Why sort laundry

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Life, Not Laundry If the laundry is not on your top ten list of favorite activities, you needn't worry. To avoid damaging other clothing, sort laundry according to color, grouping dark, medium and light colors separately. Wash deep colored clothing like indigo jeans or red sweatshirts by themselves for the first few washings.

Wash heavier items, like towels, seperately from lighter weight clothes to prevent abrasion and damage to finer fabrics. For the same reason, separate clothing with zippers and buttons from knits and lingerie. If an item sheds lint, wash it seperately from microfiber, corduroy or other fabrics that attract link. Another reason to separate laundry by fabric type is because heavier items take longer to dry than lighter ones.

By drying them together, the lighter items are over-dried, which stresses the fibers, and heavier items are often left damp. Very dirty or stained laundry should be washed separately on a longer, heavy-duty cycle.

This provides the agitation needed to get rid of heavy dirt. Before Washing. There is no need to worry about getting tough stains out of colored loads. Pre-treat heavy stains to boost the power of your detergent. Find out how to pre-treat stains for the best results. Those who won't separate colors, because it's expensive to wash too many loads, which is understandable except that you can ruin all your clothes which sounds infinitely more expensive.

Those who just don't care about laundry that much and take a sort of gonzo approach to it. They may not be washing sequined shirts , but they might try it to save a few bucks. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that some people simply never learned that colors should be separated. It's worth noting that a good portion of the respondents who at least claimed to be under 40 fully believed in separating their clothes. In fact, when given the option in the poll, Do People Still Sort Laundry?

By Melissa Locker August 04,