My desire to have the laundry done outweighs my desire to have it done right.
I usually wash one load a day and everything goes together. I try to make exceptions like saving a couple of dark garments for tomorrow and vice versa. There are certain drawbacks to my “system”, though. My husband now has some “pinks” mixed in with his whites…
The 2 basic divisions of my laundry are barn clothes and non-barn. Don’t want the Wonder Pony’s hair all over everything. Non-barn then gets divided into darks, work clothes and undies/socks. Sheets go with the darks, towels with the undies/socks. Wash water is warm and dryer is set at delicate which is warm enough to dry. (What would I do if I truly needed a delicate dry?) I live in an apartment and it costs $1.25 to do a wash and dry. I do hang some things-- I bought those over-the-door hooks–and am considering a wooden drying rack. When I visit my parents I bring weird stuff like my bath mat or blanket to wash at their house. I refuse to pay money to wash a bath mat!
I go to the laudromat every Saturday afternoon after work, throw all the clothes into one $2.00 machine, add liquid soap and some washing soda. Take wet, clean clothes, put them in two dryers, 25 cents for 10 minutes. When dryers are done, take out dry clothes, put still damp clothes into one dryer and give them another 25 cents.
Anything still damp after 50 cents gets hung up on my shower curtain.
I wear the same thing every day - BDUs (camoflage uniforms), black socks, black t-shirt, underwear. When I’m lounging around the apartment it’s just jeans and a t-shirt.
I just dump it all in the washer w/o separating. 1/2 the recommended dose of detergent, warm water.
It’s not that I’m morally opposed to sorting laundry or using different wash cycles! It’s just that I rarely wear the kind of stuff that needs it.
If I have work clothes (skirts, my nice slacks and shirts) to wash, I do those in the “delicate” cycles, and then everything else gets all lumped in together. I have nothing that bleeds, so I don’t have to worry about that, and anything that needs special handling gets tossed in with the delicates.
“In the beginning the world was without form, and void. And God said ‘Let there be light’. And God separated the light from the dark. And did two loads of laundry.”
-Kevin Krisciunas