I do laundry seven days a week. It's systematic, really. Get up, get dressed, nurse the baby. And throw in the requisite load of laundry for that day. Monday, it's diapers. Tuesday, it's the hubs' uniforms. Wednesday, it's sheets and towels. And so on and so forth. Honestly, you'd think I'd be a pro at it by now. I should know my washer and dryer like the back of my hand; I should be so efficient that I'd be able to operate a laundromat out of my own home, right?
Yeah, well, tell that to my husband who went to work last week in a stinky, yet fresh-out-of-the-dryer uniform, because yours truly forgot to put in detergent. Yes, it's true. I did three loads of laundry that day and forgot to add the detergent to every single one of them. Talk about a day wasted. But the fact of the matter is, these days, it's not surprising. I have a new baby, a giant dog, a part-time job, and a military husband who requires a lot of upkeep in the laundry department. (The man has more uniforms than Lady Gaga.) Lately, I'm liable to forget my head if it wasn't attached. Luckily, my baby's loud, or she might get left behind, too.
In other words, this sleep-deprived mama needs a few advantages - a few short-cuts, if you will - to keep her sanity and her laundry smelling good. Enter the Bounce Dryer Bar. Literally, all you do is stick it into your dryer and forget it. And while I'm wracking my brain trying to remember where in the world I left my car keys, the Bounce Dryer Bar is freshening my husband's uniforms quicker than I can say, "Oops! I forgot the dryer sheets!" Not to mention the fact that the bar repels dog hair - Did I mention that 100-pound black dog that sheds all over every fabric surface in our home? - which is basically a god-send for my husbands' dress-white uniforms and my sweet baby girl's pale pink onesies.
And speaking of that sweet baby girl, who has what can only be described as extremely sensitive skin, the Bounce Dryer Bar comes in a "free" option. As a first-time, nervous-Nelly mama, I am extremely happy there's a product out there that leaves her clothes clean, soft, and non-irritating. Thanks to the Bounce Dryer Bar, the whole family's now walking around in clothes that actually smell clean, while Mama over here only has to remember to replace her Bounce Dryer Bar every few months. Thank heavens for that. Now if they could only invent a similar way to dispense laundry detergent...
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86 comments:
Soon after moving into my first house and having not bought normal sized containers of cleaning detergents, multiple little unmarked bottles of soaps were on a shelf above my washer/dryer. Not thinking, I grabbed one that looked like laundry detergent (spoiler: it was dish soap that hadn't made it to the kitchen yet) and put an ample amount in the washer before turning the machine on and leaving the room. A few minutes later I hear my cat (who is now terrified of bubbles) mewing from the next room and get up to check on him only to find a sudsy foam all over the floor of my laundry room. Oh, and the only way to get it out of the machine is to let it run it's course which only creates more suds. It was a fun day.
My latest laundry mishap was with cloth diapers! I rinsed them in hott water as usual but then when I washed them and I dried them and then realized I forgot detergent!! Ick! It was very nasty! Thanks for the giveaway!
I never use bleach, but my husband loves to use it on his whites. One of the first months we were married, I was doing a load of what I thought he said was his whites he threw in before heading to the hospital for him & added bleach to the dispenser ... Only as I went to take out the laundry at the end if cycle I realize it was full of "light" colored laundry - now even lighter & bleach spots! Whoops. Fortunately, most were just scrubs from hospital & tshirts, but I now search every item before putting bleach in the couple that require it!
I was baby-sitting for a family overnight for a few days while the parents were in Florida. I thought that doing laundry would be a nice gesture since they were returning on a Sunday and kids had school the next day. I decided to do a load of 20 pairs of the kids' khaki pants. One of the kids left a gel pen in their cargo pocket. By my simple gesture, I ruined 16 of the 20 pairs of pants. Did I also mention it was the beginning of the school year so these were new school clothes? Yikes.
My Dad had passed some weeks ago, and I got his old golf sweaters and other such items.
To make a long story short, I thought I could use bleach one of of them- turns out I could not.
What was once a nice cream colored sweater is not a nice bleached white sweater.
OK, so the comment from Josh was really from Lauren, I just forgot that I was logged into my husband's email account. It is ok to contact that email though if I end up winning.
Just one? Do you want to know about the times I've left gum in my pockets? Or kleenex? How about the time I left a pen in my pocket and found my dryer completely sketched up with ink afterwards? I spent hours basically in the dryer, scrubbing away with a Magic Eraser. Needless to say, I am no longer allowed to touch the laundry in our house, and B religiously checks my pockets.
I shrunk my jeans in the laundry once.
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I accidently washed a Sharpie! Amazingly, it didn't ruin anything and the cap didn't even open! A miracle!
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Question. Are you using this with your diapers too? I always thought that was a big no-no so ever since Jamie was born I've nixed all forms of dryer sheets, even with our clothes, for fear of getting bad diaper buildup.
Interesting. I've always wondered if these actually work. I hate when I forget to put a dryer sheet in, solely for the static factor! But, with two hairy doggles, this would be rad!
When we moved into our new home, one of the things on our inspection was to raise the pipe that the washer drained into. Not thinking much of it, we didn't ask the previous owners to fix it. Once after a huge cloth diaper load, the wasaher broke. The half clean half dirty cloth diapers sat in there until the guy came to fix our washer. It was the sensor that needed to be replaced. 3 months later (and one month past our warranty) the same exact thing happened. I was on the phone with the repair place and whirlpool throwing a hissy fit about how awful their washers are and that I'd never buy one again and luckily they extended my warranty to allow the repair to be covered. Since it happened twice, I wondered if I was doing something to cause it. I thought and thought and wondered if it was that pesky short pipe. I got some PVC pipe, extended it and low and behold, it never happened again. Sorry Whirlpool!
I thought fabric softener was a no-no for cloth too...
Jarrod is always leaving gum and chapstick in his pants...and I never check them. As for me...on more than one occasion now, I've used fabric softener instead of laundry detergent...so...that's fun. :)
just recently, my son failed to remove a pack of gum from his jeans pocket (of course HE didn't do it) and I didn't notice it until the DRYER beeped; yes; i was mad and yes he had to clean it up and hot vinegar and a brush helped remove it from the clothes and lots of elbow grease helped remove it from the dryer
thanks also for a chance to win!
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Obviously this happened to alot of people but I am also guilty of the gum in the washer fiasco...holy nightmare batman
The worst was probably the pen that was left in my husband's pants pocket. Luckily it only hurt his stuff and not mine! It could have been worse, but I checked every pocket after that!
I'm pretty innocent when it comes to laundry blunders, but my dear boyfriend left his gel pen in the firehouse's brand new industrial dryer last year. Not only did it get over all of his clothes (that he wasn't supposed to be washing), but one of his buddies had to scrub the entire thing down with Goop to get the ink out. His Christmas bonus that year? A 2' jumbo pen. Pretty hard to wash that one without realizing it!
My laundry mishap? There were quite a few. hahaha...One time I left the washed clothes in the washer for a day and forgot to transfer to the dryer when they were done. And I had to rewash the whole thing as it smells really bad!
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I keep forgetting to wash my 'fuzzy' sweater separately and I end up with fuzzy all over my other things.
Ive put whites in with darks and had the colors run. It's just a pain to separate them.
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well i mixed whites with reds and let's just say it wasn't pretty.. i'm horrible at laundry!
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i left laundry in the washer for a week and a half and it was disgusting sour. amypugmire@live.com
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i've never had a laundry mishap that i can remember
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My worse laundry mishap has been when my husband left his ink pen in his work shirt and I washed a lot of new tops with it! Needless to say, there were black ink spots all over our new clothes!! Thanks!!
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Thank you!! :D
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I'd love to give this a try.
On our honeymoon my new husband bleached some of our clothes! ooops!
My biggest mishap is forgetting the fabric softener.
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Forgetting you have clothes in the washer... and having to wash them again.
it was with bleach, nonetheless....and it incolved my little black dress :(
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I left paper in the machine once. I've been lucky.
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My husband left a pen in his shirt pocket, boy did that make a mess, now I make sure I check his pockets
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Well, I didn't know that washing certain items in the machine with warm water and drying them would shrink them so guess what happened to my brand new cotton summer dress? Two sizes too small :(
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My worst laundry mishap was my daughter having crayons in her pants pocket - I didn't realize it, and stuck the laundry in the dryer, and the crayons melted over everything!
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a golf tee that was in a pocket flooded our apartment after a clogged pipe! scg00387 at yahoo dot com
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My worst one is I accidentally put a silk blouse into washer, totally ruined it.
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I once left my lipstick in my jeans pocket in college. That was pretty darn messy. :(
I once washed and dried a load with a ink pen in one of my pockets. It stained all the clothes and the inside of my new dryer!
I would say starting the cycle without closing the top
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EVERYYYYY WASH IS A COMPLETE MISHAP!
OUR WATER IS SO FULL OF RUST THAT IT TURNS EVERYTHING ORANGE!!!!
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I accidently put whites in and my daughter already had clothes sitting in there... bleach is bad, bad, bad for what she had in. chefl@swbell.net
Me, ever so smart, washed some muddy canvass sneakers with the rest of the clothes. Did not end well for the clothes, but the shes got clean -_-
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Red sock. Load of whites. And I look terrible in pink.
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I've left kleenex in pockets of my robe. It left little white flecks of paper all over everything. Had to re-wash it all.
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I've had issues with laundry in general... like forgetting to plug in the water hose when we first moved in... water decided it didn't want to make it into the washer!
I washed my husband's brand new passport - it ruined it! It was an expensive mistake:(
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I often forget to empty my husbands pockets and have washed many a pen with the laundry.
My worse time with doing laundry was when I mistakenly placed my angora sweater in the washer, and could not recognize it when the cycle ended.
Mine was a wool sweater that got into a hot water load, wouldn't even fit the dog!
https://twitter.com/#!/cjwallace43/status/141795260723507201
keep forgetting to keep the guys wool socks out of the dryer, and rushing around trying to pack for their camping trip with no wool sock.
karenmed409 at comcast dot net
Pocket full of tissues in a load of laundry.
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My kids are always leaving things in their pockets, I dont know how many pencils I have pulled out of the washer.
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my worst one was washing whites with dark colors some clothes came out blue.
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I have put things in the dryer (that weren't supposed to go in) and ruined them....so many times
I hate when I'm on a roll doing laundry - right there when the dryer stops, folding every load as it comes out, making sure I hit every stain. A laundry machine! Then, one time I go to get the clothes out of the dryer and realize I forgot to start it! Wet clothes still! It totally throws off my rhythm!
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One of my laundry mishaps was washing a pair of red socks with my whites. :(
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I have had plenty of mishaps over the years. A ballpoint left in a pocket, a new red t-shirt coloring every in the load, shrinking an item so it is no longer wearable, the list goes on:)
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i broke the washer the day before i left for vacation, my husband had to call the repairman and found out i overstuffed it
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I remember I forgot my washed clothes and towels in the washer and when I need a clean towel 2 days later, I have to wash them again as they had bad smell.
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My husband's wallet got left in his pocket and went through the washer. Of course I got blamed for not finding it.
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I don’t really have any laundry horror stories thank heavens. I will say that grease stains on shirts from eating are my nemesis! I hate them and I always forget to check our shirts for them…never fails and makes me nuts!
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You mean like the time I put a new red t-shirt in with my undies and they all came out pink?
Thanks for the contest.
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I have left permanent markers in my pockets before eek. Not a very nice sight. sweepmorey at gmail dot com
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crayons in the dryer. big yucky mishap!
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