After much research at Caltech, I’ve recently made two important discoveries:
- In order to keep shirts from coming out of the dryer from being wrinkly (and thus causing people to think that you sleep in your clothes all the time), I realized that one must: (1) Use less detergent. (2) Use less fabric softener. (3) Put a smaller load into the dryer (so that the clothes come out fully dry). (4) When you load the dryer, try to pack it by clothes density type. This means putting the jeans, rougher stuff, and wrinkle-okay items (like socks, boxers, etc.) towards the back while putting the shirts closer to the dryer door. The result is less folding and distortion of the shirts. (5) When you unload the dryer, put the jeans, rougher stuff, and wrinkle-okay items in the hamper first. Then put the shirts on top (sometimes, it’s good to even to a semi-quick folding of the shirt). This minimizes compression on the shirts.
Now I am finally able to get wrinkle free shirts.
- Dust wipes commonly sold under names like Swiffers or pledge wipes are just made to be disposable microfiber cloths. Well, the companies seem to want you to throw out the cloths after using them so that you can continue buying from them. However, there’s no reason to suggest that they cannot be reused. And thus, I’m here to report that they can be reused!
The trick, I think, is to use hot water and soap/detergent to wash the cloths. The heat is necessary for the microfibers to expand (hereby releasing the dust and other stuff trapped in there).
I tested this idea on a very small piece of dust cloth (like 2 in. by 3 in. area), and I reused it 4 times before I decided to just throw it away (mainly because the fibers in the cloth were becoming scratched up). The dust trapping ability doesn’t seem to decrease much at all in between washes. I daresay that one can reuse such cloths for >10 times if one is careful with it.