In this day and age, most people don’t think twice about the way they do their laundry. But the experts at Consumer Reports say there are plenty of reasons to go old-school by giving up your clothes ...

As a child, I helped my mother hang laundry in our backyard in Tamaqua, Pa., a small coal-mining town. My job was handing up the clothespins. When everything was dry, I helped her fold the sheets in a ...