How to Decode Your Laundry Symbols

Do you ever look at the tags of your clothes, see the weird circle in the square symbol, or wavy water symbol with the dot in the middle, and wonder what in the world it could mean? Is that saying a circle CAN fit in a square shaped hole? Is the dot in the middle of the wavy symbol a person floating in the ocean?

Doing laundry might be tedious, but it’s even worse when you can’t decipher what the foreign symbols mean and then your pile of wearable clothes become a shrunken bunch of pink-splotched shirts and pants. We’ve created this user-friendly laundry symbol sheet to get your through your next laundry load without the frustration. Never again deal with shrinking pants or stretched out knit sweaters.

With this list, there really is such a thing as happy laundering.

Download the laundry cheat sheet printable here.