No More Dryer Sheets
I read somewhere a long time ago that dryer sheets are hard for the dryer. You are supposed to use fabric softener built into the detergent or use an additive in the washer.
Then I read the complete opposite of that route, stating the dryer sheets are the way to go.
Yeah, I know, flip-flop, flip-flop. Ten years ago “eggs and bacon cause cancer”. Twenty years ago, they were a “healthy breakfast”. Today everyone is too damn lazy to cook breakfast so they eat at McDonald’s and wonder why their butt is fat but think they are fending off heart disease cause they aren’t eating eggs and bacon. Go figure.
Anyhoo.
I have always been a dryer sheet kind of guy. I grew up in a house that used dryer sheets. In college everyone used dryer sheets, if you could afford them, otherwise you stole them off the girl’s floor… So that has been what I always used.
About a month ago we ran out, and I guess I just got sick of always being the one responsible for buying certain items so I didn’t buy more. On purpose. Just to see if anyone else would.
Well, no one did. Not that I’m that surprised. 🙂
What I am surprised about though is that we never really needed them. I would guess that we have washed about 30-50 loads of laundry since we ran out of dryer sheets, and I can’t tell the difference.
Years ago I could swear that the towels felt itchy and course if you didn’t use them, but apparently the detergent is better now days or something, or the water is different, or I’m just not as picky anymore.
Anyway, one less thing that gets put on the Wal-Mart list from now on… How ’bout you? Are you a dryer sheet kinda person or detergent kinda person or nothing at all?
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July 5th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Hah! I use liquid fabric softener – even though I also grew up on dryer sheets.
But I still buy dryer sheets.
I use them for a lot of things. I put one in each of my dresser drawers, every few months. It seems to keep moths away, and clothes just smell better.
I use them to clean my LCD and HDTV monitors.
I use them to remove dust from my ceiling fan blades and my mini-blinds.
When my kids cook and leave the stove top a mess, I put a couple of dryer sheets across the top of the stove, wet them down, and in an hour or so I just “pick the dirt up”. No scrubbing. No abrasives.
And like you, I am the only one in my house with dryer sheets on my list – but I’m not ready to take them off – they are just too damn useful!
Oh – one more use I learned when my kids played soccer – put a dryer sheet in athletic shoes to keep them from stinking!
Rob