Never mix whites and coloreds
One of the “safest” ways to end up with your clothes ruined is to mix your white shirts, sheets, or any other clothes with a bunch of colored ones. By doing this, rest assured you’ll end up with a bunch of dirty greys.
While dyes are better than they ever were, the color might still run. That’s why it’s super important to have a look at the care label before washing anything.
If you want to avoid colors running around in the washing machine, the best and safest way to do so is to make sure your whites won’t end up grey or worse, just take a couple of minutes of your time to separate your laundry between whites and coloreds.
certainly fail to see how mixing white and colored laundry in the same load would in any way damage a clothes washing machine…..
as you point out, could turn the whites grey, but as for damaging the machine in some way—-makes no sense
Some of us are not rich enough to have a new washing machine. I am still using 1 from 1974 and it works just fine I don’t need all those fancy buttons and programs. This machine has never failed to get my laundry clean!
Amen, sister! Not everyone in this country is of the super-consumer class! 🙂
Depends on a front loader or a top loader. I have a top loader and I have never found it to have to
be cleaned out. My top loader has a cycle to clean the machine. Like you all said. It seems the
manufacturer has some opinions that don’t fit the narrative that they are pointing out. One size doesn’t fit all.
Where did they say that mixing colors & whites will ruin your washer? They didn’t say that did they? I only saw read about how mixing colors with whites can change the colors of your clothes (which is a given) -not damage your washer. I didn’t even see where they said it would damage your washer, so why would you sat that?
But that’s the title of the article.
This was more of a laundry lesson. Many good points though, some about the machine and some about what is washed.
TK Smith there is no miners at the bottom of the page and a arrow press the arrow and it will let you keep reading the story for washing