<p>My sister did tell me that 3-1 sheets left stains as a previous poster noted. They did come out in wash but what is the point. Thought it sounded too good to be true. I picked up a concentrated pump bottle of detergent from Target called Method I think, it says 3-4 pumps per load and it’s a 25 load small bottle and no measure cup required. I’ve never used this at home so we’ll see how it goes but it sounds simple enough and light weight to carry back & forth.</p>
<p>My DD has been using the Purex sheets and loves the fact that she only needs one product. She has not noticed any oily stains in her clothes.</p>
<p>We got her a Rubbermaid wheeled hamper with wheels in Target. ( [Rubbermaid®</a> Wheeled Clothes Hamper | USP Home ®](<a href=“http://www.usphome.com/catalog/item.aspx?sku=56963]Rubbermaid®”>Loading...)) It is a little pricey but it has saved her back.</p>
<p>D used the 3 in 1 Purex sheets and liked them. Much nicer than hauling a big bottle of detergent several floors down to the dorm basement.</p>
<p>I sent my son the Dropps things (or something similar–available on drugstore.com). Easy to stick one in your pocket for each load you’re doing. (Agree that liquid is messy and heavy, and I know some people don’t like the all-in-one sheets.)</p>
<p>Purex sheets with no problems, other than other students liking them so much they help themselves…</p>
<p>D uses the Purex sheets too - for the second year now, with no stains either. She is fussy about how her clothes look and they come out best with the sheets, according to her. S, on the other hand, is a concentrated liquid guy.</p>
<p>My D school told us that they have need high-efficiency (HE) laundry detergent. Does it really make a difference?</p>
<p>Both my sons use the pop-up mesh hampers with straps. They are so much lighter weight than a reg. plastic laundry basket when carrying a big load of clothes. They can really cram a lot of stuff in them too. </p>
<p>Also when coming home to visit (their colleges are instate), the mesh hampers are easy to bring the dirty clothes home in. My intrepid boys quickly figured out that they could pack it full, put a couple of strips of duct tape across the top and them just toss it in the trunk or the the truck bed and not worry about anything falling out.</p>
<p>My kids love the Purex sheets and have had no problems with them. They keep a regular laundry basket in the bottom of their closets and use it as a hamper. They like the laundry basket as opposed to a bag so they can fold the clothes in the laundry room and neatly transport them back to their rooms. If beds are lofted, there may be no place in the room to fold.</p>
<p>My son, now in medical school, always used a plastic laundry basket for the same reasons my-3-sons mentioned. To this day when he comes home for a visit, he “packs” in his laundry basket and hanging clothes still on the hangers; tried to get him to at least us a hanging bag, but that was a no go! He says it is much easier than folding clothes to fit into a suitcase;plus, if he brings home dirty clothes, he can leave them in the basket and just deposit them in my laundry room :-)</p>
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<p>Yes.
If the school has front-loading washers, you have to use a hig-efficiency detergent. Normal ones can make too many suds, which can make the washer stop and display an error message until the suds die down - then it starts back and more suds form and it stops again, etc. The HE detergents don’t make many suds at all; kind of like how dishwasher detergents can get your dishes clean without foaming.</p>
<p>Get the HE detergent with Febreeze or some other scent preventer (I made that up).</p>
<p>S tried both Dropps and Purex.
Purex works better than Dropps.
His laundry hamper has a pocket outside, he puts one bag of Purex there. That’s it.
Some supermarkets carry Purex but I always purchase on-line (amazon), free shipping to his school.</p>
<p>S loves the Purex sheets. I also bought the Dropps, but he refuses to use them. He uses the popup mesh laundry bag, but it tends to rip when he puts two weeks of laundry in it. The “One More Day and I’ll Be Naked” laundry bag (<a href=“Dormbuys.com”>Dormbuys.comll-be-naked-laundry-bag</a>) would be more appropriate!</p>
<p>Odessagirl loves the Purex 3-in-1 sheets. She keeps the little box in the bottom of her (regular) hamper. It’s lightweight and very convenient. She states that she hasn’t had any oily stains from using it.</p>
<p>If you don’t use HE detergent it does cause too many suds but tell your kids to just use half the required amount of regular detergent and there will be no extra suds. This is a hilarious post-if you are following this post and your child is a senior in high school-now is the time to teach laundry tricks not when they are gone!
My son took the Purex 3-1 to Europe last summer and they worked like a charm for him.
Target online will also deliver products to the dorm if your child’s school is far from shopping.</p>
<p>My son will be a freshman this fall so at the beginning of summer I bought him some Purex sheets and showed him how to do his laundry. From that point on he was completely on his own!</p>
<p>Another fan of Purex sheets or maybe I should say another four fans.</p>
<p>Started youngest daughter out with the Purex sheets when she started college last year; she liked them so much that my other two kids started with them even though both have their own washer/dryer so lugging detergent wasn’t an issue. My son lives with roommates and noticed that his detergent disappeared faster than he himself used it; now he keeps his Purex sheets in his laundry basket - and no more disappearing detergent. (Disappearing food in the fridge remains another matter.)</p>
<p>No problem with grease spots - and all buy the refill packet for environmental reasons. :)</p>
<p>We son also went with the concentrated liquid. And to minimize his folding, he would wash the sheets and put them back on the bed, He never touched his 2nd set of sheets.</p>
<p>Son did the purex sheets and it worked out perfectly… no oily stains or other issues. Also… I do not recommend a huge (pop up, mesh or otherwise) laundry hamper. He said it let him go too long between washing anything.</p>