Today’s technology allows washers to use cold water cycles to clean clothes as efficiently as hot water. Not only does washing in cold water save energy, it also aids in color transfer prevention. So, ...

When you first learned to do your own laundry, you were likely taught to wash colors, whites, and perhaps even lights separately from one another. The tactic makes sense to prevent darker pigments ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of the most tedious laundry day tasks is sorting clothes into individual piles so that they can be washed in separate loads according to ...

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Are you still sorting only by lights and darks? Not reading clothing labels? These mistakes, and more, could be causing the early demise of your favorite garments. Joey is a writer/editor, TV/radio ...

Q In your recent column on washing white T-shirts, you did not say how much bleach to put in a load. My wife passed away, so I am learning. Please tell me the amount I'm supposed to use. Is a cup ...

As someone who has been known to let piles of dirty clothes grow to epic proportions, I'm always wondering if there is a way to make doing laundry a little less awful. When you think about it, it is ...

Everything we know about doing laundry we learned in childhood. “Most people will cook the way their mothers cooked. We learn laundry basics the same way – from our parents,” says Jenifir Provateare, ...