Friday, November 30, 2007

Keep Clean

My uniform collection grew to 5 uniforms - 3 blue and 2 orange. That's only because I'm too lazy to clean them every so often. The unintentional consequence of this infrequent laundry is mildew smell - especially t-shirts/tank tops I wear under the uniforms. Fresh out of the dryer, they smell nice and clean. Not so, once they absorb a leeeeettle bit of my sweat...

I have heard a few laundry tips from our changing room:
  • Wash in 2 cycles.

  • Use dish washer detergent.

  • Sprinkle baking soda over the laundry.

  • Boil them.

  • etc...

Here's a new one. Lifehacker.com published a top 10 food and drink hacks. At number 7 is how to clean everything with vinegar including mildew towels which I assume should work with my mildew uniforms and tank tops.

I will give it a try and post the result once I get all my uniforms dirty. In the meantime, if you have tried-and-true laundry tips, please share.

6 comments:

  1. It really helps (for me) to just hang them up when you get home. Don't bother trying to rinse them out or anything (unless you're into it), just hang `em up. Then you can wash them when you get around to it.

    Also, cotton good, synthetics bad.

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  2. Yep, i do the same thing, rush home, put them hanging next to the steam. Then when the time comes wash them.
    Since i really dont have a washer machine, i hand wash them in cold water and detergent then hang them again by the steam over night while i dream and stuff :-P
    Morning time comes crispy clean!

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  3. i havent tried it but i heard murphy's oil soap works
    best
    heng Zang

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  4. murphy's oil as in the thing we use to clean the floor?

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  5. hahahah wood cleaning soap? so when you stretch at the side of the temple, you not only have a mildew free shirt but you can polish the floor too lmao jk

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  6. Did you try it yet? I would like to know the results.

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