@ Üb Fabric softeners are fluids that you can add to your laundry to make it softer and let it smell nicely. But when you use a dryer it's not necessary anymore to use them. And besides they are not soo good for your skin and for environment. Then you have also the anti-calc products: they are needed to protect your washer from the inside against calc. If you don't use them and your water is very hard, your machine will be broke in less then a year. If you want to buy yourself some washing products, make sure you buy them Fosfate-free (I hope I say this correct?), fosfates are very bad for the environment too, most of them are already fosfate free, but check first. If you want to know more about those kind of things, feel free to pm me, or any other woman here, I'm sure they can all help you out with household advice. You will have to learn them anyway some day, you can't stay at your parents for ever, right?
Some household tips: -When you have/had something smelly in your fridge like cheese or onions, cut a lemon in half and put it in your fridge next to the smelly stuff, it will absorb all the smells. -When you had garlic in your last meal and your partner doesn't, eat some parsley. Your breath will smell a lot less. -Don't throw away old clothes, they make excellent cloths to clean your shoes with. -when you have leather boots, and you use black polish to make them shiny, add some of the paste on your shoes, rub it in a little and then use a lightner and go over the paste. Don't let the flame to long near the seams, or your shoe will fall apart. the paste will melt a bit and it will be better to make your boots shiny. (a little trick I learned when I was in the army) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
