Do You Sort Your Laundry Before Washing?

We sort our laundry as we "dump" them. Everything is messed up and put into the washing machines. Those that have to be hand-washed will be already separated. And we will never put rags together with clothes... how yucky! Though I confess that rags sometimes appear cleaned and smelling good with the rest of the laundry. They must have got in by mistake somewhere and it irks me to no end to think that they may have dirtied the rest of the clothes. We don't rewash them - we just hope the washing powder has been powerful enough. :P

I always sort and check my laundry before washing. By taking time to sort my clothing,i may able to find stains,locate damages and choose the right water temperatures for the different fabrics. And also the whites must not be wash together with the colored clothing so it won't get stained from other colors.

Yes, I taught my kids to do the same. Whites, towels and rags, darks, lights, then colors separate that will bleed, then jeans. Just a habit I got into and I feel it is a good habit.

I don't sort clothes as much as I used to. I wash all towels in one load, jeans in a load, then I wash each individuals clothes together. My son and husbands clothes are the same size and I can't tell them apart. So it is easier if I wash theres in separate loads.

I sort my laundry like this: my colors, my husbands colors, whites, all towels. I do all the laundry and I do all the sorting. My husband won't touch it, by my request. He might do it right, but then I might end up with red socks that used to be white.

Hey that not a good thing...throwing clothes in the washing machine? You really have to sort out those clothes... Before i wash i have to separate all clothes from delicate ones to jeans....from white to colored ones.. Sorting your clothes is like caring for it also... Cause there are some clothes that you need to wash separately so that will still look new... Even the dark ones to light ones... there's some clothes that we dont even know lost there colors after washing... I do really make sure its sorted before washing...

Oh no, i sort them. This is what my mom taught me and I stick to it =) However my bf likes to wash it all together and I have been mad many times =)

My wife and I still do when we go do laundry. However, with the advent of Tide Coldwater, we are less inclined to worry about it sometimes because we know that we're washing in cold water and that the colors won't run. We still try to keep certain things away from each other, but for the most part we still sort anyways so it makes little difference. We also have hampers separated into a colors bin and a whites bin, so it makes it easier for us, too.

Yes I sort my laundry before I wash them.I have one hamper for clothes but I sort the lights and darks so I can wash them seperately.I wash my towels together though.I use cold water to wash my clothes with.I wash my towels in hot water .If the towel is new and is a dark towel I wash it by its self at first then I wash it with the other towels after that.I normally like to stick to lighter towels that way I dont have to worry about washing them seperately.But some people give us dark towels as gifts .

Yes, like you my mom always sorted all the laundry by colors. So when I started doing my own laundry many years ago I sorted mine as well. Now I don't have a separate hamper for every different load because I don't have enough room in my house. But I do have two seperate hampers. One for my whites, pinks, purples, and yellows. Then one for all the dark clothes and jeans. So at the end of the week when it is time to do the laundry they are already somewhat sorted out for me. I just have to separate each hamper. I am hoping to be able to teach my kids to follow this method because it saves time and I believe the laundry comes out cleaner this way.

We have two laundry baskets in our room: one for lights, and one for darks. We don't have a whole lot of white clothing, so lights is for whites and light colors, and most of the towels. Jeans go in with the darks, usually. My mom taught me how to sort the laundry when I was about 7 or 8 years old, and I still sort basically along the same lines as she did. Back then, I was sorting laundry for a six person family, and now it's just for two, so we don't have as much to wash.

Yes I sort my colors from whites as I bleach my whites. I don't sort them out as much as you do though. To me a color is a color...lol My hubby will just throw everything in together and cause the whites to not be so white. I don't let him do the laundry very often....lol

Yap, I have 4 bins, I for kitchen towel, 1 for towels, I for dark color clothing and the last one for white. It safe so much time during washing.

It dose make things alot eaiser that way.

I sort my clothes. I sort them in whites, colours, darks, towels. thats the basics. But I always do sort them.

I always sort my laundry. I have had too many items wreaked by not having this done. Whites to me are way to important to let something else get in with them. I remember years ago when my mother did laundry she always hung our sheets. there is nothing like a freshly clean sheet that has bee hung out to dry.

It depends really if I have enough to sort then I sort them but if I don't then I just throw all of them in the washer at one time. I don't mix towels in with the clothes because they always get those fuzzy things on the clothes but everything else is fine.

I just dump everything into the washing machine and set it to go. I use cold water to wash so nothing ever bleeds. I know this isn't the way I should wash but with having so many children in my house I have enough loads to do without the extra work involved in seperating. Because Lord knows my children won't seperate when they toss them in the hamper.

Yes I sort washing, I sort colours, towels, work clothes, school clothes, bed linen and still I end up with red socks in with my whites. Though my brother never sorts his washing and this has never happened to him. It is a dying trend sorting and soaking. Its something that isnt done much these days I have friends that throw there towels in with there clothes. I couldnt do this no even if I new I onl had a small wash.lol

I used to be extremely picking with my laundry. There were no less than 11 separate loads I sorted out. Anything red had to washed separatly, all white, mostly white, bath towels, jeans/denim, cleaning rags, greys, light colors, dark colors, bright colors, and work clothes which usually went in two separate loads themselves. Then, I had kids. Then my parents moved in with me because of their health problems. Then, I got married. We have to wash at least 2 loads a day just to keep up. Once, I decided that we were taking break from laundry. I was sick of doing, hubby was sick of getting it all together, kids were sick of putting it away. # days later, I looked in on the basement and really, really regreted it! It would have taken hours just to sort it all the way I normally did. I relaxed my "system" quite a bit after that! Now it's just whites, colors, towels & rags.