You know when you first get
married and everything is all wedded bliss and like, we do everything together
and this is so romantic and your husband even washes and dries the laundry for
you and then he washes and dries your bag of dry cleaning? After that, Jeff and I started doing
our own laundry.
It felt weird at first. Cause
you know, we're a couple and we do coupley things. Together. Like eating
popcorn at the movies. I’m a secret fan of the Butter-Like-Substance on Movie
Theatre Popcorn. Jeff is not. But rather than each getting our own popcorn, we
always share. Because we’re a couple and we do coupley things. Together.
But we do not do each other’s
laundry any more. No, no, no, because work clothing that is supposed to be
dry-cleaned doesn’t do well in the washing machine nor does it survive the
dryer.
Here’s how Jeff does laundry:
1. Grab all clothing
and stick it into washer, wash it all together with towels.
2. Put everything
into the dryer, but on cool setting so everything comes out wrinkly.
3. Fold at some
point or maybe not.
Here’s how I do laundry:
1. Make piles of
darks, lights, delicates, running clothes, towels.
2. Wash each pile
separately with hot or cold water depending on the type of items.
3. Hang dry 90% of
items.
4. Smooth and fold
items when dry.
5. Dry towels, jeans
and socks in the dryer on hot setting.
6. Fold while warm.
I won't argue that my
method is superior, because honestly Jeff looks a lot better than I do most days.
Clearly his clothes are not suffering by being washed together and dried in the
dryer on cool air and maybe not having been folded and put back into the
correct drawer. But I like my method. It’s a meditation of sorts.
The other issue is that Jeff
likes to wash his clothing with unscented detergent. I’m more of a Clean Breeze
scent kind of girl. I even have one of those “fresh laundry” candles. Fresh
laundry should smell clean! Like a candle! So we each do our own laundry.
Recently my friends at 2Toms
sent me some Stink Free Sports Detergent to try, which I was pretty excited
about, so I grabbed my pile of running and cycling clothes and got to work. My
first thought was one of minor concern. The Stink Free Sports Detergent, which
by the way, promised to remove all odors and stains thankyouverymuch, didn’t
really have a scent. Hmmm. Clean laundry is supposed to smell clean! Like a
candle! But I figured I would give it a try anyway, mostly because, well, it
was sent to me to do so, and I happen to love all of the other 2Toms products I
have used before.
So, you’re dying to hear what
happened right? Is this the best laundry story you’ve read today or what?! Let
me tell you first, my running clothes are DISGUSTING. I am a totally gross
sweaty girl. I may shower up alright, but after a run or a bike ride I am like,
ugh, gross. So I was thinking, this Stink Free Sports Detergent had better have
some kind of miracle ingredient in it.
You guys? It totally DOES!
The first thing I noticed
after the wash cycle was, even though the detergent itself didn’t really have a
scent to it, my running clothes smelled REALLY LOVELY. Like, really fresh and
clean. Like they had been ionized or something. I’m not sure what ionization
really even is but my clothes smelled super amazingly clean. And I immediately
thought, this fresh and clean but not really scented thing is so much better
for running clothes because when I wear them again and start to sweat, I won’t
smell like a sweaty fake clean breeze, I’ll just be sweaty me! And that’s a lot
better really when you think about it.
I hung everything to dry
except my running socks which I popped into the dryer, and waited for the final
results. Which were fabulous. Everything dried perfectly. Clean, folded running
laundry is such a nice thing! It really beats dirty running laundry in a big
huge way.
Another cool thing about 2Toms
Stink Free Sports Detergent is that you don’t need a washing machine to get
your running clothes clean. 2Toms made it so the detergent works just great
without an agitator, and you can buy it in packets so you can wash your running clothes when you’re traveling,
right in the sink of your hotel room or at camp or wherever you’re staying.
This was a game changer for me on a recent 17-day trip where I normally would
have brought several changes of running clothes and…gross girl alert (!!!) I
would have worn them over and over all supergross and grossly gross.
I packed 2 sets of running
clothes for 17 days. 2Toms Stink Free Sports Detergent saved me from having to over
pack, and saved the world (or at least most of California) from being exposed
to me running in dirty running clothes. For this, 2Toms Stink Free Sports
Detergent deserves the Nobel Prize or at least a Pulitzer or a commendation
from President Obama or the Dalai Lama.
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| Amazingly clean and fresh smelling running clothes thanks to 2Toms. |
So my advice to you is, share the popcorn, even if you have to give up the Butter-Like-Substance, but do your own laundry.
