I remember that washer...you still have it???
Jeff I rememebr that Amana down in the basement with some sort of keylock on the plug maybe so your gross neighbor couldn't use it or soemthing like that. An you had a dryer of some vintage that was older maybe a Kenmore??? I tried earlier like crazy to remember the name of that little town that you lived in with the PaMiDa that you worked at...and was drawing a blank until I checked this last post LOL.
I rememember a few things about Seward, there was a lone vac shop on the eastern edge of town, that you said you wouldn't set foot into, PaMiDa was a midwestern K-Mart of sorts named after the owners sons Paul, Michael and David, and you lived virtually across the street from you campus whih I thought was cool. My mom still has that Clearance Sunbeam Mixmaster that I bought from there BTW....and still loves it like crazy...best Idea I ever was given...thank you...
I also rememember you gettin pulled over on the way back from Lincoln going on that two lane highway so to speak or backroad from there and felt so super terrible that you go it....what things we rememember.
On vintage detergents...My dads mom used for MANY years this powder from Amway...it came in like a huge maybe 30? gallon drum smelled like lemons and used to make NO appreciable foam in her Westinghouse, and even less in her Maytag that she replaced it with. She switched over to Purex which she used until she passed here in March. Teemed always with Top Crest Fabric softner...that pink liquidy stuff that just barely passes as "fabric softner".
Mom's mom used Dynamo, Downey and the old pink foamy "Cling Free" dryer softner sheet things. Her laundry smelled so good I would never want to leave her house.
We used primarily Tide and Downey and VERy rarely we would get softner sheets becasue my momhated them and would never remember to put them in the drum anyway.
I measure out Gain by the scoop, and use up to the First line in the Frigidaire, use the appropriate gain fabric softner and just fill to the FULL line in the dispenser, and Clorox bleach or thier color safe bleach liquid of course in it's appropriate dispenser to the FULL line as well.
I use cheap Kroger dryer sheets in some loads, and agian as mom forget them most times anyway. In the Westinghouse out in the garage apartment, I have the same setup for detergent and fabric softner...although for whatever reason I have to use less than what I put in my Frigidaire becasue it sudses up MUCH more...with the same amounts described above. And of course I have to rememember to run out and put in Downey when the door unlocks, or I havve to restart the dial at Rinse and put it in and go from there.
I have never used Calgon or any other water additive, as we usually always had a water softner. Here in Michigan IMHO we have more of a rust problem in our water tables than anything else and in fact have had to run "Iron Out" thru several of my washers from time to time to remove rust and scale. We have a softner now, and considering that Grand ledge already treats and softens it's water...our water is so soft, that when showeing it doesn't even feel as if you can rinse off...and our soap sudses much more than normal..despite the rust factor.
That's my three cents worth
Chad
