It’s a dirty job, but everybody’s got to do it-laundry, that is. It’s a never-ending job. For years, I was brainwashed into believing that the more expensive, name-brand laundry products worked better than their lower priced competitors. Then one week, as I was picking up laundry detergent, I noticed that Purex Laundry Detergent was on sale for $2.99 for a 100-oz. bottle. The same size of my usual Tide Laundry Detergent was on sale for $5.49.
I was happy with the results I was getting with Tide, but for a $2.50 savings, I decided it was worth a try. I was not able to tell any difference in my laundry at all. Everything came out just as clean as with Tide. Both 100 oz. bottles do 32 loads of laundry measures the same. Tide advertises that whites washed in their product are brighter than whites washed in other detergents, but I am not able to notice any difference with Purex. The scent was pleasant, so I rushed back to the store and picked up two more bottles of Purex while it was still on sale. Tide, made by Proctor & Gamble, is certainly the more heavily advertised brand and there are many more product choices. But Purex, made by Dial Corp, has a comparable product for every type of detergent available under the Tide brand.
Both products can come in both powder and liquid varieties. But I’m not really interested in paying for Tide to advertise their product. Even when Purex is not on sale, you can probably expect to save about $2 a bottle. For someone like me, that’s a savings of about $50 a year. That may not sound like much, $1 a week, but I’d rather save it than spend it! J