So, after clothes have been washed a few times, does it really matter if you separate lights and darks and colors? What's the science on this?

All mine go in together. I don't put my bicycle shorts in the dryer though.

Not my department

Heathen, you always wash lights with lights and dark with darks and reds by themselves. Didn’t you pay attention to your mom?

Based

Yes

I'm m kinda in this boat. I understand separation when stuff is new and colors might bleed. But after a few washings I'd think the bleeding was done. I can't tell a difference if I wash it together or not. My wife insists on separating.

But do you or don't you put your bicycle shorts in the dryer?

What are bicycle shorts?

If you can peel them apart, they aren't dirty yet. If you can't, they can't be separated anyway so toss them in a tub of chlorine to soak overnight.

Once ya get this figured out, ya can start on tryin ta make sandwiches.

You could do like my Brother's ex and just throw them out in the garage and go buy new ones.

Doesn’t matter to me. All my schiat goes in at once. Pants get dried, shirts hang to dry

Heat the water on a wood stove, scrub them on a washboard, hang them out to dry on a clothes line. We have it soft.

Now I know what I want for Christmas....

I throw all my stuff together after they've been washed a few times. However, I wouldn't put anything red in with other stuff. But I don't even own anything red.

My kids laugh that when they look in our master bedroom closet. The wife's side had all the colors of the rainbow. My side is all olive drab, khaki and other earth tones, with the exception of jeans and blue Carhartt FR shirts. My kids say that even when I dress up, I look like I'm ready to go hunting. I sure wish Cabela's still sold their safari shirts, those were the best!

Wabigoon,

You forgot to take me off ignore, Pard.

What Paul wears under his panties...

I knew I was at the right place for advice on this....

Other than an occasional new pair of blue jeans, I wash everything together.

I'm about to pull the trigger on a new detergent. Tide pods smell nice.

My dear wife was an expert clothes folder that I didn't fully realize and appreciate until she was gone. Wrinkle City.

A Thai tranny?

Have you ever noticed that Mexicans always smell like dryer sheets? What's the deal, do the Mexican women use like 5-6 of them with every load, or do they wipe themselves down with dryer sheets every morning?

I'm not kidding. I was on a job site in Florida when the gal that was our hole watch pointed it out. Now, wherever I go, I realize she'd right. If the wind is right, you can smell them before you see them.

Does anyone know why? Is there a Hispanic brand of clothes detergent they favor that's really high in perfumes? Do they use a ton of dryer sheets? Does anyone on here have a Hispanic wife and can shed some light? What's the deal?

Yes
They DO use a lot of dryer sheets
And febreeze
And that Fabulosa lavender stench
foo foo detergent
When the scent comes wafting down the
street from all of the bakery women doing
laundry at night, it'll gag the [bleep] out of ya
I just took a small amount of trash out to
the can outside, and my eyes are still
watering and my throat is still scratchy
from the fumes
They do that thinking it covers up the
onion/garlic/chili pepper/ sweaty body
combination
Same thing with drenching head to toe
with the cheap Trader's Village cologne

LOL😂😂😂😂

Everyone knows that clothes get separated into two piles before you wash them... The Clean pile and the Dirty pile...

Whatever, but anything with skid marks, major or minor, goes in the trash.

Back when I was milking cows, schidt washed out just fine. Why different on the inside? Schidt is schidt, right?

Haha, I know a mother of 3 who told me she would get her nanny to match socks for her girls and when she stopped doing it, she'd throw them away after one use and just buy new ones. The most American thing I've ever heard.

Only buy white socks then everything matches

You must wear different brands than I as all mine go in together.

I knew a guy in the USARMY that would wash his clothes with pine oil

I buy socks in bundles of identical ones. As they wear holes, I just throw them away 1 at a time until it's time for a new bundle.

Two dudes.

I always wash new stuff before I wear them, you never know what chemicals, lubricants etc are used during manufacture.

Everything together, Tide pods rule.

Separate in the dryers, the Magellan nylon fishing-type shirts I favor dry so quick/retain so little moisture they can just be hang dried. They get dried separate from cottons because the high heat required for cottons tends to fracture the buttons on them.

Oh…. and leave a couple of ball point pens in a pocket, black ink works good.

Pro tip…. an iPhone can survive five minutes in the hot wash cycle unscathed, it will even ring when you call it.

‘Nother Pro tip….. some laundromats are scary, you’ll be out of there quicker if you set the drier on “High”.

Wonder if Always Outdoors makes THE LIST for this? Wolf Blitzer as Bubbles is funny.

Yup, gray Railroad Socks. Made to fit a full grown man and they don't shrink into a chink torture device.

I separate them. Otherwise the whites get black/coloured lint on them and the darks get white lint on them.

I don't use the tumble dryer to dry them either, unless I absolutely have to. It just beats the [bleep] out of the clothes. I line dry them - they smell fresher and most don't need any ironing.

She washes them.

I fold them.
(Except for those "@#&#$@" fitted sheets!!!)
They get stuffed into the linen closet in hopes she won't find them. A man needs to know his limitations!

When the wifey leaves for the weekend I'll do laundry and low and behold something goes wrong with some of her clothes. It gets me out of laundry chores for awhile.

LOLOL.

Empty the laundry basket into the washer. Take out flannel shirts hang them. The rest goes in the dryer. Buy only no ironing needed type clothes. Real simple !

A woody?

I have seen homes like that.

kwg

Buy a box of color guard sheets. You can wash a brand new red towel with a white shirt and there is no red tint to the shirt. Walmart. I wash everything together with one color guard sheet an they are good for 3 or 4 loads.

Yours? Or hers?

Chuck Norris can't even fold a fitted sheet!

Wonder if she's naked?

Whatever you do don’t wash beaver pelts with light or darks, especially if you are married. Wife caught me laundering a pelt one time, not happy!

My ex-wife caught me washing beaver. To say that she wasn't happy is an understatement.

Around here, whites get a liberal dose of Chlorine. Since I don't like buying new jeans every week or new colored pocket tees, whites and colors are washed separately.

Two baskets in the bedroom closet.

This, and I never ever absolutely never wash ANYTHING of hers! She has so many weird clothes that require different treatment that I always fug something up. Why she buys those things I have no idea.

I don't fold anything either, except my stuff that goes in drawers. I always "do it wrong", so why bother?

TFF

I used to do a bit of fur hunting. There was a laundromat right next to my favorite watering hole, so while my coyote pelts were in the wash cycle with fabric softener, I'd be on a bar stool having a couple cold ones.

Never had the cajones to do it at home. Wife unit would not have found that humorous.