- a pad of post it notes (they don't stay together)
- gum, both previously chewed and never chewed
- snacks from school, in and out of baggies
- erasers, paper clips and other school supplies Brady scavenged from the floor
- tissues (usually my fault and a pain to clean up)
- money, bills and coins
- pens and pencils
- rocks (that can't be good for the clothes)
- toys
- compass
- chapstick
- mulch from the playground at school (I loathe mulch!)
- a black widow spider (real, alive and in my washer)
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Random junk I've found in my dryer...
I know that I should check all pockets before I wash clothes, but seriously, can't the owner of the clothing do that? I know I'm that one that ends up cleaning whatever mess occurs because I don't check pockets, but so far it hasn't changed my opinion. I truly never know what I'm going to find when I open the dryer, and occasionally the washer. I decided to make a list of all the strange things that have been laundered at my house. I'm convinced that these random things are somehow to blame for all those stupid missing socks!
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How true!! I'm glad I'm not the only one. Haley
Cleaning out pockets is one thing I refuse to do! I hate the idea of sticking my hand in some dark unknown area! How do you train family members, especially husbands? Your Dad asked me one day, "Do you know where my wallet is?" Over the slosh-slosh of the washer, "No, where did you have it last?" "In those jeans on the bedroom floor." (I don't check pockets but I do wash clothes that are not in their place.) Our eyes meet in a sense of dread over the slosh-slosh. Driver license weren't plastic in those days; as you Daddy carefully peeled things apart and laid them in the sun he said, "If it ain't in the hamper it ain't dirty!" Guess who always cleans out his pockets now?
I agree!! Chapstick is the worst when it makes it to the dryer and melts. UGH.
My problem is yellow pieces of paper. I never realized until I married Clark that he is always writing ideas, songs, and work drawings on yellow pieces of legal paper and sticking them EVERYWHERE. I have boxes of folded yellow pieces of paper that I have picked up around the house, but the worst is when he leaves them in his pockets and they get washed. (I too feel it is the responsiblity of the owner of the pockets to clean them out) The paper shreads into hundreds of pieces, sticks to the clothes and makes a mess, plus he loses whatever idea was on it. I wonder how many hit songs I've washed in the laundry?
When we moved the washer and dryer out this weekend I think we found enough dog hair in the dryer to make a whole new Chipper!
as for the rocks, dont you remember how cool stone washed jeans were?
Lance, that's so funny that you said that, because I almost put that in the post!
just be glad no one is trying for acid washed! not only are those super bad but the acid would mess up your hands.
by "super bad" you mean "ridiculously cool", right? because 'i'm bringin' stonewash back...yeah!'
Washed and dried starburst take pliers to remove.
Chapstick leaves greasy spots on all the clothes.
Pistachio shells don't hurt anything.
Glitter gets stuck all inside the tube, but the pieces that get out brush right off the clothes.
Things I have learned in addition to most of the things on your list.
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