Laundry detergent costs anywhere from $3.50 to $14.99. I have always bought the $3.50 ones. Then one day I looked at my clothes and they did not look good. There was a white streak on the bottom of my shorts. I decided to try another detergent. I read that Tide is the best laundry detergent. It is also the most costly. Honestly I just could not spend $14.99 for laundry detergent. So I went with the Target brand. There was another reason I decided to switch. The $3.50 detergent said there would be 30 washes. I knew I never got 30 washes. That made me falsely believe that the $3.50 detergent was lying to me and ripping me off. Crazy, but true. Then I looked closer and the $3.50 detergent was not being dishonest nor cheating me. They were right and I was wrong but they wanted me to be wrong. They wanted me to get less than 30 washes. Way less than 30 washes. How did they do this? By making the detergent cap dark blue. Very dark blue. So dark that I needed a flash light to see the inside cup markings. If I used the markings to fill the detergent cup I would have gotten close to those 30 washes.

I think it is sneaky that laundry detergent manufacturers do this. They put directions on the laundry detergent container. But who reads them? I think we know how to do the wash. But if you do not read the back you will most likely not get the amount of washes the box says you will.

So I looked at the instructions on the container. There was some information about how much detergent to put in the laundry deterrent in the cup. Actually there are lines in the cup and if the load is very dirty then you fill it to the top line. Less dirty and also less water then you can use some other lines. I realized that the 30 washes I did not get were because I did not use the line and the cup correctly.

So now I had this knowledge. I decided to apply it to the Target detergent. The cup is dark purple. If there are lines in there I can not see them. So I am guessing. I should get 64 washes. I am not counting. Too much work. However, 64 washes should be about a month and a half.

I am on the warpath about corporations. I find them sneaky aming other things. The laundry detergent is just one example. The problem is that if we spend our time in corporation skepticism and inspection we will not have time in the day to even take a shower. They really got us. Corporations, can't live with them, can't live without them. Scary!