The Way to Clean Your Clothes

Essay and photo by Adel Qatami

Have you ever been in a situation where you wake up in the morning and find out that all of your clothes are dirty, and you do not know how to clean your clothes? One of today’s necessities of knowledge is to know about basic life skills like cleaning your clothes, and not to rely on someone else. Here are the two main steps that will guide you through the process of cleaning your clothes and the sub steps for each main step in order to better understand the process.

The first main step in this process is using the laundry before the dryer. In the first step, you will collect your dirty clothes in a basket. Then, after you make sure you got all of them, you can now open the laundry’s lid and put your clothes in it. After you put your clothes into the washing machine, you need to add the detergent. It is important not to add extra detergent, or your clothes will not be washed perfectly. Now, you should choose the temperature that is appropriate for the kind of clothes you put in the washing machine. If you are cleaning cotton clothes, you should put the temperature on warm, but if the clothes are silk, put the temperature on cold. Also, you can put the temperature on cold when you are washing colored clothes with whites because you do not want the color to mix with the whites. Finally, turn the machine on, and it should take up to 40 minutes.

In the second main step of this process, you will now use the dryer after you finish from the washing machine. Starting with the transfer, you will have to take your clothes out of the washer and then put them in the dryer and close the lid. Make sure to clean the lint filter if there is any dirt that might affect how the dryer functions. Afterward, choose the temperature just like you did in the first main step as stated above. Try to avoid overheating if you are cleaning silk clothes because they may be damaged by the heat and be no longer good to wear. In addition, make sure to put the right time and then turn on the start button. It should take up to one hour in order for the clothes to become dry. In most cases, you will set the timer for one hour for clothes like cotton. You should reduce the time to about 30 minutes if the clothes are silk. Finally, if you want to avoid ironing the clothes, take them out of the dryer as soon as they finish, and hang them to wear your clothes at anytime.

To sum up, in order to clean your clothes in a safe and a right way, it is important for to know this process, and ensure that you understand all of its main steps and sub steps, too. Each step should be followed precisely especially for the temperature due to the fact that the clothes could be damaged if wrong temperature degree was set. Once everyone knows how to clean his or her own clothes, the life for each individual will become easier in accomplishing basic life chores.