Good morning!
And Happy Friday!
(I am always looking forward to Fridays)
So for today, let's talk laundry. How many loads of laundry do you do a week? Do you separate your clothes? What's your favorite detergent? Do you use fabric softener? Do you dry in a machine, or do you hang your clothes outside on a line? Do you go to a laundromat? What do you think of detergent pods? Do you use them?
I probably do 6-7 loads of laundry a week, including the bed linens and the cats' blankies. Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights seem to be prime laundry times for me, with the bed linens and the cats' stuff being washed on Sundays. I always separate the laundry out on the hall floor either the night before or the morning of.
I use Tide most of the time, usually the pods now that I'm used to them. I like simply throwing a pod into the washer instead of having to measure out liquid detergent. But I also like Wisk, so for small loads that don't call for a large pod, I'll use Wisk. And I like Wisk for whites, too. Woolite is used for my sweaters and such. I hardly ever use bleach (much to the chagrin of Rick's mother, who thinks that bleach is a cure-all for all things laundry-related. On laundry day at their house, I'd walk in and could smell the bleach all the way in the kitchen, coming up from the basement. I will say, though, her white clothes were always white!)
I would dearly love to hang our laundry outside. We do have a clothesline, but the trees at the back of the property have grown into the lines. It would be difficult to move the clothesline poles because Dear Richard cemented those buggers about three feet into the ground! We've talked about moving them, though, because, especially in the summer, it would really cut down on electricity. And I love climbing into bed when the sheets have spent all day outside. They smell wonderful!! I can't cart heavy baskets of wet laundry outside, though, because of my back. But I could take small loads out. I love hanging up laundry and taking it back down. (Even in the dead of winter, my mother would take her laundry outside to hang it up. The jeans were like cardboard because they were frozen. When she got too old to take it outside, she hung her laundry in the basement; my parents had a wood stove and it dried laundry quickly. You could hang laundry up in the morning and take it down that night.)
In some neighborhoods, you're not allowed to put a clothesline outside. The homeowners association won't allow them. Which is ridiculous, IMO. But that's just me.
So... tell us about your laundry day!
So for today, let's talk laundry. How many loads of laundry do you do a week? Do you separate your clothes? What's your favorite detergent? Do you use fabric softener? Do you dry in a machine, or do you hang your clothes outside on a line? Do you go to a laundromat? What do you think of detergent pods? Do you use them?
I probably do 6-7 loads of laundry a week, including the bed linens and the cats' blankies. Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights seem to be prime laundry times for me, with the bed linens and the cats' stuff being washed on Sundays. I always separate the laundry out on the hall floor either the night before or the morning of.
I use Tide most of the time, usually the pods now that I'm used to them. I like simply throwing a pod into the washer instead of having to measure out liquid detergent. But I also like Wisk, so for small loads that don't call for a large pod, I'll use Wisk. And I like Wisk for whites, too. Woolite is used for my sweaters and such. I hardly ever use bleach (much to the chagrin of Rick's mother, who thinks that bleach is a cure-all for all things laundry-related. On laundry day at their house, I'd walk in and could smell the bleach all the way in the kitchen, coming up from the basement. I will say, though, her white clothes were always white!)
I would dearly love to hang our laundry outside. We do have a clothesline, but the trees at the back of the property have grown into the lines. It would be difficult to move the clothesline poles because Dear Richard cemented those buggers about three feet into the ground! We've talked about moving them, though, because, especially in the summer, it would really cut down on electricity. And I love climbing into bed when the sheets have spent all day outside. They smell wonderful!! I can't cart heavy baskets of wet laundry outside, though, because of my back. But I could take small loads out. I love hanging up laundry and taking it back down. (Even in the dead of winter, my mother would take her laundry outside to hang it up. The jeans were like cardboard because they were frozen. When she got too old to take it outside, she hung her laundry in the basement; my parents had a wood stove and it dried laundry quickly. You could hang laundry up in the morning and take it down that night.)
In some neighborhoods, you're not allowed to put a clothesline outside. The homeowners association won't allow them. Which is ridiculous, IMO. But that's just me.
So... tell us about your laundry day!
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