My old washer just let the smoke out of the control board in the middle of a load of laundry the other day but luckily I had my moms old washing machine (still newer than mine was) laying around to hook up instead. Except now I realized that my mom aparently loves fabric softner and every compartment on the thing needed a waxy fabric softner buildup scrubbed out of it.

I can’t exactly complain about a free appliance but damn do I hate fabric softner. It makes my fabrics water repelant and it gums up washers. Awful stuff.

  • kubok@fedia.io
    13·
    1 day ago

    I recently read an article (in Dutch) which sums up why you should not use fabric softener. It is quite politicized, so I will not directly link to it here. The TL:DR is a bit like below:

    1. It does not work
    2. It is bad for the environment
    3. It is bad for humans
    4. It is bad for the washing machine
    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
      1·
      21 hours ago

      As fellow Dutchie I would like to read the article, is you don’t feel like posting it, could you dm me?