I insisted on doing all my husband’s laundry to make a good impression – but I made an awkward mistake
A MARRIED woman has revealed the critical and hilarious mistake she made for a year and a half straight while doing laundry for her husband.
While many newlyweds often live the first year of their lives together in the honeymoon phase, few have that luster shattered as thoroughly as the woman who confessed her error to her followers.
A woman named Savanna Cooper, who goes by @sav_coop on TikTok, said she thought she was being a doting wife by doing her husband’s laundry all the time.
But she later realized she was making a big mistake, and their clothes paid for it.
She shared her story in a video by going along with the popular “Put a finger down” TikTok trend to admit that she’s done something.
“Put a finger down if when you got married a year and a half ago, you wanted to be the perfect, cutest wife ever, and you wanted to do all the laundry.”
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She said she never wanted her husband to have to wash his own clothes, as she enjoyed doing this favor for him.
“But about eight months in, you start to notice your clothes are a little stinky. Especially your husband’s. They’re very stinky. They smell sour.
“And you’re like, “That’s so weird because I do all the laundry. Why are they so stinky?’”
Savanna called a technician to her house to check on the washing machine, but everything was working properly.
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She doubted this first technician, so she called a second. He told her the same thing.
Still in disbelief, the woman dragged her husband with her to Lowe’s to buy a new washing machine because she was adamant that hers was broken.
Moments before swiping her credit card to buy the $4,000 machine, she decided to call her mom for another opinion.
After hearing what had happened, her mother asked her: “What are you using to wash your clothes?”
Savanna told her she had been using the Downy Liquid Laundry Detergent.
“And she says, ‘What Downy Liquid Laundry Detergent?’ And I said, ‘The blue can of the Downy Liquid Laundry Detergent.’”
After a moment of silence, the mother broke the news to her daughter.
“She said, ‘Savanna, there is no such thing as Liquid Downy Laundry Detergent. Downy only sells fabric softener.’”
That’s when it hit Savanna: For almost a year, she had been washing all her clothes, her towels, and her sheets with fabric softener rather than detergent.
Looks like her items will need a few extra cycles in the wash.