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View Poll Results: What is your favorite brand of laundry detergent?
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Tide
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10-04-2006, 10:28 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Just curious. Are you this nice in real life too? You are always soooo pleasant on the board. 
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10-04-2006, 10:30 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Pot...meet kettle. I have read some of the nastiest messages under your bi-line...
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10-04-2006, 10:32 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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I didn't say I'm perfect. Far from it. But at least most of my posts aren't negative.
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10-04-2006, 10:34 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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...judge not, lest ye be judged...
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10-04-2006, 10:36 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Posts: 8,559
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You're gonna preach to me now? This should be entertaining. 
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10-04-2006, 10:43 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Peppy...I was being IRONIC...because you tend to preach to everyone else.
I see now that you just don't get subtle nuance of conversation and I'm going to have to explain things as if I was talking to one of my little kids. You mistake passion about a particular subject as "negative". I have a passion about birth and the way women are treated by the birth industry in this country. I think they are treated negatively. That's really the only subject I have posted about with any degree of negativity. But, you are so defensive (or just blinded by your own issues), that you have now transposed that into all messages you read from me.
Here's a suggestion...try reading me for content on specific topics without the preconceived prejudices about my opinions on birth. Thanks.
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10-04-2006, 10:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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It's not just about birth. What gave you that idea?
I'm not the first person to call you on your snarkiness. And it hasn't been just about birth. I don't read all the birth threads, so I really don't know your position on that.
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10-04-2006, 10:54 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 31,469
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So what? Bandwagon mentality doesn't impress me.
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10-05-2006, 06:09 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 9,886
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Were you not hugged enough as a child?
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I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.
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10-05-2006, 08:24 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 6,000
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i get a 30-ounce bottle from krogers (local food market). the kroger brand.
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"Dogs stink too, but I like dog stink." ~ rileyb
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10-05-2006, 08:36 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
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RCW, I have to say this. I agree with you in substance about the birth industry and it is a passionate subject of mine also. But I have noticed that a huge number of your posts on that topic and other topics are filled with negativity, ad hominem attacks, intolerance and general nastiness. This thread not excluded.
Now I am eagerly waiting for you to tell me I am part of the bandwagon mentality and I lack the intelligence to pick up on the subtle distinctions of your posts.
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To Trenell, MizKerri and geeky:
I pray none of you ever has to live in a communist state.
Geeky is my hero. She's the true badass. The badass who doesn't even need to be a badass. There aren't enough O's in cool to describe her.
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10-05-2006, 08:38 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Right now I'm using Purex HE from the grocery store, but will probably switch to Tide HE when I finish this bottle because Tide is the only HE available at my local Sam's Club. I know, I know, everyone on here told me I didn't need the special HE detergent but I'm a sucker. I use fabric softener from the dollar store.
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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
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10-05-2006, 08:41 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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10-05-2006, 08:49 AM
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Can we please stop the bickering.
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10-05-2006, 08:55 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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 Last night I was at the grocery store.....ALL detergent was on sale VERY cheap....I stared at it.......thought of everyones posts.......looked over at the Tide Coldwater........looked back at the All......got a very sad feeling and just walked away. I didn't know what to do. Is this was middle age is all about? Getting sad about laundry detergent and not knowing what to do? I know I have bigger problems in my life. Now I'm getting even sadder because I know this will stay on my mind until I make a decision on what to do.
Wait, the story gets better............
So, this morning I put a load of towels, wash cloths, dish rags in the washer........stared at the hot and cold water settings.......settled on warm. Whew....one decision down. Then, I stared at the bleach bottle........and finally decided to use 'some', but not as much as normal....about half.
I am a sad and pathetic laundry obsessed person 
I wonder what my problem will be tomorrow.....probably back to my hair 
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Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or hump it.....Piss on it and walk away.
Location - WI
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10-05-2006, 09:20 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 3,346
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No.
Enough is enough.
I refuse to become a laundry PJ! You hear me?!
As for bugs and germs, I have read that you should wash your underwear separately from everything else, and your kitchen towels separately from everything else. Sigh. Also, I very much doubt that bleach would kill bedbugs, unless you really let your laundry soak in pure bleach and that would ruin the fabric.
We have 2 big dogs and didn't use Frontline. Heh. Brought them to the community garden once, they came home dripping with ticks. Ticks crawling up the walls. Ticks on the bedding. Ticks CRAWLING OUT OF THE WASHING MACHINE and that water sink thingie that the washer drains into. This was so very much not my beautiful house and not my beautiful life.
We use Frontline now. Oh and btw the dogs have their OWN towels and their OWN bedding that goes in its OWN load .
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formerly Castella
(my dogs aren't snarly, my hair is)
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10-05-2006, 09:25 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 5,932
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Castella: You have my head spinning now - dish rags seperate? Underware seperate? .......*hands together prayer "please don't let it be true"*
P.S. We own 6 dogs in Wisconsin - MUST USE FRONTLINE!!!
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Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or hump it.....Piss on it and walk away.
Location - WI
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10-05-2006, 11:19 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Apparently the best is to do your underwear in a separate load, make it the last load, and follow it with an empty load (rinse) with bleach.
Here are some links, not for the faint-hearted:
NY Time Article on Dr. Gerba, laundry, & bacteria
The Straight Dope
Disgusting laundry habits of others, hee hee, from garden web
Also found a 130+ page European study (linked in the disgusting habits) on laundry hygiene. I'm optimistically thinking that the hygiene guidelines are mainly for those with impaired immune systems!
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formerly Castella
(my dogs aren't snarly, my hair is)
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10-05-2006, 11:44 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 5,932
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Thank you Castella. I am happy and content with my laundry obsession! I will continue on......ok, I may find cheaper detergent than Tide, but the rest of my routine STAYS!
The rest is all good, my toothbrush has ALWAYS been in the cabinet (taught by my mother). In fact, we put the lid on the toilet down before flushing and it stays down (except for when in use). That started when I got a bird as a teenager. Pet store lady said it could fly in and drown! Always has been a habit! I use a new dish rag everyday - taught to me by FlyLady ( www.flylady.net).
*happily skipping and smiling about being a clean freak*
Ok, now I sound like just a freak. I'm not. Not a germ-a-phobe. Hello, I have six dogs and 3 cats, 2 kids and a hard working man. House gets messy and kids don't always wash their hands. Dogs lick their butts! Cats go outside and then come in and lay on the kitchen table - I don't shoo them off. *wiping brow with relief that I have redeemed myself by telling my dirty cat story*
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Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or hump it.....Piss on it and walk away.
Location - WI
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10-05-2006, 12:11 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 12,940
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Most houses do not have bed bugs, tho they are a growing problem like roaches. Every single house does have dust mites, which are bugs. Having either of these in your house has nothing to do with how you do your laundry. No matter what you do you won't get rid of the bugs in your house. That's supposed to make you all feel better, not worse, by the way. Not sure if it came out that way or not.
But then, who's going to believe me since I don't wash anything separately, don't use hot water, don't use bleach. But I have managed to make it almost 50 years without any problems caused by my casual laundry practices.
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