Despite my general pleasant attitude towards the washing, there is one thing which plagues me week after week after week: should the maroon under-things go in with the colours or the darks?
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Darks.
I’ve had a bad experience with things that are any shade of red. For me darks is the only option.
Darks. Always the darks.
Anything with red in it is trouble. They can bide their time, but they will eventually attack and your coloureds will suffer…
Wow. I am surprised by the fact that I felt compelled to click through in order to comment on this issue. Is there something wrong with me that I am currently ignoring politics and gender questions, but particularly keen to comment on housekeeping issues?
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No. Cristy, you’re just nesting — surely you recognise the symptoms by now?
No. Cristy, you’re just nesting — surely you recognise the symptoms by now?
Wait, you have a darks and a coloureds? I always thought that was the same pile. God.
Confused, in Melbourne.
I am a slattern. Have only started washing whites separately (since nappy days, that is, and what nappy days they were) since Boychild started doing Taekwondo in that adorable white uniform they wear.
Apart from that, yes, reds with darks if you’re not a slob like me, and Cristy, welcome back to Oz and yes it’s a nesting symptom. The good news is, you’ll get unlimited opportunities to exercise any laundry urges in the near future
We have darks and coloureds, because there is enough non-whites for two loads, so they may as well be separated that way as any other.
I used to do taekwondo. A little hint: you can easily dye a white belt to yellow, but yellow to green doesn’t work. Everyone else will notice that it isn’t quite right.
Cristy, not long now and you’ll be dusting down your window sills. You can scoff and say ‘no I won’t’. But you will. You will.
washing is a genderpolitical issue, especially when it comes to maroon under-things, which are generally man’s pants in my experience.
What Suse said. Lights and darks is as advanced as it gets around here. Both kinds generally come out of the machine with more cat hair on than when they went in.
Thank you. Yes, I do recognise the ‘nesting instinct’ but am currently battling reality (AKA I am in denial about the power of hormones).
Unfortunately I am not yet back in OZ yet Helen. I fly out on Tuesday and cannot wait. I am quite looking forward to dusting my window sills to be honest. I have previously stooped to scrubbing clean the detergent draw of my washing machine in order to procrastinate, so nothing is really going to shock me too much…
Ahem. I have a browns/reds/maroons/purples pile, a blues pile, a greens pile, a blacks pile and a fluffies pile.
It’s because I don’t wash very often.
Honest.
White is white, red is red and never the twain shall meet!
“I have previously stooped to scrubbing clean the detergent draw of my washing machine in order to procrastinate, so nothing is really going to shock me too much…”
Thank the lord I’m not the only one!
Also, maroon = dark.