I know some of you ladies are on a well....and some may be familiar with them...we are on one as well, and I'm having problems with my whites being dingy, sometimes YELLOW... :blink: ....after I wash them.

I wash my whites in hot water, I DON'T use straight bleach, I use Borax to help boost the cleaning power of my detergent, I've tried the Rit whitener with no luck...any hints or suggestions?

PS...any guy lurkers that have experience with this or have REAL advice, PM me or I can also move this to where you can post....just let me know...

Is there any way you can get a system-wide filter? I don't know any other way...we were never able to figure out how to keep them from turning strange colors :dunno:

Wow, I think those are expensive....we've got a filter on the water in our kitchen sink, so we can at least get drinkable water out of there, water to make tea & stuff with....

Of course we have the water softener outside (you know, that you add those bags of salt to), but I don't think that takes care of the problem....

I'm thinking maybe dry them in the sun, then tumble them in the dryer to get them soft??? :dunno:

I often get those ugly yellow stains from hot water use. So that's the sock/underwear department. For the white shirts and stuff, I use cold water and don't have the yellow problem. Maybe it's just the hot water?

To get the yellow stuff out, buy a product that removes iron stains (which is what the yellow stains are). Around here, there's Iron Out and CLR...

good idea...as an experiment, I'll try doing it in cold & see what happens...