The worst thing you’ve ever put in the washing machine…?

[QueenOfWeeds]

Make me feel better please!

DH away with work, and I have a day off whilst DD is in nursery so I’ve had a super productive day. Vacuumed/mopped the floors, cleaned the kitchen, done a few loads of laundry… just taken the last one out and I’ve managed to wash a (clean) disposable nappy. So now my nice clean floor is covered in the fake snow absorbent powder stuff, and the clothes are all having a second wash.

No great harm done (I hope!), but my goodness it’s irritating.

My beautiful new cashmere jumper. Washed and tumble dried by my teenage daughter, very helpfully, last week.

it would now fit a small 1 year old. A small 1 year old that likes to wear cardboard.

A collection receipt for the brand new suit Mr Monkey had left with the tailor to be altered .... the day before he was due to collect it and wear to be best man at a wedding later that day.

Luckily the tailor recognised him.

I’ve washed a disposable nappy before.

the worst one was my ExH’s dinner suit. It was out of spite, and I knew it would ruin it, but I still did it. Those were toxic times.

An inhaler. Washing it was less than ideal, the label stuck to everything after it had broken up.

It exploding in the tumble dryer was a bigger issue.

A large bright red paper table cloth. I didn't realise it was paper and threw it in the wash. Everything came out dyed pink with millions of tiny shredded bits of paper stuck to them.

Dp did the same to me

I bought a gorgeous vintage cashmere jumper on either vinted or ebay

I even bought the special washing liquid stuff to wash it (it smelt musty as vintage often does)

Left it to dry,flat on the table as I headed out to work

While heading out of the door,i told dp to 'put what's in the machine into the dryer when it finishes'

He saw my jumper laid looking all damp and innocent on the table and chucked it into the dryer and pressed the 'hot' button (the cool doesn't dry the load)

Came home to a jumper that was the size of a crisp packet

It had lasted years in someone else's possession and less than 24 hours in our house

He looked a bit dumbfounded when I burst into tears and shouted that he owes me another jumper

One of those car organiser things that's supposed to go in the middle of the back seats. One of the kids spilt carrot juice in it. It seemed to come clean but I made the astronomical mistake of doing a whites wash after it.

A cat.

I loaded a single item into the drum to put on a delicate cycle, turned around and didn't notice my idiot cat climb into the drum. Closed the door and turned it on. It was full of water before my son noticed her staring out, luckily it hadn't started to spin. We had to rip the door off to get her out.

She's got form for this, she's always in my tumble dryer and has been found in my neighbours washing machines. She stresses me out,

Oh and a nappy, I was very sleep deprived in my defence

I think you win.

Bloody family members doing us favours. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

My phone!

The rear end of a mouse.

It was camouflaged on a doormat that went in the machine.

Thanks cat.

Bloody hell. That’s made me feel highly stressed!

Yep nappy here as well. Not fun

Washed DD's work badge – not such an issue you might say, but she then couldn’t find it and we looked everywhere. Including in the washing machine but nope, no clatter of metal badge as I span the empty drum.

When we had looked everywhere and she was sure she had left it in her pocket of the trousers I had washed, I looked again in the machine... btw the badge is magnetic...yes it was stuck magnetically to the drum. Of course it didn’t clatter bc it didn’t move. I’d never have seen it if I hadn’t put my head right in there.

at some of these! The cat one is very stressful.

Numnah (padded thing that goes under a saddle) from our very hairy pony during moulting season. My daughter had put it in the machine, not washed it just left it there. I put a load of washing in without checking and turned it on.

EVERYTHING was covered in black hairs. I'm still finding stuff with a layer of black on it, and the pony's been gone for ten years.

A condom, albeit in a packet.
I was 15, washing my school bag. The condom was given out a few weeks earlier and I wasn't sexually active so it just sat in my bag forgotten. Until I saw it spinning pressed right up against the glass in its bright coloured packet. So embarrassing and I think no one else saw it.

Also, my phone. Was listening to music changing my bedsheets, folded all sheets into one big ball and put it in the machine.
Couple of minutes later I noticed the music would cut out in sync with the machine spinning. One urgent evac later, phone retrieved, no lasting damage thankfully.

My iPhone 😩

Diamond earrings - I only managed to recover one!

My brother once put a dictionary in the washing machine (HOW?!) and texted to say "my washing came out all covered in words". Bahahaha 😂

My sister on a visit from Australia washed her canvas shoulder bag two weeks before returning home. With of course her new fangled biometric passport. Cost her a bomb and two days in London queuing at Australia House. New one arrived two days before she left.

My son's brand new tablet.

I could here there clunking but didn't think about it. I had worked so hard to get the money to buy it for him.

I had to tell him and then say I couldn't afford to replace it. He was 9 and wanted one so badly for years.

He just said, I still love you mummy. That was it.

I skipped meals/cut everything to make the money back.

A soiled puppy pad

Not me, but someone I know accidentally washed their cat 😰

I lost my watch for a couple of weeks. It turned up in the rubber door seal of the maching machine. Still working!

Are you sure?
We all have Uniqlo down coats and I wash them in the machine and then fluff them