Posted: 2/27/2009 7:04:49 AM EDT
| Ok, I'm home by myself and I'm trying to do laundry, but I've never used a washing machine that had a liquid fabric softener hole before. Do I put the softener in there at the beginning or do I do it later in the cycle? |
What the hell is fabric softener?
| First off, use dish soap instead of fabric softener. Next, unless you are doing silks, put the washer on the heavist/most agitating setting to get it to really work. If you have some smelly or sweaty clothes, drop is some bleach too. Colors and whites do not need to be separated anymore. Start it up and come back 2 hours later. |
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First off, use dish soap instead of fabric softener. Next, unless you are doing silks, put the washer on the heavist/most agitating setting to get it to really work. If you have some smelly or sweaty clothes, drop is some bleach too. Colors and whites do not need to be separated anymore. Start it up and come back 2 hours later. & don't forget to post pics with the AAR!! |
I love these guys who think they are above doing their own laundry. 
Yes, you put it in at the beginning but I have had better luck not using the full amount recommended. Seems that it is not all dispensed most of the time and you get this lovely gunk built up in the machine. |
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Quoted: I don't use liquid fabric softener. I use the dryer sheets. Hell of a lot cheaper, and they work just fine, and control static too. We don't use fabric softener, but then again we don't even use store-bought soap. We make ours for a few bucks per 5 gallons. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I don't use liquid fabric softener. I use the dryer sheets. Hell of a lot cheaper, and they work just fine, and control static too. I usually do to, but I'm at my mom's for the weekend and she uses the liquid. Then unless they have particularly hard water there, skip it. People were doing laundry for thousands of years before fabric softener. I think one wash without it will be fine. |
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Put it in at the beginning...it will be dispensed automatically. This. It only dispenses when the machine is doing a spin dry cycle. You want it to dispense after the detergent is done, otherwise it will inhibit the cleaning. A rinse cycle should follow the application of softener. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I don't use liquid fabric softener. I use the dryer sheets. Hell of a lot cheaper, and they work just fine, and control static too. We don't use fabric softener, but then again we don't even use store-bought soap. We make ours for a few bucks per 5 gallons. Paper Street Soap Company?  |
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I don't use liquid fabric softener. I use the dryer sheets. Hell of a lot cheaper, and they work just fine, and control static too. We don't use fabric softener, but then again we don't even use store-bought soap. We make ours for a few bucks per 5 gallons. Paper Street Soap Company?
You are forgetting the 1st rule.. 
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I don't use liquid fabric softener. I use the dryer sheets. Hell of a lot cheaper, and they work just fine, and control static too. We don't use fabric softener, but then again we don't even use store-bought soap. We make ours for a few bucks per 5 gallons. Paper Street Soap Company? You are forgetting the 1st rule.. Heh, I've only seen that movie once, and it was years ago, so I didn't realize I could have been making a reference to it. We actually make our own laundry soap, but we don't raid lipo clinics to do so. |
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Fabric softeber is for girlie-men.
Put STARCH in there and man up. Is the GF or wifey gone? j/k. I use detergent that has softener already in it. If I didn't have that, I wouldn't use it. Too much trouble. Doesn't seem to make much of a difference to me anyway. |