only another butch would understand

[I'mOneToo]

wowza!

well bro -- um see i knew you would be full of good advice. been doing it wrong all along. if you can follow this particular butch's logic.... here's how the clothes get divided.

first you put them in two piles. all the heavy stuff goes in one pile, all the lightweight stuff goes in the other. then, you subdivide each pile by kinda light colored stuff, and kinda dark colored stuff. then you take the four piles and then you separate ALL the black stuff (whether lightweight or heavy) and make a separate pile. this creates five piles. but because there's a lot of black clothes, it makes the other piles much smaller.

then you take one of the piles of light-colored lightweight stuff and combine it with one of the piles of heavyweight kinda light-colored stuff. then you take the leftover pile of dark-colored lightweight stuff and combine that with the last pile of dark-colored heavyweight stuff.

what remains are three loads. blacks of all weights, lightweights of all colors, and heavyweights of all colors except black.

there aren't any white clothes because everything that was white at the store turns out sort of grey after the first washing but against black clothing, it almost looks white. and last week, somehow a pink washcloth got in with the whitish clothes (no idea where it came from because i certainly have no pink items not even washcloths but that's for another thread). anyway the whitish stuff came out pinkish so hopefully this time it will come out less pink and more gray like it should. lol.

i will try your method of sorting and see how it goes tomorrow. although, have not been able to figure out if there are different speeds or how gentle differs from the slam-bang mode it usually works in. the towels and rugs are all dark and i don't give them much thought in the washer because it's the drying that makes the difference in getting the fuzz on everything, so i do dry them all by themselves. the sheets, who knows, they could be count dracula for all i know. i like them scratchy.

the ironing, the shirt advice and all that, i'd be too embarrassed to go into detail. the 'rumpled look' is in nowadays, i've finally caught up with current fashion.

could possibly just be lazy logic, rather than something only a butch would know or do.

thank you very much for your sage advice, as you disembark from this ride please hand your bro card to the attendant standing by. you may then retrieve your weapon from the security cage.

Originally Posted by apretty

1. don't use too much soap! separate lights and darks and wash whites in their own load with a small amount of bleach. please never wash a white with a dark. (this is something that *some* of us have trouble remembering/caring about)

2. if you have something you want to stay nice, wash it on the gentle cycle and use a gentle soap like woolite. you can either let it dry for a couple of minutes on low and then take it out and air dry it or you can skip the dryer altogether and let it air dry--this will save the fabric feel and color. (this is also good if you have a pair of tighter jeans, you can wash them and stretch them while they're damp and let air dry)

3. iron with a spray bottle of water, if it's a cotton shirt do the front and collar last--it won't re-wrinkle as you manipulate the fabric around the ironing board.

4. iron wool pants on the coolest setting (the iron-setting) between trips to the dry cleaner--and turned inside-out will be more kind to the fabric, too--but experts say that using a pressing cloth between the iron and the fabric to avoid those horrible shiny-iron-marks example: http://www.sewingplace.com/browsepro...ess-Cloth.HTML

5. also, i avoid washing towels of any sort (rugs, too) with anything that i'll be wearing--those little bits of fuzz never seem to come off the clothes and it's one of those things that just bug me (additionally, i like to buy only white towels/sheets so i can, like a hotel, bleach them all to super white when they get a little dirty). what's nicer than a crisp white cotton 500+ thread count sheet set? not much i say.

lastly, wash nicer things in cold, blacks will stay black in cold... i get a little weird about faded blacks/blacks that don't match.

*now i may lose my bro card!