Laundry

Laundry

Powder detergent or Liquid detergent

OK I am board and at work on a Saturday and regenerating some stuff and it takes a long time. But hay this is not the stupid poll I ever seen here.

Liquid is superior. It is predissolved

Whatever you use, be sure to put the soap in first before the clothes. It helps even more with the disolving process and I think somehow the clothes come out cleaner.

How I do laundry

1. Liquid detergent (What ever my wife gets never the same thing twice)
2. Oxiclean
3. Bleach (Clorox for whites and Clorox2 for colors)
4. Oderban (I get this at Sam’s works well)
5. Start washer at extra small load.
6. Let fill and mix.
7. turn off and load washer
8. Turn to extra large load
9. wash clothes

We live in an apartment without washer/dryer hookups, and I despise sitting in laundromats for several hours at a time, so I just take our clothing, drop it off, and pay by the pound to have it washed, dried, and folded for me.

I use whatever the laundry chooses to use.

- Ace

Ace is the smartest of us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Doing laundry is for the weak, the best thing to do is since most of us do nothing but sit here playing SL is to spend the day nude, more days spent nude, few times you have to log off to go do laundry.

I usually wash my clothes in the sink and let them hang dry in the shower.

Instead of washing socks, I buy new ones and throw the used ones away.

I use powder detergent (Arm & Hammer is a brand I usually stick with), and I always put the detergent in the washer and then turn on the water to let it dissolve, then add the clothes. I use a stain remover like Shout or Spray-N-Wash on clothing stains before putting them in the wash, and I rub it in really well on heavily stained clothes. I have two small kids so I have to deal with a lot of food-, dirt- and paint-stained clothing... and that's separate from the underwear stains.

You haven't lived until you have used stain remover and your fingernails to scrape poop-stains out of a 5-year-old's underwear before washing it. Ah, my life is so glamorous...

In my book, that's underwear that is going in the trash, and not in the washer.

- Ace

Naw, hot water and massive amounts of soap (and bleach, if necessary) cleans it up. I'd be buying new underwear for kids every week if I followed your policy, Ace. That's the "joy" of having kids... various stains that you have to learn how to eradicate. Oh, to own a vehicle that hasn't been puked in... someday.

Our front loader has a nice little drawer compartment for detergents, hence powder in my house

Turn on washer, add liquid detergent, bleach if it's whites, let machine fill at least half way while I sort clothes, toss clothes in and voila!

I dry them with Bounce on low (except for whites which I dry on high). I will pull out nice shirts and slacks when they are still a little damp, straighten them, and hang them to dry the rest of the way.

By the way, you really don't need to put in as much detergent as the manufacturer calls for. They intentionally have you add more so that they can sell you more. My aunt works for a company that makes detergent and she swears by this. I do add more though for heavily soiled clothes. Personally, I find that if I add as much detergent as the package calls for, the clothes end up holding that excess and if you're like me, with sensitive skin, that can be a bummer.

Did you ever try washing clothes in the dishwasher?

No, but when I was young and got my first apartment, I put Dawn dish soap in the dishwasher. BAD idea! Half the kitchen was filled with bubbles by the time I noticed something was wrong!

Actually, thinking more about it, I have a special baseball cap frame made of dishwasher safe plastic that I use to wash caps in the dishwasher. Works great. Cleans them up really well and reshapes them nicely if they have been crushed.

Damn, you have a dishwasher? Lucky you. I can't even afford a maid.

Ok, so say you have an apartment and you have a choice between having a washer/dryer IN the apartment for $60 a month, or using the laundromat down on the first floor. Which would you choose?

In the apartment. I hate laundromats, and won't use them unless I have no alternative. I suppose I have been spoiled, because I have rarely had to use them.

I miss my clothes just appearing cleaned and pressed like when I was in the military. That's one of the only things I miss about it.

Crap, maybe I should start a poll for this!!! I have to make this decision soon!!!!

Go for the washer/dryer in the apartment, Garoad. To me, sitting in the laundromat waiting for my clothes to finish washing/drying feels like some precious hours of my life are being sucked away. If you have the washer/dryer in your apartment, you can set a load of laundry to wash anytime, then deal with drying it later. Also, people will take disgusting things to the laundromat to wash them since they don't want to wash them in their own washer. I knew of someone who used to wash horse blankets at a laundromat so the nasty hair, horse sweat and dirt wouldn't clog up their own machine. Yucky.

People think I am weird that I wash my whites twice.

But I have kids, I don't have clean whites..we have dirty whites. You know, the kind with stains of assorted food, socks that have hit more road than the shoes have...
those kinds of whites.

So my sister said wash them twice since you have all the dirty water going back
into the clothes the first time, the second will be cleaner.

Ever since then, my whites are blinding. O.O lol

And its liquid detergent for me..with fabric softener and dryer sheets. I am picky like that! lol

at least they arent using the laundromat to clean soaked wrenches ...

My wife and I sold our house and can’t find a new one that we want so we are living in a apartment. We never were more then 2 loads behind on the laundry with it in our house. Yesterday I did 20 loads at the laundry mate (sheets & blankets all done too). The problem is when I get home people are using the washer and dryer, we only have one of each in our place. Our washer and dryer were on there last legs so we didn’t take them with and I had the opportunity to spend 100 more per month to live closer to work and have a Hook Up in the apartment. I wish I took it. Now with that new Washer/Dryer in one unit. I could have gotten two of them and then just load for the washer and go to work. Come home and fold and I would be done. Oh well live and learn.

Hmmm, maybe a poll isn't needed... I was leaning towards getting an in-unit washer/dryer anyway... maybe they'll let me buy my own so I avoid the friggin monthly fee...