How To Be Organized: 11 Most Common Laundry Mistakes
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Laundry may seem like a relatively easy chore, but it might surprise you just how many mistakes you're making with every load...without realizing it. Thankfully, we've rounded up 11 simple mistakes we all commonly make, from using too much detergent to overfilling the washing machine.
Click through the slideshow below to see how to prevent these mistakes from ruining your washing machine--or worse, your wardrobe--in the long run.
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This comment has not yet been postedpedestals to help sove the "bend & squat" problems of the front loaders. Unfortunately, they charged an extra
$300. to fix their own design flaw. I favor the dryer sheets over the liquid softeners. I use the OLD dryer sheets like a dust rag. They are good for TV screen/monitors and even wiping off your washer/dryer before throwing the sheets away.
If you were responding to my above post, I absolutely agree with you re' the different dispensing and cycle options. It's just the tangled mess mostly with sheets and pant legs that drive me crazy.
As far as too much detergent, yeah, remember the bubble machine in the laundry room, AKA measure? who measures this stuff.....
separate your stuff. white does not go well with red. in hot water. which leads to lots of cute pink underwear in the dorms.
start the water, add detergent, softener, add clothes then add color safe bleach. letting the water fill means you might not get as much into the washer as it does shut off at some level and clothes do take some volume.
what the hell, guys don't read how to do laundry anyway. ask my wife......
Unless of course you're using a front loader and then you just make a big mess all over the floor. lol