![]() Would it be better to get the vinegar and run a cold cycle instead? I’m debating waiting 1 more day and getting the vinegar since we also need it for our coffee maker but desperately need the towels currently sitting in the washer. When we’ve left laundry for 1-3 days in the past, extra Tide HE has worked out fine with Downy Free because I have so many allergies to detergents, perfumes, etc… I was going to run it on a double cycle of Sanitize, where it’s Extra Hot with steam. I almost bought vinegar while shopping today but tried to minimize what we’d have to carry into the house, before discovering this great thread of posts. Unfortunately we moved into a home with basement w/d hook ups, both have physical disabilities, so it’s easy to forget laundry now that it’s not in a room off our main hallway. We used to have 1st floor laundry access in our home but due to unfortunate circumstances we lost our home of 7yrs but made sure we moved my pride & joy HE washer and dryer (my 1 big splurge when buying the house). I have terrible mold allergies and he has sarcoidosis, but we can’t afford to replace what’s sitting in the unopened front loading washer. So I just discovered that miscommunication between the hubby and I resulted in a 1 week old large load of laundry, full of our best towels and some bedding, in our 8yr old Samsung HE washer. If I don’t use the ammonia, the laundry left for days will be funky and require refreshing with the ammonia. The basement stays cool enough that if I use the ammonia, the forgotten laundry can be left for several days and still be good. Clothes are fresh smelling with whatever scent is in the laundry detergent. So it’s indoor hang drying or machine dryer.Īnd I prefer plain ammonia for the same reason this post uses vinegar, for stinky laundry or extra boost for possible grease spots on clothes. And too many boxelder bugs that would poop all over the clothes. I live in a dry temperate zone, so have snowy winters and hot dusty summers. Husband has a cabinet for his work clothes, and also socks and underwear, lounge clothes in his bathroom.Ī real blessing whenever the dryer has been temporarily out of commission. Now I have a place to hang laundry that I don’t want going through the dryer….all the things I still hung up previously, but clipped on hangers and hung wherever I could find a place in the basement or in bedrooms, bathrooms…depending on whose socks or clothes they were. It took many years of living here before I realized what it was for and bought some laundry line and strung it. My basement has a laundry line area that has eye bolts for stringing a laundry line put in when it was built in the early 1900s. ![]() Old post, but ‘No,’ we in the US don’t automatically use the dryer. My newest book, Decluttering at the Speed of Life is now available wherever books are sold!ĭoes even the thought of decluttering overwhelm you? Sign up for my newsletter and get my reality-tested decluttering solutions delivered to your inbox for free. If laundry is the never ending horror story in your home, learn about my journey to figuring out a laundry routine that worked. I’ve also learned that with my newer, high-efficiency machine, I need to run push the “extra-rinse” button on that vinegar re-wash. I add another once-around if the musty smell is extra-strong. ![]() ![]() The trick? Add vinegar when you run the load again. Y’know, the years when 6 out of every 10 loads of laundry had to be re-washed. So I drew on the experience I gained in the years before I started a Laundry Day. (Thankfully, he doesn’t have the flu.)Īnyway, those “clean” clothes don’t smell so clean anymore. ![]() I helped count money for a school fundraiser first thing this morning.Īnd then. I drove an hour and arrived back home at 10:30 p.m. we took advantage of the Wednesday enchilada special at our favorite Tex-Mex restaurant. I went straight from there to spend the day with my best friend (and meet her newly adopted boys). But at some point, I forgot to change over a load of wet clothes to the dryer. Since there was extra laundry this week, I kept Monday’s Laundry Day going on Tuesday. I’ve had to learn how remove the musty smell that happens when clothes have stayed wet too long inside the washing machine. Ever forget to move a washed load of clothes to the dryer? ![]()
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