Because water was such an issue when I was growing up - and when my husband was growing up - both our mothers had wringer washers (and I did too) many loads of clothes were run through the washer and two rinses before the water was dumped.
The order of washing: barely dirty whites - Sunday shirt, dish towels,
barely dirty lights -
medium dirty mediums
not very dirty darks
the filthy farm clothes - overalls - went through last
maybe grease rags and coveralls after that - but I think they were soaked in a bucket first. The coveralls were worn until they could stand by themselves.
By this time the water was so dark -
I don't remember where the really dirty whites and lights went in the line-up. They might have been saved until the next washday.
I remember Mom handwashing quite a few things. And I remember the drying racks.