Well, my approach is to limit my day-to-day clothes buying to just those washable in 40°C and machine dryable. Makes both the shopping and life overall so much easier.

Any women who still have to wear business attire interested in a similar approach should check out MM LaFleur. Well-designed, machine washable staple pieces at a (mostly) reasonable price. IIRC the company was founded by a young French woman who used to work in consulting and knows the pain of constantly needing to dry clean your clothes.

https://mmlafleur.com/

Yes, if you only buy things that you wash in 40 degree water and dry in a machine, you can just wash everything in 40 degree water and throw it in a machine.

My rule of thumb is basically just to exclude from the dryer anything stretchy, slippery, knitted, or lacy. With that stuff hung to dry, what’s left is all the plain cotton shirts and jeans that can take whatever you throw at them.

Or you know, just hang everything out.

Well yes, we do that sometimes too. But the point of this thread was a no-fail process for quickly doing laundry.

T-Shirts are almost always knitted. Do you propose never tumble drying t-shirts?

By knits I’m referring to sweaters and the like, where the underlying material is wool or polyester.

Survival of the fittest! Hahaha