washing powder

[ex_pippin880]

Um, hi! I've recently had to take over clothes washing duties, and sometimes some of the clothes -- especially black stuff -- come out with laundry powder on them. :/

It's a top-loader, and I've been putting the powder in the middle tunnel tubey thing with the softener in the cuppy thing on top of the tunnel tubey thing. Have I been doing too-big loads? Used too much powder?

Any help is appreciated, thank you!

edit Thank you, all! Hopefully the laundry will go more smoothly now.

Weekend challenge: Fridge/freezer

[yvi]

Do you have things lurking in your fridge that you'd rather not think about? Stuff in your freezer that you don't even remember putting in there?

Join me in this weekend's (March 12 - March 14) challenge to clean out the fridge and freezer.

Here are a few links that might help you if you have never done this before:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2196206_clean-fridge-freezer.html

http://www.anyclean.co.uk/articles/cleaning-your-fridge.html

http://www.freetipson.co.uk/healthcare/articles/clean_fridge_freezer.html

http://tipnut.com/how-to-clean-a-freezer/

http://www.ehow.com/how_92_clean-refrigerator.html

And feel free to comment here with flailings, accomplishments and pictures.