"Learn from my mistakes." That's what my mom used to tell me and even though I think sometimes making your own mistakes and learning from them serves up a bigger life lesson, I'm gonna repeat her words to you and say "learn from my mistakes" this time.
Let me begin with a little background information. A few weeks ago I noticed we were running low on laundry detergent, so naturally, I made my way over to the store to pick up some more. Walking through the detergent aisle I laid my eyes on Era. You see, until now, I've never seen Era sold down here in any store so I got really excited! My mom used to use Era when I was growing up and I loved the smell it left in our laundry room and on my clothes. Painting pictures in my head of my childhood days, I grabbed it and went on my merry way. Here's the problem: we have a high-efficiency washing machine and since I was in another world staring at the Era, I forgot to check to see if it was 'high-efficiency machine detergent'. Oops! Well, I noticed it wasn't today when I put in a load of laundry.
Usually you can actually SEE the laundry spinning around and around.
My clothes do smell really good though...after having to run through an extra cycle of just water to get all the suds out.
Lesson: If you have a high-efficiency washing machine, make sure to use detergent made for he machines to minimize sudsing...either that or make sure you're not in la-la-land while picking out detergent like I was!
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