Gain Detergent.....for white trash?

[state-line]

Hi group...I've been reading that Gain detergent has been labeled as a "white trash" detergent. Is it because it's a medium-priced product or is it that low-income people buy it? Personally, I like it, but I don't consider myself white trash!

 

[jons1077]

Hmm...Isn't it pretty much the exact same thing as Tide, but with a citrus smell and a heck of alot cheaper??? My mom likes Gain alot so she uses the soap and the softener. The perfume is a bit heavy for me but it's not bad either. Mom is definetly NOT white trash. Myself on the other hand am total white trash and love Tide powder! hehe

 

[washerboy]

white trash?

Humm.... I just came back from Sams where I purchased Gain detergent and Gain fabric softner. The price difference between Tide and Gain was only 4 dollars and some change. I've never thought about someone being trash by their choice of detergent... What publication did this information come from?

 

[maggie~hamilton]

I guess I'm guilty. When I was talking in an earlier thread about various detergents I mentioned Gain and labeled it White Trash Detergent because, somehow, I just have made a mental association of White Trash Women buying it at Walmart.

No offense was intended, especially since I myself do like Gain and particularly its scent. Which, as it follows, would make ME white trash I guess!! hahaha

 

[frigilux]

There isn't a thing wrong with Gain.

I have, however, had a detergent experience that could truly be considered trashy. I was on the road in a rock band and went to a laundromat, where I came to the horrifying realization that I had no money to buy a single-serving box of detergent.

So....I walked from machine to machine and scraped off hunks of spilled/crusty powdered detergent from around the lid openings, and from front-loading machines' detergent dispensers. I started my machine, crumbled the half-dissolved detergent into the tub and added my clothes. Had plenty of suds and clothes came clean, but that's as close to Dumpster-diving as I ever want to get, LOL.

 

[brettsomers]

Eugene, i have NEVER heard a story like that! You deserve some credit though, thats ingenuity!

 

[nurdlinger]

Later that same afternoon...

Took too long to find the damn picture, would have been next.

 

[maggie~hamilton]

Isn't she a fright!!

 

[lightedcontrols]

Well :~(

I can't BELIEVE you used MY picture without my permission! I'm H U R T.

 

[lightedcontrols]

...even though....

I DID lookded guud.

 

[jaxsunst]

I started using Gain for the smell better then Tide. I only like the original scent. I used to use Fresh Start till it became unavailable here. Then I used Cheer till they changed the formula and I started breaking out all over. You learn about a whole new level of discomfort when you develop an allergy to the detergent that your underwear is washed in

 

[toggleswitch]

Is that like a woman wiping herself with poison-ivy leaves i

Te he he he

I used my aunt's Italian-made front-loading comb-o-matic and put the bleach in the softener dispenser and vice-versa. Wasn't familiar with the "universal" pic-o-grams (symbols).

Bleach in the last rinse --- OH MY---.
For a few weeks (till eveything was re-washed) every time I broke even a minor sweat I'd go out of my mind with burning itching skin.

and Mark...youz lookin' gawgeous and tres chic in those winter boots in summer.

 

[63getelevision]

Okay, why are you posting pictures of Brittney Spears? Is her next gig going to be folding and sorting in the Care Free Wash-o-Mat in the Pick-n-Save Plaza? (choose your favorite white trash state).

 

[washerboy]

White trash

When I posted my earlier comment I'll have to admit I was a bit surprised that Gain was trashy...I buy it and thought I was a little up scale...LOL!! of course now all is clear. I come from a long line of white trash...my family thinks I've made the big time because I graduated from college, live in house that has no wheels, have city water and city sewage. My favorite cousin lives in eastern Tenn. she and her current boy friend live off some gravel road in the county.... in a single wide. They dont have centeral heat and air..so my cousin takes the register covers off and sweeps the floor off into the hole. They have the front seat of a 72 chevy truck in the living room as a sofa. My cousins laundry facility consist of a old rusty Hot Point washer that sits at the end of their make shift deck....the water pumps out onto the ground...she has a dryer in the trailer but only uses it when the butune bottle has fule in it. I love my cousin dearly but it's just a hoot to visit them. She's also a wonderful cook...as a joke once I thought I would buy her the White Trash cookbook and send it go her. After flipping thought the book I realized...she had all those receipies...they were basic fare at her home every night. Oh and...the biggest chuckle I get...when I go visit I always take her and her family to Red Lobester....that's eatin up town...esp. when ones "rich" cousin (I'm a social worker..please!!!!) is picking up the tab.

 

[hydralique]

Great story, Washerboy . . .

But we're all wanting to know if your cousin uses Gain in the Hotpoint or not! Plus, is that truck seat out of a high-line truck like a Silverado, or just a garden variety Chevy? It makes a difference you know . . .

 

[helicaldrive]

Here in St. Louis

When I moved to St. Louis twenty years ago, I was surprised to discover that St. Louisans do not use the terms "white trash," "cracker," "hillbilly" or "red neck." Instead, they use the term, "hoosier" (spelled with a lower case "h," so as not to offend those from Indiana. As far as I know, the term was never intended to spout off any sense of superiority over those from Indiana. After all, Missouri certainly has no reason to consider itself better than Indiana.)

Actually, St. Louis has several different varieties of hoosiers, so sometimes St. Louisans specify which one they are referring to, e.g., South Side hoosier, etc.

 

[helicaldrive]

And no doubt

Needless to say, the woman pictured twice above would be referred to as a hoosier in St. Louis. This town is teeming with her type. Especially strolling (or shall we say trolling) up and down Virginia Ave between Bates and Meramec.

 

[63getelevision]

Poor City Relative Visits Rich Country Cousin

I visited my cousin Sandra in the small town of Brookneal, Virginia, this past weekend. We had a reunion of all the remaining relations of the Ridgeway family. We were the first to arrive.

 

[maggie~hamilton]

I know where Brookneal is!!

My maternal grandparents (yeah, them again haha!) used to live in Alta Vista which is just a "hoot n a holler" from Brookneal. Both are near Lynchburg, home of the infamous "Rev." Jairey Foulwell.