Petite Housekeeping: Laundry

Find Calm Through Clothing Care

An indispensable and charmingly instructive little guide to turning a mundane chore into a mindful experience, complete with detailed guidance on how to best care for and launder your clothes.

An indispensable and charmingly instructive little guide to turning a mundane chore into a mindful experience, complete with detailed guidance on how to best care for and launder your clothes.

The Petite Housekeeping series offers tips and tricks for becoming an expert at domestic upkeep, while finding joy and practicing mindfulness. In this volume, you’ll learn how to reframe the ongoing task of laundry by paring down the process and allowing yourself the space to enjoy its rewarding aspects. These pages hold information on how to:

• Decode those indecipherable care label symbols
• Remove stubborn stains
• Pick the right detergent (or make your own)
• Care for your machines
• Wash and dry different fabric types the right way
• Properly iron garments
• And much more.

In addition, you’ll find recipes for homemade fabric freshener spray, laundry soap powder, liquid laundry soap, and laundry stripping solution. Share a laundry facility? No problem—there are tips for how to approach machine care in shared laundry facilities, tips for making trips to the laundromat easier, how to hang dry or hand wash with limited space, and more.

These expert tips are paired with inspired ways to experience the many meditative and sensorial pleasures of laundry, transforming a domestic task into an opportunity for satisfaction and joy.

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• USA: 7 to 15 working days
• Rest of the World: 9 to 21 working days

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