Why do girls hate the way men do laundry?

Lots of men don't care if their shirts are wrinkled. I actually fold clothes every weekend for my guy, ( out of love and out of necessary) because he says I fold clothes better than him (not really) All guys are different, some can iron, some don't know how to work an iron. My bro does not do laundry at all. Its called "throw it on the floor, and eventually I'll pick it up"

All guys are different I guess. I'm amazed you even separate the laundry. :)

I honestly think that the fact that you do your own laundry is pretty impressive. Its your clothes. As long as they are clean man.

Thank you for bringing this up. I've never really thought about it when the situation isn't right in front of me, but guys really do suck at doing laundry. I've even had times when the things they have done doing their own clothes have screwed up mine that I do right after they are done. I don't think they mean to, and sometimes they are trying to help, they just aren't implanted with that gene that tells them what to do. And besides in general I don't think guys care so much if their clothes don't come out exactly the same color as they were when they went in. Also, on a side note I hate it when the detergents and fabric softeners are used improperly; it drives me crazy when they are leaking or being overused.

After having this brought to my attention, I think when I meet guys I'm going to start with "Hi, my name is _______, you will never be allowed to do my laundry."

Well I agree with the guy that mentioned the tags. They are there for a reason lol.
I only mention that because I basically learned to do laundry by myself, so reading the tags was pretty important. I had no one to tell me what I should and shouldn't do.
Even so, I still don't see a reason for separating colors & whites, my clothes have never bled. The only things I really pay attention to are the fabric [so it doesn't shrink, or maybe it has to be hand-washed, etc.]. That's really the only thing that's important to me.

lol you sound exactly like my guy friend!
to me it's irritating because when you just throw your clothes in the washer without them being separated. the different colors go everywhere! it is not pretty when your clothes have multiple random colors. and please don't even remind me of putting bleach on your clothes because you decided that when you put the clothes in there with everything else they should be cleaned too! it's horrible! lol
my solution is get two baskets and put whites in and colors in the other that way when it comes to washing all you have to do is throw and wash and prevent from looking like a tie dye hippy!

Ok so the "bleeding thing" as everybody has already said. It doesn't happen as easily as it used to, but it does still happen. And some of it is just a "my mom taught me to do it this way" thing too. Because obviously since bleeding used to be a much bigger issue, it was a lot more critical for our moms than for us. So they drilled it into our heads that THIS is the way to do it. Bleeding doesn't happen as much now it seems like but there's always that risk and usually it's just not worth it. Like someone said. if I wanted a baby blue shirt, I would have bought it in that color. Once the white gets "less white" from faded colors you can't ever really get it back and it can look dingy and just not as attractive as when it was nice crisp white.

Also, not only do we tend to spend a lot of money on our clothes, but we also tend to have a lot more DELICATE clothes. Clothes that require very special care and can VERY easily be ruined if you don't wash them the right way. This is so much more than the sorting, but cycles, water temperature, detergent, how do you dry it (dryer, line, or flat), etc. Then throw in the hand wash stuff and the dry clean only. Lol.

Me personally I don't bother with most of this. Only sorting I really do anymore is I keep the whites separate. Everything else I pretty much throw in together unless it's a particularly special item that I don't want to risk ruining, OR an item that is particularly likely to bleed. VERY VERY dark blues, blacks, and reds run the biggest risk of bleeding. We don't have many of those items though so usually I just pull those out as I come across them and when I finish the "regular" laundry I do a load with whatever darks I have leftover. It's usually a VERY small load, lol.

because ur not supposed to do that. they are supposed to b separated so that the colors don't leak onto other clothes

I must be as bad as the guys then, haha. Who has time to sort colors? Not me.

colors and whites don't mix. colored clothes bleed and when you mix them with whites the whites won't come out as white any more. if I wanted a baby blue shirt instead of a white one, then I would have bought myself a baby blue shirt. but I didn't hence when I do my laundry I make sure that what goes in the washer, comes out in the same condition. logical? yes. lol I know we're a picky lot but it's like wearing 2 different pairs of socks. it's just not right!

Because throwing it all in together is not the right way to do it. And you already know that so why do you keep doing it.

You think you're doing her a favor by doing the laundry, when in fact you're making more work and costing money by ruining clothes.

How would you like it if she put diesel in your gas car? She's doing something nice for you but just ruined your car.

Dude, I went to college and laundry ruined my life. The first time I mixed reds and whites and all my clothes came out pink.

The second time I put 4-6 cups of laundry into the machine (more is better right?). I flooded my laundry room with suds.

Not to sound sexist or anything, but guys like me need a woman (or somebody who knows what they are doing) in their life when shit like this happens.