When doing laundry, what does it mean to separate your clothes?

Question

Does it mean shirts from pants and stuff like that? Why would the machine care?

Answer 1

you have to separate your cloths coz every color is like magnets. if you put north and south together, they attract each other. so lets say north and south are maybe red and white so white will attract red and the white clothes will be pink or a color similar to red. and if you put north and north together, they resist each other, so if u put white and white together it has no other color to attract so it will attract white so they end up coming out as the white you placed in the machine.

Answer 2

You want to separate your "whites" from the other colors like socks and other things mostly white because other colors tend to "bleed" their dyes into them= red shirt can cause pink socks if together washing. You may also want to "bleach" your whites to make them brighter and not your colors. Your jeans also have a dark and bleeding dye. Only want to wash these separate otherwise you may get blue socks. So, light colors only, dark only and whites only are a rule of thumb. The temperatures that you use determine if something will "bleed" or lose some dye. The hotter that you go is a sure sign that you will lose some color in the wash let along risk shrinking material. So, machine doesn't care but your original color of clothes might. Good luck with all the great answers that you get!:>)

Answer 3

The people on here are right, but you may need more detail-
Dark- red, regular to dark blue, purple, black, dark denim, dark green, any color that is saturated- wash cold/cold if you don't want them to fade or shrink.
Light- light blues and greens, lavendar, pink, yellow, pale oranges, light colored denim, any color that is not saturated- also wash cold/cold to keep from fading and shrinking.
Whites- anything without a lot of color that you can bleach, like towels, socks, underwear and shirts, white bed sheets, etc. You should always bleach your whites or they won't stay white very long (plus think about what ur body puts out everyday, Bleach will kill any bacteria living in ur clothes)- wash hot/hot with a cup of bleach per full load.

People shouldn't lie to themselves by thinking that they are clean all the time and don't need to bleach their unmentionables every time they do laundry- if they knew what was on their socks and undergarments and sheets (even after washing), they would bleach every time. They did a study about it not too long ago.

Answer 4

Well duh? Its means separate by color. Don't wash white shirts with red socks. Do not wash dark clothes like jeans with white or light colored items. The dark colors are dye and will change the colors of the lighter items.

Answer 5

Give the guy a break, at least he asked before stuffing up the whole lot. It says a lot more than most men. All the top answers are right...good luck.

Answer 6

It means that you seperate colored from the whites so they won't get bleached! That way you will have two different cycles. One for colored and the other for whites! You can't put them together! That is a BIG mistake!

Answer 7

It means to wash whites and colors seperately but I only seperate if I need to bleach some of the whites.

Answer 8

Seperate by colors to avoid colors running together.
1. whites
2.light colors
3.dark colors
4. jeans
5. towels

Answer 9

it means if there stuck together ....like my socks are pull them apart...lol just kidding it mean to separate the darks from the whites (banded in the USA from doing this) and the delicate like my g.friend cute little panties from the cotton hard clothes good luck with the suds......................K>S

Answer 10

No, it is sorting them by color.
Some colors run onto other pieces of clothing.

It can also refer to the fabrics.
Jeans can do much damage to delicate materials.

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