Laundry

When I run out of Dish detergent I use laundry detergent. When I run out of Laundry detergent I use Dish detergent. You just use less of the dish detergent in the laundry then you use of Laundry detergent.

Oh never thought of washing clothes in the dishwasher but………….

Very Clean Fish
Yes! You can use your dishwasher to poach fish.
• One Whole Dishwasher. (any brand)
• 1 Large roasting cooking bag. (plastic) or duble rap in tin foil
• Washed Fish. (not in the dishwasher)
• 1 or two cups dry white wine.
1. Put washed fish into a large roasting cooking bag. (O'Neill suggests multiple folds of foil, this works better)
2. Add one to two cups dry white wine.
3. Salt and pepper to taste.
4. Tie the open end of the bag securely.
5. Put the fish (in the bag) on the top rack of the dishwasher.
DON'T add soap. Very Important
Close the door and start the wash cycle.

For a 1 to 3 lb. Fish, one wash, rinse, and dry cycle is enough.
For 3 to 8 lb. Fish use 2 wash, rinse and dry cycles.

This poll should have had a "both" option. I use both, depending on . . . well, I'm not sure what it depends on.

I have that baseball cap thingie, too.

I have been through the kids' laundry mill, too. Fortunately, mine are teenagers now and do their own laundry.

And now they have invented things I invented out of other things when my kids are little. Like that scrub brushie thing they have now. I used to use a toothbrush. (Never your fingernails, no no no!) And the Clorox pen. I used to take those kiddie duds and an artists paint brush and paint the spots with Clorox. I used to think I was weird for doing things like these, but apparently they sell stuff to do them now, so I must not have been the only one.

I vote for having the washer and dryer in your apartment for about a jillion good reasons.

I also plan to pack up my laundry and send it to Lupo, as he seems to be launderer extraordinaire.

coco <---- planning thread on: "Was There Life Before Swiffer Sweeper?"

You mean you actually do the laundry? *gasps* *hides the growing pile in her room under the bed* *notices its sticking out the edges and the mattress is bulging oddly* *closes the door and returns to computer*

I have one of those front-loading washers, so I've got to use HE detergent. And to my knowledge - it only comes in liquid.

Even though its a PIA sometimes to find HE detergent, it is quite mezmerizing to watch your clothes spin thru the glass window. The washer was worth it for that alone.

Oh, and with the Mach-8 spin cycle, the clothes come out so dry you almost don't have to put them in the dryer

Travis,

You should try putting on the damp jeans though sometime, then you'd never say that again!

High Explosive soap?

"HE Detergent: BLOW your stains away!"

Laundry... umm... what is that? My dirty clothes just magically disappear from my bedroom and show up all clean and pretty inside my closet.

You'll be crying when that stops in a few years!

(Funny, I used to say the same thing!)

Ugh, the laundry at the student housing in most places around my university is brutal. The public ones are just ICKY... and then a lot of the in apartment ones (as in, inside your two or three room apartment) are coin operated.

I lucked out, got a place that came with laundry in the basement for free.

I use liquid, mainly because I'm lazy and often will put the clothing in too fast and end up with white crud on my pants.

Where my girl is going to college in August - they have washers and dryers in each room/suite! Free!

Dig this. She gets her own room and bath. Her roomie gets her own room and bath. Each bedroom has a window.

In between are the living room, and a complete kitchen. Plus the washer and dryer, by the entrance. FURNISHED. You just have to bring your own TV, radio, kitchen pots and pans and dishes, and decorative items.

This is what all the freshmen at that college get! Plus wireless in each room, and a computer lab down the hall. The only difference is you can choose whether you have one to share your suite, or two, or three - but each always gets his/her own private room and bath.

A far cry from the way I ever lived in college. Or even after, for some years, In my house, a split-level, I have to lug laundry up and down two flights. The kid is gonna live better than I do.

coco

Maaaaaan. Kids got it easy now-a-days.