Pad? or pod?

Yeah, I was thinking the one I posted about, sheets. (link included)

No and no.

We always used to use pods when my stepson was growing up because otherwise, he would overuse or make a big mess of powder and liquid detergent. We no longer use them. I typically use powder, but sometimes use the sheets because I like their compactness and they're great for travel or when I need to take big bedding to the laundromat.

I had a jug of pods left over from the kids’ college stuff. I kept finding not-quite-dissolved plastic in the machine and gasket. So I get liquid.

Tide granular here. I don't want to lug diluted soap, and the 'sheets' haven't gotten good reviews. I do use Woollite (a liquid) for darks and delicates.

Precisely the same as Chisue, we could do each others laundry.....right down to the brands.

I don't want someone else measuring my detergent and typically use quite a bit less than the packaging indicates. A tip given me by our very own in-house Maytag Man when I did bookkeeping in an appliance store when first married. Oddly I'll use a pre-measured pod and I'm happy with those in my dishwasher but I'd never put one in my clothes washing machine.

Bragu, I do admit to keeping a small container of the pods in mothers senior apartment. Staff would launder her sheets and towels but she preferred I do her clothing that was important to her. It was easier for me to carry a laundry basket in my hands with a couple of pods in my pocket when going down the hall to that laundry room. They had some kind of apparatus on the wall that would dispense their liquid into the machines if desired but no one there could ever tell me exactly what it was (amber colored) so I never used it. I used a pod and set the machine to an additional rinse every single load.

I use them when I am on cruises. I take dryer sheets & laundry sheets. They have always worked fine for me.

i tried two different brands of the sheets, was not impressed with either one. Now I'm using a giant tub of powdered, I believe from Sam 's club. Trying to cut down my plastic waste, I'll at least be able to use the tub as a bucket afterwards. And it'll take me close to a year to go through it. I know there are boxes of powdered available, but they're awkward for me to carry.

No dishwasher pods. They don't work in my machine because 1) the dispenser is a flow-through design in which pods aren't compatible, and 2) all but the lightest cycle runs a prewash and/or prerinse (prewash and two prerinses on the heaviest cycle) so the detergent is gone when the main wash begins if I place a pod directly into the tub.

dadoes, there's a link in my post above where I asked the same question.

for the dishwasher, Our plumber recommends not pods that can’t be unwrapped. He says the wrapping doesn’t always dissolve completely and adds to pipe-clogging. Is the wrapping made of cornstarch?

We find it hard to find powdered dishwasher detergent in the stores, the pods are ubiquitous. I have a box of dw powder reserved for soaking, it does a great job!

I bought six 75 oz. boxes of Cascade Complete powder at Target in March. Walmart here currently has it.

I also tried the laundry sheets at one time and didn’t care for them. Didn’t think they ’cleaned’ as well as they should. But i did keep a few for travel as they seem to work ok for lightly soiled clothing, which we generally have when traveling anyway, or in a pinch for sink laundry when cut into smaller pieces.

We have a soap store called Buff City Soap which sells refillable containers of powder detergent. You can purchse unscented as well as some scents. I usually get the unscented but they have one called ’Cotton’ that is nice. I keep some on hand and use it occasionally but mostly use liquid. They also carry various bar soaps that are nice and I keep one on hand for travel.

I got some sheets at a reallly good price and use them for small lightly soiled . loads of laundry... Seem to work fine.