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It's almost time to ditch the sweaters (goodbye and good riddance!) so that means that I'm prepping my woolens so that they can be stored until the fall. This used to mean a trip to the dry cleaners, but I have a passionate hatred for dry cleaning: It's expensive, bad for the environment and I just don't buy that my stuff is actually clean.

So what I do instead is hand wash everything. Yes, even the "dry-clean only" stuff.

I rarely washed clothes by hands because it used to take forever and it made my sink a mess. I also didn't need another chore added to my list. But then I figured out a system and now I hand wash a bunch of clothes at a time, saving me precious goofing off time.

Instead of the sink, I wash everything in the tub. Yes, the tub.

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That way I can actually wash a bunch of