Toilet Paper Warning, not O/T

Try washing a vitamin in the front blouse pocket of your work shirt. It makes a brown lump that *years* later, is still there. Or a single piece of chewing gum in the pocket of a fleece jacket - pocket now welded shut, seemingly forever. These are laundering mysteries, sent to frustrate us. Seems to be working so far.

PS I accidentally put about 200 vouchers/coupons in my work trousers, and then laundered them. I know the papery hell you are in right now.

I will check my pockets before doing the laundry. I will check my pockets before doing the laundry. I will check my pockets before doing the laundry.

-- Jo in Scotland

Wait!!! I have a good one too. Take in 3 muddy cousins from outdoors. Take the jackets outside and hose down with garden hose to get the worst off. Wash all according to instuctions. Lift lid and discover that kids pockets were full of worms.

Mary

Denise said: : Have you ever washed a pair of blue jeans and later found out that there : was a tissue in the pocket? Well, today I washed 4 yards of dark blue : flannel with an entire role of toilet paper. OMG, what a mess.

Toilet paper is water-soluble, eventually. Why not try to wash it again? Should come right out.

Anastasia

Mental pictures raised by these horrrors have sent me screaming out of the room - I will not return until this stops!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Holiday!

EEEEwwwwwwwww!!!

Kate in MI

Oh my gosh, I can't imagine. I yell if someone leaves a tissue in the pocket! What a mess.

Cindy

My reaction, exactly! Ewwwwwwwww!

I think Mary wins this round!

Shaking my head and LOL, Janet of Gar

How did he respond?

I do keep a collection of things I've gathered from the machines from the kids. I tell them if they leave it in there, it's mine. But an heirloom would break my heart.

I'd probably say the same thing. Unless it came to my antique quilts.

Yes Mary, yes, yes!! My son, about 3 was out playing in the newly tilled soil of the yet to be planted veggie garden. I stripped him down, and stood him in the laundry sink to clean him up for lunch and a nap, I shook the dirt off his clothes and tossed them in the washer.........at that time you had a buzzer go off to add fabric softener.......I remember lifting the washer lid to see this practically solid layer of floating "gray spaghetti". He had filled his pockets with worms. Is this just a little boy thing?

Val

No my DS did this also. He had a pocket full that I didn't find until I did laundry later in the week. EWWWWWWWhhhhhhhh!! I will never forget the smell of decomposing worms.

Time to invest in a front loader? Roberta in D

"Denise in NH" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3133.bay.webtv.net...

I can tell you from experience that it doesn't help in this instance... Once the loo roll/tissue is in the washer, there WILL be minced tissue on every single garment. Why is it always the dark coloured wash that gets tissued?

Oh, Val and Snig.........so glad I am not alone in this. I can tell you Val that it is not "just" a little boy thing........my beautiful, angelic neice was involved in the caper. Although it was years ago, and the cousins are now 26, 27, & 28, this incident is still fresh in my mind. EEEEEEEEEEwwwwwwww does not discribe my reaction.........lol

Mary

When DS was small (2 ish I believe) we had a LOT of snails in the yard which he liked to grab off of the plants and use like rubber stamps on the wooden benches ... total ick. But worse is that he would then put the ones that were "all used up" into his pockets. I *always* checked his pockets before putting things in the washer but DD#1 sometimes forgot when it was her turn.

Snails melt in hot water and all you have left is a pocket full of empty shells and a load of clothes needing to be washed again...

)O( Anne in CA )O( "It's not having what you want; it's wanting what you've got." -- Sheryl Crow

eeeeeewwwwwwwww.......