My MIL gave me a right earful for mixing my laundry with the kids' saying it isnt right (???) Idk why, i kinda tuned her out after that lol. Am i crazy for mixing family clothes together?
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I wash together. Saves on water and detergent. ☺️

I do separate them, but that is a choice not a rule.

Is it ok to mix yours and husband's or is everyone supposed to be separated? Can towels co-mingle? What are her rules? I'm curious.
(I wash everything together, but anything with special care like poop stuffs gets a mini wash first)

I separate but only because they have enough (lights/darks/colourful) to fill a wash and so do me and my partner

I wash together I just use the same sensitive skin detergent for everyone

My son has eczema so I use the sensitive detergent for him

Some people are weird about laundry. Like I've heard people think washing your undies in the machine is gross. Mixing your families clothes is perfectly fine.

I dont get it.. the washing machine is washing the clothes making everything in it clean. Whats the problem here? I throw all our clothes in at the end of day and run it

Definitely not crazy at all. I don’t mix adult and kid clothes but only because it’s sooo much sorting to do as you’re folding. It’s enough to have to sort mine from my husband’s and then the kids’ from each other (thankfully their clothes are not easily confused).

No. I wash my clothes separately myself. My husband does all the rest of the laundry.

But husband FREAKS out when I wash his clothes with the baby’s 🙄 what he dont know won’t kill him 😉

Normally I’ll separate my son’s clothes from mine but sometimes I’ll toss them together. My husband’s clothes are always covered in things like oil, metal shavings, etc so they have to get washed separately. Regardless, it’s an odd thing to jump on somebody about.

I wash adult and child clothes separately. I also separate the colors more than most other people do. I do a load of just black clothes.

I separate them but use different detergent. Plus my husbands work stuff is grimy AF lol

I only separate my husbands work clothes, otherwise all go in together (separate lights, darks and whites)

Sorry but I don’t have the energy or the patience to separate. At the end of the day, it’s all getting washed. We dont go through enough clothes in a week for a load unless i put it all in together. (Im a SAHM and sometimes we just stay in pjs all day if we dont have plans. Plus its cold where i am, so were not sweating)

Is it more that you need to use different detergent? No but they tended to go in the white wash anyway.

Wash everything together (other than stuff where the colour might run) and everything gets the same sensitive detergent and softener. My skin is sensitive too so I've always used the baby friendly stuff anyway!

All in. We have one laundry basket and we use the same detergent for all of us.

I didnt with my son until he was a year old as i used more sensitive skin products for him and cheaper stuff for me and my husband as it never bothered us now we all just use comfort so i add them all together but tumbledry differently

I separate by person but just because it’s easier for organisation & putting things away. Everyone uses the same detergent and stuff

I mix everything 😅 I only do separate loads for whites and towels. Everything else gets mixed together. I can't see any reason not to.

No they all get chucked in together I just separate lights and darks. My washing would barely get washed if not I don’t wear enough myself for a wash load.

I separate them because baby’s are cotton..mine and husband’s are mixed.

I separate my partners work stuff and usualy wash mine and my daughters together

I was work clothes separate because of the dirt and but regular clothes everyone goes together. Why put more work on yourself!

We used to wash our son's stuff separately when he was a newborn/baby. I believe we stopped doing that when we stopped sterilising utensils etc, at the age of 1.
Have always used the same Faith in Nature laundry detergent as we do for ours. And I separate by colour, temperature and type of fabric.

I separate into lights and darks doesn't matter who's

I separate in to 3, i do me and my partner together and then each child separately

My clothes I wash with my kids clothes but I wash my husbands clothes separately bc of the things he gets on them at work .

I wash my babies separately, then me & my partners.

I separate for now just cause of detergent, baby is all clean and mine is tide pods and have a smells so for now i separate but I’m thinking and switching to all clean for me too

I will usually separate but I have two kids who make a lottt of washing. But if I need to mix my stuff in theirs I try make sure it’s not their nursery clothes 😅 and whites are just everyone’s

I mix everything unless someone is sick, that's a load (or several) on its own.

I just find it more practical to do them seperate, but I have a 2 year old. It might be different when she's older or has a sibling. And I used to use different stuff to wash them

Each to their own. There is nothing wrong if you do. However I personally don’t. I use sensitive fairy washing powder for the kids clothes and when I wash mine an my husband clothes I use separate washing powder too x

I do it whichever way I feel like in the moment - no difference either way. I use the same fragrance/dye free soap for everything!

We wash separate but mainly because we wash her soiled garments in bio but my husband has sensitive skin so wash our own clothes in non-bio

All in one baby! Im already doing a load a day.. i dont need to be stressing about this too lol. The clothes are clean arent they...
I did however wash the boys rugby kits on their own because they were filthy muddy and i wash pet stuff away from our stuff but, come on... its fine.