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Well, if you’re having issues with clothing or towels smelling bad after being washed or towels immediately smelling musty or sour the first time they’re used, they are not coming clean and something needs to be adjusted. Either with how you’re washing them, not using strong enough detergent...

I washed diapers in a standard washer with nothing more than hot water from the tap and Tide. Only occasionally did I add a little bleach to the load. I wash my towels the same way now. I was a nurse’s aide at a hospital in the early years of my marriage and did NOT bring home my scrubs to wash...

These are what my parents had when I was growing up. I remember the dark enamel tub. I don’t know exactly how old they were, I just know my dad bought them new a few years before he met my mother in the late eighties. They gave dutiful service all throughout my childhood with my mother washing...

Homemade mayonnaise is delicious and definitely worth the effort, especially when you’re going to be using it in a recipe, say for a potato salad or dressing of some kind (homemade ranch dressing with homemade mayonnaise makes me weak in the knees). I’m sure the cost of just the ingredients is...

I think this one will go down as one of the classic SNL skits. Even my kids were laughing so hard tears came to their eyes. And they were supposed to be in bed, usually they sneak out and hide behind the furniture and try to not laugh. Definitely one of the funniest things we’ve seen in a long...

My belief is that these car companies are moving away from sedans and hatchbacks more because SUVs can be sold for more money. I think that’s why minivans have been discontinued by so many manufacturers too, a seven passenger SUV costs a lot more than a minivan. A lot of these crossovers don’t...

And I thought emptying coal ash out of a furnace or boiler was a chore. Imagine having to empty your car’s ash pan. Having a car that belches out black soot everywhere doesn’t sound like much fun either.

Dog hair from our 100+ lbs chocolate lab is the bane of my existence. I vacuum daily and make sure to take the crevice tool to all the corners when I do but I still find clumps of fur everywhere. Even my bathroom gets dog hair and he physically can’t fit in there lol, it’s the worst in there...

I use Bar Keepers Friend and Bon Ami, they both claim to be original formulations. Bon Ami isn’t really abrasive but it’s really great on more delicate things, BKF is fantastic on tubs, sinks, etc. I have a 40s era house with an old cast iron enameled tub and kitchen sink and BKF makes them...

Store it in an airtight container and put a little terra cotta ‘brown sugar saver’ in with it. Try to keep it in a container without too much empty space, you want as little air as possible in with the sugar.

I have a Miele Compact C3 Electro+. I have both carpet and hardwood flooring and love how perfectly suited it is for cleaning both. I even dust with it and vacuum my curtains out. It’s a dream to use and just so versatile.

I have personally only owned conventional top loaders but I did live in a rental unit for about a year with an HE top loader and the majority of my friends own one. Personally, I think they’re garbage. They just don’t clean properly, even after I scoured the internet and the owners manual for...

I would love a fridge like that. I just don’t have the space for one in the house I’m renting right now lol. I actually prefer manual defrost freezers but they’re pretty much impossible to find combined with with a refrigerator nowadays. A fridge that size would definitely need to find a home...

I vastly prefer powdered detergent. I mostly just find it easier to work with. It’s lighter to carry and easier to clean up if there’s a spill. I feel like it might clean my laundry better, that’s maybe a little subjective but things tend to be less likely to smell like kid funk after being...

I used the Cascade Platinum action pacs at my last house, it had a water softener and through experimenting those gave me the best results. In my current house we have hard water and they were completely ineffectual here. I have to use Finish Poweball max 3-in-1s here and the dishwasher is so...

I’d love to believe that the current generation of Speed Queens could compare to old fashioned machines but I’ve seen ample evidence to the contrary. I’m terrified of the day when my 19 year old Whirlpool set finally gives up the ghost because I truly have no clue what I’ll replace them with...

I love writing with fountain pens, and I get a lot of enjoyment from buying unique inks and high quality paper for them. I treat it like an artistic endeavor though, I keep journals of lessons in church and other things I feel like I want a record of for future reference. I use multiple colors...

Silly though it may be... But I picked up an old Rubbermaid laundry basket just like the one my mother used when I was little. There are pictures of me sitting in it and playing while mom folded towels. It hung around until I was a teenager and then I’m not quite sure what happened to it. I...