Saturday, September 22, 2012

Laundreeeeee

I'll tell you a secret: doing laundry is not hard.  I know, shocker, right?  Really, doing laundry is easier than making a mix at Menchie's because every single item of clothing that you own will have a tag that tells you how to wash it.  Basically, all you have to do is match up the tags.

I do it like this:
Hot: pajamas, towels, underwear, socks
Warm: t-shirts that won't shrink, pants that aren't jeans, anything that tells you to wash it in warm
Cold: other shirts, jeans, anything that might shrink, anything that tells you to wash it in warm, anything with a stain on it
Delicates: lacy shirts, dresses, anything that says "hand wash", things that seem fragile, wench dresses

Try to separate lights from darks but if you know that all of your stuff has been washed multiple times before, the colors won't actually bleed - that is just a rumor started by laundry companies who want you to do two loads of each temperature and therefore spend twice as many quarters on machines.

I line dry most of my stuff but you can machine dry pretty much anything except delicates.  Always machine dry jeans or they get really stiff.  NEVER machine dry something with a stain on it that hasn't come out or it never will.  Cycle it through again or hand-wash it in the sink to get the stain out before you dry it.  Also, don't try to put big hoopoe wings in the dryer because the synthetic feathers on them will catch fire.  Just sayin'.

Buy Tide Pods (those little detergent packs that look like candy but are actually poison and will kill children faster than Alec in a daycare center) because then you can just throw three of them in your pocket (except not because they are really really easy to dissolve and then you will have poison detergent all over your fingers) instead of carrying a big jug down to the laundry room.  Also get stain spray and dryer sheets.

Line drying in your room sucks because there's nowhere to hang things up.  We got one of those tension curtain rods that have "prank war" written all over them and put it up in our window so that we can hang clothes there overnight to dry.  It works pretty well but there is always a slight risk of it falling on my head when I get into bed and once I had a hanger-shaped bruise from that.  Yeah.

Hang things up as soon as you can after they are dry so that you won't have to iron every single piece of clothing that you own. (duh)

Also, it won't hurt to start doing your own laundry now... seriously, grow up.

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