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.

Heh. I can sum up my rules for what hangs to dry as: sweaters, bras, anything with a tag that says "line dry", and...anything else I'm afraid might shrink in the dryer (which includes but is not limited to: bathrobes, lingerie [but not my everyday undies, which are cotton and go in the dryer], jeans, dress trousers, some shorts [but not all], some t-shirts [but not all], button-down shirts, dresses, skirts, and all fleece jackets except the one that is a little too big and I secretly hope will shrink in the dryer [it hasn't]).

Basically, I line-dry about half of any given load of clothes. It was more when I worked in an office and didn't dress like a hobo. My feral editor clothes (yoga pants or gym shorts + crappy t-shirts) can go in the dryer, because I don't care much about them and they've proven they won't shrink anyway.

Wash all in cold. Try to air dry when it is not constantly raining.

No flooding in my immediate area, I know there is some and Austin area had some bad stuff. We seem to still be able to be draining to lakes and rivers. Of course, all the rivers flow south which is making things south of us worse.

I'm too lazy to line dry.

My line is really drying racks that I generally keep right by the washer, so it's just as easy to put them there as into the dryer. Because of the day rain, I have now moved one rack into the house (rather than garage) so it isess humid and they dry.

Air drying started when I used pay laundries in NYC and I did it to save money. I used to have clothes hung up all over my apt. I did notice that shirts didn't become short as quickly so I just kept with it. I currently dry more in order to get pet hair off things.