Do you sort your laundry-whites, colors, towels, etc. Or do you put them all together to wash?

[Hekate]

28. Stayed with my BIL & SIL during fire evac & had to insist on doing my own laundry. He stuffs all in

…willy-nilly and it all ends up a uniform shade of brown or gray. It’s an automatic washing machine! Why would you do that? Stayed with my late mom in her senior’s apartment and her personal washing machine ripped some of the seams out of my clothing when I put in a load for my hubby and me — again, why put up with that? It’s not like you’ve got to wash your clothes by pounding them on the rocks down at the riverside!

Flashback: when I was growing up money for clothes was very limited. In my first college year, we were in a new neighborhood, and one of the ladies changed her wardrobe about yearly. She was about my size and passed on some nice things to me — a couple of them were two and three piece outfits made of cotton knit. IF Mom had told me she was going to wash and dry them on the HOT cycle, I would never have put them in the family wash. As it was, I got to wear them just until it was wash-time, and never again.

I like my clothes to stay in good shape for a long time and I like the colors to stay true. It just isn’t that hard to sort the laundry.