Post your favourite laundry method.

[true777]

I use a front load washer with 3 rinse cycles -- Miele is my favorite washer brand. Seven wash temperatures, seven spin speeds, up to five rinse cycles, etc.

I use liquid Cheer HE for my colored laundry, and Woolite Dark Laundry liquid detergent (or Cheer Dark Formula) for my blacks -- keeps them looking deep black longer. And I always line dry my laundry, never use dryers -- think they are harmful to fabric. If I must use a regular, non HE washer (that would only do one rinse) I first do a wash cycle with detergent, and then do a whole second cold cycle for rinsing purposes without detergent but only with fabric softener, since I also think soap residue is bad for fabrics. So on a regular washer I basically run two consecutive cycles. I suppose you could call me neurotic... I prefer to think of myself as a perfectionist

When in Europe I use Miele washers and Coral Optimal Color detergent.

 

[shecky]

I suppose you could call me neurotic... I prefer to think of myself as a perfectionist

i'd rather call you extremely wasteful of water and electricity.

 

[MACDRIVE]

then do a whole second cold cycle for rinsing purposes without detergent but only with fabric softener, since I also think soap residue is bad for fabrics. So on a regular washer I basically run two consecutive cycles.

I do the same thing. I'm paranoid of soap residue.

 

[jayb2000]

does that work well in cold water? we don't wash anything in warm or hot...and in the past i've been disappointed with powder detergent because it doesn't dissolve.

we have a samsung washer with something called silvercare...it sanitizes in cold water, so cold is all we ever use. it's pretty cool.


if anything, i'll remember that for when the husband and i start making babies.

a day late....
Yes, it works fine in cold. We use cold for everything but sheets (hot kills the dust mites).

I have also used some various liquid ones, Arm & Hammer free, etc. I just use 1/2 the amount the specify and if it is at all soapy at the end, I use half of that.

 

[Tom B.]

I like to leave mine on my bedroom floor, and wait for them to magically get taken away, washed, ironed and returned all folded up.

I like to name this method 'Let my mum do it all'

 

[katie ta achoo]

I dump everything into the washer, put in as much soap as I think necessary and turn it on.

Everything I own hsa been washed SO MUCH that nothing bleeds anymore, so I don't bother to separate the colours and the whites.

and the detergent is whatever's on sale that week. 99 cent store more often than not.

Awww ya, that's how KT does the laundry.

 

[Abstract]

Interesting. I just give it to my wife.

I think you misunderstood Lexus. You actually have something in common because his wife's name is Laundromat. She's Romanian.

 

[Suture]

Mom!

Just kidding. I use Wisk (the version with no additives to make it smell better, etc. since my skin doesn't like certain things). I always use cold cycles because I'm far too impatient to wait for the washer to fill up with hot water before I dump the soap in. I separate colors and whites but that's about the extent of it. I just turn it on and walk away.

It's the ironing that I hate.

 

[murfle]

I like to leave mine on my bedroom floor, and wait for them to magically get taken away, washed, ironed and returned all folded up.

I like to name this method 'Let my mum do it all'

This is a similar method to mine. Only I usually have to turn my underwear inside out, a couple of times, re-wear all my shirts, and wonder why the heck she's so lazy...

Then I realize I'm in a different country and I'm the lazy one.

Then I turn my underwear inside out again..

 

[MarkCollette]

What's the difference between a font load washer and a top load one?

 

[NightFlight]

I've got a Miele washer+dryer and use Persil

Hail to the good stuff! I still use Tide occasionally.

i'd rather call you extremely wasteful of water and electricity.

You don't know what a Miele is do you? They are incredibly efficient, and use next to no water.

 

[d_and_n5000]

Easy. Wash cold, regular wash, Tide with Bleach Alternative and Ultra Downy. We can't use anything else, its all we've used for the last thirteen years—my family's skin is sensitive to any and everything else.

And we've got a thirteen year old Maytag washer-dryer pair. The dryer almost died last year, but it got fixed.

 

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says...all my clothes are black. They all go in the washer with a detergent that is 'black friendly' in cold water. Then into the dryer and when they are done into a heap on my bed where the two cats can snuggle in the warm clean clothes for a while getting them covered in cat hair..then into the drawers and/or closet....oh yeah!