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[Pooky1]

when you do laundry do you guys use hot warm or cold water. just curious what other people use.

[gidgetgh]

For white clothes (underwear, socks, etc) and also sheets and towels, I use hot water/cold rinse.

For colored clothes I use warm water/warm rinse and sometimes warm water/cold rinse.

Delicate items I use cold water/cold rinse.

[Pook]

@Pooky1Mostly cold water for regular clothing.   Towels and sheets hot water as well as whites - especially socks (unless washing instructions say otherewise).  Pet bedding usually hot also.

[Eileen in Virginia]

Usually warm wash with cold rinse. We almost never use hot water and I’ll use cold water for very delicate lingerie.

[OKPrincess]

Cold wash/cold rinse for most clothes

warm wash/warm rinse for towels, sheets, My Pillows

[Mominohio]

We have very few 'fancy' clothes, so most of my loads are hot water wash (and I have a full fill washer). I don't have the option of anything but a cold rinse, but I can manually run another wash cycle in hot or warm for the rinse if I need to for some reason.

I'm old fashioned and not going to change. I like most of our clothing and linens washed in hot. And I've not damaged things by doing so.

I do have a few nicer things that I'm more careful with, and use a warm cycle, which comes out closer to cold, then line dry.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

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@gidgetgh wrote:

For white clothes (underwear, socks, etc) and also sheets and towels, I use hot water/cold rinse.

For colored clothes I use warm water/warm rinse and sometimes warm water/cold rinse.

Delicate items I use cold water/cold rinse.

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Generally speaking, this is pretty much me, too, for the most part, but I do distinguish between light and dark colored clothing -

lights get washed in warm, darks in cold   

Everything gets rinsed in cold.

[Big Joanie]

Warm for sure ....

[SahmIam]

Bathroom, bed and kitchen items are hot wash, hot rinse.

Clothing is cold wash, cold rinse first, then a second wash with warm wash, warm rinse. I do this because of stains with the kids; especially socks. 

Delicates (cashmere) cold and cold.

[Rockycoast]

For towels, underwear, white sport socks I use hot water wash and rinse. Gotta kill those nasties in there!  For sheets, tablecloths and jeans, warm water and for all other clothes, cold water wash.