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The Persil with active scent booster has been in my local supermarkets and WalMarts since the beginning of summer. Haven't taken a sniff yet but doubt I would purchase it. The regular Persil has more than enough scent for me and leaves just enough residual fragrance on the finished laundry...

Same situation here in Connecticut. Stop&Shop, ShopRite, Walmart and Target shelves are habitually empty of even the most basic food items. Oddly enough, there are tons of antibacterial wipes, hand sanitizer, bleach and all those cleaning supplies that we couldn't get in 2020. And as we have...

I'll go with the early 1980's GE Filter Flo. Up to that point we had nothing but Kenmores. We went with GE in the 80's because my employer had an appliance purchase program and I got a great deal on one. Since I was paying I had to inform my mother that Kenmore was off the table - she kicked...

I would also look to revive the original scents of the detergents, softeners, etc. from the 50's - 70's. Today's fragrances are just too much and I still don't understand why we need 15 versions of Tide, Gain, etc... I understand the unscented stuff for those with allergies, but I am a little...

I have heard of but never tried the eggshell or egg white trick. However, my friend's mother used to add a pinch of salt to the grounds before brewing - supposedly to cut the bitterness. I haven't tried that in many years so I can't recall whether that actually made a difference. I have used...

Definitely WCI built Frigidaires - the dryer door gives it away as WCI- also from the little door below the loading door, looks like a gas dryer. Not sure of the year, though, but I would also guess late 1980's - early 1990's.

Hope they have changed the fragrance. I used to use TWB powder for years, but the latest fragrance, even with careful dosing and rinsing just leaves an unpleasant scent in the finished laundry (I realize this is a clearly personal matter).

I use it also as a detergent booster with both liquids and powder. We fortunately have very soft city water here in southern Connecticut so precipitates were never an issue. It does help with odor removal but I don't generate a lot of laundry that needs specific odor removal. Occasionally on...

Sorry, but I wouldn't spend much time on this. I caught a few minutes of his first TV performance and while he may have some knowledge about textiles, I didn't see anything groundbreaking or really informative or at least even remotely entertaining. Our own Laundress and most of us for that...

Interesting - haven't seen this at the Fairfield County, CT Target stores, but then all that they have in my locals are Tide, Persil, Gain, All, Dreft and Arm & Hammer. What I have seen in WalMart and several Latino supermarket are Zote soap flakes. Haven't tried those yet.

I would have to agree that the "post FF GE washers" were the worst. Mine lasted a whole four years. Following that would be any Amana washers built by Goodman - they were the owners of Amana after Raytheon and before Maytag. That machine lasted three years and had to be scrapped because of...

So there I was in Target (Trumbull CT Mall location) yesterday looking for some Tide Mountain Spring Powder - currently the only Tide powder scent that I can tolerate. Of course, none to be had. However, yes there were several jugs of Cheer liquid. Not sure where they have been but this is...

I think NuSoft liquid is still available - not widely. However, you can order it from the company - Malco Products (Barberton, Ohio)- they also make Bluette liquid bluing along with several other household items. NuSoft still smells quite a lot like it always did. I don't normally use fabric...

Is Cheer liquid still even widely sold? I haven't seen it in any of my grocery stores, WalMarts or Targets for a long while. At one point one could still find Cheer Powder in Walmart and Target along with Surf powder, but other than Tide and Arm &Hammer, along with the occasional box of Gain...

I had the next model up from your washer. Mine was a 2000 model and was from the period where Goodman Indiustries owned Amana. That was the company between Raytheon and Maytag. Unfortunately my unit literally only lasted three years - when I started to have that issue of loud spin squealing...

Probably a test market product that never went national. That's true of so many products. Living in the "NY metropolitan area" we missed so much since we weren't representative of the rest of the country. For example, I never knew that Cold Power was also offered in liquid form. Never saw...

unfortunately Vano is no longer made. When Purex was acquired by Dial , the Vano (west coast) and StaFlo (east coast) brands were merged into the SteFlo brand. I discovered Vano Starch back in the 80s when I used to travel for business and I would buy cases of it and ship it back to...

hard to tell without seeing the entire jacket. However, if it's structured like a sport coat or blazer, likely there are facings inside the jacket behind the lining and those shouldn't be submerged or washed since you may experience shrinkage and linings/facings won't shrink at the same rate...

Interesting question. My maternal grandmother died well before I was born but as my mother told it, she and her next older sister were responsible for the family wash - that was 10 kids and no washer. That meant scrubbing on a washboard in the bathtub and boiling in a huge stovetop kettle...

Here in Connecticut, we are surrounded by Wegmans - they are in Massachusetts and will be opening in Harrison, NY (Westchester County) sometime in the next year according to their website. There are several in New Jersey already and the one closest to me is about an hour away in Montvale, NJ...