HELP! American and/or Canadian Ex-pats...what is wrong with my laundry!!!

[lillabean]

Why is it CRUNCHY? WHAT DO I DO??? My baby's clothes are all scratchy, even if I use fabric softener. I have a washer/condenser dryer combo.

Is it my machine? Is it the hard mineral water in London?

Do they make "American" style washers and tumble dryers here? Can anyone recommend a brand?

My baby gives me such dirty looks when I try to dress her in these sandpaper garments! (and let's not even talk about my towels....)

Any other ex-pats figured out a way around this problem, is it just me?

Please help, else must consider life as nudist!

Crunchy?

I don't know anything about condenser dryers - maybe hanging clothes up would be better? Or (god forbid) ironing them?

Or are you maybe using too much detergent?

You can get American style ones here, but I don't know how they'd make a difference.

(Our clothes are probably always crunchy? We hang them up to dry. We were using NA style washers and dryers while on holiday, and did find clothes that had been tumble-dried a lot softer ... not important enough to get a dryer for, I think.)

Try Calgon to soften the water

sorry but this is soooooo american

crunchy clohtes are character corming
liek food oyu haev to chew

Ironed clothes are softer, aren't they?

I bet you iron all your clothes, don't you, fishy one?

I can't say I've noticed.

I have a memory like a sieve.

A terrific quality for the life-long expat.

of ocurse
not bras obv ( sisters MIL did)

cod irons her knickers, methinks.

Why not bras?

(I never iron anything, the cleaner irons DH's work shirts.)

pmsl @ this thread - I wanna go to America and wear soft clothes now!!!!!

I didn't realise mine were crunchy... discovered this morning that my child raising is crunchy too...

i dont iron bras
cos theyd burn nonce head

Check your detergent. It may be more concentrated than you are used to or perhaps using a different cycle with longer rinse may help ?

Well, you don't want a crunchy crotch do you?

oh just crunch and be happy
ti he blitz spirit

Why would bras burn, but pants wouldn't?

(What does "nonce head" mean?)

its not real water in london, its london water for london people. They have a radar on the water meter that gives you crunch endorsing clothes if you are an american

cos bras are ofetn polystery arent they
unless yours are all cotton
oh FGS!!!!

ironed clothes are softer, but line dried ones smell better, IMO.

yes its retribution for Iraq

and electing geroge dubya in twoce

they exempt sad excuses for Americans like me, who nearly got tossed out of the country for drinking at lunch, smoking cigarettes, wearing red lippy w/no other makeup besides mascara and taking the piss out of people, then getting in the huff when they just would not take the piss back!

What about hemp bras?

(I think some of mine are cotton, some synthetic. Anyway, aren't some pants not cotton? (not mine, though))

as if

if you're that lentil-weavey, though, NQC, why not just burn the bra entirely?

makes the norks more accessible for bf'ing, too.

I'm not that lentilweavery, actually - I just play a lentilweaver on MN.

(And making BF easier is not a good thing, DS2 has taken to "honking" my boobs to express interest in them lately )

id like to see a ababy doing dirty looks
crunchy clothes built an empire cna i remind you