What is a Laundry Sorter?
For a number of people, sorting laundry means forming two piles: one marked “dirty” and the other marked “clean.” Others may stack all of their dirty laundry in a single clothes hamper, waiting until the last possible moment to separate whites from colors or permanent press from dry clean only. There is a solution to this laundry conundrum, however, and it is known as a laundry sorter. Single men may want to leave the room at this point. A laundry sorter is essentially a three or four section clothes hamper which allows users to manually separate different types of clothing. Laundry items which can be washed as “whites” in higher temperature water are placed in one section of the laundry sorter. Colors fit in another section, while delicates or dry clean only clothes live in the third section. On laundry day, the launderer or laundress can remove each section from the laundry and wash the clothes according to temperature or type. Many laundry sorters use separate canvas bags to hold th