Keep towels separate. Stein also strongly encourages people to wash towels separately—don’t mix them with clothing. Their material and weight can be a lot on clothing and the level of absorption can ...

Let’s be honest: Doing laundry is not fun. Having to lug all your clothes to the laundry room, wash them, dry them, and then fold all of them—it’s exhausting. And to add even more work, some folks ...

Most of us were taught to do laundry in pretty much the same way: The first step, we were told, is to separate laundry by color. This was followed by a bunch of other rules about how to load the ...