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Airing Dirty Laundry: The ONE Time My Husband Was Right
{NaturalBest™ Laundry Pod}
by Lindsay on Feb 7, 2020
This post is not sponsored. All the opinions, stories, and dirty little kids shared in this post are 100% ours.
We’re all creatures of habit, whether we like to admit it or not. I, specifically, take great comfort in
keeping the little things the same. When you have kids, it seems (at least to me) that the less
variation you have in a routine, the better. So when it comes to household products like dish soap,
glass cleaner, and laundry detergent, I haven’t changed my habits in… well… I’ve never changed my
habits. I use all the same products my mother used when I was a kid, because if it ain’t broke…?
This is especially true when it comes to laundry. Since I started washing my own clothes as a teenager,
I’ve adhered to my mother’s tried and true formula of detergent with liquid softener, and then dryer
sheets (always the same brands, always the same scent) in order to achieve that Mom Level of
freshness and spotlessness for my clothes.
Our Saturdays and most evenings are like any other typical family’s in our area: jam-packed with
sports and activities. Why do most people choose to not make plans on Saturday mornings? Because,
duh, everyone’s kid playing soccer. Or football. Or baseball. Or any number of other sports that the
moms of Memphis love watching!
As my son gets older and has become more active in sports, that perfect level of freshness and that
pristine clean I need in my clothes have become more and more difficult to achieve. Instead of
changing my usual routine to deal with that stinky little kid smell that seemed to be transferring on
to all of my family’s clothes in the washing machine, I just began adding products to the lineup. More
is better, right? Whatever it takes. Just don’t touch my usual products.
The Mistake
I personally despise laundry, by the way. With a deep burning passion. You know how other moms
often complain on social media about having a mountain of laundry? Well, my house is home to an
entire mountain range. I’m notorious for allowing our laundry situation to get out of hand before I
tackle it, and then I make a very dramatic situation out of the sorting and the washing and the drying
and the folding of the laundry, because oh my gosh laundry is the worst. I use a ton of excuses to let
our laundry situation get out of control, including running out of detergent. Genius, I know.
One fateful day, our mountain range had reached epic proportions. Even my husband was sick of
what was happening (or not happening) at our house, so he took it upon himself to start the laundry.
First he had to go buy some detergent, because of course we were out.
This is where I’d like to pause and remind everyone that for over 30 years, I have used the exact same
detergent/softener combination on every article of clothing I’ve ever washed. I assumed (*sigh*) that
my husband had noticed this routine. As it turns out, as with most other things, he did not.
My husband returned from Target, triumphant in his laundry detergent-buying abilities. And I
looked on in horror as he walked through our door carrying not only the wrong brand of detergent,
but pods. He purchased NaturalBest™ Laundry Pod, y’all.
How on earth would a little globule of detergent get an overstuffed load of laundry clean? This was
going to make our clothes smell bad. How many loads can that container of NaturalBest™ Laundry
Pod even wash?This is terrible. We’ve been robbed.
“These are fine,” he naively said.
Everything. Was not. Fine.
The Solution
How did I react? I wish I could say I reacted like an adult in this situation, but that would be a lie. I was
upset. I was upset because my husband clearly paid no attention to what I had been doing and how I
had been doing it for years. I was upset because I don’t like change. And I was upset because, truth be
told, this didn’t seem like a good enough excuse to continue my laundry strike. It did, however, seem
like the perfect opportunity to prove to my husband that just because something was on sale, that
doesn’t mean it’s just as good. I love a good reason to be right.
The Discovery
In order to really prove my point, I made sure to use the NaturalBest™ Laundry Pod alone. There was
no laundry booster included; no liquid fabric softener was added. I wasn’t about to help these tiny
globs of detergent get our clothes fresh. I truly wanted (and expected) our laundry to all come out
smelling like sweaty little kid.
I threw in our first load, which included our worst laundry: my son’s nasty cargo shorts he’d been
playing in the day before, his Taekwondo uniform, my husband’s gym clothes, and my kickboxing
clothes from the week. I sat back, and grinned.
By the time that first load of laundry had been washed and the dryer beeped to let me know it was
all finished, I knew I had won. Nothing in the form of a “pod” could possibly handle the nastiness of
my family’s laundry. I pulled the over-full load out of the dryer and plopped it all into a basket. I
didn’t get that immediate whiff of stinky boy, but I knew it was there.
I sniffed the first pair of my 5-year-old’s cargo shorts that I could grab when I started folding. Most
moms will tell you that the smell of a little boy’s shorts are a dead giveaway as to whether or not
laundry is truly clean.
They smelled… good. Really good.
I pulled out another pair, and it was the same story.
Thinking I was clever, I pulled out my son’s all white Taekwondo uniform. Not only did this thing
chronically wreak of dirty little kid, but it had a pretty defeating shade of nasty grey along the
bottom of the pants. I inspected the uniform, and smelled it, and I couldn’t believe it! Freshness.
Everywhere. And that disgusting grey ring around the bottoms of the pant legs? Gone. Completely
gone. All of our disgusting workout clothes seemed to have met the same fate of freshness.
After plowing through several loads of laundry in hopes of proving my husband wrong somehow,
two things became quite apparent:
Defeat
As much as I hate to admit defeat, there’s no denying
I’m a pods convert. NaturalBest™ Laundry Pod have
proven time and time again that my family is no match
for their power. Even with how tiny they are, and how
over-full I stuff our washing machine, they have managed
to get the job done every single time. For an extra large
or extra awful load of laundry, I’ll throw in two PODS just
to make sure everything comes out like new.
I get a little crazy sometimes and still try to test their power, and the NaturalBest™ Laundry Pod win
every single time. Plus, I really can’t argue with the amount of money we’re saving, because not only
are the NaturalBest™ Laundry Pod inexpensive and easy, but now I don’t have to buy an assortment
of other products to help mask the smell of our son’s laundry. I’ve also significantly decreased the use
of spot cleaner. All of our whites come out looking brand new–even clothes I thought for sure had
completely lost their luster for good.
So what have I learned? I’ve learned that tried-and-true isn’t always the way to go. There are new
products out there that are actually (gasp!) better than what our mothers and grandmothers used.
I’ve learned that something as seemingly insignificant as tiny magical pods can change the way I
look at laundry, because instead a multiple-step process, I can now just toss in a Tide POD. Done. You
may be wondering if I’ve learned to trust my husband’s instincts more. Well, yes. But I’m obviously
not going to tell him that!
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