Laundry Mat

isn that annoying when you think youve loaded everything in the washer and then turned it on to wash but found youve still got something to put in but you cant because the lid is locked and its already started

Not such of a problem for top loaders but you cant open a front loader without all the water pouring out

I was trying to find my favourite Garfield laundry comic
I havent found it yet but heres a good one

We have a top loader that locks too. Yes, very aggravating as you can't open the door to put in a forgotten item or two. Had a front loader when I lived in Florida. Same thing. Cycle starts, door locks.

I used to read Garfield each day in the comic section of the newspaper. Now, with the internet, there are no comics unless you google for one particular one. Haven't read an actual newspaper in years. The Orlando Sentinel used to have 3 pages of comics each day with one page in color. After a few years it was cut back to one page in black and white. That paper probably doesn't even have a comic page anymore.

Love Calvin and Hobbs too. Of course, that strip ended years ago but there are hundreds of previous strips to peruse. Regarding the strip you provided, I to cut the grass this week. Not much rain this summer so the grass doesn't grow as fast. Few brown dead spots. Vegetable garden died from lack of rain even though I watered it with a hose.

Grass stains are hard to remove. I'm just an amateur launderer.

Started to add about a cup of white vinegar to each wash load. My wife says that it removes cat hair from clothes. She has been using lint rollers for years to remove any hairs that remained after wash.

On a more serious note, getting really low on the Tide pods and the dryer sheets are dwindling as well. Gonna score some more next week on my weekly grocery run to Walmart. Probably will buy some Cascade Premium detergent pods too as the supply starting to be problematic.

Not sure about that white vinegar though as I really didn't have much of an issue with the cat hairs in the first place. For the time being I will keep adding this product to each load.

Apparently you can make slime from laundry starch? but not sure which ones is the best but you still need other ingredients it has to contain boric acid or borax.

They say dont use powder.

😄 At least you're a girl.
It's in style.

If you were a guy, you'd be outta luck......
.....unless you were one of those Flamboyant Flamingos. Lol!

If I start to begin to learn how to iron I will go initially with Niagara spray starch. Not really looking how to make slime from laundry ch though. However, I am open to experimenting with Borax, mainly as a whitening agent.

I use Borax a lot. It seems to boost the effectiveness of soap for my use. Sometimes I use it as an abrasive fruit and vegetable scrub on things like apples and peppers that might have lots of gummy bug spray on them. That's what I'm using on them for processing a big batch of salsa after dinner this evening.

One chem that helps whiten that few into disuse is an old fashion "bluing.". I bought some at Kroger's a few years ago but don't know if they still sell it. I remember that it worked good on whites and might get it again for stains. Bleach only seems to work on certain stains. It's not doing much for my greasy stains on cotton.

Which one does a better job of cleaning?

In my opinion, the front loader washer does the better job, especially at agitating. Our top loader seems to do a good job too but I give front loaders the edge for getting clothes their cleanest.

I have had very bad luck using bleach. As it is, I really don't have any whites. I am going to look into that bluing product. I want to up my game in the laundry area.

Thanks!
It's good to get your perspective on that.
Better than consumer reports.


Here's a short article on the compound.

https://www.organized-home.com/posts/diy-how-to-whiten-your-sheets-with-laundry-bluing/

My first exposure to it was using it as one compound for a chemistry experiment for a class.

picked up a Readers Digest book, which always seem to publish books about household chores for homeowners.

Anyway it had. a section on making your on laundry detergents. But you still have to buy all the ingredients and then make it up yourself

vinegar
baking soda
borax
ammonia
castile soap
essential oils

Vinegar and baking soda seem to be the basic clean everything formula. Its basically an acid reacting with an alkali.

to make soap, you need a lot of fat (or lye?) and caustic soda OR you could use soapnuts which are natural. If you happen to have a soapnut tree, all the better.

Laundry day tomorrow! My car is loaded...have sooo much to wash.

You are obviously going to your local laundry mat. Make sure to bring something to read, either that or be content to watch your clothes going round and round.

library is just across the road from laundry mat

done!
tip from laundry guy, dont use too much powder...I just let him put the right amount in. He knew all the machines since he works there, I just followed his advice.

Everything came out fine. Even the cushion that was labelled 'dont wash' I put in the wash and it came out clean.

Yeah, you could head over there while the machines are spinning away.

I don't think that I ever used powdered detergent but rather used either pods or liquid. I did purchase a container of Oxi-Clean the other day though. It is powder.