However there is just one thing about doing laundry that I cannot stand. I cannot, I just cannot hand-wash my clothing.
As a member of the 21st century, I grew up on home appliances. In my mother's generation, they didn't have much of these stuff. In my generation, we were usually surrounded with computers, televisions, fridges, air-conditioners, and most relevant to wat we have to say now - The Washing Machine.
In this era, I find it hard to believe that people are still hand-washing their clothes. It is a rather stupid idea as well. With the exception of the low-income families, all others who so much as to suggest hand-washing deserve a tight slap on the cheek. What's the point in hand-washing your clothing? Want to act humble is it?
Go get lost!
Now that we have come to a concensus that hand-washing is dumb, let me raise some pitfalls using the washing machine.
1) My delicate clothes get damaged when I hand-wash!
2) My dark coloured clothes get a massive lint attack when I wash them with towels!
3) The colour of my dark clothing stains my light coloured clothing when I wash them together!
Friends, let me introduce a suggestion, that might be the best solution to your problems!
Let me introduce to you..
The Laundry Net
Mommeh's little helpersThe laundry net is an amaaaaazing invention!
With a laundry net, I can now safely wash my delicate clothes in my washing machine.
With a laundry net, I can now separate my dark clothing from my towels, and get no lint stuck on the dark fabric.
With a laundry net, the dark and light clothes can be separated, and there will be reduced chances of the dark clothes staining the light clothes.
With a laundry net, the dark and light clothes can be separated, and there will be reduced chances of the dark clothes staining the light clothes.
(Disclaimer: of course we don't try and do stupid things like washing a brand new piece of dark clothing with a light coloured clothing in 2 separate bags, coz new dark clothes are very very very infectious and the concentration of dark dye will simply be too much for the laundry net to handle)
And I speak from real life experience. I always had an issue with hand-washing because I have terribly sensitive skin, totally incapable of tolerating detergent. Of course it can be argued that I could hand-wash my laundry wearing gloves, but it is usually harder to handle, and in the final rinse, you can't feel if all the detergent had been removed before you wring it to dry. The laundry net saved my life.
For very expensive delicate clothes, I will protect it from the harsh washer with 2 layers of laundry net. This can ensure the safety of the delicate fabric. The same concept can be applied to very expensive dark clothing - 2 layers of laundry net to protect it from the lint from towels. Trust me, I've been using laundry nets from the age of 13!
For brassiere, you can protect the ones with underwire by using an improvised laundry net - the laundry-perforated-type-plastic-ball. This can help to retain the shape of your expensive underwired brassiere without the need for hand-wash! (Btw, I neva trust hand-washing brassierecoz I can neva fully get the detergent out from the thick paddings)
If you live in Pandamonia, a good place to shop for good quality laundry nets will be at your friendly neighbourhood Daiso. Daiso stocks a good selection of different sizes of laundry net, and some look pretty with cute prints on 'em. I usually get my nets from Daiso.
All the nets I have are from Daiso, with the exception of the small rectangular one in the middle - that's from NTUC.
Another place you can try is NTUC. NTUC laundry nets are also of not bad quality, but there are 2 points lacking in comparison with Daiso nets. NTUC nets usually cost more and they carry different net brands from time to time, so the net zips are sometimes good, sometimes bad. The bad ones tend to have the holdable part of the zip falling off in a month or two of washing, and subsequently you'll find it hard to zip up or open the laundry net without a holdable part.
BUT PLEASE, please please please, DO NOT ever buy laundry nets from pasar malam (night market) stalls unless u wish to waste time and money. The quality is usually bad - they are usually made of thin netted fabric, and have terrible zips that can burst open after just one wash. In 'burst' I mean the teeth of the zip tend to lose the alignment and when that happens, you can't fix it ever.
So ladies, go ahead, go and get your laundry net fix, and stop the bloody hand-washing! Life is short, don't need to wash hard.
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