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My whites haven't turned into wacky colors, as I was warned that they would, nor have the colored items faded. We've been living together for more than a year now, and I can't say that my clothing looks or feels any different. After much pleading, he finally agreed to pull out towels and sheets to wash separately, but the rest of it goes into the drum together - socks, jeans, underwear, T-shirts, you name it. Instead, he simply overturns the entire hamper into the washing machine, pours in some detergent, and starts it up. The caveat is that sorting is very much not part of his process. So when my partner and I moved into our house together and started sharing a laundry basket, he took over the chore, and I happily let him. However, this is the part where I tell you that I really don't like doing laundry, in large part due to the aforementioned sorting.

That was how I was taught to do laundry, and for the past 20 years, that was exactly how I did it every two weeks - or however long it took for me to run out of socks. Towels also get their own load, as do sheets and other bedding. To this day, she has a thorough sorting routine - she separates her loads of laundry into whites, colors, underwear, jeans, even my dad's work clothing, which tends to get really dirty and merits its own cycle.

#The laundry guy patric richardson how to#

My mother taught me to do laundry when I was an early teenager, and a big part of her lesson was how to sort clothing.

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