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I agree. But it's kind of hard to find where to buy the non-pod version nowadays.
Also: https://youtu.be/Ll6-eGDpimU?si=O0fJgsAnp2Yz3Clj
In the past couple months Google has become quite hostile toward front-ends that previously made it possible for Tor users to reach their content. And I don’t have a good connection so I can’t do videos anyway.
But indeed, it’s hard to find proper detergent. I have to go to a big store of a big grocery chain to get it. But it’s worth it on the basis of price alone. Buying a couple kilos of powder gives the most loads for the money. IIRC the pods were twice the cost of powder when comparing a promotional sales price on pods.
(edit) Oh, but speaking of youtube, video
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(which I have a saved a copy of) goes into pods. The guy makes an interesting point: pods discourage the use of detergent in the prewash. Though I think he over stresses that.I hadn't realized how lucky we were - we have one of those crunchy refill stores in town, where you can bring your own containers and buy various powders and liquids (primarily cleaning supplies though they do some seasonings as well. I wish I could buy orange juice that way (I basically gave up on drinking it because I didn't need any more plastic bottles). We switched to various dilutions of castile soap for most things, and a generic dishwasher powder for our little countertop rig.
Look for a supermarket with one of those juicing machines - you can just keep reusing the same bottle each time, the scan code doesn't change
That's a good idea! I do that with peanut butter at a fancy grocery store - I wonder if there's one around that does juice
The video I posted is the second version of the video you mention. He rerecorded it with some changes or so.
In the us, Aldi carries store brand liquid, and last I heard Walmart has powdered in the store brand but that requires giving money to Walmart and they may have stopped selling it since
Though in my experience the powder sometimes gets too much moisture in it and turns into a brick rendering it unusable anyway
Where are you shopping?
In South Korea, but I assume I powder is difficult to get nowadays everywhere.
Well, I've never had problems finding it in Finland and still don't. Generalising assumptions are going to be wrong.
I'm lucky. I get powdered dish and clothes detergents