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).
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.
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.
Hopefully the northern Texas people are doing okay. We had a ton of flooding in Houston, but nothing that affected me directly.
I don't have enough clothes of one color to justify single loads.
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.
We had a ton of flooding in Houston, but nothing that affected me directly.
Glad you're OK! That all sounds terrible.
I don't have enough clothes of one color to justify single loads.
For clothes, I just do a load of darks and a load of lights. I suppose there are people who LOVE, say, red clothing, and have enough to do a load of just reds, but I don't know anyone like that.
I used to do one load of only whites, so I could add bleach, and then everything else. But I'm not so fussed about bleach these days (and have very little all-white clothing that I care about [for instance, my gym socks are white, but I really don't care enough to bleach them], and bleach is rough on fabric anyway), so it's just light-colored clothes in one load, and dark-colored clothes (and anything that might bleed [jeans shorts, I am looking at you]) in another. Sheets/towels get their own load and plenty of hot water.
I do loads of black/blue/brown, whites, khaki, and red/purple/pink.
I do darks, lights, brights, delicates all in cold. Most clothing air dried. Only sheets, towels, socks, undies, dishcloths go in dryer.