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.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
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.
meara - May 25, 2015 7:51:59 pm PDT #27160 of 30000
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.
Dana - May 26, 2015 4:32:18 am PDT #27167 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Hopefully the northern Texas people are doing okay. We had a ton of flooding in Houston, but nothing that affected me directly.
Connie Neil - May 26, 2015 4:40:27 am PDT #27168 of 30000
brillig
I don't have enough clothes of one color to justify single loads.
SuziQ - May 26, 2015 4:56:43 am PDT #27169 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Well my morning did not get off to a hood start. My work laptop decided to share my tea. I have dried out what I can, popped the battery and dried that area, but it still won't turn on. I've called our IT who escalated it but that means I have to wait for someone to call me about what to do next. Arrrrggggg. My own damn fault.