Life Hack: How To Do Laundry (With washing machine)

Life Hack: How To Do Laundry (With washing machine)

I learned how to do laundry when I was a sixth grader. It was the first time that I used the washing machine. In the second or third year of my high school life, my mother decided not to hire a helper and we were tasked to wash our clothes. Though I had help from my mom from a time, I usually am the one washing my own. I was fond of hand washing the clothes even though we had a washing machine. It was gentler on the clothes but it was tedious of course. Based on my experience, the clothes tend to last more when you hand wash your clothes. Typically, I use only the dryer on the washing machine and rarely the spinner. For your information, at this time, the washing machine we use is a twin tub type. This habit of mine lasted even after I graduated in college. When we were deployed in a rural area for our immersion, we were instructed not to use washing machines just to experience the rural life but I was thinking that it will not pose as a problem for me as I usually prefer hand washing than washing machine.

Maybe it was a good thing that our washing machine of one to two decades old broke down that we had to resort to hand washing. But after some time, one day I realized that I'd had enough. Maybe I just got lazier and just want to make my life more easier after all these years. 

We bought a newer type of automatic washing machine where you just dump them inside and it would automatically wash, rinse and dry it based on how you program it. I usually use the enery saver mode. It takes about 26 minutes total.

Let's face it: using the automatic washing machine takes more water and consumes more electricity. So as much as possible, I refrain from using it if I had less clothes to wash.

So how do I do my laundry? You can scroll down below for some tips.

-SORT

This is one important step you need to take. Separate the whites and the colored ones clothes. I separate them also based if you're wearing it at home and outside your home. Separate the towels with the covers on the mattress and with the curtains. Separate your underwear and bras. One tip is to purchase laundry storage for underwears, socks, bras, white clothes and colored clothes so that you can sort it out as you go. It saves time and effort.

-SOAK

I cannot stress the importance of soaking your clothes with a bit of detergent even for just 15-30 minutes. There was a time that I just dumped my clothes on the washing machine. The end result turned sometimes okay but sometimes clothes tend to smell still which you don't want. I soak the clothes up based from what I sorted it out and then for the white clothes, I let out in the sun. I found out that the sun helps to whiten out more the clothes and feel that clothes are more sanitize this way because of the heat (so no more smelly clothes later on). What I do on a rainy day is that instead of letting it out, I use hot water instead.

First things first. I am not sponsored by any products that I say in this blog article but for white clothes, I turn to Breeze ActiveBleach by Unilever. One twin sachet is usually enough for me but if I want to make the clothes more cleaner, I add a half sachet. For the colored ones, I love to use Wings Active Guard. A sachet goes a long way on removing the smell from your clothes even on a rainy day. Too bad Wings ActiveGuard is not readily available in all supermarkets.

-RINSE

Yes. Rinse out that grime and smell. But before that, you can try rubbing out the clothes by your hands just to aid in disentangling the stains that the washing machine cannot do.

-WASH, RINSE, DRY

Finally, the easiest part of them all: dumping them into the washing machine. Again, I wash the clothes based on sort. If you can, refrain from using the washing machine with your underwear, bra or socks. If you can't, use a laundry net.

-DRY

Dry out your clothes using the hanger.

And that's it folks! I hope that it helps with your laundry woes! :-)