together. been burnt by bleeding dye too many times. Also don't mind letting laundry sit in the hamper until it's gathered enough of its cohort to make a full load. I kind of have too much clothes for my closet anyway, some of it living in the laundry helps.