For months, my husband and I couldn’t figure out where the mysterious stains on our clothes were coming from. That was, until I discovered our old washing machine was to blame. By the time we replaced ...

Can a dishwasher – which is basically a glorified dish shower – really get your dishes as clean as washing them by hand? The research on this is crystal-clear: dishwashers get dishes much cleaner than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long gone are the days when doing laundry meant beating your clothes against the rocks in a river to get those stubborn stains out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The main difference between hand wash and delicate cycles has to do with the agitator. With both cycles, use cold water and a ...

In my bathroom, you’ll find two bars of soap in the shower, one for washing my body and another for hand-washing my underwear from the day before. It’s a habit I picked up from my mom, one that she ...

Your laundry is shedding more than just lint. Washing machine wastewater is one of the top sources of microplastics, with a single unit in a four-person household producing up to 500 grams a year as ...

Dear Heloise: My husband is in an assisted living facility. I keep an erasable white board in his room. When a visit or trip is planned, I write it on the board. It helps him remember, and the staff ...