laundry sig line

[celticdragonfly]

Seen on the Lois Bujold mailing list, the following sig from Tony Zbaraschuk
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All my clothes go into the warm wash cycle together. Any garments that can't cope with that are weaklings and are culled from the herd. I've got better things to do with my time than sort laundry into little piles. -- Ross TenEyck
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Heh, I love it. That is exactly my philosophy of laundry. Admittedly, I do try to quietly hide this from visiting family members who are too delicate to cope with the Darwinian death gauntlet method of laundry.

I admit to trying to keep the handknit socks in a different load from the velcro diaper covers, but that's the only concession I'm making.

I have a hard enough time trying to sort it into the piles to get put away, with three kids in the house.[1]

[1]currently have trained eldest to lug baskets up and down stairs for me. Someday I hope his discrimination circuits will be up to putting it all away. Currently training him on that for dishes.

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[technomom]

There are days when I can't handle sorting any more finely than separating the towels from the clothing. I THINK I've got shadowkatt trained to put delicates (which includes all dance clothing, which is expensive and outgrown so quickly anyway that I'll keep washing them as delicates in hopes of making them last longer) in the bag on the wall. That way I DON'T have to think while starting laundry.

Otherwise, clothes are washed in cold water, and towels/linens in warm water. Bleach loads get hot water. Delicates get individual little lingerie bags, if necessary, and the "handwash" cycle with cold water (and Woolite rather than the other detergent).

My mother would be appalled that I don't usually separate dark and light clothing. I justify this by using those color magnet sheets. They do, in fact, work. I can wash bright red stuff with light t-shirts and not experience any color transfer.

Someday, I *might* get curiousmay9 trained well enough to remember to bring her laundry down to be washed. I won't even try to start her with the sorting of delicates 'til then. She uses the Darwinian death gauntlet method when left to her own devices.

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Darwinian Death Gauntlet! What a great term!

I do sort light & dark, but that's because I have two laundry baskets, so it's fairly mindless to throw the clothes in the right baskets when I take them off (or more realistically, when I get up in the morning and see the pile-o-yesterday's-clothes in front of the closet). I also try to wash kitchen linens separately from Thomas's changing pads, but otherwise anything goes.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

I am apparently the only person on the planet who routinely divides laundry into six or eight color-coded piles, even though some of the piles only contain two or three garments.

I get *lots* of use from the "small load" setting on my machine (for greens and reds), as well as "extra large" (for whites and blacks).

I mean, sure, you have more than enough demands on your time and attention already, but I'd expect *somebody* else in the world to be as ... uh ... anal about their laundry as I am.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Small load setting is RARELY used here. Always feels like I'm wasting money.

If I got anal about laundry, it would either come out of the giving-love-to-the-kids time, or out of the keeping-Laura-sane -time (say, with knitting). And the latter reduces love to the kids, too, as when I'm nuts and cranky I'm bad at it.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. As I said above--you get a pass for good and sufficient reason. 'Twould be insane for you to try to do laundry the way I do it.