What have you washed and did it survive?

[julie_yet]

I once washed the remote control to my CD player. My friend had left it in the pocket of his jeans. When I took out all the clothes it was in many pieces at the bottom on the washer. I dried it off, snapped it back together, put new batteries in and it still works.

 

[Mom2Satan&Daisy]

Cell Phones, chap stick, crayons, money, shopping lists, markers, wallets, glasses, razor knife, spoon.

that's all that I can remember right now. We have an issue with emptying pockets BEFORE the clothes hit the wash.

All but the crayons survived. And with those...my KIDS almost didn't survive.

 

[JimB.]

My "spare" cel phone.

Took it out of the washer, took out the battery, opened the back up and let it dry for 3-4 days.

Put it back together, charged it up & it works good as new.

 

[HerdOHuds]

We (meaning I) have washed the key fob/opener for our van. It survived. We also washed and dried another one. It survived, but then when I tried to use it in the parking lot at the grocery store, the car suddenly (as we had used it several times before) didn't recognize the key and thought I was trying to break in and wouldn't stop honking.

That was fun.

Kids in the car, ice cream in the trunk, summertime, strangers giving me the hairy eyeball, and I am calling the dealership and the guy is laughing at me because he can hear the car honking in the background. I finally got it started and the honking stopped and drove right to the dealership to pick up my *new* key fob.

So for the automatic door opening key fobs, they can be washed. But don't dry them.

My favorite is when my son puts his wet pull-up in the wash and I don't discover it until I pull it out of the dryer. The lint trap will never be the same.