1.   Add bleach to the laundry load.

2.   Just about everybody pitched in to do scores of laundry loads to banish the smell of smoke.

3.   Laundry loads were reduced dramatically.

4.   The first laundry load of the New Year is another rite that is not assigned a date in my notebook calendar.

5.   Ideas for reducing electrical demand have ranged from putting off laundry loads until off-peak hours to suggestions that people get together for Super Bowl-watching parties.