Dye, Don’t Buy

They also have started coming with ‘certian’ brands of ponchos without the drawstrings with big, bulky, slidy push knod to tighten the string and zipper closes instead, because they “tradtionally” pack ponchos in the mesh bags tightly and you can typically NEVER get them back in again I save the bags and use them for undergarments and the like as they are mesh so the ponchos can dry and are basically of the same design of the type(s) of bags that Sadnana is talking about (usually small-large mesh bags depending upon need(s) for usage) to do the jobs of letting :just enough” soap or whatever detergent you use and water to pass through and drain without letting the treasured delicate and/or other preasuer items you do not want drowned by full on exposer to the water and detergant(s), etc. and the thrashing about of the machine(s), especially if you have one of those washers with the large, cylindrical, twisty stand in the center that they could get wrapped around in. However, since the ponchos are packed in so tightly these bags are typically small and better for delicates and/or smaller items, though they may on occasion(s) be “slightly” larger and close to medium in size and be able to fit slightly larger items, but I would NOT recommend “force fitting” items into bags that they are the “wrong size(s)” for. (For instance, shoving a big pair of pants or a shirt that would need more room to “breathe” when draining into a medium and/or small bag and to check “sizing constraints” I would recommend that you first fold the garment(s) that you wish to was and see that they fit not so snuggly in a bag that you have to “force the zipper closed due to them being the wrong size initially when laid out flat to fill the length wise dementions of the bag,not “rolling/folding” any items so tightly that it could A) damage the item because of how you initially folded it…B) could get damaged due to doing so because such compactness could cause stress on any attatched things like bows, beads, etc. in the wash cycle when garments have a tendancy to get wrinled and then fluffed out in the drier and thus due to being so tightly packed the garment(s) have noway(s) of going through the normal washer processes of water drainage and thus act like more of a “sponge” (basically the whole blanket absorbing so much water that one dryer cycle after spinning it first in the wash isnt enough to dry it and so too much build up of water, cold and/or heat could cause it to deteriate faster if the instructions do not advise being it advised to such strenuous conditions)…C) do NOT pack MORE than two-three like items in a bag (pants in one of the SAME types of materials, shirts in the same bags of the SAME types of materials, etc., but I would recommend keeping garments with “frills” in separate bags to reduce the risk(s) of damage (if they are shirts, for instance, but with undrgarments you should USUALLY not have an issue putting several in the same bag, but SEPARATE bras and panties/underware)!!! However, use your own discretion on EVERYTHING and MOST washing machines now have a “hand wash” feature, BUT those “tend” to be pretty “vigurous” and typically NOT gentle, so I would FIRST call the manufacturer of your machine to see if they can tell you how “forceful” their particular “hand washing” setting(s) are before you attempt to use them and do NOT have a disaster on your hands, since EVERY machine AND garment is different, though I have used mine on every machine I have owned and/or used in all of the places I have stayed with different machines from my own and the settings tended to be a bit more “vigorus” than some of the suggested instructions on the tag like “gentle hand washing only” and were FINE after being hung dry when being dried by handing by the pant leg cuffs if they were pants and some machines EVEN have options for different levels of “force” used on the “hand washing” cycle(s) and they are typically from gentle-vigorus (vigorus or hard or strong or deep…depending upon the wording) and coinside with the “traditional” amounts of hand washing given to garments BEFORE they are sent to the stores and then what they recommend to wash them as when caring for them on your own and more effectively manage the level(s) of water used for each “care type” and the “amount of time” needed for said care instruction(s), so you have less of a chance of making a mistake in the “hand washing process”. I have in the past if I have no real place to dry my garments, for instance when I was living in apartments and/or at home, etc and could NOT have access to a clothes line (and anyway one of the WORST things you can do is leave these types of items on an “outdoors” clothesline and go about your day and leave them to get exposed to all sorts of things and they usually dry better and retain their shape and life long usage for several years when kept in “indirect” lighting) fashioned some string or cord inbetween a couple of handles of cabinets over a sink and/or basin of some type and hung the garments up with the types of clothespins that have the felt on the inside where they grip the garments so the material of the clip and how they “dig in to” the garments in general to support them doesn’t damage the material and if I could not find “enough” of such clothes pins (which can usually be found in craft and/or clothing stores) with the felt I would glue on little bits of felt myself. I usually prefer the plastic clothes pins (with felt ONLY, since they will “dig into” the garments more without it because the traditionally are NOT that “grippy” and use those annoying “zig zaggy teeth” to help improve the gripping and the felt improves the gripping and iliminates the need for the teet), where as the wooden clothes pins are “heavier” and tend to “way down” on the garments more and when being held in place by something heavier (especially if it is a “very” delicate item of clothing) it can add a lot of unneeded stress to the clothing and since they are hanging straight down it may be VERY stressing on the material (because if you have ever tried to hang something heavy with a poor system to hang it with like hanging drapes or the like then you can probably understand the “stresses” to the items I am talking about when you try and take them down, espescially if they are something VERY thin, like silk drapes being hung with thick clips, which no one should try, but we’ve probably all made such stupid types of mistakes in our time without access to the proper resources to use at the time for what we were doing, inadiquate knowledge/experience in what we were doing inorder to not make that/those “beginners learning fubs”)! Though decide for yourself and GOOD LUCK!!!

Hope this helps!,

TheLifeGuru999