How to prepare clothes for the washer
There are so many different ways that people can do laundry. If you are just moving out on your own or are getting married there is a high chance that you don't know how to prepare clothes for the washer. Here are some tips to help you know how to prepare clothes for the washer.
The first tip on how to prepare clothes for the washer is to sort them into different colors. You can wither sort your colors into lights and darks and whites, or if you have enough batches you can sort them by colors. For example you can have a batch of blues and another batch for greens, and then another batch for reds. If you are going to do lights and darks just put all of your dark blues, greens, grey's and any other similar colors together. Then put your lights together such as light blues, light pinks, and any other light colors. Another color that you will want to keep separate is your whites. If you wash your pure whites together then you can use bleach which will help them stay whiter. If you are going to use bleach though you will want to make sure that any white clothes that you have that have any pictures or other colors on them stay separate so your bleach does not bleach out the other colors.
The second tip on how to prepare clothes for the washer is to presoak them. If you have clothes that have stains on them you will want to make sure that you presoak them to try to loosen the stains. You can do this by either soaking them in a sink with detergent in cold water or by running them through a presoak in the washer. If you are going to presoak your clothes in the washer you will want to makes sure that you turn the water on first and pour in your detergent and make the water hot for just long enough to dissolve the detergent and then turn the water to straight cold. You don't want to bake in the stains and by using hot water that is what will happen.
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The third tip on how to prepare clothes for the washer is to pre treats them with stain remover. This can be done by finding the stains on the clothes that you are washing and putting some sort of stain remover on them and letting it sit for a minute then taking a scrub brush of some sort (old toothbrushes work great) and scrubbing the stain to see if you can get the stain out or even just lighten it.
The fourth tip on how to prepare clothes for the washer is to put your detergent in and turn on the right temperature of water. For darker colors you usually want your water to be colder so you do not fade your clothes. If you have lighter colors or white clothes you will want to use warmer to hot water to make them looking whiter.
These are just some of the tips on how to prepare clothes for the washer. Depending on how you do your laundry will depend on how you prepare your clothes for the washer. Once you have your clothes prepared for the washer you can go ahead and throw them in and let the washing begin. If you want to find out more information on how to do laundry you can go online and find more resources. There is a lot of different resources that can tell different ways on how to prepare clothes so you can pick which method works best for you.
