Laundry Mistakes

OK so, I'm horrible with laundry. I mean TERRIBLE about it.

If you are anything like me, (and i hope you are so i don't feel so flaky) you have a TON of it. I have an infant, a husband in the military (can you say 2-3 outfits a day?) and myself. Now that may not be as much laundry as some of you with multiple children, but laundry is something I cant stand. I hate sorting it, I hate folding it, and I HATE trying to squeeze it all into it's proper place. Again, if you are anything like me your life is HECTIC. Like I said, I have a husband in the military, an infant, and I'm in school. Well once in a while, between apathy and chaos I forget to switch the laundry from the washer to the dryer, but normally remember in the morning. Not this time. This time I did it BAD. My load of towels and blankets had been sitting in the washer over a week. Now, I live in Northern Washington, so anything remotely damp is going to smell like mildew within probably 6 hours. The worst part is, towels and blankets are the hardest to get the smell out of. So, after much digging online I figured out how to fix it. Here is what I did:

1.) Don't even bother taking it out of the washer

2.) Since I was washing towels, I ran it in HOT water on the HEAVY cycle and put a normal amount of laundry detergent in.

3.) add 1/4 cup of baking soda to the laundry

4.) after it was done with the first wash, I ran it again: hot water, heavy cycle, with 1/2 the amount of detergent and another 1/4 cup of baking soda.

This worked MIRACLES! It actually smelled better then when I normally wash my clothes (I have to use Free and Clear for my boys) 

So, I hope this helps, because I was CLUELESS until I dug around online a LOT...I hope I wont need to do this again in the future, but lets face it I probably will. Until next time :)