Laundry Stains: Out! Out! Damn Spot! My Quest For Spray 'N Wash

I hate cleaning. Period. I avoid it like the plague. I hate doing laundry even more. Well, except for cleaning the bathroom, I really hate that. But what I hate above all is doing laundry. Why, do you ask? Well, it's because I cannot stand stains. I hate seeing them, and I hate trying to remove them even more. I will not allow my daughter to wear clothing with even the smallest stain on it. It bothers me. {Let's not even go into the cat pee stains/smells that litter my house and idle baskets of laundry.} I would even go so far as to say I am a bit OCD about it.

Therein lies the problem.

It takes me a good hour just to get one load of laundry into the washing machine. I have to sort, not just color, but fabric and/or wash in warm water/cold water. Then I must check every inch of each garment for stains. Then I must treat each stain, hopefully effectively. Then it can finally go into the washer, where I let each load soak for a minimum of 25 minutes.

Then I start the actual wash cycle.

Here is where the fun begins...After each load is finished, I inspect each garment thoroughly before it can go in the dryer. Spots dried in by the dryer are likely permanent. And that, my friends, just won't do. So the freshly washed yet still stained clothes go into another pile. I usually end up with more piles of laundry than I did when I started.

It's sad, really. I could use two entire bottles of Spray N' Wash Dual Action Oxy Power Stain Remover on one single load of laundry. And that stuff ain't cheap. And they have stopped carrying it at Target or anywhere else. I am heartbroken. Truly.

Do you know how hard it is to find a good stain remover? It's like finding a good hairdresser. Once you get one, you will use nothing else. Did I mention that my hairdresser closed up shop and I haven't had a haircut since last December? Yeah, just like that.

I do not want to go through the pain, anguish and expense of trying out new stain removers only to find that they don't get the job done and I am left with yet another pile of stained but freshly washed clothes. It's horrible. This is why my house always looks like the aftermath of a natural disaster. I have piles of everything everywhere. I hate it.

First, Spray N' Wash discontinued the fizzy laundry booster tablets {Those little suckers ROCKED!}, then they got rid of the In Wash Laundry Stain Remover, forcing me to use that Oxy-Clean liquid crap. Now they have taken away my beloved Dual Action Oxy Power! Let's not forget that Biz Bleach has been discontinued. I have nothing left to use! Oh, the humanity! However will I get the stains out? My daughter will have to go to preschool nekkid.



I think I need a company like Shout, Zout or Spray N' Wash to sponsor me on this quest. They could give me a 2 year supply of stain removers/laundry additives to test out. I could tell them what works and what doesn't. It would be a win-win. They would get a much improved product line and I would get something I dream of: Truly clean laundry.

I think that is a fair trade for a virtually free product tester/ walking, talking Consumer Reports article, don't you? I think it would also be helpful if they threw in a set of those snazzy LG front load washer and dryers. Hey, I need the proper tools for the job, right? It's all in the name of science and making better consumer products. I could single handedly make doing laundry a breeze for everyone. That alone is worth the LG set, isn't it?

Laundry Stains: Out! Out! Damn Spot! My Quest For Spray 'N Wash

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