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Smelly Towel Cleaner Review

October 22, 2010 By

Okay, it has a funny name,  but the thing is, it WORKS.  My husband kept telling me I was just being overly sensitive, that the towels didn’t really smell like mildew, but they did.  I was constantly re-washing towels because I hated stepping out of the shower, picking up what I thought was a clean towel, and having it smell like mildew! Who wants to smell like that?  Finally one day he pulled a clean towel out of the linen closet and said ‘oh, you’re right, this does smell like mildew’.   I hated being right about that!

I had no idea what we were doing wrong. We were washing towels on Warm with a Cold rinse, even though we used Cold/Cold for everything else. I tried setting the dryer hotter, instead of the energy-efficient setting I usually used. No matter what I did, the towels just stunk.

So then one day I get an email from a guy who wants to know if I’ll review a product called Smelly Towel Cleaner and I replied back “um, YES PLEASE.”   It arrived in the mail, I grabbed an armful of towels and marched down to the laundry room.  Inside the jar I found a pale pink powder, and on the back the directions said to add one teaspoon to a load of towels along with my regular detergent. So I did, setting the washer on Warm/Cold.

When they were done, they went right into the dryer, and when the buzzer went off, I grabbed one and took a big sniff. It smelled CLEAN! Woo hoo! But the real test for me was, how would the towel smell after it cooled down, got folded, and sat in the linen closet for a couple of days?  So a few days later I opened the linen closet, pulled a towel off the stack, and put it up to my nose. STILL FRESH!  Hooray!

Seriously, I know it seems goofy to be so excited about this, but after months of weird smelling towels, it was so nice to finally have them smell clean again!   Smelly Towel Cleaner is made by the same company that makes Smelly Washer Cleaner, and their blog says that what makes clothes and towels smell musty or mildewy is bacteria building up inside the washer. The culprits are always using cold water which doesn’t kill germs inside the washer, and leaving the lid of the washer down instead of leaving it open so the washer can dry out.  I was guilty of both.

So thanks, SmellyWasher.com, for sending me Smelly Towel Cleaner and making it pleasant to smell my towels again! LOL

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Giveaway #2- Spray n Wash Bright & White

July 6, 2009 By

This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to the three winners!

#47 Ashley

#85 Gloria

#21 Shannon from Shannon Blogs Here

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Earlier this year, I was selected to be one of the founding members of the Spray ‘n Wash Bright & White Blog Panel.  They must have known how much laundry we do every week, and how many of our clothes say “do not use chlorine bleach” on the labels! Between food spills, grass stains, and Kaitlyn’s potty training accidents, we can use all the help we can get with stain removal.  The bottle they sent me even came in this cute washing machine box:

Spray n Wash 2

I’ve been buying Spray ‘n Wash for years, the regular stain fighting spray, so I couldn’t wait to try this new Bright&White with Resolve Power on our clothes.  Rather than spray, you pour a little directly onto stains, then  measure and pour it right into the water as the washer is filling, add your regular detergent, and it removes stains, brightens the colors, whitens the whites, all without chlorine bleach.

My biggest laundry challenge at the moment is definitely Kaitlyn’s undies. She’s doing really well with the potty training, especially with going pee, but she’s still working on the pooping in the potty. Which unfortunately means that once or twice a week, I have to wash underpants that, well, you know.

I pour the Spray ‘n Wash Bright&White right onto the stains and rub it in, then measure and pour it into the wash along with liquid laundry detergent. I have to say, I do see a difference in the brightness, the stains don’t come out 100%, but pretty close. And the undies that have a colored pattern on them, there’s no danger of bleach stains ruining them.

New Spray ‘N Wash Bright ‘N White With Resolve Power retails for around $4.99. You can visit their website to print a coupon to save $0.75 on your purchase of Spray ‘N Wash. Submit a photo entry of your worst bleach accident or laundry disaster at www.ListenToYourClothes.com and you could win a $10,000 laundry room makeover!

WIN IT: Spray ‘n Wash will send three winners their own bottle of Bright & White with Resolve Power in a cute washing machine box.  For your main entry, leave a comment on this post. When filling in the comment fields, you must use your real first name or blog name (no keywords! I’m serious, I’ll delete your entry!) and make sure your email address is correct. In your comment, tell me your worst bleach/laundry horror story.

ENTER BY: Monday July 20th at 11:59 PM EST. Winner to be announced Monday, June 27th. Open to U.S. only.

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How do I wash clothes if I can’t get water into the machine?

March 10, 2009 By

This is a guest post from Michael Brown:

A washing machine can only be filled up by a washing machine fill hose. That may sound a little obvious but when you have an appliance repair experience like I did you will understand why I am making the statement. I learned painfully that using anything but proper appliance parts, in this case proper Whirlpool parts, will lead to disaster. In my case, it led to a flood in my basement.

Here’s the story. The fill hose connected to my washing machine broke when we were moving and my brother-in-law dropped the machine on top of it. I suppose I should be grateful that he didn’t break the entire washer, but I really don’t like my brother-in-law so I’m going to be inexplicably angry with him for as long as I can. We were moving the machine off the truck and he put it down on top of the fill hose which was still attached (my fault there). This led to a need for a replacement fill hose.

This is the part where the adventure begins. Needing to get a load of laundry done as soon as possible, we put the washer in the basement and looked around for something we could use as a fill hose. Two guys who don’t like each other very much, a couple of six packs, and an angry wife who wants to get the move done are factors that do not lead to intelligent problem solving. We rigged it with a garden hose, turned the machine on to do a load, and left it. An hour later when I came down to check it there was water everywhere.

Without getting into too many details my wife (very angry), brother-in-law (blaming everything on me), and landlord (more angry than wife) let me have it for being an idiot. I knew it and I just let them all vent, then I took out my laptop and did what I should have done in the first place. I went to AppliancePartsPros.com and ordered the Whirlpool fill hose that my brother-in-law had broken. It only cost me $12.40 (good stainless steel hose, not the cheap rubber ones) but I made him pay me $25.00. Then I cleaned up the water in the basement. The hose arrived a day later and I made my wife happy by doing the appliance repair and then doing four loads of laundry. Next time I move I’ll hire movers and skip the drama with the in-laws.

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