Laundry Basics

Clothing Care

Clothing Care, Storage and Laundry Basics

Multiple Select

Which items are suggested to be part of routine clothing care and storage. (Select ALL that are correct).

This is NOT a race.

• Remove lint and pills (those fuzzy little balls of fabric)

• Leave stains until you have enough stained clothing to take care of all of them.

• Fold or hang up clean clothes.

• Dress and undress carefully by using the buttons, zippers, snaps, etc...

• Leave dirty clothes where you take them off.

Poll

Who has done their OWN laundry before?

(This is a poll, I'm not quizzing you).

• I do all of my own laundry.

• I've done my laundry if I needed to, but not often.

• I've tried it a few times.

• I've never touched the washer and dry!!!!

Multiple Choice

How many steps to the laundry process are there?

• 3

• 4

• 6

• 8

Multiple Select

What TWO ways can a care label tell you what to do?

• Written out directions

• A little robot tells you.

• Everything is washed the same?

• Care Symbols

Multiple Choice

You can have the care label worksheet open.

What is this the symbol for? *hint-it's just a circle

• Wash

• Dry

• Dry Clean

• Iron

Multiple Choice

What is this symbol?

(again you can have your worksheet out)

• Machine wash cool

• Machine wash warm

• Machine wash hot

• Dry

Multiple Choice

True or False you only sort items by color.

• True, any type of item can be washed together, no matter what, as long as they are the same color.

• False, there are other things to take into consideration when sorting clothing, not just color.

Multiple Choice

Should you wash really muddy or dirty clothes separately or is it okay to keep them with your normal items?

• Wash heavily dirty items with other heavily dirty items.

• Wash all items together, normal clothes and heavily dirty.

Open Ended

Does anyone have a "disaster" story of items being left in pockets and going through the washer? If not, please submit the word "No"

I'll share a couple too!! 🥴🥴

Laundry disaster

This is my disaster story....
When my kids were getting older they'd still wear pull-ups to bed at night in case they had an accident. They usually didn't and they were old enough to get dressed on their own so they'd do that when they woke up. A few times my son would take off his pants with his pull-up still in them and it would end up in the dirty clothes hamper and then the washer. Had I checked I would have found them but I didn't so it would go through the washer and explode. Diapers are full of a tiny little gel (like orbeez) that absorbs liquids. The gel would get EVERYWHERE on all the other clothes. It was a nightmare to clean up when it happened. I'd have to take clothes out of the washer one by one and vacuum off the gel. Then I'd have to clean out the washer. Finally, I'd have to put the clothes back in to be cleaned!

Multiple Choice

What type of detergent is recommended for hard water?

• Granular (powder)

• Liquid

Open Ended

Do you know of any extras you can add to the washer when you’re washing clothes?

* I’m not talking about things to wash, I’m talking about things people add to help with smell or feel.

Multiple Select

Select all the items that need to be washed on hot....

• Towels

• Underwear

• Pants

• Sheets

Multiple Choice

The slide said cold works most of the time...Why do some items (underwear, sheets, towels) get washed on hot?

• Just because.

• To sanitize the items.

• To use detergent more efficiently.

Which setting makes sense for washing bedding (sheets, comforter, pillow cases)?

Normal/Regular, Delicate, or Bulky

Multiple Choice

Which washer setting made sense for washing bedding?

• Normal/Regular

• Delicate

• Bulky

Answer

The answer would be "bulky"

Having a large blanket, sheets, pillow cases, etc.. would make the bedding a bulky load!

Which setting makes sense for washing a normal load of clothes?

Normal/Regular, Delicate, or Bulky

Multiple Choice

Which washer setting made sense for a typical load of laundry?

• Normal/Regular

• Delicate

• Bulky

Answer

The answer would be "normal/regular"

If it's just a normal load of laundry it's going to be washed on the normal/regular setting.

Multiple Choice

All items that are washed together can be dried together.

• True!

• False, some items have special drying instructions.

Which setting makes sense for drying jeans?

Jeans, "Energy Preferred" which would be "normal", or Delicate

Multiple Choice

Which dryer setting made sense for a load of jeans?

• Jeans

• "Energy Preferred"/ Normal

• Delicate

Answer

The answer would be "jeans"

If you're drying a load of jeans and there is a jean setting that is the best option!

Which setting makes sense for a normal load of laundry, no special instructions or settings.

Jeans, "Energy Preferred" which would be "normal", or Delicate

Multiple Choice

Which setting makes sense for a normal load of laundry, no special instructions or settings.

• Jeans

• Energy preferred/Normal

• Delicate

Answer

The answer would be "energy preferred/normal"

If it's a normal load of laundry with nothing special you can choose the energy preferred/normal setting.

Open Ended

Do you know of any extras you can add to the dryer when you’re drying clothes?

*I’m talking about things people add to help with smell or feel.

Multiple Choice

When SHOULD you fold or hang up clothes?

• The day after you wash them.

• As soon as they are dry.

• Whenever you feel like it.

• Fold? Long live laundry basket life!