How do you wash your red clothing?

[Mrs. Charming]

Do you do a separate load of reds or do you throw them in with darks? I usually have a whole load of pink clothes from myself and DD, but I don't want to mess them up with a red shirt.

Can you tell I'm doing laundry?

 

[MizTink]

i usually have enough just to make a load of reds and dark pinks. i have thrown a red shirt in with darks too, with no problems...

 

[golfgal]

I wash with other reds but there are 5 of us so it isn't hard to come up with. If need be I put them in with jeans and dark blue or black clothing.

 

[TheBigBadWolf]

I always wash red with other red clothes the first few times, and use salt the first wash to "set" the color. After a few washings, I will wash reds with other dark colors and have never had them fade on my other clothes.

 

[Mrs. Charming]

i usually have enough just to make a load of reds and dark pinks. i have thrown a red shirt in with darks too, with no problems...

I have such a weird array of pinks and reds. I have my hot pinks, DD's light pinks, and DS's reds. I'm confused by a few of them though-- many have 2 different color fabrics in one shirt, and it drives me nuts! If it weren't such a cute shirt, I'd have either trashed or donated it. (Maybe it would annoy someone else a little less!)

 

[Mrs. Charming]

I wash with other reds but there are 5 of us so it isn't hard to come up with. If need be I put them in with jeans and dark blue or black clothing.

Pinks are our easy color here! That's what I've been doing, and they seem a little dull. Gah! What am I doing wrong? lol

I always wash red with other red clothes the first few times, and use salt the first wash to "set" the color. After a few washings, I will wash reds with other dark colors and have never had them fade on my other clothes.

Ohhhh salt. Good idea.

 

[luvmythree]

I use a Shout Color Catcher sheet in every load of colors I do and haven't had any issues with the colors running onto each other. For me they are worth the $.

 

[SaraJayne]

We wash reds with all the pinks/purples. I have a DD, can you tell?

 

[golfgal]

Pinks are our easy color here! That's what I've been doing, and they seem a little dull. Gah! What am I doing wrong? lol



Ohhhh salt. Good idea.

Pinks go with the lights, not darks. Basically, as I told the kids when I was teaching them how to do laundry, when in doubt ask yourself "would putting these together ruin one or the other". So, if you put navy blue and black together, no issues but if you put red and pink together you could see the red on the pink if they ran so don't mix those. DH can't seem to grasp this concept so he is banned from doing anyone's laundry but his own . He sorts by what things are not color and material . Shirts go in a pile, pants go in a pile--nope, not the right way to do laundry.

Red is just a hard one because it can show up on pretty much anything else so I try to wash reds alone (red, not pink). Some things like t-shirts that have been washed enough don't bleed any more so they can be tossed in with darker jeans, for example.

 

[snowywhite89]

Do you do a separate load of reds or do you throw them in with darks? I usually have a whole load of pink clothes from myself and DD, but I don't want to mess them up with a red shirt.

Can you tell I'm doing laundry?

When the red clothes are new I wash just red clothes together. After about 5 or 6 washings I start washing them with dark clothes.

 

[snowywhite89]

I always wash red with other red clothes the first few times, and use salt the first wash to "set" the color. After a few washings, I will wash reds with other dark colors and have never had them fade on my other clothes.

I set in dark colors with vinegar. The first wash is with vinegar in the detergent and rinse cycles.

 

[Imzadi]

I wash my reds with my darker pinks. I figure it helps keep the links more pink. Or I wash all of my reds together, separately. Vinegar also helps set fabric dyes. we use it in silk painting.

I only wash my fire engine red clothes that I want to dull up a bit with my darks. Sometimes they just turn a dingy red. Not good. Or they don't get dull at all. They stay too loud.

 

[Handbag Lady]

Okay, since you all know so much...


I bought a shirt at Epcot two years ago. It was a baseball style jersey shirt with red sleeves and a white body. I washed it by hand in cold water so that the red wouldn't run. It ran on itself! Nothing would get it out so I had to throw it away.

I now have another Disney shirt that is similar with dark pink/reddish sleeves and a white body. I'm afraid to wear it now because of what happened to the other shirt.

Do I try to wash the sleeves alone and hang it upside down? That sounds insane but it would have saved my other shirt.

 

[shortbun]

Wash them with navy or black, no problem.

 

[shortbun]

Okay, since you all know so much...


I bought a shirt at Epcot two years ago. It was a baseball style jersey shirt with red sleeves and a white body. I washed it by hand in cold water so that the red wouldn't run. It ran on itself! Nothing would get it out so I had to throw it away.

I now have another Disney shirt that is similar with dark pink/reddish sleeves and a white body. I'm afraid to wear it now because of what happened to the other shirt.

Do I try to wash the sleeves alone and hang it upside down? That sounds insane but it would have saved my other shirt.

I would get some of those color absorbtion sheets for your washer and wash in COLD/Delicate.

 

[Imzadi]

Okay, since you all know so much...


I bought a shirt at Epcot two years ago. It was a baseball style jersey shirt with red sleeves and a white body. I washed it by hand in cold water so that the red wouldn't run. It ran on itself! Nothing would get it out so I had to throw it away.

I now have another Disney shirt that is similar with dark pink/reddish sleeves and a white body. I'm afraid to wear it now because of what happened to the other shirt.

Do I try to wash the sleeves alone and hang it upside down? That sounds insane but it would have saved my other shirt.

I had a shirt like that, too, but with navy sleeves. I ended up washing it with my darks and the white section got all dingy. So I am of no help.

I have used a couple sheets of the Shout Color Catcher in a wash. I have a beautiful, light color, down jacket. I wore it a lot with black jeans and the dye rubbed off onto the lining of the jacket. I was afraid that during a washing, the black dye would come off and run & dingy up the jacket. The Color Catcher sheets did seem to catch all the black dye, in the three times I have washed the jacket. I haven't tried them on anything else.

 

[elgerber]

We wash reds with all the pinks/purples. I have a DD, can you tell?

LOL, dd loves purple, ds orange and red and me, all of the above. So we have no problem having a load just for reds.

 

[golfgal]

Okay, since you all know so much...


I bought a shirt at Epcot two years ago. It was a baseball style jersey shirt with red sleeves and a white body. I washed it by hand in cold water so that the red wouldn't run. It ran on itself! Nothing would get it out so I had to throw it away.

I now have another Disney shirt that is similar with dark pink/reddish sleeves and a white body. I'm afraid to wear it now because of what happened to the other shirt.

Do I try to wash the sleeves alone and hang it upside down? That sounds insane but it would have saved my other shirt.

I just don't buy clothing like this . When the kids were toddlers rugby shirts were very popular for boys-so dark stripes with white collars. I just stopped buying those because they were too much work to keep looking nice.

 

[Imzadi]

I just don't buy clothing like this . When the kids were toddlers rugby shirts were very popular for boys-so dark stripes with white collars. I just stopped buying those because they were too much work to keep looking nice.

Thank YOU! I thought I was the only one laundry challenged.

 

[Talking Hands]

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