Going to college laundry?

Question

ok i never done laundry, i have no clue what is detergen or whatever it is, or how to wash cloths. HELP

Answer 1

Why don't you ask your mother or who ever has been doing your laundry to give you a quick lesson?

Answer 2

ok first of all, since you are new to doing laundry I would suggest you stay far away from bleach since it can completely ruin your clothes if you use it incorrectly.

Laundry is easy. You basically just buy a detergent like tide (it comes in liquid or powder) and follow directions on the lid for how much to use.

then you select the water temperature. I usually just do  cold/cold or warm/cold since its the easiest and saves on energy to heat the water. If you are washing bedsheets you should use hot water (hot/cold, hot/warm, or hot/hot, whichever one of those settings the washing machine has).

then you select how long you want to wash it. Some machines don't even let you do that, they just go for a specified amount of time. If you can select the time, 10-15 minutes is about normal wash cycle, or else just select "normal".

since you are new to this, don't even worry about bleach or fabric softener. I don't think they are that special anyways, just another way to spend money. If you insist on fabric softener, the easiest fabric softener is just dryer sheets (like Tide or downey dryer sheets). You don't have to measure, you just throw 1 dryer sheet into the dryer with your clothes. Liquid softeners and bleaches are just too complicated (since that means you are adding 2-3 liquids to your wash instead of just 1), and things like the "downey ball" are just annoying (to me at least).

I seperate my clothes into whites (since my husbands clothes are ALL white so I could do a whole load of just whites), colors, and darks (this includes jeans, dark blues, and browns). Sometimes I wash bedsheets and towels seperately if I have enough of them to make a seperate load, or else I just throw them in the pile with whatever colors they are (and then wash the whole load on hot).

Answer 3

USE LOTS OF BLEACH

Answer 4

Separate the clothing by color. Whites together, no colors. Dark colors together. Towels and sheets together.

When washing the whites, it's best to use warm water with cold rinse. Darks should be cold wash/cold rinse. Towels and sheets warm wash, cold rinse.

Make sure you don't wash anything that says dry clean only. If you have any tops that might shrink, anything 100% cotton, wash them in the washer and hang, or lay flat, to dry. Pay attention to care labels in the garments.

I prefer liquid detergent. Usually just filling it to the line indicated on the back of the bottle. Usually you use the lid to measure it. I like to use fabric softener as well-it is a matter of preference. If you like to use softener, it is added in the rinse cycle.

Answer 5

Okay. First you want to seperate your dark colors from the lighter ones. (Some people even seperate the whites from everything else but I only do that for the first wash.) You can decide which articles of clothing are what from how dark they look. For example, jeans, dark shirts and black socks and dark colored underwear all go in the dark pile. White sock, light colored shirts and light underwear go in the light pile.

You also might want to make sure none of the clothing that you are washing is hand-wash only, gentle wash only, line-dry only or lay flat to dry. Its good to know this before you wash. Seperate the clothes that are not supposed to be washed in the normal cycle. You will have to wash these either by hand or save up enough gentle-washes to get a good load out of them.

Put the light and dark clothes in different washers. I don't know the exact set-up of the washers you are using, but both these loads will use the normal cycle. There will probably be a k**b that you push in and spin. Turn this so that the arrow is pointing at the amount of time you want to wash the clothes (probably ten or twelve). Then either push the 'start' button or pull the k**b out to start the washer.

Now add the detergent to the load. If the washer is very full, use a full cup (this cup is the lid of the detergent you are using). Just pour it into the washer making it somewhat even. Do this for both loads. If you only have half a load, only use half of the cup.

Then close the lid.

By the way, the washers I used at school simply had six buttons to push. They were things like: "Whites", "bright colors" and "darks". Hopefully this will be the case with you.