STOP! Before Your Next Wash, See Why My Grandmother Refused to Use Fabric Softener

You step out of the shower, grab that soft towel, and it just pushes the water around instead of soaking it up. That's not you doing laundry wrong, that's what store softener does to cloth over time. In this one, June walks through five questions people keep asking her about fabric softener, starting with why towels stop drying you and ending with what she reaches for instead. Along the way there's a story from the summer of nineteen sixty-six, a young schoolteacher, a bucket pulled up from a well, and a storm rolling in over the pasture. What were you raised to believe was your fault, that turned out to be the water, the weather or the house? Tell me in the comments. June Chapters: 0:00 Why That Towel Won't Dry You 1:25 A Basket Too Stiff To Fold 2:06 What The Tag Won't Tell You 3:47 What Came Up In The Bucket 4:26 The Water We Were Given 11:55 How Often She Really Uses It