The Dude's Guide to Laundry: How to Save Time, Money, and Your Wardrobe

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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If you didn’t grow up doing your own laundry, once you headed out on your own, you probably just figured things out on the fly, hoped for the best, and have been doing things the same way ever since. But, while you may be getting the job done okay, you also might be making some mistakes that are costing you time, money, and cleaner clothes. In this episode from the Art of Manliness department of essential life skills, we’ll cover all the things you should have learned as a young man but never did, and how to do your laundry effectively. Our guide is Patric Richardson, aka the “Laundry Evangelist,” a laundry expert who runs how-to-do-laundry camps, hosts the television show The Laundry Guy, and is the author of Laundry Love. Today on the show, Patric shares the one cycle and water temperature you should use for all of your clothes, exactly how much detergent you should be using (which is a lot less than you think), how often you should wash your clothes (which is less often than you think), why you shouldn’t ever use dryer sheets (and what to throw in your dryer instead), how regardless of what the tag says, you can wash anything at home (including a wool suit), how to easily get rid of stains (including yellow pit stains), and many more tips that will save you time, money, and hassle in doing your laundry.

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0:00.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:11.0	If you didn't grow up doing your own laundry, once you headed out on your own, you probably just figured things out on the fly, hope for the best, and have been doing things the same way ever since.
0:20.0	But, while you may be getting the job done okay, you also might be making some mistakes that are costing you time, money, and cleaner clothes.
0:27.0	In this episode from the Art of Manley's Department of Essential Life Skills, we'll cover all the things you should have learned as a young man but never
0:33.4	did and how to do your laundry effectively.
0:36.6	Our guide is Patrick Richardson, aka the Laundry Evangelist, a laundry expert who runs
0:41.3	how to do Laundry Camps, hosts the television show The Laundry Guy,
0:44.0	and is the author of Laundry Love.
0:46.0	Today in the show, Patrick shares the one cycle in water temperature
0:49.0	you should use for all your clothes,
0:51.0	exactly how much detergent you should be using, which is a lot less than you think.
0:55.3	How often you should wash your clothes, which is less often than you think?
0:58.8	While you shouldn't ever use dryer sheets and what to throw in your dryer instead? How regardless of what the tag says,
1:04.0	you can watch anything at home, including a wool suit,
1:07.0	how to easily get rid of stains,
1:09.0	including yellow pit stains,
1:10.0	and many more tips that'll save you time, money, and hassle in doing your laundry.
1:14.6	After the show's over, check at our show notes at A.O.M.
1:16.8	I. slash laundry. Patrick Richardson welcome to the show.
1:34.0	Thank you so much, thanks for having me. This is going to be fun.
1:37.0	This is going to be a lot of fun because you are the Laundry Evangelist.
1:41.0	You run a popular Laundry camp where you teach people how to do laundry better.
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