Do you wash cloths in hot or cold water?

I use cold water for my laundry at home. It's cheaper than using hot or warm, and it works pretty well for me. If I take laundry to the laundry mat, as I sometimes do, since our well's been running low on water, I use warm water there. I cna get my clothes washed and dried, faster there, but I still don't like going.

For my whites I use hot and for my darks I use cold. thats the way my mother always did hers and taught me how to do it that way so thats what I have always done.

I wash all towels including wash cloths in very hot water with bleach or non-whitening bleach for colors but I would always use hot water because cold water doesn't kill germs, bacteria or anything like that. I think cold water is just good for clothes you want to wash but not shrink, but I could be wrong unless something knows something that I don't, please share it with us. I wouldn't want to give info that was wrong. I still will wash all kinds of towels, wash cloths and such in hot water. Spot removing is a very good idea too.

I alwasys use cold water. It gets my clothes cleaned just fine. I just throw some soap in and voila, they are clean. Plus it saves on propane considering my hot water heater is run off propane.

I use warm and cold. I've thought about just switching off the hot valve on my washer, though. I have no problem with washing in cold water, it's the soap that matters when it comes to getting clothes clean.