To have great looking bed linen and all your other laundry articles such as towels and clothes follow the manufacturers instructions carefully.

The best way to have your bed linen looking beautiful,  launder it once a week and treat stains immediately with commercial stain removers or mix soap and water. Apply it to the spot and rub it in. Launder as soon as possible.

Never launder light and dark colors  together.

Sort your clothes by color and material. Never mix whites with other colors. If you mix colors may not be color fast and may bleed into your expensive white sheets and/or clothes, which would ruin them permanently. 

Never wash a sweater with your slacks. I can assure you that your slacks will be ruined for good, with all the little balls from your sweater stuck to them.

Whites generally are washed in hot water unless otherwise stated by the manufacturer. For colors and darks use a warm water setting. Sweaters should be laundered inside out in cold water with special detergent made for woolens.

When washing clothes an important thing to

remember is not to overload your washing machine. Use the setting for the type of material that is being washed. Do not use to much soap. If your machine is overloaded your clothes will not come clean and the soap will not get removed giving your whites a grayish appearance. The same goes for overloading the dryer: firstly, it will not dry your clothes as fast and everything will come out wrinkled. Less is better. Again use the setting for the type of material being dried.

A word of caution: always empty your lint catcher after every load you have dried. Too much lint may block the heat sensor and your dryer can catch fire. 

Some articles of clothing may need a slight touchup with an iron to remove creases. I find that if you remove clothes from the dryer and hang them right away before the dryer shuts off the chances that you may have to do touch ups are slim. Always have your hangers ready to hang clothes. This saves time on laundry day.

Sorting made simple! Keep your laundry organized.

When purchasing a laundry hamper you can find all sorts on the market. The one I like best is the one with three sections. You can sort your clothes right away when putting them in the hamper, it saves time when laundry day arrives. It can  also teach children how to sort their clothes: to keep them off the floor and put them in the hamper right away.

There are others hampers that do the job. Keeping all the dirty laundry in one place rather than all over the bedroom floor saves time and energy and leaves less possibility of the washing machine eating socks!