Laundry

So as I was finishing up my last load of laundry tonight I had a thought (amazing, I know!) I was just thinking that there are a lot of smart people out there who have the greatest tricks and tips when it comes to household cleaning, and laundry in particular. So as I was spraying my spots away, I wondered if there was a better way, or some amazing product out there that if I only knew about, my laundry woes would all go away?(wishful thinking, I know!) So I want to know...

What is your best laundry trick? Or what product do you think is the greatest thing since sliced bread???

Seriously, I want you to tell me! And, I'll share one of mine:

I do love Oxi Clean and I do think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread! I buy the giant sized box from Costco! We recently used it to clean our carpets and it worked amazingly well. When I have little babies I soak almost everything in a bucket of it and use it to get out all the spit up and poop stains - it works great. And just recently I've given up bleach. Sigh. I LOVE bleach. The scent of bleach just equals clean! I love how my white load smells when it comes out of the dryer. But, I've decided that I'm probably killing all my clothes and wearing them out 10x faster, so now the last load I do every laundry day (yes...I have a day - Wednesday) is my whites. I usually don't get this load in until the very end of the day, which works out perfectly. I let my white load soak in the washing machine with a large scoopful of Oxi Clean over night. Then I rinse and wash the load with regular detergent (and sometimes I add a new scoop of Oxi Clean just for good measure!) in the morning. I suppose you don't have to rinse; you could just add your detergent and start the machine. But to me, after soaking all night, the water looks kind of gross, so I rinse first and start with "clean" water. Well, there you have it. Way more than you care to read, but I'm having a hard time convincing myself to go to bed, and am rambling instead (to no one...how pathetic!)

Back to my original point though...what is your favorite laundry "trick"?

Please Share!