Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have been using econuts for a couple months. My husband ordered them for me originally. It took me a while to get used to them and I almost gave up. Then I got a system down and started to really enjoy them! My box was almost empty, so I hopped on Amazon to order more. I love reading reviews, so of course, I started reading the reviews even though I knew I was going to order them again. I agreed with the pros that I read: 1. Your clothes smell clean! And it's not that overpowering detergent smell (which I used to think I loved). 2. No plastic bottles to feel guilty about! 3. Your clothes actually get clean. I have a dark shirt with hard to remove deodorant marks. It removed them completely! I wasn't surprised by a few of the cons I read: 1. Yes, sometimes they end up in the dryer and that is kind of annoying. 2. They are grown in Nepal, so they are not locally produced. Agree - I like buying local as well. (Of course I'm not sure where other detergent ingredients come from.) 3. Keeping track of 10 loads on a sheet would be annoying (but I've solved that problem! More on that later.) What I wasn't expecting to read was about the number of nuts in the box. It never occurred to me to count! I didn't want to be ripped off. And there was such a fight going on in the comments section! I told my husband about it and he said that I loved the nuts, so I should just buy them again and count if I wanted. So being the obsessive person that I am (and an accountant), I counted. And then I counted again. If the nut was more than 75% whole, I counted it as one (because some of the nuts are a funny shape, so it is hard to say if the nut is missing a piece or if it just dried funny). If it was 50%, I used 2 to make one. Less than 50% I counted it as a quarter. You get the idea. So the number I came up with was 185 nuts in the 360 load box. 185 divided by 5 is 37. 37 times 10 is 370 loads. Yeah! I can keep buying these and not have to worry! Now for my system. I didn't want to have to keep track on a chart of how many times the nuts went through the washer. So here's what I came up with. I use all 3 bags because I thought this would more evenly distribute the surfactants. I put in 5 nuts to start (2 in 2 bags and 1 in the other). I washed several loads. Then I started adding 1 nut every other time I put in load. I can keep track of every other load without a chart! And 5 nuts go in for every 10 loads! It works like a charm. Plus, I figure that since all of the nuts are in different stages of breakdown, you get a more even result. I hope this helps!