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[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Eh, there are some things I'm washing that are kinda gross, like used kitchen towels, where I'm not washing those with knitwear. But I don't separate colours from whites or anything. Not that I have much that's white. And everything gets washed on cold and hung up to dry (clothes, anyway).

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Eh, there are some things I'm washing that are kinda gross, like used kitchen towels, where I'm not washing those with knitwear. But I don't separate colours from whites or anything. Not that I have much that's white. And everything gets washed on cold and hung up to dry (clothes, anyway).

Dafuq is knitwear?

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Dafuq is knitwear?

Sweaters and scarves mostly, but I also have some shirts that are knit fabric, and women have dresses and other things that would fall into the category besides sweaters. Typically stuff I would either want to hand wash, or more likely, put in a bag like this in order to wash in a washing machine:

[Icantwhisper]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

Mesh bags reduces the odds of socks going missing. I've been doing this for my nicer socks that I don't want to go missing. One time I pulled out a fitted sheet and found about half a dozen socks in the corner. Another time, I found a few inside the blanket cover. Occasionally, static charged into the pocket or inside of my clothing and missed when others are folding clothes.

I have a post washing, single sock bin. Every few months I'll pour them out, start sorting by color and look for pairs. I'll get maybe 3-4 pairs, but everything else is just singles.

I still have like 30-40 single socks over the last 2 years for a family of 4. It's mind boggling that many socks have gone missing. I might start using them as disposable cloth rags/crafts or sorta as light cloth protectors for certain things going forward because there's too many.

I'm also thinking my wife or kids might be throwing out single socks that are very worn out and then forgetting to mention it, but I have no concrete evidence. I've occasionally found single socks in the garbage. We're infusing something like half a dozen pairs of socks into the "system" for the kids 2-3x a year, especially since they've rapidly started to outgrow the old ones. I'm starting to ask my wife to just buy the same grouping of colors/styles so there will always be extra pairs with extra sock to mingle with/pair up with.

I don't know how old your kids are, but when mine were about 4 we just threw them all in a drawer, they don't even care if they match.
Daughter is in her mid 20's now and pretty sure I've seen her wear mismatched socks very recently.
Point is, your socks don't have to match, it's just a construct pushed by "big sock" life is too short to organize socks

[Sliver]

Ahhh. I don't own anything like that. I'm anti-scarf.

I have a couple sweaters, but I dry clean those every few years as I don't wear them often.

[Shazam]

Towels including kitchen towels get washed in hot and dried with no fabric softener to keep absorbility high.

Sheets get washed on their own because I prefer to use hot water on them too.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Icantwhisper

I don't know how old your kids are, but when mine were about 4 we just threw them all in a drawer, they don't even care if they match.
Daughter is in her mid 20's now and pretty sure I've seen her wear mismatched socks very recently.
Point is, your socks don't have to match, it's just a construct pushed by "big sock" life is too short to organize socks

I have like 3 patterns of sock (and many interchangeable pairs of each kind). Makes it way faster.

[Shazam]

Do we wear matching bras and panties though?

[PepsiFree]

Socks and underwear
White shirts
Colour shirts
Button-ups/hang dry
Pants and heavyweight clothes (jackets, etc)
Towels
Bedding

These are the correct categories, never to be mixed.

I know 90% of y’all are out there wearing flip flops and cargo shorts with a too-small pop culture t-shirt but no reason to shorten the life of your clothes.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Socks and underwear
White shirts
Colour shirts
Button-ups/hang dry
Pants and heavyweight clothes (jackets, etc)
Towels
Bedding

These are the correct categories, never to be mixed.

I know 90% of y’all are out there wearing flip flops and cargo shorts with a too-small pop culture t-shirt but no reason to shorten the life of your clothes.

Jackets are like sleeping bags. Never need to be washed.

[Fuzz]

White shirts
Colour shirts
Button-ups/hang dry
Pants


heavyweight clothes (jackets, etc)


Towels
Bedding


I do these three types of loads. Sheets, towels all go together fine. Same with everything on the top list. Cold water wash for top list, hot for bottom. My whites always come out white so I dunno what all the fuss is about.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Socks and underwear
White shirts
Colour shirts
Button-ups/hang dry
Pants and heavyweight clothes (jackets, etc)
Towels
Bedding

These are the correct categories, never to be mixed.

Calgary water supply's public enemy #1 right here.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

I have like 3 patterns of sock (and many interchangeable pairs of each kind). Makes it way faster.

How much time are you taking to match up like 6-7 pairs of socks?

[Geraldsh]

All my socks are black. I put them on one at a time - they always match.

My wife washed my nice new winter jacket so it’s no longer new and no longer nice.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Calgary water supply's public enemy #1 right here.

In my defence those get done anywhere from once per 2 weeks to 2-3 months.

Ain’t this the land of six figures? You poors out there owning 3 pairs of socks?

[woob]

Chat limit on Copilot GMG. But it's also my own dumb fault for not remembering. I was walking Copilot through creating a fillable PDF verson our absolutely terrible performance review document, before I send it off to my team, but ran out of prompts. Currently have a query into our licensing vendor about a M365 Business Prem with CoPilot & Teams license.

Seriously though, this document is so bad. It is written/formatted like someone is just learning how to use Word. Most people fill these things out on their computers, and don't print them and write in their answers.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Slava

How much time are you taking to match up like 6-7 pairs of socks?

All my comfy socks are different. It takes a system. I recline my couch, and just start laying out singles all over my legs, and match pairs as I go.





Now, the only reason I have this photo at all is because a few weeks ago my wife texted asking me to come help upstairs, and I had to respond with "sorry, I can't. I'm all socked in."

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Dafuq is knitwear?

It may differ for others, but for me it's a category of stuff that can get damaged by rubbing against zippers/velcro and/or needs to be hang dried vs tumble dried.

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Socks and underwear
White shirts
Colour shirts
Button-ups/hang dry
Pants and heavyweight clothes (jackets, etc)
Towels
Bedding

These are the correct categories, never to be mixed.

I know 90% of y’all are out there wearing flip flops and cargo shorts with a too-small pop culture t-shirt but no reason to shorten the life of your clothes.

I do like 3-5 loads of laundry at a time. I ain't got time for that.

My categories would be:

- Sensitive/fragile (color bleed, knitwear, fragile clothes like work clothes etc), not necessarily in the same load but tap cold wash, low spin, hang dry etc.
- Regular clothing/towels (none of this color sorting nonsense on tap cold wash)
- Bedding/dish wear/blankets etc. (super hot sanitizing)
- Outerwear (ie: Jackets, snow pants, occasionally shoes etc. that have potentially extra dirt)

But many times it's a combination of "I need this more urgently" or "#### it. Wash it all ASAP/dammit the previous load is still damp... combine stuff in dryer and start another washing load" and then it gets mixed.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

All my comfy socks are different. It takes a system. I recline my couch, and just start laying out singles all over my legs, and match pairs as I go.





Now, the only reason I have this photo at all is because a few weeks ago my wife texted asking me to come help upstairs, and I had to respond with "sorry, I can't. I'm all socked in."

But how often are you doing laundry? I go to the gym 5/6 days a week and work/live. So say that’s a dozen pairs of socks. What are we talking about here, maybe two minutes to match and fold them? I just think it’s interesting that people would only wear one kind of sock to save themselves from two minutes of “work”.

[Fuzz]

I do laundry every couple weeks. I'm not pretending matching socks is some burdensome activity. But I did used to buy the same black socks from Costco for years, and toss singles as they wore out. Now I work in my basement, which is cold so I go through a lot more fuzzy socks, which tend not to come in on type. Even the sets are random.