Category: Daily Living
Does anyone else have trouble sorting laundry? I have a little sight so I try to put things in dark piles, towels, and light, but light pink looks the same as white or yellow.
I've tried marking the hangers with what color shirts and pants are on them, but that doesn't do any good after you wash them and have to sort the clothes.
Finally, I decided to only get neutral colors in pants and shorts like: black, white, grey, tan, blue jean color, kaki. Then it doesn't matter what color I wear on the top, but I've still got to sort tops and stuff for washing.
Anyone got any tips?
Have you tried the braille or tactile colour labels? Some you pin onto clothing and others you sew on but they're basically the same idea. Also,
http://www.seeingwithsound.com
has a fantastic free program called The VOIC. Among it's many benefits is the ability to see and report colour through the use of a flatbed scanner or webcam. I've never used it for that but heard it does work. Finally, they make stand-alone colour identifiers, which while a bit pricey, do help. That's what I've used on occasion. Sometimes, it says weird colours but you get used to it after awhile and since you do have some sight, it'll probably help you. Good luck.
Or, you used to be able to get, but I don't know if you still can get these from RNIB, these buttons which were all different shapes and each shape was a different colour. I do believe I mentioned these in another topic on the Daily Living board. Before I had the Cobalt Speechmaster colour detecter, these buttons helped a lot. Even if you couldn't get those particular buttons now, you could go out and buy different shaped and coloured buttons and get a sighted person to help you sew one button on to the labels in every single item of clothing so you could identify the different colours.
Jen.
Thanks a lot to everyone. To Jen, does that color identifyer really work for clothes or blankets and stuff like that? What happens if the item isn't one solid color?
To Tifinitsa, sorry I think I mispelled that, where do you get those braille tag things?
Anyone can feel free to message me or note me or post here.
Thanks.
Chinchillac
Hmmm! Not sure about items of clothing being one solid colour, but what I do in this instance, is I just match two items of the same colour according to what the colour identifier tells me. It's all you can do really, other than the butttons symbolising different colours I mentioned in post 2.
Jen.
lol Don't worry about the spelling. I plan on legally changing from Tiffany to Eleni in any case. Anyway,
http://www.maxaids.com
http://www.independentliving.com
and
http://www.shopsftb.org/servlet/StoreFront
all have different things that might prove interesting to you. Let us know how your progressing and what you eventually get. As for the identifier, it'll sometimes say two colours, like blue green, or as you go over the item, it'll say things like very light brown, dark brown. Sometimes, it might confuse colours so you kind of have to get to know how to use it.
Thanks to everyone. I'm going to take a look at those websites. I know the first two, but not the third.
I use safety pins for dark things and anything else without pins usually is light.
Those color detectors are sometimes not too accurate after a while. I had the cobolt one as well, but want to get a different one. The others are more expensive, but they might be better. With the Cobolt one, you've got to hold it slightly away from the clothing rather than on top of it to tell the color properly.
Hi, I also have the cobalt color identifier and I love it.
Now when I was learning how to do laundry, my mom told me just put pants with pants and underwear and socks with towels and shirts with shirts and for years I've not been told its not good to do that.
lelia
It isn't good to put shirts that are dark and shirts that are light together. I use a safety pin method. One pin is light, none is whites, and 2 pins means dark. But sometimes I get lazy and forget to pin my new clothing heh! *smirks*! As for sorting it into different piles, I wash all of my darks together, and then I wash my lights and whites together as well.
Macy