One of the few things I can do to help Firstborn out nowadays is to help him with his laundry. Though he is a grown person, he has a sweaty, stinky job as a mechanic working long hours, six days a week. So, a mama wants to help smooth out the sharp edges, you know? Adulting is hard. And laundry is something I can do very well...
P.U.
He brings it over in this plastic hamper and it is packed in there! This is what it looks like with a load missing - he waits until he is OUT of clean stuff for work. It's usually on a weekend that I see him, after I have worked a 12 hour shift. But it can't be helped as Sunday is his only day off. And sometimes he will get it started, but most times I would rather he just wait for me to start it - I'm less likely to overload the washer.
We normally use detergent pods, but his stuff requires a different type of laundry soap - I've been using Tide, but I will switch to Whisk as I have read it's better at getting rid of all the grease. When we were using the Purex or Arm&Hammer pods, there would always be a grease ring in the drum. To me that says the grease wasn't properly dealt with! Sometimes I add a scent booster, and I usually use liquid softener in the wash, sheets in the dryer. And yes, the hamper gets sprayed with Lysol!
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It's nice to focus on helping one of my kiddoes out after helping everyone else's all weekend...I have healthy people who are pretty much grown. Not for a moment do I forget to feel grateful.
1 comment:
Try Lestoil if you can find it, it gets out grease, animal manure and just about anything my family gets into
I buy it in bulk.
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