How to Sort Your Laundry
Ensure crisp colors and fabric freshness by sorting your laundry according to each item's fabric, color and sturdiness.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Liquid Fabric Softeners
- Hampers
- Laundry Baskets
- Laundry Detergents
- Laundry Pretreatment
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Inspect clothes for stains, and sort out the clothes that need to be presoaked.
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Separate whites from colors. Within the colored laundry, separate light colors from darker colors.
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Separate lint generators (towels, sweatshirts, chenille, flannel) from lint magnets (corduroy, velvets and permanent-press clothes).
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Wash delicates, such as loose knits and laces, separately.
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Tips & Warnings
As you sort, close zippers to prevent snagging, and empty pockets (nothing like soggy facial tissue in the washer!).
Remember that some fabrics should only be dry-cleaned. Others, such as lingerie, are best hand-washed in the sink. Check care labels to be sure.
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Comments
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mondaymonkey
Jan 30, 2010
I didn't know that about towels and dryer sheets! -
Nov 22, 2005
The purpose of a towel is to absorb moisture. When using fabric softener in wash or fabric sheets in dryer, fabric softener creates a coating around fibers in the towels that keeps the towel from doing its job - absorbing. This is true for bed linens too.
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Nov 22, 2005
Separate synthetics from cottons and wash separately to reduce pilling.
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Nov 22, 2005
The purpose of a towel is to absorb moisture. When using fabric softener in wash or fabric sheets in dryer, fabric softener creates a coating around fibers in the towels that keeps the towel from doing its job - absorbing. This is true for bed linens too.
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Nov 22, 2005
Separate synthetics from cottons and wash separately to reduce pilling.
