Are you doing your laundry wrong?
NO SUCH THING
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4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
By popular demand, we answered all of your laundry questions: Do you really need to separate lights from darks? How much detergent should you use? Are front-loading machines better than top-loading? What do dry cleaners actually do? And much, much more.
Our guest this week is Patric Richardson, author of Laundry Love: Finding Joy in a Common Chore.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Annie. I'm Noah. This is Devon. |
| 0:02.2 | And this is No Such Thing, the show where we'll settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. |
| 0:07.7 | This week, we're doing a mailbag episode, answering all your questions about laundry. |
| 0:11.8 | If you go Commando and your jeans, you can't wear them as long. |
| 0:16.3 | There's no such thing. No such thing. No such thing. No such thing. No such thing. |
| 0:22.9 | No such thing. |
| 0:24.9 | No such thing. No such thing. |
| 0:27.0 | No such thing. |
| 0:32.9 | This episode was inspired by a Spotify comment on our episode about Kanye from Daniel M, |
| 0:38.5 | asking for us to do an episode on how to use the washing machine without destroying our clothes. |
| 0:43.1 | We decided to broaden that out to all of our questions about laundry. |
| 0:46.3 | So we put a call out and we got plenty of questions. |
| 0:50.1 | Lots of questions. |
| 0:50.8 | And luckily we have answers to, I think, all of them. |
| 0:53.0 | Wow. |
| 0:53.6 | So we're talking separating lights from darks. We're talking types of detergent to use. We're talking tide pods, dryer balls, water temperature. Yeah, that's a big. Yeah, things of that nature. So I called up Patrick Richardson, aka the Laundry Guy. My name is Patrick Richardson, and people call me the laundry guy. Welcome to laundry camp. My laundry camps are the hottest ticket in town. He wrote a book called Laundry Love, Finding Joy in a Common Shore. So it's beautiful. Seems a good guy to talk to. Yeah. So I tried to go in kind of chronological order of washing things. |
| 1:28.5 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:28.8 | So I started with prep and sorting. |
| 1:30.9 | Okay. |
| 1:31.5 | So this is the big one I had was, do you have to separate lights from darks? |
| 1:36.8 | Before we get to the answer, what do we currently do? |
| 1:40.5 | My wife does, and I don't. |
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