White, Light and Dark

Yes I do this. Whites, colours and darks. I get so upset when my husband does a wash and just mixes stuff together 🙄

Never knew that about colour catchers. Have used for years with no problems. Also reuse if there’s little colour on them.
Someone mentioned duvet covers getting full of washing. I now button them up when I take them off the bed to wash.

I sort everything the same as my mum taught me. Especially as when I first got married my beautiful white wedding bra turned blue when it got put in with our jeans!

I used to mix but even using colour catching sheets my son's white school polo shirts came out grey. So I began to wash whites seperately which has shown me exactly why this should be the norm. His polo shirts come clean easily and don't look grey and washed out any more.

Yes, dark, light, cotton, synthetics, bedding, towels, trousers/jeans, delicates.
Colour catchers just seem a waste of money and add to theever increasing problem of landfill.

I do separate washes. The thought of washing washing knickers, tea towels, dish cloths, sheets together with heavy black skirts, is abhorrent.
Most washing is on less than 30 degrees except tea towels etc. Use a little of the same washing liquid plus soda crystals each wash and soft rinse apart from towels and tea towels because the soft rinse stops the absorbency.
Most of the dyes nowadays are colour fast.

Still sort everything appropriately after all these years. Can relate to the terry nappies on the line. I still love to hang out washing

I live alone and am 95% housebound, so live in my pj's.
I'm in the 'throw everything in one load with colour catcher' camp, coz I only accrue enough for a single load maybe once a fortnight

I still separate washing 😊 whites&very-lights often together, darks in a separate load, very colourfull also apart. We have enough clothes to wait for a more or less full load of each of those, so not more expensive than washing everything together. I use different powders too. Sheets and towels on high temperature are two loads, one dark, one white/light.

GrannyGravy13

Mazgg I sort my washing into darks, colours, light colours, whites.

Dusters/cleaning cloths/floor wipe heads get washed separately, as do towels and bedding.

Just how I am…

I do exactly the same as you GrannyGravy

I do one white and one colour wash every week, towels mats undies and bedding soon fills a load. Trousers more socks always wear two fresh pairs daily, plus fleece jackets and thick thermos fills the coloured load very easily Monica. I also live alone.

Goodness Me Penelopebee, you should get out more! Are there just 2 of you? There are 2 of us, it would take us several weeks to get enough items in each bin to justify putting a wash on & we'd need more clothes! I'm a "lights, darks, towels & bed linen" type of gal, With the exception of towels,everything gets a 30° short wash unless something terrible has befallen the item in which case it's in with the Vanish & a longer wash at 40°. Not heard of dye catchers, a mixed blessing by the sound of it.

As I live alone my washong would lie waiting for ever of I needed to sort by colour or fibre. Everything goes in together at low temp on fast spin.

Oh no I must be a total freak. I have 4 linen bins: dark, whites, reds, mixed (which will often get sorted to dark and light mixed)
I do bedding and towels on change day separately. Kitchen cloths often have a bleach soak before washing separately.
Now it's written down I'm trying to satisfy myself I'm organised.!?!?!
I have a red bin as Mr grumpy has a red uniform and over the years had many episodes of red things running so it always just worked like that.
I love things hanging on the line outside and hate winter when it's inside. I like ironing too!
Yes ok I'm a freak lolol

Colour catchers have ruined my mother's washing machine and flooded her kitchen before too.

My husband puts them in mine and it drives me insane! I've warned him if/when anything happens he'll be dealing with the fallout .... days off work, new floor, new washer etc. I kid you not!

I wouldn't mind but I separate and delicate wash and use the eco cycle etc and he chucks all the stuff in together including wash clothes and rugby gear with the bedding!

Don't even get me started with him throwing delicates and knitwear and all the other expensive garments in the condenser/drier!

Shinamae

I don’t do this and just put a colour catcher sheet in with the wash..

I used to put one in very wash, just in case, but when I got my new washing machine the instructions stated that colour catchers would damage the machine. I always sort similar colours now.

I put everything in the same wash too unless it is something new and dark (black jeans for example)

Always sort my washing, darks, whites, bedding and towels I save a weeks worth of t-towels and put them on the hottest wash.

I find if you use a colour catcher with whites/coloured the whites eventually discolour

Those of you who divide your washing into lots of groups. How do you manage to get a full load of just whites, or just pale colours or whatever you divide by?

I presume you do not wash until you have a full load, so presumably do not do each colour group every week. Do you just have cupboards and drawers full of clothes? Ifg I were to do that, we would soon have nothing to wear and would be wrapped up in bedding, until that ran ou. Then what?

I still sort my washing into different coloured loads and so do both of my daughters.

I use a dye catcher sheet for my 49 degree washes, but do my sheets separately at 60 degrees then towels and cotton undies any the hottest. It works for us!

I too still sort my washing.

Bedlinen, towels, underpants, dish-cloths and tea-towels go on the shortest hotest cycle with appropriate laundry soap and water softener.

Dark clothes with laundry soap for dark colours washed on short cycle at 30 degrees.

Dusters, floor-cloths mops and other cleaning cloths washed when there are enough of them to fill the machine on short 40 degree cycle. Ifit takes to long to fill the machine with this category, I steep cloths overnight, rinse and scald them and hang them out.

New clothes (rare occasion these days) washed with same colour only, as the colour is almost bound to run,

Woollies washed on cold cycle only.

I never use fabric softener, as I am allergic to it, and as I sort in colours I have never considered the added expense of colour catchers.

I sort the washing out into different colours and then put those that are similar together. So, for example, I put the pinks and the reds together to make a wash load and if not enough maybe some oranges. Greys and blacks, blues and purples, etc. If colours do run, it isn't normally too disastrous...as long as one sock isn't washed without the other!

My Washing-Machine Engineer told me that if I ever use a "Colour Catcher" then it MUST be safely placed inside one of those Net Bags, used for small items of Lingerie etcetera - I once discovered to my horror that a Colour Catcher had been syphoned out through the Drain Hose, and had totally blocked my machine. He said "This is always happening!!" and is the cause of many expensive damages to washing machines.