laundry

Doing the laundry is bad enough without having to spend a pretty penny on energy and detergent. Here are five tips on how to keep the chore from taking your wallet to the cleaners.

Use less detergent in your dishwasher, says Alina Tugend in the New York Times: You'll save money now, and later. According to her chats with several dishwasher and washing machine repair people and experts, we are not just using too much detergent: we are using "10 to 15 times the amount of...

It turns out that the bad economy is great for coin-op laundromats. Because, though houses with laundry rooms will be foreclosed upon, washing machines and dryers will break and be too expensive to fix, and sometimes, we lose our homes entirely, we still need clean clothes. Long the refuge for...

Shopping for groceries in stores packed with aisles and aisles of items you don't want is almost inevitable as death and taxes. But thanks to a new grocery service called Alice, that's all about to change. Just like Alice handled all the shopping for the Brady Bunch, you can count on Alice to pick...

In a trying time, try harder.As families become strapped for disposable income and spend more of their resources utilizing the currency of "time" instead of "cash," the iron is coming back out of the closet. Instead of spending your ever-dwindling paycheck on dry cleaning, why not iron your own...

Laundry has always been a chore I have a hate-hate relationship with. It seems that no sooner do I get a load out of the dryer that I'm doing the whole darn process all over! Not only do I seem to waste lots of time on laundry but I've found that we also waste a lot of room in washer loads which...

According to research by Procter & Gamble, 75% of us re-wear dirty clothes as much as 3-4 times per week. Hoping to capitalize on this trend, Procter & Gamble, which already owns 60% of the $7 billion laundry detergent market, is introducing a line of products designed to clean clothes...