As anyone with embarrassing/costly laundry debacles during college remembers, laundry isn't a skill everyone is born with (save for maybe Martha Stewart). In fact, many adults (this post writer included) haven't quite grasped all its intricacies. If you still need tips from time to time, we've gathered our favorite resources from around the web.
Whether you still don't know to separate your colors and whites or whether people call you for advice on how to get stains out, we bet you could use online advice and tips. Here are a few of our favorite online resources for your burning (or flooding) laundry questions:
Real Simple With clear and helpful articles like "How to Do Laundry" and "Your Top Laundry Questions, Answered," it seems they have covered nearly every laundry topic, in as clear and helpful a way as Real Simple is known for.
Martha Stewart Of course the Queen of Clean's own website would have lots of great tips, including some of her tried and true tips for cleaning, as well as how to make your own detergent.
Apartment Therapy We've had some great tips in posts over the years, like Simple Tips and Tricks For Clean and Organized Laundry, Doing Laundry the Danny Seo Way and The-End-All-AT-Laundry-Guide.
About.com About.com has a lot of article options covering a number of possible disasters you could get yourself and your laundry into. There's a good chance something you need to know is here.
Heloise We covered some of Heloise's laundry tips before on Apartment Therapy, Heloise's Tips on Laundry & Dorm-Living, and she has even more great advice on her website.
What are your favorite online laundry resources for tips and advice? Let us know!
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Comments (11)
Hold on there! Martha Stewart is NOT the Queen of Clean!! That title belongs to Linda Cobb, who has great laundry tips of her own, of course.
(and she is the one whose advice I follow, not Martha...)
http://queenofclean.com/
Hmm... her website has changed... now she charges for her tips and laundry guide... Oh well... (she's not a media tycoon like Martha; just making a living I guess)
I've mostly been going by an great old book entitled Don Aslett's Stain Buster's Bible.
@mschatelaine...go girl!
My mother taught me how to do laundry - Doesn't everyone's?
No, bepsf, not everyone is so fortunate.
bepsf - sadly, no. Not everyone's mom was around or capable of teach her children domestic tasks.
P.S. Besides, even in the best case scenario there's always room for improvement and updates.
Whirlpool runs a site call the Institute of Fabric Science. It's got a lot of useful articles as well as a handy stain-solver. I got this one bookmarked.
http://instituteoffabricscience.org/
I was never "formally taught" how to do laundry; some things just seemed normal to me... Read the labels, wash with like colours, hang-dry clothes you're afraid of shrinking in the drier (or in general if you have a clothes line), etc.
Some things I've learned through trial and error: invest in a bra bag of some sort, if you want your whites to stay white don't toss is anything with the slightest smidge of colour, and always empty your pockets!
Use white vinegar in the rinse cycle and it can save $ while acting as a natural fabric softner. I know you might be worried about a smell but I use it on customers clothes and have NEVER received a complaint!
www.laundrycare.biz