Cheryl responds to a question about how to do laundry from a blindness perspective. A few other community members toss in their own tips as Cheryl gives us a comprehensive overview of tackling laundry and the trappings and logistics on a campus, apartment and at home.

Sorting colors from whites, soap choices from gel packs to liquid and dry detergents. Cheryl covers this and there are a lot of good tips in this cast for you to pick and choose from. Be sure to check out more podcasts from our Household category.

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Laundry 101: Tips and Tricks From a Blindness Perspective

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[Female]

There is something I was thinking about because very soon I should be moving out on my own and stuff, and I was wondering like about washing laundry.

I know most of you blind people probably live on your own or,your partner is blind or something like that, so it’s kind of curious to know like, how as a blind person do you do your laundry on your own, because I can do it, but sorting the clothes out is kind of a challenge so, being the person that I am I don’t like to ask people to be doing this and doing that, to me it gets frustrating.

It’s just that I want to know like, your opinions on what you do to fix this, like do you label your clothes, like colored from white and dark.

Maybe an app on your phone that you could take a picture of it and it tells you what color it is, which I find that will kind of take up a lot of time but, I’m just curious to know how that’s being done?

Welcome to Blind Abilities, I’m Jeff Thompson.

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Jeff:

And we’ll be hearing from Cheryl talking about laundry.

We get requests sometimes and this one came in and how can you refuse this request.

We hope you enjoy.

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[Lucy]

Hey everybody it is Lucy or Cheryl.

Today I want to discuss the dreaded topic of laundry and I know a lot of people aren’t really into laundry but unfortunately it’s one of those things that in life we have to do or else it just mounts up like Mount Everest, so let’s tackle it before it gets out of control.

So if this is your first time doing laundry this is sort of who I’m gearing this towards but those who have been doing it a while maybe there’s a couple tips that I could provide to help out with that.

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[Lucy]

So here’s a few quick tips for you to get started, first of all you want to make sure that you check your pockets before you put your clothes in the laundry.

Make sure you don’t have cellphones or ink pens or anything like that in there because they are either going to be destroyed or they’re going to destroy your laundry.

So make sure you check those pockets.

Next thing is to make sure that your clothes aren’t bunched up when you put them in the laundry.

So make sure your socks are completely unraveled and if they’re all balled up, they’re not going to wash properly, but they’re also not going to dry, so to make sure that stuff dries properly, make sure it’s not all balled up or bunched up.

Next thing is to put your clothes inside out, to preserve the color, and also to protect your shirts that have emblems or writing on them.