what kind of laundry detergent do you use?

[GumbyJarvis]

Sitting here in the barracks laundry room, chatting with a few others, growing up you normally take after your parents buying habits when you get older, you know something, and something's you just can't bargain with, (same with motor oil "if it ain't broke don't fix it)

Anyway, we all have those things in life you automatically grab off the store shelf without looking at the price or competitors price

I always used gain, px ran out, now trying cheer for example

Anyway, this is a broad question, what things or items do you buy based on habit?

I always buy bumblebee tuna vs starkist
yuengling vs other beers
Gain over all other detergents
Dawn vs joy dish soap
Old spice vs any others
jif vs skippy
Some examples

 

[Quattro Pete]

Tide HE for laundry detergent.
Cascade for dishwasher detergent, but based on a recent thread, I think I will give Finish a try next.
Beer - I try to pick up something different every time as I like to experiment.
BumbleBee for tuna as well.
Gillette for shaving razors.
Shell or BP for gas typically.

 

[Chris142]

All with stainlifter

 

[spackard]

Costco powder. Lasts about 1 year.

I've tried a lot of different brands of everything. I still change brands for one reason or another. Lately, it's because of some coupon, incentive, or rebate.

 

[Donald]

While you certainly learn from your parents, there are some things you decide different than parents.

I am using the TIDE laundry pods to give them a try. On paper they may be more $$ per load, however with liquid or powder I will bet people add more than the container says. So while the container says 100 loads, you get only 85 (who counts). With the pods you just use one. For people with hard water, they may need some of the best detergents.

Dishwasher - Sams club pods.

Beer - gave it up.

Anything with a scent (deodorant) I let my GF pick out.

Tuna - solid albacore for $1.00, although chunk light tuna is better for you (less mercury).

 

[JHZR2]

Charlie's soap recently.

My parents generally shopped on price and mixed up the brands as a result.

 

[DemoFly]

Tide
Rolling Rock
Dawn
Speed Stick
Jif

 

[BMWR1150GS]

I recently resurrected an old Maytag Neptune washer that was given up for dead or was deemed too costly to repair.

Well, $40.00 later, I now have a fine front loader washer that is out in the garage and is used for the really dirty, soiled stuff. I use Tide HE in it. Front loader washers simply get clothes cleaner. They also use much less water and require less than half the detergent of top loaders to get laundry clean. I can get a set of king sheets and pillow cases with the blanket into one load and use less than 1/4 cup of Tide. Get yourself a front load washer. Your clothes will be cleaner, you water bill less and you'll use much less detergent.

My buying habits;

1- Mobil 1 motor oil for all but the diesel motor home, It gets Delvac.
2- Brand names like Ocean Spray when buying juice.
3- Gillette blades. Love Barbasol...can't get Burma Shave anymore.
4- Head and Shoulders.
5- Boar's Head cold cuts.
6- The dog gets Blue Buffalo and home cooked vegetables mixed.

Thanks for your service Gumby.

 

[morris]

my moms.

 

[gathermewool]

Originally Posted By: morris
my moms.


Oh, you're wide open for a good come back, but I'm not sure if we're cool like that, so I'll keep it to myself.

I'm all over the place, honestly. For some things, I almost never change, but for others I prefer variety.

For example, my go-to beers are Bass, Harpoon IPA, and Guinness, but there are MANY, MANY better beers out there, with MANY, MANY more that I've yet to try. I buy/try something different every chance I get, but if the selection is limited, I try to get one of the aforementioned three.

I'm not a fan of perfumed laundry detergent, so I almost exclusively use the hypoallergenic ALL.

I eat Taco Bell a few times/month (all other fast food month,) and when I do I get the same exact thing - steak grilled stuff'd burrito, minus beans, with a side of nachos and cheese.

For most other foods, I eat whatever looks good, and usually try to vary my diet.

For the dozen or so sodas I drink a year, it's almost always Dr. Pepper.

For oil, I like to run a few intervals in a row with the same oil, but that doesn't mean I'd miss trying something new if I find it cheaply.

 

[rshaw125]

Used Tide for years. Switched to Aldi 'orange jug' last year. Costs less than half and works just as good.
Finish tabs in dishwasher.

 

[Doog]

Whatever is on sale. I have to check that Aldi stuff out.

 

[Mr Nice]

I use a low cost laundry detergent called Xtra found very cheap at CVS.

Works great and is low cost.

 

[Garak]

Tide is my usual choice. The commercial version of Tide with Bleach is rather cheap at our wholesale club. I also used a lot of Sunlight, particularly when they had that ultra-concentrated liquid that didn't reek of lemons.

 

[2James1]

All powder laundry detergent
Shick Hydro 5 razor blades(used gillete fusion then fusion proglide...got too expensive though)
Mobil 1 oil. With the exception of the current oci

 

[rjundi]

I always fall back to Tide. Whites turn grey with other detergents. Tide seems to bring them back. Not sure what the difference is but given how little with an HE washer you buy detergent does not even cross my mind to economize at all. I think the key thing for me would be best product.

 

[Patman]

Arm & Hammer laundry detergent goes on sale at my local grocery store a lot so I buy that usually. The 90 use bottle is about $5. I don't put as much detergent in as they recommend either, as too much detergent is harmful to the machine and is really not necessary. You don't need the water to be super sudsy, it should have a very little amount of suds.

 

[Pop_Rivit]

We use Country Save laundry detergent. It's inexpensive and a box lasts us 8 or 9 months, it works well and it's one of the cheapest per load I've found.

 

[Tdbo]

We use what ever name brand laundry detergent is on sale and has coupons. For example, just bought a 32 load bottle of All for $1.99 on sale after stacking the sale price with coupons. Same concept with all other of the household goods we consume.

 

[opus1]

Laundry Detergent: whatever's on sale and I have a coupon for.
Dishwasher: broken for years. I use whatever dish-soap is on sale, same as the laundry detergent.
Beer: tears up my stomach, so I don't drink
Cereal: Shredded Mini-Wheats. Kellogg's if it's on sale, otherwise Malt-O-Meal's brand which I buy at Menard's.
Pop: rarely drink it but when I do, I prefer Coke over Pepsi.

I could go on, but I think you get the drift.

Like I've said before, when I squeeze a penny, Abe Lincoln screams in pain.