Do you have an embarrassing laundry story?

[flying_babyb]

inspired by Do you have an embarrassing kitchen story? Do you have any embarrising laundry stories?
Ill start!
We went to the laundry mat and decided HEy its a big washer I can wash pillow. Well, when I bought it it was too fluffy, so I cut a hole, removed some fluff and then sewed it shut. Well It goes through the washer. My sister exclames "It looks like a chicken exploded." well, i thought it was just soap. Well I opened the washer door and BAMMM! Fluff everywere. So I sheeply asked for a broom, cleaned it up and took my wet pillow home...

NEXT!

 

[tchrrx]

While living in an apartment, I grabbed what I thought were quarters to do the laundry. I forgot that DH & my dad both collect coins. I spent a lot of silver dollars. Oops!

 

[Michelle67]

Oh yeah. Like the time I tried out tie-dye, didn't set the dye well enough, and subsequently dyed everyone's underwear pink? The man was not amused. And yeah, that's what I get for not separating the whites in the first place...I know...

We have also discovered that those cute little girl shirts with glittery stuff on them "share" the glitter in the washer and dryer, and my husband is not fond of "shimmering" at work.

 

[Tink888]

I once washed a load of whites and forgot to check my son's pockets which just so happened to have a few crayons in them. Picture tiny little spots that looked like Fruity Pebbles all over everyone's socks, shirts and tighty whities and well as melted into the inside of my dryer.

The embarrassing part was the stream of four letter words that very loudly flew out of my mouth on a quiet summer night with my windows wide open once I figured out what happened.

 

[amyhughes]

I washed a red crayon with the whites. Yeah, that was a special morning. My shirts, undies, my sons' underwear, shorts, socks, shirts RUINED. Hot red wax melted into them all. Plus I had to scrub out the drum with a magic eraser to get the residue out. It looked like I murdered someone in the dryer.

ETA: Just looked at the post above mine, looks like I am not alone! LOL!

 

[monkey68]

Does turning my dad's underwear pink count? We wash all the clothes together so we run the washer less, and I was doing a load of underwears, socks, and white tee shirts. Well, somehow, a red shirt that had never been washed before made it's way into the white laundry pile. I was OK with pink underwear, my dad was less than amused.

My mom is famous for shrinking clothes. My 6'1, 230 pound father once put a sweater into the wash, my mom shrank it so much, it was small on an 8 year old version of me, and I was a small kid.

Then, another laundry story, not so much embarassing, but amusing. I was taking anatomy last year, and since my mother wouldn't let me wash my scrubs in the house washer, I had to go to the laundromat. Really, there's nothing that disgusting about it, the body is all preserved, it's not dangerous in any way, but she was very much against it. Anyway, I put my scrubs into the laundromat, and they're washing. I got back just before the time was up, and once it shuts off, some guy runs up and tries to take my scrubs into his basket. I said they're mine, he said no no, mine. After going back and forth, I told him that those clothes have had dead people guts on them, and if he wants them that badly, he can have them. Yea, I got my scrubs back.

 

[paintnolish]

Carmex in the dryer. With all of my sweatshirts. 'Nuff said.

 

[CajunDixie]

After a muddy scout camping trip I took the sleeping bags into the local laundry. I popped them in one of the big washer and poured in a capful of laundry soap. There were bubbles everywhere!!!!!!!! The lady running it was disgusted and told me to never put more than a few teaspoons of laundry soap in the washers when doing sleeping bags. She then poured fabric softner in to calm the suds down.


Today doing laundry I hit the jackpot!!! I found $14 floating around in the dryer when I started folding the clothes.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Totally TMI but my daughter was helping me fold laundry one day when she said "I don't remember having a tshirt this color". Turned out it was my underwear! Do I need to point out that I'm pooh-sized?!

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Like most college kids, when I went home on the odd weekend, I brought all my dirty laundry so I could save a few bucks. My mom, who hadn't done my laundry in years, surprised me one time by doing it for me. (I had lived out of the house for several years before returning to college, so I was in my late 20s at the time.)

I went downstairs to get it started, and found it all neatly folded in my laundry basket. I thanked her profusely, it was really so thoughtful of her.

When I returned to college and went to put the clean laundry into my dresser, I was surprised to see a neatly folded pair of my boyfriend's (now DH) underwear in the mix.

 

[AlexandNessa]

One time we were on a cruise and sent out clothes to be laundered. I got someone's ratty, torn, stained granny panties returned back in with my own laundry.

Let's just say that these would not have been a pair of panties that I would've sent out to be laundered. I probably would've just thrown them away. However, I didn't want my cabin steward to think they were mine, and so I put them back in a bag and gave them to him letting him know they were delivered to me in error.

 

[amyhughes]

When I returned to college and went to put the clean laundry into my dresser, I was surprised to see a neatly folded pair of my boyfriend's (now DH) underwear in the mix.

Betcha she didn't say one word.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Betcha she didn't say one word.

Nope.

(Well, not to me. My dad probably got an earful, though.)

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

CajunDixie--you must have the same rule in your house as I do in mine. If I find it while doing laundry, it's MINE!

One day, several years ago, I was doing laundry and the washing machine just STOPPED in the middle of a load. So I dumped all the wet clothes into a heavy duty lawn bag and dragged them out to the car. But I didn't have any money. So I went to a gas station, bought a soda and some candy so I could do cash back on my credit card. I didn't know it charged you a huge fee to do that though. DH was not too please about that later. I ended up taking the clothes to a local laundry mat so I could finish doing the laundry. Boy was that interesting..there were people coming in dressed in Sunday clothes, very nice, to do laundry.

 

[amyhughes]

Nope.

(Well, not to me. My dad probably got an earful, though.)

Funny story, I am sure he did! LOL!

Quick hijack: When DH and I first got together he would spend the night. My Grandparents would drive by in the AM on their way to drop my Grandma off at her office.

I get this call in the morning one day and during the conversation my Grandma whispers, "We don't mind that he's there. At least if someone breaks in you'll have protection." Apparently they were keeping track of my his car and what nights it was there.

 

[staley7580]

When i was in high school my dad came home from work and handed my mom a pair of her gigantic, sucky in, granny panties. APPARENTLY, While he was at work, one of the guys that works for him noticed he had something sticking out of the back of his suit pant leg... It was my moms undies. He had been dragging them around behind him ALL DAY! OMG. It was to funny.