Laundry Care Symbols (Free Printable)

August 8, 2013

Turns out those symbols on your clothes labels aren’t ancient hieroglyphics after all. They actually mean things, and today you’re going to finally be let in on the secret. Take a moment. It’s fine.

Now take a gander at this little printable I put together just for you. Am I pal or am I one I am.

Click here to view/print: Laundry Care Symbols Printable

Maybe now will be the end of your ruining your clothing in the wash?

Here’s hoping!

Bonus points to anyone who leaves a comment confessing your greatest laundry debacle so that the rest of us can endlessly mock you/but actually more like feel better about our own. Commiserate, I command you!

Image credit: BHG

9 Comments

  1. Tatiana on August 8, 2013 at 6:02 am

    Thank you very much Annie!!! You have no idea how many blouses I have shrunk!!!

  2. celtickat on August 8, 2013 at 3:41 pm

    thanks so much ….. i was lost when it came to these symbols : )

  3. Helen on August 8, 2013 at 10:10 pm

    When I was a teen I thought I would help out my mom with the laundry unasked one day (between the hormonal meltdowns I was occasionally an actual human being), and ended up washing and drying her favorite cashmere dry clean only sweater. Yeah……..that was a bad day.

    • livesimplybyannie on August 25, 2013 at 2:48 pm

      It’s the thought? On a completely different (but you know, also kind of similar) note, I once broke some totally precious glass thing of my mom’s when I was young, and I’m pretty sure a small part of her still hates me for it. Live and learn, you know?

  4. Rebecca on August 23, 2013 at 2:47 am

    Good list! Thanks!

  5. […] love this — found it HERE from Live Simply by Annie. The hubs often complained that he was afraid to do my laundry because […]

  6. Nancy on October 22, 2017 at 6:30 pm

    I like this format better than others I’ve found online. But — I tried to print it, but all it does is feed a blank page. I’ve never had that problem before. Is there something wrong with the pdf file?

  7. Shelley on October 28, 2019 at 4:20 pm

    Thank You!!! This is simple and large enough to frame. Now lives in my laundry room for my teenage daughters to wash their own clothes.

    I washed an angora sweater ( my favorite- in the 80’s) when I put it in – it fit me— when is was done — it fit my 6 month old cousin! Hard lesson learned but never forgot

  8. Alita Gorman on July 6, 2023 at 3:00 pm

    My mother washed and dried our underwear in with the fiberglass curtains. We had no idea why were were going mad itching for days until my sister said something about it- my mother was mortified; needless to say we washed a lot of underwear that night…

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9 Comments

  1. Tatiana on August 8, 2013 at 6:02 am

    Thank you very much Annie!!! You have no idea how many blouses I have shrunk!!!

  2. celtickat on August 8, 2013 at 3:41 pm

    thanks so much ….. i was lost when it came to these symbols : )

  3. Helen on August 8, 2013 at 10:10 pm

    When I was a teen I thought I would help out my mom with the laundry unasked one day (between the hormonal meltdowns I was occasionally an actual human being), and ended up washing and drying her favorite cashmere dry clean only sweater. Yeah……..that was a bad day.

    • livesimplybyannie on August 25, 2013 at 2:48 pm

      It’s the thought? On a completely different (but you know, also kind of similar) note, I once broke some totally precious glass thing of my mom’s when I was young, and I’m pretty sure a small part of her still hates me for it. Live and learn, you know?

  4. Rebecca on August 23, 2013 at 2:47 am

    Good list! Thanks!

  5. […] love this — found it HERE from Live Simply by Annie. The hubs often complained that he was afraid to do my laundry because […]

  6. Nancy on October 22, 2017 at 6:30 pm

    I like this format better than others I’ve found online. But — I tried to print it, but all it does is feed a blank page. I’ve never had that problem before. Is there something wrong with the pdf file?

  7. Shelley on October 28, 2019 at 4:20 pm

    Thank You!!! This is simple and large enough to frame. Now lives in my laundry room for my teenage daughters to wash their own clothes.

    I washed an angora sweater ( my favorite- in the 80’s) when I put it in – it fit me— when is was done — it fit my 6 month old cousin! Hard lesson learned but never forgot

  8. Alita Gorman on July 6, 2023 at 3:00 pm

    My mother washed and dried our underwear in with the fiberglass curtains. We had no idea why were were going mad itching for days until my sister said something about it- my mother was mortified; needless to say we washed a lot of underwear that night…

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