If you’d have just shown me the picture, I’d have come up with “Alabama sheriff” on the first or the second guess.

Change ethnicities and watch how fast that law disappears...

I get that I ruffled a feather somewhere, but come on. That’s a particularly low blow, not to mention utter nonsense (much like the article). I change my sheets, I wear clean socks, my bathrooms are inviting and sanitary. When was the last time you stuck your head in the washer before deciding if you’d stay the night…

Oh. My. God.

Unless you do a clean cycle from day 1 of buying a new front load washer and continue to do so on a regular schedule, its pointless. Once that hard water, soap scum, and grime stick to outer basket wall and the whole plastic “shell” its there until the washer is pulled completely apart and hand cleaned.

I bought a house that came with a washer that had a few years of use and stank of mildew. No cleaning cycle, with either bleach or Affresh, could cure it. Poking around with a flashlight, I found a mildew infested gel composed of coagulated fabric softener mixed with dog hair in all the nooks and crannies of the…