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| Alee |
Posted - Aug 05 2011 : 1:33:43 PM
After you have done a load of whites, red, blacks and blues, you look down and see a half of a load of blacks and half of a load of blues...
Do you ever just throw them in together? Or even worse...whites with some colors just to get them done? I really only have a chance to do laundry about once a maybe twice a week and I know that if I don't get the loads done... then they just sit there. So sometimes I cheat and throw stuff together that shouldn't be together. Anyone else do this just to get it done?
Alee
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| andwhathaveya |
Posted - Sep 23 2011 : 4:58:08 PM
I'm a dirty cheater! LOL Usually it's just with socks though.
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Sep 18 2011 : 11:40:04 AM
Yup . . . I cheat occasionally. Depends on what it is and what colors are involved.
CJ
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| jollyquilter |
Posted - Sep 18 2011 : 09:45:36 AM
I am a crazy woman who loves doing laundry as well. Just don't like putting it away!!
I love making my laundry detergant and getting out the stains. My daughter-in-law once said to me when I was telling her how to get the formula stains out of the babies sleeper, "you would give Martha a run for her money". I said, thank you!
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| mandymarie20 |
Posted - Sep 17 2011 : 11:42:36 PM
Laundry can be a taxing chore. I imagine my laundry method is cheating. I generally do 4 loads: whites, my husband's darks, my darks, and heavy duty darks like towels and blankets. Any articles which I believe will run, I place in the heavy duty darks. I'm not as concerned with a bit of color on my bath towels as I would be about my husband's work clothes.
To prevent colors running, I wash everything in cold water just to be safe. A bit of Borax in every load insures cleanliness.
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| njaw09 |
Posted - Sep 12 2011 : 2:59:53 PM
I do it once in awhile. I mix dark and light colors. I try not to mix light colors business clothing with bold colors though. Usually the ones I mix is house clothes, towels, bedlinen. Once in awhile it does bleed to other clothes. But I never mix reds and white anymore one mistake is all I needed. |
| momdrinkstea |
Posted - Sep 03 2011 : 9:27:48 PM
My hubby NEVER does laundry, he gave up after he turned a load of his whites PINK!!!!
(Red shirt + white skivvies = BAD idea) At least it was only HIS stuff! Nothing
like a guy in pink undies...LOL!
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| phonelady |
Posted - Aug 29 2011 : 1:57:26 PM
I do lights and darks in cold or slightly warm water. Since I don't buy red or pick shirts I don't have to worry about that one [learned about that a long time ago when I put something purple in there and I came out with pink underwear - Yuck!].
Water and soap conservation is more of a deal for me.
And putting a shot of vinegar sanitizes things so I can mix yucky stuff if I want.
Sherry, the washer in the barn or around there sounds like a better solution. We used to do that with the auto rags and stuff.
Smiles!
Carla
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 28 2011 : 8:54:51 PM
I believe with my whole heart that laundry should be cheated on! I do. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. LOL
I am also of the belief that vacuuming should also be cheated on in a big way. I do that too!!!!!!!!!! When my dh asks when was the last time I vacuumed, I tell him "Oh that thing is broke again. I'll fix it. It's sensitive.
Marly
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| walkinwalkoutcattle |
Posted - Aug 19 2011 : 06:39:43 AM
HA! I mix my darks and lights all the time. LOL! I live on a farm-not exactly a fashion important place! My husband's clothes are always covered in grease anyway. I just throw it all in together. If whites need to get brighter I'll bleach them.
Farmgirl #2879 :)
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| Roseann |
Posted - Aug 15 2011 : 07:09:40 AM
I totally cheat somedays!
- Roseann
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| 22angel |
Posted - Aug 12 2011 : 8:06:28 PM
I "cheat" on laundry all the time! I generally only do laundry once a week, and I do my jeans/shorts/pants together, then colors (lights, darks, in-betweens, whatever) all together, then towels & rags (I hate fuzzies!) & sheets. I've never had a problem with anything running, but then I don't often wear light colored t-shirts/tops. If I do happen to have them, I'll wait & wash them when I have enough to do a load of whites or delicates. I also generally wash only on cold water (habit from my mom - she didn't often have hot water for washing. Our hot water heater was dying on us when we moved & then the hose or the tap leaked for the hot water on the washer...so we only ever used cold water for everything. Not so great, considering that her water is very hard - I bet you could get all of your minerals in one glass full, and probably more! Haha). Also helps that I don't buy a lot of things "new" (Value Village or hand-me-downs work for daycare!), so I don't have to worry so much about colors running.
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| homsteddinmom |
Posted - Aug 08 2011 : 07:30:16 AM
I wash everything together except whites. My grey water runs outside to water the trees! All of my grey water goes outside, washer, showers, sinks.
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| Merry |
Posted - Aug 07 2011 : 8:23:45 PM
that's the way my husband laundry!
Merry
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| smiley |
Posted - Aug 07 2011 : 8:20:30 PM
I am glad to see I am not alone in 'cheating'! |
| tammyknit |
Posted - Aug 07 2011 : 09:13:12 AM
Lights, darks, and socks/undies/bras. If I have something I am pretty sure will have the color run, I might be more careful or put a Shout Colorcatcher in the wash load. I learned about them when quilting to keep the colors from running together when washing a new quilt or prewashing new fabrics. My husband is pickier than i am and usually does laundry in the winter (when we use the dryer);)
Tammy |
| Alee |
Posted - Aug 07 2011 : 08:15:53 AM
Sherry- maybe you need just an old washer in the milking barn so the rags don't come up to the house?
Alee
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| sherrye |
Posted - Aug 07 2011 : 08:04:09 AM
well i had to post on here our challenge. with cows a milking and barns to clean we have LOTS of laundry. so if papa helps me out i find stuff all washed together. now this is not often BUT i am hopeful we can overcome this.. i find the poopy wash cloths ( special colors) from the milk cows udder washes in with my stuff. i hate it. so gross. i am watching craigsL. for a washer that sanitizes. but finding the washrags in with other stuff freaks me out. yes alee at the end if i have whites and darks and i want to be done i throw them in. LOL so now you know my dirty secret. happy days sherrye
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| farmmilkmama |
Posted - Aug 06 2011 : 12:39:41 PM
Horror! I do not sort my laundry any further than cold water and warm water. Don't tell anyone though. ;)
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| annielaurel |
Posted - Aug 06 2011 : 12:30:06 PM
I sort my laundry as: whites, towel, delicates, jeans/heavy pants, assorted colors, sheets. Always have and everything comes out fine. If I have a new piece of clothing that is red then I will wash it seperately. I check for stains before washing. If my husband is doing it as he sometimes does he just does; whites, darks, heavy. Still comes out okay. I sometimes think the soap companies want us to use lots of their soap.
~Nancy
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| Cabin Dreamer |
Posted - Aug 06 2011 : 05:37:37 AM
Guilty! I generally sort my laundry as: whites, jeans, towels, sheets, lights, darks. The only color I do recall washing separate are reds. My biggest bad habit is not paying attention to any stains on my clothing before I wash them - then cuss when I notice a stain as I pull the load out of the dryer - eeeek! when will I learn!
Farmgirl #1954 |
| Alee |
Posted - Aug 05 2011 : 8:35:32 PM
Elizabeth- yes I agree the title is kindof funny. I hoped it would trigger a couple giggles but I also couldn't think of a different way to phrase it! LOL
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| brightmeadow |
Posted - Aug 05 2011 : 8:17:44 PM
Elizabeth (Woolgirl) I feel your pain! My husband often does my laundry for me (he is the nicest man in the world) and he often just fills up the washer. I have too many other things to do to worry about laundry! I can't complain when he puts my still-damp slacks into the laundry basket and piles a bunch of damp jeans on top of them -- even though they get wrinkled, at least they are clean...
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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| mindy_marie |
Posted - Aug 05 2011 : 8:15:14 PM
I wash everything together. I'm single, live in an apartment, and have enough laundry for one load a week so I just wash it all in cold water and have never had a problem. Splitting it up seems wasteful of both water and quarters to me :)
Mindy
Farmgirl #3290 |
| woolgirl |
Posted - Aug 05 2011 : 6:31:35 PM
I had to laugh at the title of the post Alee, sorry! I was thinking I cheat on my laundry all the time...I should be spending time with it but I have a secret affair with crochet that takes me away from it! LOL!
Liz
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Aug 05 2011 : 6:11:56 PM
I have always just done, lights, darks and whites. Towels are their own load and so are sheets.Never have had a problem. Takes longer to get a full load since there are just two of us but I do my husbands work clothes all in one. I usually have about 4 good size loads a week. It has
been quite a change from doing laundry for 5 to doing it for 2.
farmgirl sister#43
O, a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it!
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only--how did you take it?
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