Laundry Solutions

[Bathsheba]

I quite enjoy the whole laundering process until it gets to the "fold and put away stage" LOL

We've never had an issue with bad smells in our machine... maybe because it gets used so much??? we do at least 2 loads per day. I have a top loading LG machine that is nearly 10 years old but hasn't skipped a beat. Recently i have bought new filters (two cloth little lint collecting bags that are in the main part of the machine) and this has improved the removing of bits of lint, tissue etc.

I use OMO or Drive which I buy in bulk... up to 20kg at a time.... works out to be under $2.50 per kilo... pictured HERE. That lasts us about 5 months I think.

We pretty much always line dry... only use the tumble dryer sparingly.... maybe because I love using my pegs, pictured HERE

We have so much washing these days that I not only sort into lights and darks.... but often colours like: dark blues, dark reds. I am very particular about my DH's business shirts as now he is spending a fortune on them (the last one was nearly $200).... so they get washed by themselves (5 at a time) or with a white sheet for example.

I also wash whites with a similar level of dirt... really dirty things like socks, kids t-shirts, nappies, aprons etc get put in together (hot soaking wash) ... while less dirty things like towels, my shirts etc also get grouped. Darks get washed in cold water.

I like being in my laundry... but I would LOVE one about twice the size so i could have a better system in there.... if we bought this house I would knock out the wall between the laundry and the kids' bathroom and make one huge mega laundry... *swoon*. I'm sure it would feel just as good as it did when we went from using a fold down clothes line to our new humongous free standing Hills Hoist last year.

Also, even though our machine doesn't smell i'll give the vinegar a go... have heard a lot of good things about that.

ETA: oh and I have hardly ever used a softener liquid.... maybe that's why we have so few issues? I just don't like the idea of the extra chemicals... and the idea of a softener seems so... gluggy... like it would gunk up the machine or something Anyhow, our clothes etc are soft enough without it.