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(#9) Save Time Before The Wash By Pre-Sorting Clothes
If you’ve got the space, you can save time sorting your clothes before the wash. Just get three or four cheap foldable laundry baskets for each type of wash: whites, darks, permanent press, and for heavier items like pants and sweatshirts.
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(#4) Throw Some Aluminum Foil In Your Dryer For Static-Free Clothes
This is the cheapest dryer-sheet alternative out there. It won’t add an extra bit of fresh scent to your clothes, but it will remove static. Just crumple a bit of aluminum foil into a ball and throw it in the dryer. The same ball will work for up to six months.
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(#3) Tennis Balls Keep Your Bedding Fluffy
If you’ve got a few kids or live in winter winter, there's probably a pretty big market in your house for washing your bedding, and comforters can be a tricky one because they're so big and can sometimes clog or break a standard washer/dryer, or just take multiple cycles to fully wash and dry out. But there’s a surprising hack you can try to will cut down drying time and keep your bedding plush. Throw some clean tennis balls in with the comforter to keep it nice and fluffy. The same goes for pillows and winter coats. Just don't reuse the ones the dog's been fetching — it kind of defeats the purpose of the hack.
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(#1) Washers Need Love... And Cleaning, Too
After a long period of use, washers can build up bacteria and leave your clothes smelling funky. You can use a natural solution to clean the washer itself. Put your washer on the highest heat and longest wash time. Then add four cups of white vinegar once it’s filled up.
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(#2) Get Ink Out With Alcohol
If you’ve got school-aged kids, or if you’re an old-timey note-taker, ink will likely end up on clothes. Though it always looks like irreversible damage, the good news is that you can get it out with alcohol. If you don’t feel like wasting the good vodka, spray the stain with some hairspray or use some hand sanitizer on it.
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(#12) Write Reminders Right On The Machine
If you’ve got a big household, it can be hard to remember how everything needs to be washed. Or maybe you just have a busy life that needs multi-tasking effiency. Well, if you don’t have one of those double-stacked washer/dryer combos there’s an easy solution. You can write directions on top of the washer and dryer with a dry erase marker. Even if you get marker on your clothes, you're in the laundry room with a list full of hacks and can easily take care of yourself!
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Laundry is one of the daily chores. No matter any weather or season, clothes need to be washed if they are dirty. Besides using laundry detergent, a variety of stubborn dirt needs to be completely removed by specific methods. Learning some simple laundry hacks can let you easily get rid of all kinds of laundry troubles. While we can’t come to do your laundry for you, we can try to make it easier.
Laundry can be super stressful sometimes, especially when you have several kids, it feels like you are drowning in the clothes. The random tool lists 12 practical laundry hacks that can make laundry easier.
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