• Meron35@lemmy.world
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      No need to actually hand wash. Most machines have a wools or gentle setting explicitly designed for hand wash only garments.

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      Survival of the fittest.

      Same with plants. If they don’t like being watered very irregularly, they won’t survive very long 🙂

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      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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        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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            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