![]() ![]() If you overstuff the machine, you're going to be much more likely to end up with a melted pod situation.They go into the drum of the machine before the laundry.The thing is, though, that the order of operations becomes wildly important when dealing with a detergent pod-and it actually becomes another area where the use of pods leads to better laundering practices. So, pods can actually make you better at laundry by taking out the very human instinct that makes us think that more detergent = more clean. Skip the Dry Cleaner and Wash Your Shirts at Home.But I finally made the switch, in part because I'm laundromat-dependent and they truly do make my life so much easier (as you might imagine, I do a lot of laundry.) I was one much like our Letter Writer, in that I clung to my liquid laundry detergent out of both habit and out of a sense of skepticism about those pods. ![]() It also lets me evangelize a little bit about the use of pods more generally, which I shall do first. Also, you're doing the rest of the greater laundering public a favor by giving me an excuse to talk about the proper use of detergent pods. It's OK though, because it's not a huge goof. I have to tell you that, yeah, you messed up. This is a super easy fix, seriously! But before we get into what to do about a melted detergent pod situation, I have to do something I don't love doing. I'M SHOUTING AT YOU BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THAT MELTED DETERGENT PODS ARE NO BIG DEAL AT ALL. It's the black-trimmed black-belt one with patches sewn onto it, so it's, like, $60 to replace. Anyway, the pod didn't dissolve or something and now it's baked into the shirt of my son's Taekwondo dobak. Also, I had bought those detergent pods this time because there was a sale and I like a good deal. I have resisted detergent pods for years because they seem wasteful, and I like to use the same liquid detergent my clothes have been washed in since my mom did laundry when I was a kid.Īnyway, to the point, I was in a hurry and didn't want to wash too many loads of laundry and I overfilled the washer (I know). I tend to do household chores the old (probably wrong) ways I've been doing them since I was a kid, both because I'm a full-time, single, very busy dad, and also because I'm a bit lazy/impatient/set-in-my-ways. Are you still dirty? Subscribe to Ask a Clean Person: The Podcast on Acast, iTunes or Stitcher, and like Ask a Clean Person on Facebook. She'll be here every week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. ![]()
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