How do you wash new clothes?

Question

Seriously I've always washed my clothes together but these clothes are new. Like Jeans go with what? and then colors and idk...

Answer 1

Wash your jeans separately in cold, so they won't bleed and shrink. Wash your whites in hot and your lights in cold, dirks in cold. Since they're new and you don't want them to fade, add a cup of vinegar to all washes. The vinegar will preserve the colors. You only have to do it the first time. Vinegar sets the colors and prevents them from fading. Don't dry your jeans all the way, lay them out after a few minutes in the dryer. Use low heat for all others.  

Answer 2

jeans go with dark clthes like towels or black and whites go with whites and colors go with colors

Answer 3

A new pr of jeans should be washed with darks. If you have dks that are of delicate fabric you may want to wash them alone on delicate cycle. I also turn them inside out and no dryer, I allow them to hang dry or lay flat. This allows the jeans to last longer and the color, however they do require ironing. Side note for the jeans definitely if they are dk denim the may fade.Good Luck!

Answer 4

Everything has a washing instruction tag on it these days.  If not at the back of the neck than in the side seam near the bottom.

Whites in hot water, like underwear and stuff.

Colors in warm.  I turn everything inside out so that it doesn't get snagged or messed up by another item.  

Cottons you'll want cooler temps for, because unless they are pre-shrunk they will shrink a bunch.

Cool water for most blended fabrics, like rayon, or anything made in Sri Lanka or another foreign country~that stuff tends to shrink like crazy.

I'd sort by what's on the fabric instruction tag, and once you've done that a few times you'll have it down.

Make sure to wash light colors with light colors, and dark colors with darks.

If you use bleach, I'd use an all fabric bleach and it goes in first for a bit before the laundry detergent.

Fabric softener goes in whatever type of fabric softener compartment you have, mine is a round thing that sits on the middle of the spinner.  But on some washers they are on the top/side of the washer.

Most everything can be tumble dried, just check to see if it says delicate, that means it doesn't need to be in any longer than about 10 minutes.

Use Woolite for hand washables, and you can put them in the washer, just make sure you use the delicate cycle.  Put the Woolite in first for a while before you put the clothes in.

A lot of things are drip dry and you can get one of those drying racks at the Bed, Bath & Beyond, the kind that can fold up to put away.

P.S. Always double check to make sure there aren't any towels of any kind in with your good t-shirts or slacks 'cause you'll have lint on them everywhere.  

And always double check to make sure there's not a green sock mixed in with your whites or you'll have green tinted underwear.

Answer 5

Just stick them in with everything else, no whites and colored - let natural selection do its job :)