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Re: Reply #23. John, you bring up a point on something that has confused me (maybe I am just a slow learner, but...). The instructions on most detergents (in my case, Tide With Bleach Powder and Persil Stain Fighter Liquid) tell you how much to use for each size load. However, are these...

I forgot about boys' hair being "neatly trimmed and above the collar, with no excessively long sideburns". The funny thing was that no one in our school (total around 1,600 students from freshmen to senior) felt it necessary to protest. We just went on with our lives. There were kids who were...

Yup- pegging pants here in Connecticut also just refers to how tight you make the legs. In fact when I started high school in the fall of 1971, our school had a guide called the "Pilot" that every student received and outlined the behavioral expectations, etc... . It also had an extensive...

Some late 60's Hotpoints had a feature that allowed two loads to be done at the same time. There was an attachment that looked kind of like a mini basket and at that time Hotpoint still had a solid tub. Not sure if that made a difference. I don't recall that feature lasted long but at that...

Could be worse, I recall around a year ago, there was some publicity around putting jeans (or as I knew them - dungarees) in the freezer instead of washing them. I have no idea what that operation was supposed to do, but I recall Andy Cohen discussing it with Anderson Cooper. Sounds pretty...

Hmmm, since I use Tide With Bleach powder or my remaining stash of Persil Mega Pearls, and follow some fairly rigid laundry practices, then I saved myself $9.99 by not purchasing this new offering from P&G. It was always fascinating to me that TWB's activated bleaching system was initially...

Another issue with using the early front loaders was that the low sudsing detergents of the period - Dash, All and later Colgate's AD were not great cleaners according to CR testing. And getting the right suds level with Tide, Fab and other high performing, high suds detergents was challenging...

Was in Target yesterday and saw something called Tide "Ultra Oxi Whitening Boost". Comes in a powder format - 66 load size box and is intended to be used with detergent. The 3.56lb box is $9.99. Among its other claims is "tackles odors", "whitens whites", "tough on stains" and my personal...

CR also didn't test any powders - the recent print issue had a letter to the editor asking for their rationale. CR's response was that they tested products that most people buy and since powders are no longer popular, they didn't bother with them. I'm paraphrasing of course, but that was the...

that drop down door may be easy to load but it can be more inconvenient to unload. More convenient was the Norge hamper door that would actually fold all the way down against the front of the dryer so the laundry basket could be pushed up against the dryer for unloading.... One thing I just...

What town were they in?

Sorry I can't agree that the post FF GEs were any improvement other than capacity. I had the first generation of the GE Profile and it was such a nightmare that GE actually bought it back from me after three repair filled years. I think the issue there was that the ideas on the redesign were...

don't bother with the dish drawer - you will be better served with the full sized dishwasher in the prep area. No one I know that has one believes it was worth it - holds little and just seems like a gimmick. Let's go for functionality...hence the dishwasher.

Yes, Surf hit the US market again in 1986 or 1987 and was around for a fairly long time. In the early 90's Lever introduced an additional version with "color safe bleach"in both ultra concentrated powder and liquid versions. Up until recently you could still find it at WalMart and Target in...

Interesting- Surf powder disappeared from the US markets around 1972 - 1973 (after a late 1960's rebranding as "Cold Water Surf") as did many other brands. That was around the time that all the phosphate hysteria was at its height so I would think the manufacturers took that opportunity to...

Not to digress, but Shaw's and its own 1999 acquisition, Star Market (mostly Boston area) were owned by Sainsbury's until 2004 when they were purchased by Albertson's. So that would explain why Novon detergent was available in the early days of Shaw's in Connecticut.

I wonder if the "Novon" brand from Sainsbury's is the same Novon house brand that was sold at Shaw's supermarkets (and also "Star" markets in Massachusetts) in New England states back in the late 90's. Shaw's was around in upper New England states for a long time but didn't enter the...

The agitation on that machine is quite like the most recent Speed Queen models. The quality however of those Amana built GEs will probably leave a fair amount to be desired. I had the Amana version of that washer for three years and the tub seal repeatedly failed, necessitating repeated...

Never saw that one here before. It could have been something that was test marketed in certain areas of the US but didn't do well so never made it to the rest of the country. That was the case for a lot of laundry products that we in the New York metro area never saw or heard of. Some that I...

For a long time I never wore jeans. Then COVID hit and I was working from home every day. So I began wearing them in the cooler weather. From the waist up, I wore a nice shirt and sweater, but jeans made sense, since I hate sweatpants and corduroys seemed too dressy for sitting at my home...