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Pennywise: For less laundry frustration, follow these important tips
A reader writes: Pour your laundry detergent in the washing machine and start the water before you add the clothes. If you pour the detergent on top of the dry clothes, it can leave a faded mark.
Before putting good shirts in the washing machine, button the sleeves to the front of the shirt. This eliminates the sleeves from tangling around the agitator of the washer or getting wrapped around the rest of the load of clothes.
A reader wrote that her teenagers, who have done their own laundry for years, began complaining that the clothes were “stiff and smelled funny.”
They had tried changing detergents and not using dryer sheets without success.
The answer was vinegar. The stiffness and funny smell was from soap buildup in the clothes. When the clothes were washed in 2 cups of white vinegar without soap, the scum disappeared. Periodic rinsing in vinegar will take care of soap scum in clothes.
If you wash scatter rugs with rubber backings, use cool or cold water only as heat causes the backing to come off in little pieces in the washer, plugging the pump. You have two choices: A new washer or taking the pump apart and cleaning it.
Wash the rugs over the yard fence with the garden hose and sprayer nozzle. A little liquid soap in a spray bottle, let it set a few minutes and rinse the dirt/soap away. It doesn't hurt the grass; the rugs get clean and dry.
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