How do i do laundry?

Question

Im seriously running out of clothes. My knees are freezing because i couldnt find a single pair of long pants in my drawer and i didnt have any socks either so my feet are freezing too. Ive also been wearing the same shirt for 4 days! When i ask my mom if she can do more laundry she just yells at me saying she does 1000 pounds a day. If thats true then why is the laundry shoot filled to the top? So I want to start doing laundry so i can actually wear stuff thats warm and doesnt stink but I have no idea how. Like what do i put the buttons on were do i put detergent and how long i put them in. Help!

Answer 1

Hi I have no idea how to do my own laundry either, so I decided to find out.


Steps
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Step One
To do laundry, first sort your dirty clothes, making separate piles for whites, bright colors and darks. If you mix whites with colors in the wash, the colors may bleed onto and ruin your whites. Also separate clothes that tend to produce lint (towels, sweatshirts, chenille and flannel) from clothes that tend to attract lint (corduroy, velvets and permanent-press clothes).
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Step Two
As you sort, close zippers to prevent snagging, and empty pockets (you don't want soggy shreds of facial tissue all over your clothes!).
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Step Three
Pretreat heavy stains with laundry detergent or stain remover, heeding instructions on the product label.
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Step Four
Use the measuring cap of the detergent bottle or the cup found in detergent boxes to measure out the right amount of laundry soap according to the manufacturer's instructions.
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Step Five
Pour the soap into your washer or its detergent dispenser. Add liquid fabric softener, if desired, according to the product instructions.
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Step Six
Choose the water temperature for the wash cycle:hot, warm or cold; save on energy and opt for a cold rinse cycle for any load. Consult the labels on your clothes, your washing machine's instruction manual or the detergent container for recommendations on washing temperature. In general, use cold water to protect colors and darks from bleeding or fading, and to avoid shrinkage. Use warm or hot water for durable fabrics like cotton (make sure they're preshrunk), and to ensure that your whites stay white.
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Step Seven
Start the washer before adding clothes, if you have time, to allow the detergent to dissolve in the water. The regular cycle suffices for most laundry, but use the gentle cycle for sheer or delicate fabrics. Adjust the water level to the size of your load.
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Step Eight
If you need to add bleach, allow the machine to run for a few minutes to mix the detergent and water, then add about a cup of bleach to the washer or the bleach dispenser.
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Step Nine
Add your clothes, close the lid and let the machine do its dirty work. Washing takes approximately 45 minutes.
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Step Ten
Put the clothes (and an anti-static sheet, if desired) in the dryer after the wash is complete. Hang delicates (such as bras and certain sweaters) to air dry on a clothing rack or hanger. Check tags if in doubt.
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Step Eleven
Remove lint from the dryer's lint tray.
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Step Twelve
Select the correct drying temperature for your laundry load: low for delicates, medium for most fabrics and high for cotton. When in doubt, low or medium is the safest bet.
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Step Thirteen
Close and turn on the dryer. Expect the drying cycle to take an hour or more for a full load.
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Step Fourteen
Once the clothes are completely dry, remove them from the dryer or drying rack and fold your clean laundry.
Tips & Warnings

* If you stuff too many clothes into the washer, it won't clean them well. Allow room for clothes to agitate during the wash cycle.
* Remember that you should typically dry-clean some fabrics: silk, wool, linen and rayon, for example. You should hand-wash lingerie in the sink with laundry soap designed for delicates.
* Never add bleach to wash water while clothes are in the washer. The concentrated bleach will whiten and dissolve clothing. Add clothing to the washing machine once the bleach has been mixed well with the water and the washer is half-full.
* Handle bleach carefully. Avoid splashing it directly onto clothes or yourself.

Answer 2

Well, for my laundry I do it twice a week, I don't really do all that separating because for me it has never had any effect on my clothes, but to be safe I'm starting to. Make sure to check the tags on the clothes to see how to wash it or you will ruin the clothes. Some brands I recommend and tide, gain, and arm and hammer, I use the liquid stuff. So when you have everything in the washer then judge whether it is small medium or large and put that on the setting. And pour in the detergent ( on some the little cup has lines on it to show you how much to put in for small, medium, and large loads). Then set the dial to about half an hour, which is either 10 or 14 . You may want to watch your mother when she does the laundry so you can see what setting she uses. Since my laundry room is far away from where I usually am I have a little time that goes off when the washer is done.

For the drying it differs. If you have a dryer then just load the clothes into it and add in a little slip( sorry I can't remember what it is called). And make sure to empty out the "lint collector" before you turn it on. Again ask your mom what she recommends for the setting, because a lot of people have different settings I just put on the either 50 0r 40 minutes.

If you don't have a dryer then you get clothes pins and hang the clothes up on the ine and wait ( I'm not sure how long).


My dad does his own laundry but never takes it out when he's done so sometimes I just take it back to his room, to be nice, other times if I'm bussy then I will take it out put it in a hamper and tell him he needs to get it.

Hope I helped =)

Answer 3

Sort in piles, bluejeans and colored socks and shirts=1pile, white socks,underwear, teas,sweatshirts=2nd pile towels and other stuff =3rdpile, measure cap full of liquid detergent, or if you have dry detergent, put in 1cup. Now put a pile into washer, select warm water setting, now press or turn dial to a wash load setting, in your case just use pernament press setting for any pile. Any setting will do just not delicate. Make sure the water level setting is for a full load. throw in detergent and press the knob in. When its done, throw it in dryer, with dryer sheet if you have one, and press pernament press setting again, or time setting of 60 minutes. That should do ya. Bleach is too advanced for you so avoid it. A spray bottle "Shout it Out" is good to spray on stains, cause it really helps remove most spills spots. I admire you wanting clean clothes. You may consider getting neighbor to show you when your mom is out, just grap a lady.

Answer 4

Oh my, you cant be serious.
First of all, your mom would appreciate the help.
Take your whites and colors and separate them. Separate your jeans into another pile.
First do your whites, take a cup full of detergent and include that with the clothes you can also add about a cap full of bleach.
Then do your colors and jeans. Same process except DONT ADD BLEACH!!

Answer 5

Your mom won't show you and she won't do it, that's not right. I do all of my kids laundry.

Anyway socks and underwear warm cycle normal wash, 1 cup of laundry soap for a full load of laundry and one cap full of bleach in the bleach dispenser on the laundry machine, regular wash cycle.

Jeans and colors cold no bleach normal cycle

Whites warm regular cycle no bleach if there are colors any where on the items.

Answer 6

okay well first sort your clothes by colors
whites
darks
blue jeans then you put the machine on cold ..then you poor a cup of detergent and click start and to dry just put a dryer sheet and turn it on ..hope that helped

Answer 7

..Well,U can take it to the cleaners or do it Ur self by putting the laundry in after the washing powders have dissolved..My Dear

Answer 8

Open the washing machine and look on the inside of the lid...it'll tell you everything you need to know.

Answer 9

lights(light colored clothes)- washer- cold/ warm water, regular, put 1/2 scoop of soap in
darks( dark colors, jeans)- cold water, regular, 1/2 scoop soap
whites( underwear)- hot water, regular, 1/2 scoop soap

dryer-lights- regular
darks- medium
whites- regular

Answer 10

ask your mom she must know if she does a thousand pounds of it a day