NO White Clothes!

[carldamnit]

I have to start this off by saying that I am a single man.
Except for the two white dress shirts and undershirts that go with them, I do not own white clothing. Holding whites back long enough to do a load was just frustrating. Yep my underpants, my undershirts, my socks are all colored. I get enough clothes in the hamper they all get tossed into the washing machine together. So the crew neck that sticks out from my shirt is heather, brown, olive, or black accounting for the shirt I am wearing. It is a small thing to me after all these years, but it took some getting used to at first.

Anyone else give their wife a break and do this?

 

[cb91710]

Not intentionally trying to avoid whites....
I have a couple of white Polos.
Couple of white print t-shirts but rarely wear them.
Stopped wearing white socks a couple of months ago when a promotion traded the steel toed boots for wingtips.

She has enough white's of her own that the polo isn't a problem.

 

[StillShaving]

I understand what you are saying, my household wash used to be strictly divided into separate loads for dark, light, and white (bleach potentially added). Dark clothing, especially anything in cotton still gets washed separately the first few times, but afterwards starts to be blended in, so maybe there is only a darker vs lighter load, until it is time for hot water or bleach. Some sheets, towels, t-shirts, undies, etc, still get that treatment.

 

[Isaac]

I almost subscribe to the Einstein theory of dressing. I have four white oxford button downs, and two blue oxfords. I just prefer simplicity. I tend to show my wild side by choosing different shoes/socks/bowties.

 

[ReAndyMator]

Virtually everything I own is black (well, varying shades of grey by this point...) So everything just goes in together....

 

[JoshuaNY]

I am divorced so I do the laundry, I did the laundry when I was married too(you would think that alone would have kept my marriage together).
I have a bunch of white undershirts and white socks that go in a load together. They are v-necks so they dont show. Even if I were to replace them with colored shirts I would still have the same amount of laundry loads to do. However I am already a sorter, my laundry is split into Darks, lights, whites, towels, sheets. My dress/work shirts get laundered seperate from anything else.

So as you can see having a load of whites is not a big deal to me

 

[Doc4]

Actually, white is under-used in a lot of wardrobes (including my own. It's at it's best in shirts, but beyond dress shirts and the odd t-shirt, rarely used. A casual white button-up shirt can be used to great effect.

Anyone else give their wife a break and do this?

I give my wife a break ... and wash my own shirts.

 

[little Big feather]

Question: StarTrek, they have that molecular thing that makes food.. etc.
Did they use that for clean clothes?
I separate into primary colors...Man talk "white & dark" It ain't rocket science.

 

[Slash McCoy]

Just buy more whites. Also there is no reason why you can't wash your few whites with the sheets, right? Oh no... surely you don't have colored sheets! How barbaric!

 

[Doc4]

Question: StarTrek, they have that molecular thing that makes food.. etc.
Did they use that for clean clothes?

"Earl Gray, hot. Shirt, pressed. Light starch."

... good thing Captain Picard was into tea and not a "Starbucks-head" ... can you see him talking to the display on the wall ordering "quad venti skinny with whip iced caramel machiatto".

 

[Deltaboy]

I have all white underwear and I sent out my white dress shirts. Plus I have all white work socks.

 

[shaveitoff]

Question: StarTrek, they have that molecular thing that makes food.. etc.
Did they use that for clean clothes?

You'd think they'd use it for cleaning clothes, but then again I don't wash my clothes in my oven. The thing that always got to me in Star Trek TNG was that every time they'd stand up, they would grab their shirt by the hem and yank it down because it had ridden up while the actor was seated. Did the people exploring space forget all about velcro?

 

[carldamnit]

Just buy more whites. Also there is no reason why you can't wash your few whites with the sheets, right? Oh no... surely you don't have colored sheets! How barbaric!

No white anything, I'm afraid.

 

[auk1124]

Jeez, bachelors sorting laundry. I must have missed that class. Before I got married: everything tossed in one load, wash on cold. Unless it was a new item of clothing, chances of color bleeding were minimal, well worth the risk.

Go big or go home. Toss those whites in with old blue jeans or t-shirts or already-faded towels, flip that water temp knob to cold, and let your man flag fly.

 

[cb91710]

Question: StarTrek, they have that molecular thing that makes food.. etc.
Did they use that for clean clothes?
I separate into primary colors...Man talk "white & dark" It ain't rocket science.

Yes. Basically, the replicator would take the dirty uniforms and break them down to reassemble as clean uniforms. The thing used the same technology as the transporter, but with the subroutines available to reassemble the molecules (atoms?) in whatever form desired.

Dirty uniform was broken down and reassembled into a clean uniform and the organic compounds from the "dirt" would have been used to replicate, perhaps, food products.



And here I am speaking of Star Trek technology in the past tense

... good thing Captain Picard was into tea and not a "Starbucks-head" ... can you see him talking to the display on the wall ordering "quad venti skinny with whip iced caramel machiatto".

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JoshuaNY]

I have all white underwear and I sent out my white dress shirts. Plus I have all white work socks.

Im sure the cleaner appreciates that you dont send out your underwear instead.

 

[_JP_]

Did the people exploring space forget all about velcro?

Velcro on clothing can be physically irritating if it rubs the skin. Not good at all on skin.

 

[Legion]

I'm a single guy. I throw all my washing in one load, colours, whites, whatever, and let the chips fall where they may. The only time I have washing apartheid is when the coloured clothes are new. After that, all bets are off.

Having said that, I don't often have to wash white business shirts. If my white undies and Tshirts end up in the wash with Bart Simpson's lucky red hat it is not the end of the world.

 

[DogHair]

There are five people in our family so laundry is a battle. Seperating into lights and darks doesn't work for us. I'd say we have at least five categories. Whites w/bleach, whites no bleach, wife's dark/black, dark & color and young kids whites. The no bleach whites are dress shirts and stuff. The little kids whites are usually unrecognizable and make the other white grey if mixed. We have endless dirty clothes for experimentation.

 

[little Big feather]

This washing whites thing reminded me of an article I read some 18+years ago...A Japanese company was working very hard on an ultrasonic
washing machine. Used cold water,no soap,filtered the water and reused and did a load in less than 5 min..They had prototypes that worked well.
I guess not well enough..Or maybe too expensive or unreliable.