Laundry additives?

I think they have to be in your inventory, then the option will come up.

Well to even add food or flowers as laundry additives, you need to have anything considered a food or flower in your inventory, and if you have a washtub, click on it and find the option to add it. Flowers will make your laundry smell good while food will make it smell not so good. If you want to add it in your washer though, you need to have a high enough Handiness skill to upgrade the washer with the laundry additive setting.

I can understand adding flowers to make the clothes smell good but why would anyone want the clothes to smell bad with food?.

"Nh6650;c-16275594" wrote:
I can understand adding flowers to make the clothes smell good but why would anyone want the clothes to smell bad with food?.

Ikr. And yet I've been very tempted to use mushrooms as additives, just because my teen sim is pretty poor (she lives on her own) and she'd harvested some at the spice festival, so they were the only additives she had and I was itching to try it out. But then I decided to spare some money and buy flower seeds instead since she's already unlucky and stressed enough as it is, living on her own in a needs TLC apartment, with a crappy income, and the principal reminding her every other day how poorly she's performing at school (dude u try holding down a job and finishing homework while continuously fixing problems around the house), without also smelling like a mushroom. It just felt cruel xD

Hello
This is a link to a guide on upgrades and additives. You need to have handiness level 6 to be able add the Laundry additive tray.
https://simsvip.com/sims-4-laundry-guide/#Upgrades

"Laughaminute89;c-16283549" wrote:
I have tried adding flowers into my clean wash tub, but every time my clothes come out as being "soiled" and not clean. Not sure why this would be, am sure the water is clean in the basin and have only added flowers of pristine quality or higher. Anyone else with this problem?

Hello
Try using the options to “ clean laundry additives” and “ replace water “ , then see if that helps.

"Nh6650;c-16275594" wrote:
I can understand adding flowers to make the clothes smell good but why would anyone want the clothes to smell bad with food?.

Torture prison. Or regular prison as punishment for misbehaving.

College prank? Kids/teens pranking parents? Not sure if that would work. In a washtub the smell is pretty noticeable, so no way the pranked sim wouldn't notice it. But I haven't tried despoiling a washer yet, it might just work there.

I also plan to use foul smelling clothes when I play a castaway or homeless challenge next to simulate how awful even washed clothes can smell under these circumstances. That would be a case of gameplay/story seperation, though, because even though I direct the sims to add foul foood to the washtub, in-story it didn't happen.

"Nh6650;c-16275594" wrote:
I can understand adding flowers to make the clothes smell good but why would anyone want the clothes to smell bad with food?.

I have to laugh about adding food. Currently, there's been a commercial on TV about needing a new Downey fabric conditioner, so that your clothes don't smell like the BBQ you were at, or the steak house — especially when you told your boss you had a dental appointment. :open_mouth:

Ok but where do you get them

Harvest flowers that are in your neighborhood if you don't have a garden. Cook the food and put it in your inventory.