My friend Lizzy JUST moved to Korea and I am doing my best to help her get acclimated. Neither one of us speaks the language but I've been living in this country for a year and a half so it would be seemingly safe for others to assume that, by now, I can accomplish all of life's most basic tasks here. However, this is exactly why we should never make assumptions.
In Korea, you have to use fabric softener because the water is harsh and driers are uncommon. You put the detergent in at the beginning and, when it beeps about halfway through the cycle, you put in the softener. Lizzy took me to the store with her so that (being the wise Korean veteran that I am) I could help her pick out a detergent and softener. I wasn't entirely sure I was giving her the correct information so I decided to call a friend to double check.
EPIPHANY.
It turns out I have been washing my clothes with only fabric softener for the entire year and a half that I've lived in Korea. Oops.
It gets worse: For whatever reason, I have been under the impression this entire time that the purple bottle of fabric softener (below) was detergent and that just the blue one was softener. This means that I've been washing my clothes with NO SOAP and yet two different scents of fabric softener.
I may be dirty but let's look at the bright side: at least my clothes are extra soft.
Disclaimer: I washed all of my socks and underwear with actual detergent when I got home that night.
(A special thanks to Renata for finally cluing me in.)
Haha, that's hella funny. Fortunately, I've been using detergent, but I always put the fabric softener in when I start my load, so I guess I'm a fool, too. But my clothes are clean and smell nice, so I think it works. The rinse cycle is the part that fucks me. Almost all my T-shirts are ruined because the spin. So now I wash everything on lingerie setting.
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