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.

That's my worst nightmare, it literally gives me palpitations when I think about it !

Numerous tissue left up sleeves and in pockets, and my phone. I had 4 different people call from the insurance company to talk through HOW I put my phone in the washing machine and to talk through the events leading up to it step by step. I'm sure they thought I was trying to pull an insurance scam.

Underwire from my bra worked its way out of the fabric and managed to get stuck in one of the drainage holes. It forced the drum to lift out of place while spinning creating a hellish scraping and banging sound that continued until the end of the cycle. Remarkably, the machine survived the ordeal. I now put bras in a net bag.

I accidentally put a cigarette lighter in the washing machine once. Amazingly,it still worked once it had dried out. The worst thing is paper tissues. I've done this a few times over the years and I always feel like crying when I realise what's happened. Trying to get the miniscule bits of tissue fluff off the clothes (which inevitably would be mostly dark blue or black) is a bloody nightmare. When I had a tumble dryer,I found the best way to remove the bits was to stick them in there for about 20 minutes as this got the worst off. Now I don't have a tumble dryer,I am fanatical about checking pockets for tissues before putting clothes in the wash.

My df left some teabags in his work jacket , can remember my dm turning the air blue at the resulting mess .

Can't believe the number of posters who have put their phone in the washing machine! Thankfully I've never done this,but I have managed to drop 2 phones down the toilet.

I shrank 3 wool jumpers last winter including a cashmere one! I meant to put them on a wool wash, put in the special wool wash liquid but absent mindedly put it on a 40° cotton's long wash and didn't realise till afterwards!

The only remote fob we had for the garage door. No other way of getting in.

When I washed mine, I think it was the tumble drier that did for it.

A handful of wood screws that dh had left in his pocket after doing some DIY, didn't damage the machine thankfully but took ages to remove them from the filter. I regularly find coins and guitar plectrums (dh), pen refills (ds) and Lego minifigures (dd) lodged in the door seal because no one seems to know how to empty their pockets properly in our house.

My phone - stupidity
A nappy - that came out of the holiday suitcase and that thing expanded and exploded everywhere

Tissues in the wash is a pita and I've done that more than once grr 😠
I did wash a fiver once and that came out intact
Just dried it off!
A black sock with some whites , that took a while to correct and get rid of the grey looking bed sheets

A disposable nappy, which was annoying. Worst was my sons hearing aids, said teenager had put them in his blazer pocket on his way home from school as it was raining heavily and he didn't want to get them wet......

Dds iPod
Various inear corded headphones
Tissues are the worse if they aren't kitchen roll ones

One of DP stories from army life, when they had pure wool jumpers but with cotton pads/patches to protect elbows and provide tabs for epaulettes etc. Jumper washed by very young recruit. Woolly jumper shrank to fit a 4 year old, but cotton pads/patches stayed same. Army officer not amused.

My ex boyfriend did this. Just threw them into the laundry basket.
Fortunately it fell out before they got hurled into the machine as I certainly don't check pockets!

My own was a set of headphones (which actually continued to work after their 'swim' (accident), and my sketchers after stepping in dog poo (they came up a treat but felt gross putting poo covered shoes into the nice clean machine.

A snail.

Still feel sad about it.

AirPods

Gym pass

"Fun size" bag of Skittles that someone had left in a pocket. Not fun.

My dd’s AirPods but they still work 5 years on plus my future dh’s original Armani wool sweater - he still married me😅

Washing up liquid my kitchen was like a foam party, the floor had never been cleaner 🤣

Yup I've done this. Absolutely vile. I'm now a very diligent checker of what goes in the machine !

A dead mouse. Thanks cats!

I used to sort the laundry on the kitchen floor. I had left a load on the floor overnight while the first load washed. One of the cats must have brought it into the kitchen through the cat flap and deposited it on the dirty laundry. I didn't see it when I scooped the pile up.

Sanitary towel… not used fortunately! But had the same effect as your nappy!

Money launderer!