Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

OK I want to be candid here. I went into this purchase a complete skeptic. No one I know has purchased these and vouched for them. Reviews on Amazon were good, the only ones that had anything bad to say was the magnets slip around during the cycle. I didn't consider that a big deal when I look at the bigger picture of saving pretty much $10 a week on detergent for life....that's $520 a year.... First off, let me tell everyone: I do cat rescue. In a LARGE way. This means it is not all cute cats and kittens all fluffy on a pillow, ready for adoption. This is the nitty gritty, crawl in the dirt to catch the kittens in the bushes, trap feral cats, care for hospice cats, the works. My car is a billboard for rescue magnets :) So, of course the worst of my laundry odors is cat pee. My husband has even asked if we want to discuss separate laundry machines for cats and "people" in the house! In any case, I typically do 6-8 loads of "people" laundry per week, and double that, sometimes triple, of cat laundry. And it can be NASTY. In some rare cases, I toss out the item (towel, blanket, pillow, etc) because it is just too far gone to even think about putting in the washer. I am also environmentally "aware" and do my best to pick up trash, etc., whenever I can...and since I am in some wooded areas caring for feral cats, I end up with a pretty good haul of trash or recycling sometimes. So anything that can help us stop polluting the earth is an easy decision for me...especially when all you have to do is stick a couple of magnets in your washer....and no longer worry about what your detergent is doing to the drain field, or adding one more huge jug to the recycling bin every week. So, I stuck these magnets in the washer. I thought, I'll call their bluff on the first load. I put in some cat laundry that was literally awful, at least 3 towels were soaked with cat urine. When it finished spinning, I was right there pulling out the towels and sticking my nose into them....NO SMELL....a "clean" smell - but not perfume....I was astonished and ended up sniffing almost every towel in that load.... THEN I thought, hmm, here's the real test, I have recently been working on a cat hoarder house .... the lady would buy things and open the carton (case in point, from Animal Rescue Site, some footies with pawprints) and never use the item, so the cats would go in the box and pee on everything.... (note: cats did not have proper litterpans in this home). These items in the box were brand new, and the urine had been on them since appx December (so 4-5 months back). I thought, this will be the acid test for these magnets. Well, there was one sock on top which got the brunt of the stain and the smell. That stain was a dark orange color it had been dried on there so long. The stain came out. All the socks had no stains now... (they were all packaged together, stacked).... however the top one still had a faint odor. I re-washed it and it came out odor-free. Now THAT is a test to pass for sure....(note to everyone: anything I can clean and get back to the lady, I am doing it - so these socks are going back to her house after the major cleanup is done). So, I'm sold on these magnets. My TIDE is going back to the store, luckily I still have the receipt :)