Ah, I really like all of these except that I don't follow any of them. I wash all clothes on warm/cold, 6 minutes, regular setting. New stuff does get done separately do make sure the dye has set. Clothes get dried on a drying rack and I have some mesh shelves for sweaters.

Shake off the tyranny of laundry rules! A few precautions mostly on the drying side and your clothes will be fine. Seriously. My stuff is fine.

Don't fall for that "I don't know how" stuff. They know how, they just don't want to! Everybody in our house knows how to do laundry and is responsible for doing their own or helping out. When my granddaughter was 2 she liked putting socks together after drying, but she preferred to make interesting combinations rather than that boring matchy matchy thing. Now, at 9, she can do everything except lug the heavy baskets and do the ironing. Laundry folding time is a good time for talking about "stuff" too.

@meecee, I totally agree. Sorting? bah!

Sure, mix 'em all up, as long as you don't care that your lights and whites will end up looking like they were, as my mom puts it, "bathed in soy sauce."

(That's over the long haul -- for the short term, I'll agree, it doesn't matter unless you decide to put your new scarlet boxers in with the tighty whities.)