Do you use scent beads and/or fabric softener for laundry"

[Anonymous]

I have learned over the years that there is NOTHING, and I mean nothing, that DCUMs feel more superior about than how they do their laundry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use wool dryer balls instead of dryer sheets. I started adding sanitizer for certain items in the washer. Just bought scent booster, but plan on adding sachets to my closet rather than adding more chemicals directly onto my clothes.

They really push that stuff and I’m surprised that it’s pretty expensive for a container of scent booster.

What is added sanitizer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have learned over the years that there is NOTHING, and I mean nothing, that DCUMs feel more superior about than how they do their laundry.

How can you say that when there is the whole world of kitchens?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I use wool dryer balls instead of dryer sheets. I started adding sanitizer for certain items in the washer. Just bought scent booster, but plan on adding sachets to my closet rather than adding more chemicals directly onto my clothes.

They really push that stuff and I’m surprised that it’s pretty expensive for a container of scent booster.

What is added sanitizer?

It’s the absence of knowledge about heat and soap.

[Anonymous]

tide free and clear and dyer balls. I have oxiclean to use as needed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I use wool dryer balls instead of dryer sheets. I started adding sanitizer for certain items in the washer. Just bought scent booster, but plan on adding sachets to my closet rather than adding more chemicals directly onto my clothes.

They really push that stuff and I’m surprised that it’s pretty expensive for a container of scent booster.

What is added sanitizer?

I think it's one of those pointless things someone cooked up during the pandemic and people latched on out of fear. Soap works. Bleach works. There's no need to buy "sanitizer" on top of the usual products.

[Anonymous]

I love oxiclean so much. The “free” is the best but the regular scent is pretty light and doesn’t linger.

There is an “odor” version though I bought accidentally and it was horrible. It didn’t last in the clothes so I used it but it made being in the laundry room unpleasant.

[Anonymous]

I have used the scent beads on sheets/blankets in the guest bedroom. With the pandemic we've had few guests but I like the scent lingering in the sheets. Have you ever gotten into someone's guest bed and been fairly certain that the sheets were not clean? Eeeshhhhh

[Anonymous]

Once you stop using fabric softener you realize how coated all your clothes were in WAX. Occasionally I miss the static help, but other than that it's crazy to me how much wax we put on clothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have used the scent beads on sheets/blankets in the guest bedroom. With the pandemic we've had few guests but I like the scent lingering in the sheets. Have you ever gotten into someone's guest bed and been fairly certain that the sheets were not clean? Eeeshhhhh

Once I stopped using scented products (it's been 10 years now probably) I stopped associating "strong fake floral scent" with clean. If things are dirty, they smell dirty! Off/sweaty/like BO. Otherwise, things just smell like clothing. If it's clean, it has no scent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use unscented tide, oxiclean free and unscented dryer sheets because I was raised in an upper class white household. This is a cultural thing and I try not be judgmental but I genuinely have a physical aversion to scented laundry and while I like to buy second hand, especially kid clothes, I spend a lot of time trying to soak the perfume out of them.

What works best is oxiclean first and then vinegar. Soak in a bucket overnight for both stages.

I agree with this 100% BUT feel compelled to tell you that both my young adult sons got to college and switched to scented laundry detergent because "it makes clothes smell better." My DS2 complained about our scent-free detergent when he was home for the holidays.

IMO, they both now reek of laundry scent, but apparently they like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once you stop using fabric softener you realize how coated all your clothes were in WAX. Occasionally I miss the static help, but other than that it's crazy to me how much wax we put on clothing.

Wax? This is new information to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once you stop using fabric softener you realize how coated all your clothes were in WAX. Occasionally I miss the static help, but other than that it's crazy to me how much wax we put on clothing.

Wax? This is new information to me.

Yes, anyone who has used cloth diapers knows that dryer sheets leave a (very unwelcome, at least in the case of diapers) residue. The residue reduces absorbancy, so is an issue for diapers and towels.

I stopped using dryer sheets 18 years ago and never went back. Scent-free detergent and wool balls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use unscented tide, oxiclean free and unscented dryer sheets because I was raised in an upper class white household. This is a cultural thing and I try not be judgmental but I genuinely have a physical aversion to scented laundry and while I like to buy second hand, especially kid clothes, I spend a lot of time trying to soak the perfume out of them.

What works best is oxiclean first and then vinegar. Soak in a bucket overnight for both stages.

This is not cultural to being upper class and white. It is most definitely judgmental and snobby. It may be in current fashion to avoid anything scented, but plenty of upper class white people grew up associating clean clothing with the smell of detergent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have used the scent beads on sheets/blankets in the guest bedroom. With the pandemic we've had few guests but I like the scent lingering in the sheets. Have you ever gotten into someone's guest bed and been fairly certain that the sheets were not clean? Eeeshhhhh

Staying at someone’s house and having the sheets scented is a nightmare to me. Is this a troll?