$ave Money- Maintain your washing machine

Instead of using fabric softenner which can build up in your washing machine over time and is not really good for it, use vinegar! Vinegar in your fabric softenner dispenser is cheaper than fabric softenner, it softens clothes and helps clean and kill germs, it acts as a cleaner in your machine helping to break down and remove residue that builds up in you machine over time. You just use like a third to half a cup for a load, same amount as you would softenner. I live in an area with really bad water quality, high concentration of lime and calcium and chlorine and I have a new machine so I definately don't want it building up scum and ceasing up on me! So I just use vinegar in my wash once a week with the towel load. Makes the towels nice and soft and does a service on my new machine at the same time.
And don't worry about the smell, you can't small it at all!