When do you sort your laundry?

Hi Foxyfire, As of late, Im constantly doing the wash! And I dont have a washer and dryer, got a spot but thats where the hampers sit! lol Ive been extra good, I really hope I get one for Christmas. :) I have two hampers, I dont want to drag multiple hampers to the laundromat when I go. I dont like doing a whole lot where Im there for hours, so Ive been going a few times a week. Hubby works outdoors and dirties more clothes than ever on a daily basis. I dont like heaps of it lying around either. I put jeans and dark colors in one basket and whites and towels in the other. Id rather not sort my clothes at the laundromat. I just want to go in and get them in the washer to wash. I cant very well wash all things together because of hubby's work. Im not washing my clothes and towels with his work clothes. So I end up having a couple loads every few days. Why Id like a washer and dryer at home, I think I deserve that. Dont you? Hehe! Bay Lay Gray xx

I have one hamper, and a bucket I keep filled with solution to put my white kitchen cloths in as they become used, to store until laundry day. I sort lights, darks (mainly my work clithes), and whites... Everything except wet dirty kitchen towels gets tossed into the main hamper, and I sort as I decide to wash. Whenever the hamper fills, I pull out a load or two and empty it out...

Hi foxyfire I have two hampers and I just through everything together. Then when its time to do the wash I sort everything when Im washing. And I dont have a washer or dryer I have to travel to my aunts house. But at least Im spending anything at the laundramat.LOL We are saving for a washer and dryer.

We have 3 hampers upstairs. One in our room, my daughters room and our bathroom. When they get full I take them downstairs to the laundry room and separate them. We have a 3 section laundry separater in our laundry room. I put towels in one, my husbands work clothes and then our regular clothes.

I dont like much dirty laundry either. But I also dont have a lot of room. I like to sort everything when I wash them. If I had more room I would rather put them in the appropriate basket prior to washing them. It would save some time, and if I needed to wash something specific (like socks) it would be wasy to get to them.

I hate laundry. I am terrible at laundry! I don't do laundry very good at all. I do laundry every day so I never really sort it. Just throw the whole mess in the washer and go. I never wash anything in a special way. It all gets shoved in together. Not my great skill. LOL

Our room and our daughters room is right next to each other I have a laundry basket with 3 bins in the hall way between our rooms. For our clothing and hers. I keep the clothes sorted in whites, darks, color and jeans. Then when I bring the clothes to the laundry room they are basically sorted I finish by putting every thing in piles (so i do not miss any thing) then do the laundry. It seems to be working well.

I have two hampers, one in my sons room and one in our room. As they fill up I take them to the laundry room and sort them by color or fabric, depending on what is in both hampers. I do washing everytime the hampers are full or near the top or enough to do at least one load. All wet stuff go straight to the laundry as I don't like it sitting inside the hamper for a day or two.

I dump it all together and sort it on laundry day - which now that we go to a matt I find it quite inconvenient and time consuming to do (separate before going) but I can hardly get the rest of the family to pick up their laundry let alone sort it as they remove it.

I sort my laundry on Monday. Monday is always laundry day at my house. I work all day Friday,Saturday and Sunday. So by Monday we have a lot of laundry to do. I wash sheets and bedding on Wednesdays. I like having a set schedule for chores.Even if I had seperate hampers for everything I'm sure my family would have it all mixed up anyways.

We have two hampers, one for the color clothes and another for the whites. I sort the color hamper as i'm getting ready to wash them, since we have dress shirts, t shirts, shorts, towels, etc. I like to keep the clothes in their 'type' of clothes pile.

For socks I'll sort them/pair them, right at the respective compartment. Other items I can sort easily at the compartment for those items or at the machine.

Hi,there! I usually just put the clothes that I wanna wash in the hamper but I don't sort it immediately.I do sort the clothes but not too clear.I pay much attention to the color.I do separate dark and light colors cause the dark ones will affect the light ones pretty much.I had some unpleasant experiences before. My clothes were totally destroyed:( So then I try to wash the light ones together and then wash the dark ones together.I sort them when the day I'd like to wash them.LOL! Thanks for the discussion and have a nice day:)

Okay, myLot does not want me to post a response to this discussion, for some reason...I've tried five times and it just keeps going back to the blank post response page.... Okay, here's what I do, I go through the house, gathering laundry from underneath furniture and off the ceiling fan, and dump it in the bathtub to be sorted. One pile of jeans, one pile of darks, and one pile of light colored and whites. I do not use bleach. And if something needs special care, you'd better wash it yourself LOL. I wash, dry, fold, put away, and two days later it looks like I never do laundry! O well...

I've sorted all sorts of ways over the years. But I prefer a hamper for each load so that I know when I have a full load to wash. I have an unfinished basement so it makes it easier to sort in different hampers this way.

that's interesting. how you seperate your clothes that is. i've never known anyone who does it like that, although i'm sure that it's actually really convenient even though, as you said, it does make for a lot of hampers! haha. we always just put all the clothes together in one hamper and when it gets full i seperate them into the piles they belong in by color and wash them one load at a time.