what is the right/proper way to do washing?

[LucaJack'sMum]

OK so this thread initially made me ROFL but when I stopped and thought about it I have my little rituals too...
Whites always at the front of the line so they get most sunshine to bleach stains, 'good' clothes atay inside out to prevent fading... and I have a favourite kind of peg...

TOO FUNNY!!!!

[Amaunet]

Hmmm...i wash when the hamper is full (its HUGE) or I run out of comfy undies LOL

I do seperate into darks, lights/whites and colours - I have heaps by the time I bother to wash so this works well. I REALLY want a sorting hamper so we sort as we go - think this may help - but can't find a good one!

[Glamourcide]

Okaay

DH's work clothes (including his singlets and socks) all go in together, I don't worry too much about whether they're inside out or not. Warm wash (on 'extra dirty', he gets filthy).

Towels, bedhseets, undies, DD's clothes and warm wash stuff (usually just 'around-the-house' clothes that I wear to bed etc) is all turned inside out and goes for a 'regular' warm wash cycle (I throw all that stuff in together, saves me doing separate loads with towels, then DD's stuff etc).

All my decent clothes and DH's casual clothes are black (I'm not kidding, I have like *one* white sundress and absolutely everything else I own is black, with the exception of a couple of pairs of jeans) so they get turned inside out, set on cold wash 'fast and light' cycle with a special laundry detergent for black clothing (instead of the regular powder I use for everything else). Some of the more delicate items (chiffon dresses etc) I pop in a lingerie bag to stop them getting treated too roughly in the machine (I'm far too lazy to handwash lol).

When hanging things out, towels or larger clothing items (shirts etc) go at the back to block the neighbours' view of my underwear (there's a church behind our fence haha, wouldn't want to offend anybody with the sight of my lacy lingerie!!), then DD's clothes and underwear in front. Large items get two pegs each, DD's little shirts and shorts get on peg in the middle. My underwear is turned right side out, and each pair gets a peg hanging it from one side (like at the hip, if that makes sense). Bras get pegged from just beside one cup to help stop them stretching (most of my bras are heavily padded so I try to even out the weight).
DH's casual shirts get hung from the bottom, jeans pegged at the waistband. My shirts and dresses get pegged at the shoulders or taken straight inside and hung on hangers to dry indoors (haaattteeee fading!!).
DH's work shirts get hung right-way-out, pegged at the shoulders, and again pants at the waistband.
I only share pegs between items if I'm doing another load of laundry and have run out of pegs, and then I'll only share them between things like towels and DD's 'spitrags' (cloth nappies I use for changemats and bibs), otherwise I leave the newly-washed laundry in the machine until the last load is dry and can come down


It's funny how we all have little quirks when it comes to doing the housework 'perfectly'!! DH taught me that you never fill up the second basin in the sink with hot water for rinsing, he just puts soapy dishes in the drainer and then pours hot water over everything until they're properly rinsed hahaha, something about hygiene and water going cold and getting filthy but yeah, now it's just habit and I hate seeing anybody rinse their dishes in a sink full of water!!

[danniellabella]

I don't care what side my clothes are when they are washed, but usually turn them right side out when hanging them.

DH has a rule that his clothes (with the exception of old t-shirts and jeans) have to be hung inside to avoid sun damage...what a pain!

Everything else gets put outside.
Unless it's a very thick item of clothing, I share pegs
1 pair of socks to 1 peg (shared and hung in pairs)
2-3 pairs undies to 1 peg
up to 5 hankies to 1 peg

Generally I fold as I take things off the line and always ball socks when they come off the line.

I use powder in my front loader and will sometimes add nappy san or bicarb and if I need to use a softner, I use vinegar instead of normal fabric softners.

I sort whites, light colours, dark colours and delecates in most cases.

I don't iron unless I have to, so generally only once in a blue moon.

Tops get hung from the bottom, pants get hung from the rear of the wasteband so the opening gapes to allow air inside the pants.

When I hang socks they are also open to allow air inside.

If hanging clothes inside, thick clothes take up 2 runs on the airer.
Socks are hung in pairs next to each other.

Jeans are on the ends of the airer as they usually take the longest to dry.
Shirts get hung on a hanger.

[AngelPunks]

ok I'm a weird peg fetish girl

All clothes inside out

Dark
all my suit pants in one load - put on hangers and hung on the clothes line in my garage so they don't fade (even though I hang them inside out)
dark tops for work - all hung on hangers inside

Coloured
tops on hangers, pants on pants hangers unless they're jeans and then they get pants pegs and put on the line

White
tops on hangers, pants on pants hangers, t-shirts & gym clothes on line

Underwear
one light load & one dark load - dried on the clothes horse inside

Towels in one load - I have king sized bath sheets so I get 1 towel & bathmat in one load - hot water - use pants pegs for these on the line, brought inside before they are 100% dry and put on the clothes horse

Sheets - bed per load - done in hot water - pegs colour coordinated to sheet
Tea-towels are done in one load and then once every 6-8 weeks I boil them on the stove

[~CrazyMumOf3~]

my clothes, df's casual clothes, kids clothes all get washed together (unless denim or darker colours which will either be washed on their own or with DF's work clothes - depends how dirty they are)
DF's work clothes(his undies, singlets and socks)
sheets
towels/tea towels

~ Towels are always put in the dryer

~ clothes get sorted into who owns what before going into basket to be hung out.
i use 1/4 of the line at a time and start with DD#2's clothes, then DD#1's, my undies then my clothes, Df's casual clothes, Df's underwear, singlets and socks, then work clothes. clothes get hung inside out to prevent fading, pants by the feet with 4pegs, shirts by the bottom with 2. socks get paired up and pegged together. Everything is folded as its being taken off the line and turned in the right way(unless raining). from there i go room to room and put away DD#2, DD#1, ours

~ Sheets are never washed on a day i do clothes but because of small line they get folded before hanging.

i only peg share(not including socks) if im running out of pegs.

[Oorki Galoorki]

how do you wash things that are black and white??
in whites or blacks?

[briggsy's girl]

how do you wash things that are black and white??
in whites or blacks?

depends on the base color - is it primarily white with black, or primarily black with white?


i have dark clothes with light pinstripes - all goes in with black washing. light stuff with dark stripes goes in with light clothes

i have washing rituals - but i'm not gonna go into them here! punks is very similar though - NONE of my good clothes get dried in the sun - everything gets dried inside on hangers or airer - none in the dryer (except old underwear).

[Indadhanu]

I do clothes as one wash. Nappies as one wash. Towels, tea towels, and sheets as one wash. But only when its a full load. I'm pretty anal about full loads LOL! I don't separate colours... sometimes I do soak whites in nappysan with Jazzy's stuff (we soak a lot of Jazzy's bibs and suits after an unfortunate banana staining incident!).
Powder. Just chuck it with the clothes. Underneath or on top doesn't matter to me, the swirling dissolves everything. I also do fabric softener.
I cold wash everything unless its a super dooper delicate item that MUST be washed warm.
I couldn't be bother turning things inside out, then I'd just have to turn them back around again when I fold! They go in the machine the way they are in the basket, I just tip the basket into the machine!
Pants are pegged by the waist. Shirts are pegged by the bottom. Jazzy's rompers, and our undies, socks and bras are pegged two to a peg. Everything else gets one or two depending on how it stays on LOL and if i run out of pegs I peg share.

[Cupcake]

LOL
All underwear goes on the inside of the washing line so hte neighbours don't see my granny knickers and huge bras. :P

Bahaha i do the same!!

[AngelPunks]

My knickers don't go on the line - g-strings are REALLY hard to peg up so they go on the clothes horse inside