Tide Stain Release

I'm a new blogger. I don't intend to ever put ads on my blog. This, of course, could change ... but I'm different in two ways ... I don't need to make money off my blog ... I do it for pleasure. Second, I don't do the comment love thing ... so the hits on my blog will never be high. I'll only comment on a product I really love or really hate.

(About comments ... I only comment on other blogs because I really love their blog and I am genuinely interested in what they are saying. I love that some people comment on my blog ... but I've had to turn on comment moderation because some people don't get that I'm allowed to express my opinion here ... all I can say to that is ... HAVE A POINT TO YOUR OPINION, EXPRESS IT AND LETS HAVE A DISCUSSION ... STOP BEING HATEFUL.)

Anyway, on to my title. My MIL sent me some fleece lined jackets for the kids and the retailer sent a sample of Tide Stain Release with the jackets. I never use Tide products ... they are way too smelly for this family that uses only perfume free soap ... but I hesitated to toss them when I read what they are supposed to do ... with 3 very young kids we have major pre-treating going on in our house ... it's very time consuming. So I thought I'd give it a try. I put a load of medium colors in the washer without treating anything ... I thought "lets see what comes out clean" ...

EVERY single stain came out!!!! I double checked everything before throwing them into the dryer. Could this be? I bought a large bag of the pillows to give them a more thorough test run.

After using the entire 34 count bag, here is my assessment: This stuff is amazing ... I never pre-treat now (occasionally something has to be treated and rewashed, but it's maybe one thing per laundry cycle). And I discovered that if you put your dingy whites in on a "soak" cycle they return to their amazing whiteness. I laundered a pair of white underwear with the darks by mistake ... I threw them in with the next white load and the underwear returned to pure white.

The tide website even has a $1.50 off coupon.