Nobody Panic - How to Use the Washing Machine

Episode Date: April 23, 2024

By request, Stevie and Tessa discover what the triangle symbol means and discuss what the drawers mean. There's also some lively debate around when you put the fabric conditioner in, don't say this podcast doesn't provide you with the most searing of hot content.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanicRecorded and edited by Aniya Das for Plosive.Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, I'm Carriad. I'm Sarah. And we are the Weirdo's Book Club podcast. We are doing a very special live show as part of the London Podcast Festival. The date is Thursday, 11th of September. The time is 7pm and our special guest is the brilliant Alan Davies. Tickets from kingsplace.com. Single ladies, it's coming to London.

True on Saturday, the 13th of September. At the London Podcast Festival. The rumours are true. Saturday the 13th of September. At King's Place. Oh, that sounds like a date to me, Harriet. It is good, isn't it? That is good.

Shit, that's so good. Thanks. It's like a boches in the room with us. Imagine if I found my thing. Right, and it... You should like... You should go while you're ahead. What?

That's... That's... Tessa doing an impression of a washing machine. Started off very strong. Ended. Paulie. No. That's the end of the cycle.

Yeah. When you're like... Sorry, is that going to expose? That can't. Thiff. Oh my God. It's actually, it's the madest, it's so mad. It's too much. And the amount of times you hear it and you're like, I've heard this every day in my life. But I always think it's going to stop at this point. And it just keeps going. It just keeps going. Jesus. Right. Welcome to nobody panic. Talking of taking off like a rocket. Welcome to nobody panic. It doesn't make sense. Podcast. We do how to do the washing machine. We're doing how to do the washing machine. That seems like as a different sort of podcast episode. How to use the washing machine. This was a suggestion. She suggested how to do the dishwasher a couple of years ago. And she came up to me after a show and was like,

what about washing machine as well? I was like, actually, that was like, bang me over an idea. And as somebody who just throws it in and says, the Lord will see you now. Jesus, take the wheel. Yeah, I think there's so much more sense than the Lord will see you now. It's the same. I really, yeah.

And then we could have sort of debated because we were like, well, both of us are pretty shit at the washing machine. But we've done some light research. And as ever, emphasis on the light. Light. As ever, you'll probably listen and then by the end of it, be like, Jesus Christ, how do you live?

How do you like get, how do you get through the day? But actually, I found a couple of things I didn't know that I do think are like, okay. You know, like, it's like the basics, if you throw it in, fine. But if you want to just elevate your washing machine game. Well, I'm just, the thing is, I don't even trust throw it in fine.

the basics. I've been burnt so many times by that thing. I'm confident that my throw it in find the basics. I learned the temperature that was pretty much basically fine for everything. I'm willing to bet you've been going too hot. That's all I'm going to say. And I'm already very anxious about this one. Oh, don't be. I'm just bringing my anxiety to the table. I just don't get it. I don't know how it works. Yes. I don't like the symbols. Oh no. It's very similar to the orphan. And, and, and, similarly to the oven, I feel like if we can draw, we could write. Why don't we write it down? Language barriers, because they're international appliances. Thank you. I'm humbled. It's an international language.

But if you're going to draw, because it's international appliance, draw the thing you mean. Draw, oh. Don't just draw random shit and think that that looks like anything to do with what you're asking me, or telling me. Do you know what the triangle means? Oh, sorry. We're talking of washing machine labels. Oh, my God. Oh, don't iron. That is actually a picture of an iron. Yeah. Yeah, so that's an iron.

Right. Don't fold it into a triangle. Exactly. That won't fit in your draw. Luckily, iron is like some ions. Yes, it is an iron. And then an iron crossed out, we're golden. Don't do that.

Yeah. And then iron is got a varying number of dots. So one dot, two dot or three dots. Those are your iron options. What's the dots mean? Iron cool, iron medium, iron heart. But the triangle. Who's ironing cool?

You might as well just put something heavy on it. What might not bother iron at all? Well indeed. Well indeed. What's the triangle? Bleach. Aloud. Not compulsory.

A loud. Triangle crossed out. Do not bleach. See, I think that's too far and too in depth. Because it's like if it's white, fucking bleach it. And if it doesn't work because you shouldn't have bleached that white thing, it's too cheap anyway and it'll fall apart and it was going to fall apart anyway. Yeah, but my thing is like if you can draw the iron, why can't we draw the bottle of bleach? Oh, this is, yeah.

But maybe everyone understands what an iron is and not what a bottle is. I just, I find it so stressful and I don't like to. I like these symbols though and I think it's very important that we go through those symbols because that wasn't something that I'd actually research. I just get so stressed about them. Well, you've got them there, so we're going to go through them. I'm stressed about the symbols. I'm stressed about, listen, once I had this exquisite, I really like the few. feeling of, I think it's called viscous. Oh yeah, viscose. Incredibly soft.

Like, almost like a pajama. You do love very soft clothing. I do love soft clothes. Our famous love spiky, hard, wooden clothing. But viscous, incredibly hard to wash. Is it? So this, I'm always like, throw it in. And you're right, I was too hot.

I was too hot. And out the viscous came crumbly, hard, bobbily. I was traumatized. That's awful. When I love my softs. So I think a big struggle for me is that how much I love soft things. and they never come out. Because you're buying delicate clothing, aren't you?

And then I'm washing it on 90 and not understanding why. It's got to be 40. And also the thing about the drawer, sorry, I'm bringing too much emotion to the washing machine. Quite high up in the episode. I'm sorry. I think it's good to lay the groundwork. Lay the groundwork is, don't understand the labels. My fabrics are too, my clothes are too soft.

And then I just have like a huge pile of like unwashed cashmere, you know, because I'm like, I'm like, I can't. How can I wash my own soft? It's hard to sympathise. But also, I know that it's not rich girl problem, even though it is a rich girl problem, it's not because you will buy cashmere

that's like a child's pair of cashmere trousers from a market because you like the soft feeling. And you'd be like, well, I can make that into a sort of cuff. Exactly. One single cuff that I can just put as a, I don't know, but also like that looks like a material band that you've gone to a festival, Exactly right.

Yeah. It's a little more of a fagin, if you will. It's a fingerless glove. That's what I do with the cashmere. So I've got a bag of old filthy cashmit. Then I've got my pyjamas, my viscous pajamas. Yes. So it was so soft and I'm scared to put them in.

And I've got my hoodies. Love a hoodie. And you like the hoodie that's obviously everybody just, but the nice soft in the inner. Oh, mamma-mea. That time of when we got the A-cast merch. Oh, please. And we were like, fuck off. We don't hit any old merch.

It's in the building with us now. It's literally in the building with us now. And the inside was. I stopped it like a cloud. I've never felt anything like it. I thought it was the size of a tiny doll's out of it so I could fit it over my head. But it was nice to put your arms in and touch it for a bit.

That's never coming back. Once I close the door and go with God or whatever you say, God will see you now. The Lord will see you now. The Lord will see you now. And I know the Lord's not giving me that back. Right. Which is part of why I never do my laundry.

And then when I get it, finally I'm like, okay, here we go and I get to the fucking machine, don't understand the dials, don't understand the temperature, don't understand the beeping, don't understand the draw. So I just put a bit of both which one's detergent, which one's this.

I'm going to blow your mind. I just change them about. You don't even have to use the drawer. I beg your pardon? You can pop. I beg your fucking pardon. You pop a little. So I use them, use a tablet.

Straighten the drum, Tessa. Straighten the drum. Straighten the drum. Straighten the drum. You can even put fabric softener. Straighten the drum as well. What the liquid? Yeah.

Pour it in? Yeah, if I can do that. What do you mean? Because I thought the point of the draw was that like one would be released first and then... Yeah, when I said fabric softener, I felt like I'd gone too far. Okay. I will wind that back.

I wind my neck in. Okay. I will throw in the vanish oxy action that comes in the scoop. Yeah, that's like a whole separate process to... That's like stain removal. Oh, I'm not doing it right. I'm just throwing that in the drum. Okay.

Yeah, you can. After you've... Yeah, so with Vanish Oxy Action, that's... You have to spread that over the stained, soak it for up to six hours and then put it in the I'm simply throwing it in. Yeah, I can see now what's going on here. You're sort of making like a kind of broth. So I realise I don't, I don't fuck with fabric softener.

Okay. Because I can't be asked. I realize you actually only have one thing that you need to work out. And once you've done it, you're literally solved. What is it? Which is, so if you have the little pods. Pods. Because there's a whole thing about being like, people eating them.

People eating them. Yeah. And then. Tip one, don't do that. Don't eat them. And then there is a lady who, I believe she is Spencer from Maiden Chelsea's wife. Okay.

And she has a, God bless her, very deep accent. So she is a deep accent. Very deep voice. Oh, deep voice. And I couldn't tell you actually where she's from, but she has this very, very deep voice. And in the advert, she goes like, a click and a clock. A click and a clock makes sense. I know what you mean because it's the child safety thing.

The child safety, click, clock. Yeah. A clip and a clock. I have that on mine. They've got a child safety thing. And it's like, and the whole thing is like, it's just cardboard and it's just cleverly done cardboard.

And what it means is that me and my partner can't get into it. So what happens is we have to, when it arrives, rip half the book open, like the fox has got to it. And that's just how we use our pods. The thing that's going to change your life is you're going to get the pods. You know, pop them in the drums.

You don't even give a shit about the drawer in that sense. And then all you're going to do and all you need to research, which will take two seconds, is to find out which draw the fabric softener goes in. That's literally all you need to do. So the fabric softener is separate to my pod. The pod cleanses.

The fabric softener is an additional thing that's meant to just soften your clothes further. I genuinely believe that it doesn't do anything, but that's possibly because I can't be asked with it, and I'll just tell myself that. It probably does. And you're someone who really enjoys tactile clothes, as we know, wooden clothes for me. I don't care.

I don't really have any fancy items, so I can kind of wash everything. I like to watch everything at like 40 degrees max for ecological reasons, but also so I don't have to worry about the colours running, I don't have to worry about anything, because everything will just wash fine. What, like a bright pink and a black and together? 100%. If it's not new and you've washed it before, it's fine. If it's brand new, if it's brand new and you've bought it and you're like,

I'm not sure, then wash it with other colours. but like the only time you're ever going to have a problem is if you put loads of whites in and one new red sock or one new red sweater and those colours will run. But if that sock has been washed loads of times that that sock's not going to run either. You're blowing my fucking mind here.

Honestly God, I think part of the problem I've got a mountain of laundry. Yeah. And part of it is I'm like, well, I've got to get all the blues together. Oh my God. It's like I work in a colour shop. I'm doing like the purest... The classic shop.

Sorry, yeah. What's a colour shop? job. We've all been in one. And we've all worked in one as a young lad. You go and you sort out all the colours. You leave. You haven't done their time at the colour shop.

It's a riot passage. I think what I meant by that was, okay, really, really specific thing that used to be in like stylist magazine all the time would be they'd be like, spring. The new colour is, these. And then be like a page. be like a toaster that was green, some socks that were green. I did those pages. Yeah.

You worked at the colour shop. I worked at the colour shop. A.k.a. The colour shop. So honestly God, I'm like, I'm colour matching like that hard. Absolutely. It's like blues, greens, pinks. And I'm like, they can't, nothing.

The only colour you have to worry about is white. That's the only colour you have to worry about. If you wash you at 40 degrees. If you, and also, but the thing is, is that you've concerned me somewhat because of the amount of times you say the word cashmere. Okay. I think Kashmir is a very different beast, and I think that will probably have to be washed separately. I think it can't go in the washing machine, so I'm just going to...

Fine. You know, except... Not even with that delicate. Maybe. I think it's a private... It's a private investigation for me. So your hand-washing... I think that's a hand-wash situation.

Well, that's fine. That's just like a sink with your detergent in it, and then, yeah, you can soak them. Okay. And then you rinse them through. The thing is, the moment you Google how... to hand-washed cashmere, you're entering a world that you don't need to enter because it's like the thing that you, when you spoke about in a previous episode, people taking tips about how to store wine are actually taking tips from the top down.

Like, oh yes, that person who spent £1,000 on wine is very different to your blossom hill. You don't need to store it the same. So I don't think you need to wash you sort of filthy coughs that you've tried to make, that you've cut off closed down the market and you've tried to make it to figure his gloves. I'll just like to explain the filthy cuffs to anybody unfamiliar with my work, which is. there's a man down the market who sells knockoff. It's not knockoff cashmere. It's just old cashmere from the 70s. And what I do is I chop off the sleeves of them. Then make a little nodding with such disdain. Not disdain. Just weary. I'm weary. I'm weary. Yeah, weary for

you. Wery for me. Yeah. Then I make a little hole for the thumb. And oh, you've got yourself a winter cuff. It does work. No one's there. It doesn't work. Does it look good? No. I said, God, that's ingenious. You went, look, they're absolutely fucking filthy. I think it's a great idea but you will literally like look closely at how grey they are. Yeah, yeah, it was my fault. It's my fault. It's not your fault. It's just

you clean them in the sink. But I'm just so hard to maintain. Because I just know they sit there watching me being like, you're going to clean me. And then, but also then they're like, don't, you'll fuck it up and you know it. Well, also because you've got this huge task that is like reminiscent of working in the colour shop

on top of how, do I wash my cashmere cuffs, which is overall too much to do. Whereas actually any colours that aren't cashmere, any colours together, and with black stuff as well, pop them in 40 degrees. You don't need fabric softener for your average clothes. But then you may, you may like go, Stevie, what are you talking? I need it much softer. In which case, then you can just Google what draw the fabric softener is, because you're right, the fabric softener will be released. So you do need to put your fabric softener. in your drawer.

Well, this is what pisses me off. Right. Okay. So you've got your three, your average washing machine turns out has three compartments. It does, yeah.

Pull out drawer. He goes, one, two, three. So you'd think that we're going to work time-wise. Yeah. Number one is shampoo. Yeah. Not pre-wash. Shampoo.

Okay. Number two is conditioner. Yeah. And you're like, oh, three is like a little, a hair spray at the end, a little juzge or something. No, three is, it's pre-wash. Is it comes third?

Yeah. It's in the third draw, but it actually goes first. Right, yeah. That's why I'm like, it's a scam. It's a scam. It's a scam to make you use more detergent. So you just put a pod in your drum, and all you need to know is which draw you put your fabric softener in. That's all you need to know.

Middle. Wait, wait, wait, wait, what are you saying? Softener. Softener. Middle. Right. So there we go. Look, you're away.

It's a soft, because he's soft because he's tucked in between the other two. Is that with every single. Every single one is number two, soft, soft, soft. Perfect. So you, we now know this. three, but it's actually going two, three, one. But we didn't even need to worry about that. Forget it. Forget the last one.

That's their business and it's none of ours. None of our. We're never ever going to do detergent for pre-wash or starch. Fuck you. I'm not washing corn. Corn is quite a starchy vegetable. I would have gone for anything else. It's not the wall. I don't need to be starching my collars because I work in this large, that's very practical.

Large stately home. Yeah, absolutely. That works as well as corn. do always wash whites together because whites are a fucking nightmare and whites just take on anything and it's just very annoying. Vanish Oxyaction, do not just pop that in willy-nilly. It's quite strong.

Also, you're sort of wasting your time because not really going to do anything unless you've done the other steps. Vanish Oxy Action, I actually did it the other day on a top. I've got one white t-shirt that I was like, I'm going to invest in a white t-shirt like everyone says. And I got makeup on the collar here and then some chocolate on it.

And I was like, well, I, I honestly was like, well, I'm going to throw away. Washed it in the normal thing, came out and it still had the stain on it. It's still a bit grubyed around the collar. Oh, God. Vanish oxy action, following the instructions on the actual tub, like you smear it all over where it looks grubby. Then you put some in the, you fill the sink up with water,

you put a scoop of it in the sink. You soak the thing for like, it says six hours. I don't know for two. I was like, it says up to six hours. I was like, we'll try to. Then you put it in the washing machine with a scoop in. and then it came out looking like I just bought it. It was amazing.

And I was like, oh my God, this is revelation. It's amazing. Right, right, right. Not just whites, but any stain that you're like, genuinely that is not coming out. Wine, blood, oil, that you're like, oh, it's dead. That's when you bring out the vanish oxyaction because it basically will get anything out. And it's amazing. I think, as with much in my life, I'm cutting corners left, right and center.

And then I'm surprised that it isn't working. I think you're cutting corners for a very real, for a good reason, because you were under the impression, which I was until, So at uni, I had the same thing where I just basically didn't do laundry because I was just like, I can't be, I can't be going through. Because also some of my colours would have two colours on it. Well, does that go with that colour or that colour? Does it go with the blue and reds? It's a blue and red top.

What the fuck we're doing? It's very hard. So then when one thing just feels so overwhelming because it genuinely is, then you just go, oh, I don't want to deal with any of it. But that is not as overwhelming as you felt because actually you can mix all the colours and you can just ignore. That feels really good. That is part of my, I am just feeling so overwhelmed with it. And knowing for certain that whatever I do, it comes out wrong. You know, I try so hard, I don't ever read the instructions.

Yes, yes, true. I just, I'm viving. And that's not enough. So I think I'm now just, I'm not understanding now that I'm not doing any of the steps. And I need to do some of the steps and actually see if, if actually, I'm broken or maybe this, I'm just not doing the thing correctly. Understood. Understood.

Any more garment labels that you'd like to explain? Yes. The triangle blew my mind. Okay. Bucket. It's understandable. This one. It's a shape like half a trapezium maybe.

Oh, you love that, yeah. I don't need to say that. Just a bowl. A bowl, yeah. A bowl with water in it. Got a wiggly line. Yeah. That just means good to go.

Machine washable. I'd love to see more fun. Machine washable? Yeah, with the, well, you just saw bowl and wiggly line. I'm not seeing a hand in here, Stevie. Have I described a hand? Oh my God. I thought that was hand wash only.

Wow, that's really opened up quite a few of my clothes. Okay, machine washable and then hand washable, we need to see the hand. Fuck me, no, that's bullshit. The machine washable can also be square, circle in the middle of it. Square, circle in the middle of it, tumble dry aloud. Wow, wow, wow. I never tumble dry. I don't have a tumble dry.

Have you got one? I've got a washing machine that has a dryer. Oh, very fun. And that is not because the amount of times you're like, I've watched it. Oh no, it's drying! And then you have to like stop it. I just feel like you should never tumble dry anything. No.

Because even if it says tumble dry, even like the things that say you can, everything just goes a bit smaller sometimes. And also I think it just like ruins it slightly. I concur. I don't wish for it anymore. God, the amount of times I haven't bought something because I've been like, oh, it's not machine washable. Because you think that bucket with the water in is a bucket of water.

Pop it in the bucket of water. Bucket of water in the Victorian. Victorian Terrace with that thing. I want to say xylophone, but it's not. But we all know what you're saying. Yes. That's the main thing.

That's the main thing. So, again, whoever created these symbols is wild. Because obviously machine washable should be a fucking picture of a washing machine. Yes.

And then if you wanted a dryer, then add something to the machine washable thing, like a different sort of drum. Or the wiggles of heat to show that that's a tumble dryer. A flame. That would be clear.

That means flammable, obviously. It would be fine. I can see where they've struggled. Just the empty bucket of the water, yeah, that's machine washable. Then with the temperature in it, 30, 40 and 60, that's wash cold, wash warm, wash hot. Yes. Always go 40. Always go 40.

You never, because you never, you never going to ruin something by washing it too cold, but you are going to ruin something by washing it too hot. Right, so that maybe go even lower. The bowl with the water in and a single line underneath it, that's a synthetic cycle. I think, fucking ignore these. I will. I'm just telling you how annoying this is. No, no, I love it. And I love it.

keep going, but I'm responding to the symbol, never you. Thank you so much. So singular line, synthetic, meaning like, that needs to go, I think, quite, I'm actually not sure what synthetic means. No, and again, it's not your business. It's none of my business. But two lines means gentle and wool wash, two lines underneath. To me, I'm like, surely that's hand wash, and then the hand wash has obviously got the actual hand in there. Okay. Also, when it's like, oh, it's got a sound like, wool wash, it's like, well, you'll know if it's made of wool, because it'll be made of wool and knitted. It's wool.

And there'll be a thing on your machine which there's wall on it. So simply, if you'd like to go advanced level, simply use the wall setting for your walls. Yeah, please put it on wool. I just think, because you know you're saying, I was like, why aren't there more words? And you're like, because it's a universal language.

And you're like, that's absolutely right. Excuse me, I'm humbled. We should then have agreed universally on the symbols and universally on the washing machine and objectively how it works. And it should be simply if you press wool, it understands that that's like should be, it could only go to a certain degree temperature.

Yes. Okay. Interesting things. Don't overload the machine. Now, overloaded is when you're pressing, if there's any give when you put the door to, when you push the door,

there's any give because the glass has gone into the kind of bulk of the clothing. That's overloaded. You want the door to close very, very, like easily without any push back from the clothing inside. The door should not touch. Mm, okay. It can sort of brush, it can touch,

you can say hello, but it can't be like, that's in. That's just what I do. I'm always like, I'm worrying, we've got the most amount we can possibly get in. If you're thinking that, that's too full. And it just won't wash properly, yeah. And the other thing, I don't leave anything in the pockets. Yeah, no shit, man. Like I try, but you can't.

This isn't really a washing machine tip, but you shouldn't leave wet clothes for a long time if you have a mould problem in your rental flat. So don't leave clothes drying in a room that has mould in it, basically. I think that's really obvious, but I don't know. so everything I've said feels really obvious and it was a wild don't leave them drying with the

If you've got any mould Don't leave them drying on like a clothes because it'll just make the mould worse because obviously the water's coming off the clothes It's all just too much I've just taken my top off Yeah so she's nude yeah Sorry I didn't respond at all

And I'm just showing you No you didn't No but I'm just showing you this label And how annoying it is That's basically exactly the same symbols But slightly different Because they're obviously two different International ones or something

You're like guys come on Come on come on Am I seeing that there's a P inside a circle there? P inside a circle, which means don't park. No parking. No parking. That means that's just for dry cleaning, so that's not even for you to learn. That is any solvent except Triclo Lothorine.

You're like, right. Thank God, actually. That's really helpful. That's helpful. Thank God that's here. And obviously, we've got the hand there. Got the hand. So that's saying...

You've got two different hands. Yeah, exactly. Why are they two different types of time? Why didn't we universally agree on the hands? And then you've got a square with just a line through it. That was the line you were talking about. earlier. You're not going to believe what that means.

Don't slot it into your money box. Yeah. Fuck! Yeah. Dry, flat. Oh, I, no. And imagine that. I think that's so important that that that's on there.

Very helpful, they have put words, hand-washed cold, do not bleach, dry-flat, iron-low heat, green-dry-clean. Oh, well, that's me humbled again, because they have done the words as per my request. In English, Spanish and French, but what if you're from any... any of the country. Well, then you've got the universal symbols. I'm seeing a triangle there, and that's been clearly crossed out. You see a black triangle with a cross out and then also a knot filled in triangle that's got crossed out.

Is it a crossed out? Do not bleach? We're not bleaching that. We're drying it flat. Do you know your other options for the drying section? Because the square it turns out is the drying. Okay. Square with a circle, we can tumble dry. Okay.

Square with a circle crossed out, we cannot tumble dry. We cannot, which is what I thought square with a circle crossed out. I didn't see that as being crossed out because sometimes the cross is, only on the circle bit. So I thought this is a very good rendition of a washing machine. So I was like, pop it in the washing machine.

And maybe even dry it at tumbling. Yeah. How would anybody know that that's what wasn't that one? And then what you're seeing there, square with a line, horizontal, dry flat. Turn it the other way

and get three lines in the box. Drip dry. God, it's boring, isn't it? I hate it so much. I think if you're like, oh no, I've dried it flat and not drip dried it.

You're fine. Like, if this... Go over yourself. No, as long as you, yeah, the tumble dry one I think important, but I think I stick to my guns of saying, don't ever tumble dry anything. Ever. And I've got a very mouldy, small, flat and a tumble dry in which case, well, you meant to clean

your washing machine. I won't be doing that. Oh, my God. Set the washing machine to a hot cycle and add a cup of white vinegar to sanitise the machine. I might do that. I must buy some white vinegar because everybody's banging on about it. Yeah, all right. I also, guess what I did the other day?

I had a cup of tea. was like, something crunchy in this. It was limestone from the kettle that had built up so much that there was like bits of fucking limestone crunching in my tea. I was like, well, I suppose I have to throw my kettle away. Bought some citric acid, popped it in the kettle, boiled it, washed it out, all the lambscale, gone. Wow.

Environmentally, very friendly. Fantastic. On the subject of environmentally friendly, I have been getting all my, I've recently transitioned to all my laundry products from the Clothes Doctor. Oh, Jesus. There's an E-cover, but actually that's even one next up. One next up. I was very, they've got like aluminium packaging with a peel-off label that very enjoyably goes in the compost. Oh, that's nice. That's nice. That's nice. I don't have any compost,

but it's nice. No, me neither, but good to know. Good to know. It's just going in the food bin, which I hope is right. I think that's fine. So it just feels like eco. And they're very like, because if you actually like read end the back of any of the sort of supermarket brand things they won't actually put the ingredients on the back because they're so dangerous and bad that and it just says like look online if you must but also they've got the symbol correct and universal

for May harm wildlife it's a fish bent backwards with a sad face dead yeah so you're like well I know what that is it's not even May it's will it will will cause serious harm to marine life yeah it's it's crazy that that's a product that we, it's just like openly on the shelves.

We're all just using that every day and it actively says will, no questions asked. 100% will. 100% will. With a symbol of a dead fish on it. Anyway, so closed doctor are like a thumbs up fish. Great. And so I've been using them. Very nice smells.

I'm not doing it correctly. I'm still just. Well, now you will. Now you will. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It turns out I've been putting everything in the starch drawer. Sure. With your corn.

With my corn. It's causing some trouble. But now you're going to put your thing in the draw You've got it in the middle drawer So that's sorted And I'm going to stop being so afraid And I'm going to realise I can do all my colours at the same time

And I mustn't just like wait Until I've got enough blue socks To all go in the blue wash There's no reason to wait If you are concerned And you've got like lots of You have a lot more colours than I do So like if you've got lots of light pastily colours

They can all go together They don't have to go Like if you've got like a lovely Really light yellow top And you're like Oh do I put it with this black Maybe not Or like maybe, like, if you've got little gentle things, then maybe you can have like a gentle, light-colored pile and then everything else and then you're white.

So then you've got three sections. Okay. It's only, it's only those, like, new things from they bought that are like, yeah, from like a boutique and they've like hand-died it. And then it dies everything, including your carpet. Yeah. I have a number, a number of stain questions, but that's for another time. The answer will always be Vanishoxy Action. The answer is time.

The answer is you have to leave that in that sink for a long amount of. time. You can't just throw the powder in the drawer and hope that that's going to do anything because it ain't. No. I can't do like something but it's not going to give it the best shot. You're kidding yourself here. He kidding yourself. Final thing I will encourage people if you are a stony girl as I am. I am too.

A tide pen. Oh my fucking God. You bought me one once. Did I? Yeah. How did it feel? I loved it so. I used it completely. I like and then and then just didn't buy another one. So now I'm going to buy another one. They are an American product but as with everything, everything's international now. You can have it all. You can buy them online. They look like a felt tip pen

And you carry it with you In your handbag, in your drawer in your pocket And carry it with you in your drawer In your drawer, come on Take your draw with you You get a little stain Out it comes You just scrub on it

And oh, mamma mia It's disappearing in front of your eyes It's amazing It's really, really exciting And it means you're getting to it At the source immediately It's both be like Oh I guess I'll deal with that in four weeks time

When I have the energy to deal with that stay No, we've done it now So good time here It's really exciting So I've got one more Oh yeah If you've got something nice That you've worn

That you actually doesn't need to be washed But you have worn it And it's maybe like a wool Or more like a sheary fabric Or just something a bit That you'd think Ooh It's not your classic cotton

Yes It probably needs a bit of attention In the wash thing But you're like Don't need to wash it now It's just been worn once A Spritz gun Yes I've got one of those

Vodka Yes Fucking Christ Pure vodka Lemon A bit of lemon in there Okay and spritz it.

And it'll smell all fresh. It just takes any smell away. It like is a de-neutralising and deodorising. Oh my fucking God. It just gives you a bit of a, oh. And it just like takes all the smells away. It can't take any stains away, but it just like it freshenes up. Because I got sent like when I was a journalist like one of those and it was

wasn't vodka and love and it was like a proper thing. And I, it was for like gym clothes and stuff. Because you don't like if you don't want to wash it was every single day. And it was excellent. But I've always been a bit like. It just seems like a sort of waste of chemicals. Right. So because it's neat alcohol and because vodka has no smell,

as opposed to any of the other alcohols, fresh-y-old things. God, I'm just spritting vodka all over my... Right. And the nice thing was... One for my clothes, one for me. Hello. Into the mouth, spritz away. The nice thing was when I discovered this about the vodka thing,

is I had so many vodka miniatures in the house. Oh, great. Because I love a miniature as well, you know. Yes. And on, you know, trains, planes, automobiles. Where a miniature is available, I will be taking the miniatures. but I actually don't drink quite enough. They're always just like half full.

Yeah. And back there all came and I was like, when am I ever going to one little vodka for the lady over the evening? Perfectly enough to go in my new sprits thing and away we go. So that felt great. That's great. That's a great tip. A little tip for people to take home.

I feel empowered. I feel ready. I feel I'm going to give it a go. I'm going to put some vodka in a spritzer. You don't put some vodka in a sprits. A vodka spritz, please. Oh. And that's.

And that's. Just two millennial ladies. And that's the kind of gals we are these days. That's a, we're genuinely excited about our vodka sprits. Fuck. Okay, well, goodbye. Goodbye, everyone.