How do you separate laundry?

I don’t have enough money for that much water

with my hands

Clean and dirty in separate piles. No need to complicate it

I don’t.

I keep towels separate and wash them by theirselves but for clothes, they go in together

Everything goes in.
Wash
Repeat

Not an OT baller, had to learn to do my own laundry when I left home for college.

Lessons learned:
--Colors get cold water, whites get hot water.
----If it's a small load of old clothes (ie: not likely to bleed), it's fine to mix them as long as the water is cold.
--If it's new and colored, wash it only with like-colored items for the first few washes to lessen impact of bleeding (shirts, especially reds, which feel kind of stiff/plastic-y WILL bleed even if you wash them in a fricking iceberg, Tommy Hilfiger stuff was horrible about this back in the day).
--For colored items you want to retain their colors, tumble dry for only 20-30 minutes (ie: just long enough to get many of the wrinkles out) then hang dry (the dryer is where a lot of fading happens).
--If whites start getting a little less vibrant, bleach is your friend.
--Pique shirts hold color far better than knits.

The maid does it..

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Sheets Towels Everything else

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This is pretty much how I roll. I generally wash my nicer work clothes separate of my other clothing, but I dont fret much about colors vs whites.

Towels/sheets get hot water.
Other clothes get cold or warm. Flip a coin.

My wife separates it like this:

1. kids stuff
2. her stuff
3. my stuff with her ink pen

I just separate lights and darks and then to the washer.