How to Assemble a Laundry Kit for College
Just because you're a busy college student doesn't mean you don't worry about keeping whites their whitest and brights their brightest.
Instructions
- STEP 1: Start with a laundry basket and/or a drawstring laundry bag. The bag is handy for throwing your dirty duds in and hauling them to the laundry room, while a basket is better for carrying your neatly folded (yeah, right) clean laundry. The basket also is good for toting around your detergent and other necessities.
- STEP 2: Pick up a box or bottle of laundry detergent as ingredient number one in your kit. Note that powders may not dissolve well in the super-cold water supplied by dorms during winters in chilly climates, so a liquid detergent may be a better choice.
- STEP 3: Add a liquid stain/spot pretreatment product.
- STEP 4: Toss in a box of color-safe bleach/presoak.
- STEP 5: Pick up a container of fabric softener. Dryer sheets are usually the most convenient form.
- STEP 6: Include a bottle of chlorine bleach only if you want to deal with the dangers and hassles of using bleach.
- STEP 7: Buy a couple of rolls of quarters for those coin-operated machines; keep them with your laundry kit.
- STEP 8: Consider adding a sewing kit that includes replacement shirt buttons, various thread colors, a needle and small scissors.
Tips & Warnings
- Remember to sort by color and texture (keep silky shirts away from riveted jeans), separate out your linty fabrics (towels and velveteen are a bad mix) and wash fine washables such as undergarments and swimsuits on delicate cycle (or by hand) and line dry.
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