Laundry

Laundry is one of those facts of life. If you have a lot of money you can just drop it off and have it done for you. In the old days they would even pick it up and drop it off for you. I do not know if they still do that. Or you could have your own washer and dryer. If you are like me you use a coin laundry. This is not desireable to many people, but it does have some advantages. You do not need a washer and dryer at home or the space they take up. You do not need to maintain a washer and dry as all machines require maintainance. The machines that you use are taken care of by the laundry facility. If you have no life like me you see other people. Whether you want to or not. I break my laundry down into four basic catagories. Work clothes. Usually filthy and needing extra care. White clothes that often need bleach and hot water. Cotton colors like shorts and polo, tees and colored socks and towels and sheets. The work clothes are permanant press. My work clothes get very dirty. I must be a messy person. My clothes are stained with sweat, chicken blood, grease, detergent, breading, and anything else you can think of. I can ruin a pair of high quality work shoes in a month or two. The night before I intend to wash my work clothes I try to hit the trouble spots with a stain cleaner and let them soak overnight. i have settled on Dickeys as work pants. They seem to hold up the best. As they seem to be tain and bleech resistant. I used to wash the work clothes in hot water. But being permanant press warm seems to work just as well. i then add about three scoopes of oxy clean. Then a whole lot of detergent. This has been a fairly effective means of getting my work clothes presentable. I keep the white clothes separate. I can let them add up for weeks. Then wash them in hot water with bleech, stain cleaner and oxy clean. Colored cottons and blends are always washed in cold water as they are not very dirty to begin with. I take polo shirts and turn them inside out to minimize fading and the buttons beating around. This will preserve them for a long time. I still have a couple of Polo brand shirts I bought new in 1990 that are still in good shape ever with what they have been through. Towels and sheets I always wash in hot water with a lot of detergent. That makes them turn out well. In this hard economic time you can get a suit for little or nothing compared to what they cost thirty years ago. Abiet they are cheap imported junk. But the basics like underclothes and work clothes go for a premium. As that is what most people are needing. So i hope this little peice has been helpful and anjoyable also.