What is the best front loading washing machine, for under $1000, available in Australia, that meets this criteria:
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posted by MT
on Dec 29, 2011 -
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I left a red sock in my white laundry and now everything is pastel pink. How can I safely and simply make everything white again?
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posted by dontjumplarry
on Dec 5, 2011 -
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A crayon in the dryer ruined a whole load of my son's clothes. I want to keep some of them even though they are covered in crayon stains. If I wash and dry them with other non-stained clothes, will the stains (the color or the waxiness) transfer to the good clothes?
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posted by peep
on Dec 3, 2011 -
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I want to spend less time and effort on "maintenance" activities. What are some good not-widely-known methods, or (cheap/small) products, to get this stuff done more quickly and get back to the more interesting parts of your day? (Examples in the extended explanation...)
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posted by SpiralT
on Nov 28, 2011 -
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What's the best way to remove a small grease stain and a pen mark from a down coat?
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posted by krisken
on Nov 21, 2011 -
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My red-on-white polka-dot dress bled in the laundry... onto itself. Is there any way to remove the pink stains while preserving the print?
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posted by Bardolph
on Nov 4, 2011 -
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Hope me, laundry wizards! Is there any way to get out grease stains on a shirt after it's been dried?
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posted by calistasm
on Oct 23, 2011 -
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I have some odd white marks on a lot of my hanged t-shirts, not sure why. (Pics inside)
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posted by lankford
on Sep 22, 2011 -
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Laundry intervention! Washed clothes, but no dryer and no space to line-dry...how can I make it so my clothes are minimally wrinkled and mildewy in the morning?
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posted by threeants
on Sep 18, 2011 -
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What's an inexpensive powdered detergent that I can use for dishes, laundry, and scrubbing sinks?
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posted by Net Prophet
on Aug 7, 2011 -
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My housemate left a pen in the dryer and there are blue streaks all over the dryer barrel. I tried rubbing them with a damp towel (water only), didn't come off. If I put my clothes in the dryer now will they come out stained?
posted by Xianny
on Jun 21, 2011 -
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Is there anything I can soak clothing in to get the dye to set instead of rinsing away?
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posted by oh yeah!
on May 28, 2011 -
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We've just moved, and I'm working on the backlog of laundry. The problem is that one of the hampers apparently was close to the oil furnace of the old house, and now the entire basket smells like oil. How do I get rid of the smell?
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posted by mephron
on May 26, 2011 -
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Do you have a recommendation for a trusted laundry in Houston who can clean treasured linens, quilts, and hand-knits and -crochets and wrap them with archival paper?
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posted by Addlepated
on Apr 22, 2011 -
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MeFites, I need you to lay some dry cleaning knowledge on me. Do I need to take my suit skirt to the dry cleaner's if a small amount of beer was spilled on it while out with colleagues yesterday? Please help a laundry-vs.-dry-cleaning rule challenged gal figure it all out.
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posted by shortskirtlongjacket
on Mar 26, 2011 -
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I am interested in marking some of my more valuable clothing with ultra-violet ink. Does anyone know of consumer-side ways to do this? All the ultra-violet inks I see on the consumer market are designed for stamping skin, not cloth.
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posted by jpallan
on Mar 1, 2011 -
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Why are these push-button laundry detergent bottles so messy? Is there some secret to dealing with push-button nozzle laundry detergent bottles that I'm just missing?
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posted by cmm
on Feb 18, 2011 -
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I need a laundromat in Madrid, Spain. They seem to not exist and the threads online that list a few are quite old and the locations no longer exist (see:
this thread and note.
Surely this is not so. If none exists, an acceptable laundry service that will, for a reasonable price, wash and dry clothes without heavily perfumed (or perfume free) detergent [not a dry cleaning] will do... preferably near Gran Via, but anywhere will do at this point.
posted by rr
on Dec 11, 2010 -
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There's a lot of
this going on in my apartment. What can I do to prevent my towels and cotton shirts from coming out of the dryer covered with cat-hair pills?
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posted by carsonb
on Nov 15, 2010 -
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Emergency Laundry Question: I had some bad laundry experiences over the weekend. A dry cleaner left this awful kerosene smell in a jacket, which they tried to cover with perfume. Another laundromat over-bleached my dress shirts. How would I go about removing the odors -- of inept dry cleaning and bleach -- from these clothes tonight?
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posted by jason's_planet
on Nov 8, 2010 -
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I left half of a ticket stub, much like
this one, in the shirt pocket of my seersucker button up and put it in the wash, then dried it without noticing. It left an orange stain about the size of a half dollar coin, what can I do to try and make sure it will come out next time I wash it?
posted by hempgranola
on Oct 27, 2010 -
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How do I remove aerosol sunscreen from my belongings after it sprayed all over my suitcase?
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posted by Lifeson
on Oct 20, 2010 -
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Inspired by today's question about choosing between garment steamers, I've just decided that I need need
need a garment steamer, because I am not equipped to iron. My budget is smaller, and so is my storage.
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posted by bilabial
on Oct 1, 2010 -
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Which garment steamer should I get, this
Rowenta, or this
Haan? Or something else altogether? Is there any advantage of having a metal head vs plastic? This is mostly for button-down shirts and dresses. I don't own an iron.
posted by rmless
on Oct 1, 2010 -
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How do you arrange worn clothing? I tend to wear clothes more than once before laundering them, especially pants and outerwear, and usually drop them on the chair or the bed. Are you supposed to fold them up and put them in with the cleaned clothes?
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posted by Busoni
on Sep 6, 2010 -
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Looking for effective clothes washing methods that avoid allergic reactions to conventional detergents?
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posted by epo
on Jul 25, 2010 -
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Laundry Filter 2: Bleaching my kitchen towels hasn't worked, what else could I use to get them smelling and feeling clean and crisp?
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posted by SweetTeaAndABiscuit
on Jul 17, 2010 -
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LaundryFilter: Why is there linty crap all over my clothes just from the washer (NOT the dryer)?!?!
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posted by Elminster24
on Jul 17, 2010 -
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I'm in Berlin for a few days, in the Schoneberg part of town. Are there any places (in Schoneberg or just easily accessible) where I can give them bulk laundry and they'll charge a reasonable amount by the pound/kg to do it?
posted by shivohum
on Jul 3, 2010 -
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How can I keep clothes from getting overly funky at sports camp?
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posted by COD
on Jun 29, 2010 -
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