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Between loading your soiled clothing in the laundry basket and tossing it in the washing machine lies one essential practice: sorting. Although it's easy to brush off this process during prep, it ...

Keep towels separate. Stein also strongly encourages people to wash towels separately—don’t mix them with clothing. Their ...

Set it and forget it. This underrated washing machine setting does more than you think — saving time, effort, and making ...

We’ve all been there. You want to wear your favorite white T-shirt and best-fitting jeans, but both are in the laundry hamper. So, you decide that it won’t hurt — just this once — to toss them in the ...

Mary Gagliardi, also known as Dr. Laundry, shares her expert advice for staying on top of your laundry, starting with the one ...

Q In your recent column on washing white T-shirts, you did not say how much bleach to put in a load. My wife passed away, so I am learning. Please tell me the amount I'm supposed to use. Is a cup ...

The Laundry Conundrum Let’s be honest: when it comes to laundry, we all have our quirks. Some people meticulously sort their ...

My brain is always going a million miles a minute about a thousand different things. Being a mom of three young kids, I’m also being pulled in three different directions, constantly. There’s never a ...

Lydia and Marcus Washington, parents of three young kids in Salisbury, N.C., are a house divided. Not over religion, politics or parenting strategies — but over the proper way to do laundry. Lydia, 36 ...

Expert DIYer April Wilkerson builds laundry hamper baskets to keep clothes organized and make sorting easy. 'This is a ...

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