Sour to suh-weet!

In the hot, humid, dog days of summer it's easy to put off things you don't want to do. You know: walk the dog... vacuum the floors... take the laundry out of the washer. As a consequence, the dog gets cranky, the carpet gets linty, and the laundry gets smelly. The first two can really only be remedied by going ahead and doing the thing you know you need to do, but for the last, you've got an option that will allow you to put off taking your wet, clingy laundry out of the washer for maybe another day, which might be enough time for the heat to subside.

If your laundry sours because you've left it in the washer too long, run the load again, and put about a cup of white vinegar in the little compartment that's meant for liquid bleach (or wherever you usually put liquid fabric softener). The vinegar will run in the final rinse, and voila! No more smelly laundry. But really, at that point your should take it out and hang it up to dry or run it through the dryer. I mean, come on.