Recently, just because, and because I am in charge of it, I decided to change laundry detergents. For those of you non-Parkinson households that do three loads of laundry or less a week this mostly empty container will last more than four months (4+mois).

When we went to Florida last June with our daughter’s family I took along a quart or so of the liquid detergent that I have been using for some time. I set up a subscription on Amazon which is handy until you become overwhelmed with that product. I have since cancelled all my subscriptions to products and suffer through the occasional absence of it when I need it.

I noticed that My daughter brought along and had parceled out portions of dry detergent. I asked if she liked that better and she replied it was about the same but she had had a front loader and the liquid seemed to goo up the door seal so she switched and never looked back. (I think women get better laundry training but that may just be my male stupidness about laundry and women talking.)

The next time I needed detergent I looked for powder. I did not know what I was doing. I bought tide pods with the child proof cap. Sadly it works worse than my liquid. I will not purchase it again. In fact I may not use any Procter & Gamble products for awhile until I get over my disappointment. The blue stains in this image are from the pod itself. The wash cloth is supposed to be white (cream). I should have left the child proof cap on.

The good news is that if the towels are washed a second time with the same substance the stains seem to come out. I have several. I wash towels in HOT water. My washer shouts hot out to me. This is perhaps a clue to correct use of these pods. Maybe there is only enough for two months if cold water is used instead of HOT.

Instructions just say toss it into the bottom of the washer and add the clothes. The t-shirt that landed onto the pod the first time I used pods had much of the pod goo stuck to it after the wash. I thought it to be a fluke because men do not get detergent and laundry training. Alas, I am incorrect in that perception.

Amazon will bring dry detergent to my door. I do not have to stalk it down in Kroger or Walmart. I can even get it in sheet form so that I can mistakenly put it in the dryer.

Cheryl thinks her idiopathic Parkinson’s disease stems from growing up less that a mile from the P&G soap plant in St. Bernard Ohio. Chemistry is complicated.

Carpe Diem.