For decades, a marketing campaign has been feeding us a laundry list of lies, saying we need fabric softener to feel snuggly soft or, even worse, avoid the dreaded embarrassment of — gasp — static ...

A video of a woman cleaning her washing machine online and the video's comments show that people are rethinking a decades-old habit: using fabric softener. In the clip, a woman is cleaning part of her ...

MADISON, N.C. — There are so many things in our homes that we take for granted. Think about it. We go to the refrigerator or the freezer almost every day to get food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

When a crucial appliance unexpectedly goes offline, many people may not realize that losing such a pivotal part of keeping the household on track is more than just a minor inconvenience. A faulty ...