Laundry and Life

“Life is like a box full of chocolates”, is what Forrest Gump said in his movie. Chocolate is good or bad it is still chocolate. Similarly, life is like a laundry its messy. A nuisance but it is also a reminder that you like to be clean. And also you have a sense of fashion.

Let me point out a few similarities between life and laundry.  Just like responsibilities mostly we do not do laundry until it is absolutely necessary. If we try to avoid it even further and try to wear the same underwear for 3 or 4 days. We develop rashes and also few skin related problems.

Here are a few tips I would like to provide you do proper laundry,

1. We have to sort our clothes before the laundry. Like muddy ones go separate and one which losses color on washing goes separate thus avoiding unnecessary mash-up of your clothes.
2. Don’t put detergent directly on your clothes.
3. Do not mix socks with other clothes
4. Don’t leave zippers open while the laundry
5. Do not leave the buttons of your shirts buttoned.
6. Don’t scrub the strains
7. Use Fresheners
8. Try Listerine in laundry
9. For soft and fluffy towels add Vinegar and baking soda along with detergent and see the results of soft towels.
10. Here’s a tip which will work most of the time, when you are taking hot shower hang your clothes beside which will remove wrinkles from your shirts. This works well for people in hurry and don’t have time for ironing their shirts.
11. Hair conditioner and warm water are useful when you have shrunk your sweater. That is, take the sweater and put it in hair conditioner and warm water and see the results as your sweater returns back to normal size.
12. Apart from playing tennis, tennis balls can be put in dryers which will reduce wrinkles in bed linens.
13. Most of us find colors of our favorite dress shaded and which disturbs our mood while preparing for a party so add salt while doing laundry so that colors don’t shade away.
14. And also if we wash our clothes inside out this will reduce shading of colors.
15. Most of us observe that drying time takes more time when compared to washing time, hence I suggest that you add towel while drying your clothes, which will reduce the drying time.
16. Jeans are clothes which we wear for longer amount of time even without washing them properly. They are durable, flexible, and tough and last for long amount of time. So whenever we get time to remove the bad odor from jeans I suggest that you freeze them once in a time to remove the bad odor.
17. Usually when we iron it consumes lot of amount of power and also time and also it is tiresome. So to reduce the ironing time I suggest that you place an aluminum foil below your iron bed which in turn will reduce your ironing time and will also reduce power consumption.

So let me explain the importance of laundry with a small story.

Once upon a time in a desert, there lived a family with limited water resources enough for their survival.  The family consists of parents and a daughter. All three of them are usually busy with their life, by growing whatever crops they can grow with limited water and also raising livestock. They usually don’t attend any functions and stay among themselves.

Once a distant relative visited their home to invite them for their son’s marriage.  Upon visiting the parents were happy to see a visitor. The next day the relative left after inviting them. So the parents started looking for good pair of dress to wear for attending the wedding, but it was a long time since they washed their clothes and also with their limited water resources it was difficult to was all three’s clothes. So they were disappointed and sat. Little Anya not giving up was looking up for clean clothes; suddenly she found a book written by her deceased grandmother. She gave the book to her mother, in that their grandma had written how to clean house, clean clothes and how to stay hygiene with limited water resources. So with all these, they started reading the book.

Here are few tips from that book,

1. The first and foremost thing in the book was sort what you want to clean. That is separate white dress from darker ones which will reduce the water needed for re-cleaning.
2. Store your clothes water once washed which can be used for cleaning less important clothes in the house.
3. Squeeze as much as can and remove the water for reusing.

So the parents followed the tips given their grandma washed their clothes with less water and re used the water and attended the weeding and returned happily.

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I hope the above tips can be used to help yourself with laundry and keep your life hygiene.