How do you wash clothes?

Ok, well first off you need to separated your clothes. Make sure you turn all your shirts inside out, as you keep your shirts for a while, you will eventually notice that one side of the shirt fades faster than the other, if you turn them inside out it will help keep the out side of your shirt (the part everyone sees) from fading faster. Usually, these are the loads everyone has; Towels (all wash rags, hand towels and towels, plus any cleaning rags) Whites, Lights (anything that is light in color, or if multiple colors, the majority of it is light in color) Darks. Then there is the gentle cycle, this is for, bras, shirts with decals on it that you don't want ruined, or anything that on the label says 'gentle wash cycle' on it. When in doubt on any of your clothes, read the label. Never wash anything that says Dry Clean Only. That would be wool, silk, most heavy winter coats and things of that nature. If you have a lot of dry clean only clothes there are kits you can use in your dryer so you don't have to take them to the dry cleaner. Also note, that after you wash new clothing for the first time they should become color fast, meaning they shouldn't bleed (colors run together). I don't always have enough darks and lights to do two seperate loads, so I combine them. Not everyone will do this, my mother never will, but I haven't had any trouble in doing this, so you might want to do this some times either to save money/time or you just don't have enough clothes. I would never put any color with the whites because of the bleach. And you always run the risk of the colors running together, so do it only if you aren't bothered if your clothes run togeher, or if you don't think they will. On the FIRST wash, always wash with like colors. Now, as for supplies, the only stuff I ever use are; laundry detergent, White vinegar, dryer balls, bleach, and shout stain remover. I highly highly reccoment buying a set of dryer balls. You can get a set of two from walmart for about 5 bucks. You use them instead of dryer sheets and fabric softener and they last about 5 years. Some 'green' people won't use them because they are made of plastic, but I still do just because I don't use any dryer sheets and they last so long. Now, some clothes will still end up a little staticy, and in my experience it is usually ployester or fleece that does that. Vinegar I use in my towles, because like you, the smell awful. I add vinegar to the part where the laundry detergent goes, and to the spot that fabric softeners goes. (About 1 cp.) My towels have a slight vinegar smell, but that is all, and it doesn't bother me to much. If you find the smell offensive, just do a second rinse cycle. You can also add it to all of your clothing when you was it, it will sanitize and brighten white, also as a fabric softener. Now for the washing. After you seperate your clothing, go to the laundry mat. Assuming the washer are older and don't have a spot for the detergent, measure out the right about based on size of load, small, medium, or large. Add it to the washer and then put all of your clothes in. Some washer you can actually start the washer, so it can start filling up, while you are adding the clothes. If you have fabric softener, add it to the downy ball or if they have a spot to put fabric softener. When selecting water temp. I always go with cold water. All your laundry detergent will work the same on cold water, despite what the commercials say, and it is better on your clothes. Do load size based on how much you have, and do the cycle based on what color it is. Usually there is a white, dark, light, gentle or hand wash cycle. You can wash your whites in cold, but that is generally the only load I ever do in hot water. Make sure to pre-treat any stains before you toss it in the washer, and check it before you put it in the dryer, because if it did not come out you have to wash it again, do not dry any clothing with a stain in it if you want it to come out. Most of the time if you dry something with a stain in it, it is extremely hard to get out. Use your woolite for your hand washable clothing or the clothes on gentle cycle.

Try checking the machine your using, unless your clothes really are the only ones that smell that way. It could also be the water. If you're letting your clothes sit a long time after being washed before putting them in the dryer, this will cause them to "mildew" and will make them smell terrible. Simply re-washing them and putting them in the dryer immediately after (and making sure they are dry all the way) helps with this.

Stains are different depending on what they are as some come out better with cold water and others not. Washing stains by hand then washing in a regular load are helpful, especially with bad stains. Looking up home remedies for different stains might help with finding some cheap ingredients to help get rid of them, such as baking soda vs bleach (unless you really don't care about the clothes, then you can just buy new ones).

Separating your clothes (whites/lights, colours/darks, and jeans) helps as well.

Hope that helps.

Well if your clothe are smelling awful after you take them right out of the washing machine, than it might be the washing machine itself that creates that smell. It might be infected with some form of mold.

But if you dry them and put them in the cupboard and then the smell awful.

That might be because they were not completely dried out and it then start to mold.

In that case wash them again and let them dry thoroughly before putting them away!

And the stain removal... for harder stains its best to prepare those clothe with some stain removal product and just rub it onto the stain before putting it in the washing machine.

It might also a good choice to soak some clothe in a mixture of baking soda ( bicarb ) and water for a couple hours and then wash them as usual!

Especially for curtains and big items!

And last of all, dont over fill your washing machine, otherwise it wont wash properly!

2/3 of the washing machine load of clothe should suffice for a proper cleaning but without being to environmental unfriendly!

When you are presorting your clothes, check for stains and treat them first. I like Spray n Wash stain stick. Put your detergent in the machine before the clothes, take the clothes out of the washer right after they are done, put them in the dryer, add one fresh dryer sheet and check often for dryness. Again, don't leave them in there to get mildewed. Use the Woolite for sweaters, silk things, and maybe bras that you hand wash in your room.

If you smell something funky in the coin washer before you use it, wait for the next available one, or report it to an attendant, if there is one.

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^ that is considered a full load of laundry.

Put that in the washing machine, take the powder and fill it to the first line, put it in the machine, to wash it put it on normal/causual and start, to dry it put it on normal and start.

Remember seperate whites from darks

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