• Shifty Eyes@leminal.space
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    4 days ago

    Exacta. I stopped bothering with ironing or separating whites from colors a decade ago. It doesn’t get bought if it picks up stains from other clothes, bleeds color to other clothes, or gets wrinkled even if I hang dry or hang it up hot from the dryer.

    Only exception is merino wool sweaters (lay flat to dry) and a few dress clothes (dry clean only).

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      4 days ago

      I’m guessing you do first few washes of new clothes separate from others because almost always they give out some colour at first

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        1 day ago

        I think the thing is that most modern detergents work fine at like 30°C, so if you just wash at low temperature it’ll clean the clothes without leeching any colour.

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          4 days ago

          It can just make it so that all colours and especially white clothes get “muddled” and look more worn faster. But if it doesn’t bother you then I wouldn’t separate them either, extra effort for no benefit