formula for detergent

Although this may look like an advertisement, it's actually a warning of the potency of the following method for magnetizing detergent.

If you are in need of detergent, I first recommend you move across the country via automobile, and are sure to pack a giant (Costco size) bottle of detergent with you, and a little bottle for hand washables (2). That should get everything going.

Next, move into an apartment that hasn't ever been entirely empty in over 2 years. There you will find 4 more containers of detergent (2 powder, 2 liquid, so long as we're including fabric softener), all of which your roommate leaves behind when her allotted time in grad housing is up (now 6).

Finally, have your sibling join the military, then get shipped out of a town approximately 120 miles away, the same weekend all his friends do. His friends will inevitably give him at least 2 more bottles of detergent and he will put them in your car, unbeknownst to you.

This method should leave you with 8 choices of different detergents to choose from when washing your clothes. But be forewarned...this is a potent method. Use it only if you really strongly believe you need at least 8 types of detergent. And if you don't mind getting so wrapped up in writing a blip you forget to put your clothes in the dryer.

Addendum: I just now had to edit this entry and change the final number to 10, if you count wrinkle release spray from the internationally bound, and pre-wash stain treatment from the depths of the cabinet beneath the kitchen sink!