Do you always wash your whites separately?

[Happy Snowman]

Always . I have white bath towels so I add those to the bleach white load. I generally have a small load of whites that cannot be bleached, a load of lights, darks, then a load of sheets and a load of other towels that are not white. When we still had kids at home, I usually had enough to do a load of dark blues (jeans, t-shirts, etc.), red, green, khaki pants, etc. . I sure don't miss that. While clothing might not bleed as much, the lighter colors get a gray haze to them if they are washed with darker clothing. I also have a stockpile of underwear and socks so I don't have to do laundry every week

 

[scrapquitler]

I know everyone does their laundry differently. I've always done 3 separate loads. One with towels/sheets, one with whites using bleach and the other load was all the other clothes. After hurting my back almost 6 years ago and then my knee 2 years ago, my husband has taken on the task of doing the laundry (I have a hard time bringing the laundry basket up/down the basement stairs)

Anyhow, he does the laundry a bit differently than I did it but still does a great job. He does do the whites separately using bleach. The only problem I'm having now is that we are rarely using white clothes anymore so the load of whites are always very small so he waits to do a load once it gets big enough. Mainly, the only things that are in the load of whites would be my DS18's socks, underwear and his work shirts. But sometimes he seems to wait way too long to do the load of whites and my son will run out of some of his socks, underwear or work shirts.

So I'm wondering, do you mix your whites in with your other clothes? Or do you always wash them with bleach.

I don't do 'whites'. I do two separate batches: "LIGHTS" (which includes gray, tan, khaki, beige, pink and anything pastel as well as white) and
"dark" which includes everything else. Towels get divided up depending on light or dark. Dark color towels go with the darks, light color towels go with the lights.

I hardly ever use bleach, but every once in a while, I do wash a pile of white things with a small amount of bleach, usually only if someone vomits on their sheets. Mom always said that if you use bleach too often, everything gets yellowed. I don't know if it's true or not.