If it doesn't survive the machines, it doesn't belong in my house
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Same with toddler toys:
"It can go in the dishwasher, the washing machine, or the garbage".
for real tho, this is advice I wish I had about one week into having a newborn.
Absolutely terrified during his first blowout. "Put it allin the washing machine with baby-sensitive detergent" It was about an hour of fear that I just got liquid poo mixed in everything.
Goddamn, did that ever make me respect the washing machine. Detergent, water, and spinning. Cat barfs on blanket? Washing machine. Kid barfs on everyone's clothes during his first real illness? Washing machine. Unknown Substance #1143 that smells worse than it looks? Washing machine.
Don't even need to use anything other than cold water. No colors or shrinking to worry about that way.
I remember those days, having to remind myself that the relief of "whew, it's just urine" is not okay.
I tried the reddit advice of cold water and sadly it definitely left stains that would've been cleaned otherwise
Hang drying and you don't need to iron. (And clothes hold longer and needs a few kW/h less power).
You just need full acre of basement for that.
What? This is how most people in European cities dry their clothes and I guarantee they all have smaller houses than in American cities
Just needs a clotheshorse which is like the size of a table
Wait, they're called clotheshorses? I just called them drying racks
2mยฒ and only temporary.
Unless it's raining all week.
This is me, the only exception is hand knitted or crocheted items. They're literally the only things I'll actually respect wash instructions on. If someone takes the time to make me something by hand, or if I spend the time to do it, I'll treat it right. Otherwise, that shit is going is going into the washer with shirts, jeans, two towels, a flat sheet, a little bleach, some powder detergent, and some downy. I know you're not supposed to downy towels, but ain't nobody got time for separating laundry in this bish.
Towels honestly dry you off SO much better when they're washed with no fabric softener. It's worth an extra wash to do towels separately
Just stop using fabric softener in general. It's basically liquid plastic coating your clothes. ๐คฎ๐คข๐คฎ
That's fair. If it's been hand crafted with love that's something different than, I dunno, some random sportsball shit I have from Walmart.
Dryclean only means "I will never wear this sweater again"
"This sweater is dry-clean only, which means its dirty." -Mitch Hedberg
I once sent off my favourite tie that had a cool pattern on it to her dry cleaned.
It came back with the pattern partially erased.
A sad day for me.
"Whatever, dude, you're the one that has to wear me."
If you don't survive the gauntlet, you're in the next bag to the donation bin.
Aka salvation army's trash delivery
My washing machine has a hand wash mode ๐
Does it use real hands or synthetic?
No flex ๐ช bro but my washing machine ๐๐ uses fresh real hands ๐ค from the children ๐ถ in my basement.
Anything that breaks in the washing machine/dryer/dishwasher trifecta, doesn't deserve to live in our house.
None of my plates survived the washing machine. Fucking IKEA.
And the dishwasher shredded my laundry. Stuff just isn't built to last anymore.
They just want you to put your plates back together.
IKEA meets kintsugi
Do the manufacturers just do this to not be responsible if the shirt doesn't survive the machinery?
It's like dishware being not dishwasher safe
Sometimes they didn't want to pay for the testing and don't want to be liable (Probably cheap product) sometimes they didn't want to spend the extra 0.05ยข/item to apply the proper coating/dyes/machine resistant features (Cheap product)
The rest of the time, it's truly because of "specialized" material, like wool.
If you're looking to buy clothing, it's best if you simply didn't buy anything that is "Handwash Only" (Unless it's something like wool).
If everybody checked and avoided buying "Handwash Only" clothing AND dishware, they would disappear off the market rather quickly (With the exception of special materials that truly can't be made machine-safe)
Tbf knives will not stay sharp if you dishwash them. You just have to sharpen them more often if you do. So youโre either lazy not to hand wash them OR lazy not to sharpen them as much. Has nothing to do with how they are manufactured. Knives just donโt stay sharp in machine washing as the heat dulls it.
Some are damaged by washing in high heat or tumble drying them. Not like straight away but over time.
If I see this on something cotton or polyester, I just don't buy it as it insinuate cheap dying and manufacturing.
On wool, cashmere, etc. it's a bit more reasonable
"Best I can do is make it quick"
Punchline to the original Dilbert Comic (also fuck Scott Adams)
This is one of my favourites of his, I love the action hero face in the last panel
I don't do anything else than laundry gauntlet.
I once washed one piece of cloth on its own but it felt like a huuuge waste!
Nowadays I take my chances. But I must say that my clothing doesn't seem to take that much damage (obviously they'd live longer otherwise but I don't want to fill a whole machine worth of water for one piece of clothing, that's nuts!).
I don't think I've ever hand-washed anything. Then again, most clothes these days are build to be pretty disposable and include plastics instead of only natural fibers.
In goes a red shirt, out comes a pink tea cozy.
I try to follow the instructions so the clothes survive for longer, but with older clothes with tears and shit, anything goes
Relatable
I have a lot of $40-50 shirts; I definitely follow the directions so the silk screening doesn't get fucked. Though they only require being inside out and using cold water.
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