dorm residents. do you wash whites and colors separately?

[NeoPTLD]

I use cold or warm wash for everything and wash everything together. Whites haven't suffered so far. Since most of my clothes are colors and I don't have enough whites a week to justify a whites only load, they don't get a dedicated load.

 

[Gyrene]

I always wash and dry colors and whites seperately.

EDIT: My fiance wants to make it known that she, not I, washes the colors and whites seperately.

 

[NeoPTLD]

so what's the point of washing them separately if they don't get affected?

 

[Heisenberg]

I do. (And did when I lived in a dorm)

 

[beatmix01]

when i lived in a dorm i always washed seperatly but dried together....

 

[Dragnov]

Originally posted by: dtyn
I always wash and dry colors and whites seperately.

EDIT: My fiance wants to make it known that she, not I, washes the colors and whites seperately.

lol. 0nw3d.

 

[Linux23]

bah, who needs clean whites?

 

[Ryan]

I wash the whites separately because I use bleach with them - how do you guys keep your whites looking bright?

 

[beatmix01]

bleach and oxiclean baby

 

[placebo139]

wash separately and dry together... it's not that much more work...

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: placebo139
wash separately and dry together... it's not that much more work...

me too

 

[thomsbrain]

i always did. but i think most people didn't.

 

[Spencer278]

Originally posted by: placebo139
wash separately and dry together... it's not that much more work...

Yeah but it is more money.

 

[Eli]

I don't.. I just throw everything in there together, lol...

Never had any serious problems.

Although.. I bought a new white bra for my girlfriend, and washed it with some bluejeans that had only been washed a couple of times, and it has a nice even blue tint to it now.. lol

 

[moshquerade]

yep, separate 'em unless you want that red shirt to turn your whites some kinda ugly pink.

i learned that the hard way

 

[FuZoR]

nope!

never runied a white tshirt yet

 

[randomlinh]

yes, i do. i get crap for it to... "you separate your whites and colors? haha". that and i use bleach for my whites. granted, it'll take like two weeks before i have a load to wash.

 

[Ornery]

I've been doing the wash for a while now. Got it down to a science. Whites, like cotton underwear, towels and socks can be washed in super hot water with bleach and detergent... and they should be. White and light colored permanent press clothes should be washed separately from those, as well as from colored stuff, in warm water.

I've got a washing machine that can be very aggressive with a high spin speed as fast as 1000-rpm. That can cause wrinkles in the permanent press stuff, so I choose a lower spin speed for those. The dryer is also set to a lower heat and cool down setting for those clothes, as well as a 'wrinkle guard' setting, that keeps spinning the clothes even after they're dry. If I pull the permanent press stuff out, and fold it quickly, there is no ironing needed. I wish my wife could master that!

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: dtyn
I always wash and dry colors and whites seperately.

EDIT: My fiance wants to make it known that she, not I, washes the colors and whites seperately.

tell her to get back in the kitchen

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
I wash the whites separately because I use bleach with them - how do you guys keep your whites looking bright?

Same.

First we wash colors in warm/cold water with CostCo Kirkland liquid laundry detergent (just as effective as Tide but considerably cheaper).

Then we wash whites in warm/cold water with bleach and OxiClean.