This is a big deal.

Eight YEARS it has been since I was able to use bleach on our whites.  When we moved to Pembroke and I got my very own washer and dryer, I figured that the reason our whites seemed dingy was because I wasn't using enough bleach.  So I kept using more.  And more, and MORE.  Until one day Marc went to wipe his brow after a hard workout and burned his face with all the residual bleach that was in the towel.

Oops!

But our whites were still dingy!  A year later when we had to replace our pool liner and filled the pool back up with water from both a truck and our hose, the pool guy finally solved the mystery when the new liner turned BROWN.  He said, "You must have a lot of iron in your water.  The chlorine in the pool shock causes it to rust and turn brown."

Aha!  Chlorine Bleach + Iron heavy water = rusted iron = rusty whites.

So for eight long years, we either wore dingy whites, or no whites at all.  Oxy Clean became my go-to, but it required so much soaking to get the iron out of the clothes that it was a pain to have to use it on a regular basis. 

When we were moving, this became one of my top ten things I was thrilled to leave behind.  But I must say, I'm a little shy now to use the Clorox, it's been so long.  And there are all those memories of favorite clothes bleached by accident when I was a kid (things always seemed to hide in my Mum's white loads!).  I know it's only a matter of time before I ruin something important.

But today is the day.  I can't wait to see the sunshine a little Clorox is going to bring into my life!