Millennials do not wash their clothes, or pay someone else to do it. Useless, always.
I don’t use fabric softener. My mom never did either. We both definitely know how to do laundry and are not millenials.
Good.
Fabric softener is a waste of money and it can reduce the absorbency of towels.
My clothes were starting to feel a little scratchy so I switched from sandpaper to burlap. Made a huge difference. I don’t see much need for “fabric softener”. Now off to bodyslam a bull.
Those new washing machines with no agitators don’t use enough water to use softener.
Don’t use it in our laundry, but it works very well for removing old wallpaper.
Or maybe they’re using wool dryer balls instead—no chemicals, reusable and reduces dryer time.
Maybe it’s because they know that fabric softener goes into the skin and into the bloodstream and injures the brain. Neurotoxins should have no place near our skin.
The little #ers are insured by mommy & daddy until the age of 27.
The survey found out multiple things - because of price increases and a switch to ‘concentrated’ formulations, they were losing customers who saw a much more expensive and smaller bottle.
Rather than take the advice they paid for, the company instead decided to double down with an expensive marketing campaign on television (with dwindling eyes on commercials), backed up with heavy newspaper coupon distribution. When subscriptions crashed, they doubled down with even more expensive e-coupons.
Meanwhile, multiple other companies took advantage of Downy's abandonment of the low end market and captured the majority of those customers.
Too little too late, Downy expanded into ‘niche’ infusion scents, paying even more for shelf real estate, raising the price yet again (to stay matched with the price of concentrated laundry detergent.)
Now as sales crash even harder due to high shelf prices, they've lost the low end market they used to dominate, owe huge bills for shelf real estate for products that aren't selling, they now are pointing fingers at potential customers calling them too stupid to use their product.
This, my friends, is a study in how to trash a brand. People who thought they were smarter than what their customers told them.
How?
well, I have a front-loader. I check the amount of detergent put in and also the spin RPM (makes a difference -- 800 rpm is best to keep clothes in condition). I don't use a dryer (those can damage clothes), and hang the clothes for a couple of days.
the stuff that millennials don't know could fill the Superdome...
while they consider themselves to be so "in" on food, can they actually cook from scratch?...could they can a jar of tomatoes?...or know how to pick our meat or fruit in the store?..
can they actually make pesto or hummus?...
they're solution to everything is to buy it in the store....
Static cling....???.. wouldn’t passing (over the fabric) an old wire hanger remove the charge?
I can’t stand the stinky stuff. I don’t what the heck it’s for either. Never could understand why people use that gooey, sticky, smelly junk on their clean clothes.
How to Use Vinegar as a Fabric Softener
Vinegar preserves and deodorizes fabrics naturally.
Fabric softener keeps your clothing soft and bright, but it is usually expensive and full of potentially harmful chemicals. Vinegar, on the other hand, is a natural cleanser which also softens fabrics, preserves their color, while fighting stains and odors. Not to mention, vinegar is also vastly cheaper than other fabric softeners on the market: So you’ll save a lot of money using vinegar instead.
Sort your laundry and place a load into the washing machine. Run the machine as usual, with detergent.
Add half a cup of white vinegar directly to the wash, just prior to the final rinse cycle. Allow the machine to finish the rest of they cycle.
Remove the laundry from your washing machine and dry it as usual. Either throw it in the dryer, or hang it out on the clothesline. The dry laundry will not smell like vinegar
http://www.ehow.com/how_7719413_use-vinegar-fabric-softener.html
Or DIY... make your own fabsoft
http://www.themakeyourownzone.com/2013/08/homemade-liquid-fabric-softener-recipes.html
I’m dubious about this article. When I was in college 20 years ago, do you know how many times I bought dryer sheets? I didn’t do dryer sheets until I was married. Me and everybody else.
College students living like pigs is nothing new. There were a lot students whose parents lived a few hours away. They would pack up all their dirty laundry, haul it back to mommy who lived 3 hours away, she’d spend the whole weekend doing his laundry, then he’d haul it all back to the dorms on Sunday night.
The mormon students were the worst for not being able to fend for themselves. In their households, mommy and the daughters did all the cleaning. When they got to college, they were aghast at being expected to wash their dishes and any cleaning whatsoever. Most of them didn’t even know what the hell Comet and Pine-Sol were. Seeing them trying to work the clothes washer was total comedy.
I’m old enough to still live in fear of “forgetting to add the fabric softener”.
Rinse and repeat works fine with shampoo... Rinse with detergent and repeat with another product you can do without, doesn’t work as well.
Never used the liquid stuff. I do use dryer sheets in the winter though.
I get the sense of our age on this thread.
There are so many people pretty far away from The Millenials, age wise, you might just as well talk about the habits of people on Mars.
The Millenials I know, through my kids, are smart and focused.
I have no idea why anyone would use fabric softener—unless you have crappy water.