How To Make Your Towels Smell Better

I avoid my garage at all costs. This is due to a number of reasons:

-it's dark and creepy
-it smells like stray cats
-it's cold
-the cats run in there every time I open the door (answer to reason 2?)
-there's no place to set the baby down... etc.

This means laundry sits for longer than it should. With clothing you can fluff it up in the dryer and it's no problem - but for towels it's another story.

The result? Awful, smelly towels - like the kind you remember from summer camp that sat out wet all night in a dank cabin. Or like the hand towels grandma kept under the sink with all the moth balls. It's the worst. So how do you fix it?

Add three cups of white distilled vinegar to your next wash. Just load in all your towels, put three cups of vinegar into the prewash drawer, and run it on on the "soak and spin" cycle once. Leave it there for an hour afterwards to let it set-in (a great way to buy time and avoid the garage until the husband comes home and checks it for ghosts). Then add your regular detergent and wash as usual.

Done. Awesome.

3 cups: plus soak and spin