my clothes aren’t even nice enough to bother separating from one dense mass of ‘yup this can be one load’

FWIW, I’ve never wasted money on the crap and wouldn’t even if I were a millionaire.

There’s a big difference between “I don’t know what this is for” and “I don’t see the point of this.” Guessing that 99% of millennials who “don’t know what it’s for” actually understand it perfectly well but aren’t convinced they should spend money to smell like a Yankee Candle store exploded.

Hey, here’s an idea: high-quality scented products, like Lush bath bombs, are a common luxury indulgence for young people on limited budgets. Maybe millennials have become more discerning about scents and find the harsh chemical fragrances of many household products unpleasant by comparison.

… on a scale of one to ten, how bad an idea would it be to throw a bath bomb in your washing machine?

If someone made a laundry detergent that smelled like Avobath I would buy it forever. 

And fabric softener IS, like… kind of a scam? Yes, it makes the fabric feel different, but it does that by depositing a fine layer of slime on the fabric to make the fibers stand up fluffily. This makes certain fabrics deteriorate faster, increases the fire hazard of some fabrics, decreases the absorbent qualities of towels and dishcloths, scums up your washing machine and shortens its lifespan, and can irritate the sensitive skin of babies, children and allergic people. So you do all this work and time and effort to wash your damn towels and then you coat them with stuff that makes them less effective and more irritating? Like, you can ALSO just NOT do this.

so it’s not… really … worth spending money on, unless fabric softener is something you genuinely like, or you have really hard water where you live, and you can just DIY that shit anyway, with products that are… actually not unlike a Lush bath bomb??