Posted on 04/04/2018 8:05:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Does this have anything to do with golf balls and hoses?
I notice that during washing or drying clothes the socks get esconced inside the folds of other clothes or towels...when drying the statis electricity holds the socks in position. A place to find socks is the inside of the arms of shirts...jackets....sweatshirts..since most people dont check the insides jacket arms...they womt find those socks for a long time..just my theory.
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Just use this, "It's Got Electrolytes! It's what clothes crave!"
Everybody knows it’s the “Sock Gnomes” to steal peoples’ socks.
You’re just three orders of magnitude off.
“Of course, your clothes would come clean if you were able to use phosphates, but that has been outlawed.”
It’s still legal in the U.S.
The point is that you don’t have to beat your clothes to death in a wash cycle for 30 minutes. Try reading it again.
I use less soap. It seems to work fine.
You win- LOL!
With a front load you absolutely must use less, lots of service calls generated by excessive soap.
That’s what I wanted to know!
I use my pocket knife to open the pods and use 1/5 to 1/10th of a pod’s worth.
(Don’t tell my wife....)
I always double rinse. The first rinse contains vinegar which seems to dislodge more dirt and left over soap. The second rinse flushes any residual soap, dirt or vinegar leaving the laundry fresh and cleaner smelling. Once in a while I will use a bit of baking soda in the second rinse if someone got BO as a result of deoderant failure or case of nerves. My water tends to be a bit hard and I think the additional vinegar helps to let the soap work better.
I am allergic to fabric softener, but the technique I use seems to soften the clothes and keeps stiffness at Bay because of getting the soap out. I like to hang laundry on the line..sunshine santizes..love the smell of the laundry. Energy efficient, too.
You know what, I often run the “extra rinse cycle” because in the last decade or so, I’ve noticed that soap remains in some fabrics after one rinse. There is no such thing as a water “nazi”. There’s just capitalism: you pay for what you use. Unfortunately, the American mind is now rife with guilt over anything wonderful like clean clothes, garbage dumps, 8-cylinder engines, plastic bags, thus anything labor saving that makes life happier.
In the really olden days, people used to collect urine, let it set around a while, then wash their clothes in it. The ammonia in the urine was what made your whites whiter. I wonder how many times they rinsed their clothes back then. Maybe they all smelled of pi$$.
Last year I let a young neighbor borrow my washer and dryer to wash her young son’s clothes. When I did my laundry the washer would not expel the water. I set it aside and installed a new Samsung HE top loading washer. When I got some help from my yard man, I took the old washer out and poured the water out. An examination of it revealed a child’s sock locking up the water discharge pump. I set the Samsung in the back of the laundry room and put the old washer back. It is still working and I hope it last another 23 years.
I ordered some mesh bags https://www.amazon.com/OEXEO-Laundry-Mesh-Bags-6PCS/dp/B06XB63727/ref=lp_15962593011_1_6?srs=15962593011&ie=UTF8&qid=1522900718&sr=8-6 and my ask my neighbor to place all small items in one or more to wash.
I was hoping this was about “where the other sock went.” I figured there was some kind of quantum physics explanation.
We didn’t have a Maytag, but we did have a wringer washer that my mother did the clothes in. I can still remember getting my fingers pinched in the wringer. Ouch.
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