Foriegn objects in the laundry  

We have a four year old grandson living in our house.
Like most four year old boys he likes pockets and likes to put "treasures" in his pockets.
That is normal and I check his pockets before I do the laundry.
But a little quirk he has is putting his treasures into our pockets.
For some reason he puts his candy, rocks, cars,,,,,into our pockets.
So now as I am sorting the alundry I check ALL pockets in our clothes. lol Susan

When my children were younger I always checked pockets, I even looked for pockets in clothes I knew didn't have pockets to make sure nothing was hidden anywhere. hahaha I normally don't check pockets any longer, if I did then I wouldn't find the surprise of money in the bottom of the washer or dryer. :)

That's a nightmare when it comes to doing laundry. Even though kleenex is biodegradable, it hangs around the washer and dryer for a long period of time like a bad habit.

I do remember to clean out my pockets all the time. It's the first thing I do when taking off a pair of jeans that need to be washed. However, I have this husband who is a gum chewer. He doesn't put used chewing gum back in his pocket but sometimes forgets the wrappers are in his pocket.

My husband coaches girl's fastpitch softball. Often they have an extra girl join the team for a tournament. A girl played with the team and my husband brought home the dirty uniform for me to wash. I didn't see the back pocket therefore I couldn't check it. It had a piece of chewed chewing gum in the wrapper in that pocket. I had gum all over the washer, my hands and the other clothes since I wash in cold water. It was a major mess. Rewashed the clothes two more times just as a precaution. Took awhile to get the gum off my hands also. I'll pay more attention the next time I get stuck doing that nasty job..lol

I alwsys check the pockets ever since one of my girls left a tube of lipstick in her pocket and it ruined the whole load of clothes. So now I check, can't say the same for hubby though, when he does it he never checks, so I am always finding change and breath mints in the washer. He has even left a cigarrette lighter that got washed, which scared me, I think that could be potentially dangerous.

My 7 years old brother ever spend a holiday in my house last year. He is obsessed to clays and makes anything out of a clay even always have a spare in his pocket. When I do his laundry I didn't check the pocket and that ruin all the laundry including my favorite sweater. Since that time I never forget to check pockets before laundry..

Ps: The clays even stuck on the machine and took me days to clean it out.. pfff..

Hello my Dear Friend,i am on line again and hope you are Ok!!Wish you all the best!!I am just like you are,i forgot ,sometimes,to clean out my pockets and in the past i washed my credit card!!See you and Regards Silvana

Kleenex and tissues are the ones I also forget to check on my pockets, since I only get to feel them if they have hard objects inside them before putting them inside the washing machine. No, I haven't experienced something that got left inside the washer/dryer while doing my laundry..

Good thing I haven't left any paper bills in it, or else I would look like Mr. Krabbs from Spongebob crying over it!;)

Since my parents let me do my laundry at their house, I also do theirs. I don't know how many times there are coins in the bottom of the washer because I didn't empty my dad's pant pockets. Oh well, at least someone is going to get some really clean money!

Laundry for me is a chore when it comes to my husbands clothes. He is a farmer and often goes to the stores each day to buy things he needs. He puts the receipts in his back pocket and leaves them there for me to find. When I asked him to please take them out and put them in the office where they belong for bookkeeping purposes he said well I figure if I put them in my back pocket you will get them and they won't be lost! So, now I have did it for so long that i don't really think about it. But he is right..haven't lost a receipt yet!! lol

Dear, I believe it happens to the best of us! There's this one time I forgot my pin in my shirt and while my aunt was doing the laundry, she got pricked by it! She was soooo angry about it! I didn't bother to admit it was mine since she never knew. But then again, after that I try to remove my pin. Only problem is I keep forgetting! Lol!