What unusual items have you washed?

[RangerMummy1]

I'm currently feeding ds2 and getting him off to bed. I can hear something thumping around loudly in the washing machine downstairs. I put nappies in to wash before coming up, nappies don't normally thump....so I'm left wondering what my darling children had shoved in there that I didn't notice in my haste earlier...any suggestions gratefully recieved? And also AIBU to wonder what exciting treasure(!) other MNers have discovered at the bottom of a clean load?

My Kindle two weeks ago.
Looked OK.
Was knackered.

I washed my uni housemates driving licence & £40 cash. She'd wedged them so well into a pocket they wouldn't come out/I couldn't feel them when I checked the pockets. Both came out fine! Riskiest wash was probably my sheepskin rug. Came up a treat.

My mum once washed my childhood Swatch watch (another washproof miracle) and (on a separate) a snail shell that 3yo me popped in the washing machine. Her knickers did not survive all the sharp shell shards attacking them.

The wax of a baby elk, in with my whites didn't notice until I tumble dried it and it coated everything in red spots and splodges including the dryer drum.

This. I kid you not. A fucking frog in the bloody tumble dryer. I have no idea how he got in. He was somewhat dehydrated and crispy. I’m still having nightmares....

I wash make up (not in the washing machine though!) I wanted to sanitise some lipsticks, so used witch hazel (as it was what I had to hand,) left them for a bit then rinsed them under the cold tap.

Umm the frog is dead right?

I’ve washed my silver watch (never worked again) and DH’s passport and wallet (on separate occasions). Also washed my Fitbit and eleventy billion tissues. I remove an inhaler from the washing machine around once a week and the other day I was examining the weird clicking noise and realised that it was being made by a kazoo. Which sadly still works. My youngest is 3 weeks away from being 15!

Nappy
USB key

Wtaf at that frog

Yes. Very dead.
I have no idea. Dryer is by the back door. I can’t work out if it sat on the open door and I didn’t know and shut it in? Or if it went up the air pipe somehow?
I basically haven’t slept properly since 🙈

Not by mistake but intentionally, I washed a small Chinese rug in my washing machine. It came up a treat, although the backing was a bit loose.

iPod
It wasn’t deliberate !

Several phones..back on the day when the tiny slide phones were in fashion... AND they worked once dried out!

The ipod not so much...

I generally wash several lighters (DS1, 25 smokes) a week, and a lot of latex gloves as I need them at work and generally have one in my trousers pocket.

And once... a dead bird. A loving gift from the cat who had placed it in the laundry basket. I didn't notice as I bunged the load into the tumble dryer and at the end there was a very very clean and fluffy dead sparrow in with the undies!!!!!

Dd accidentally put 3 books in the washing machine the other day. They disintegrated and filled my machine with paper mache.

She is beyond old enough to know better (teen.)

Just last week a whole roll of unused dog poo bags in with all my gym kit. Leggings, sports bras and vest tops all knotted & tangled together with the entire roll.

I was like a weird magician pulling it all out of the washer.

Bank card. Couldn’t find it anywhere, went to make tea and it was taunting me from inside the nachibe

My mum washed my entire garbage pail kid sticker collection around 35 years ago. I was gutted

@Fruitbatdancer I'm not sleeping tonight a fecking frog!

Fridge magnet. The nice glossy picture on the front was just soggy cardboard.

4 large fircones.

Pinecones
Lego
Mobile phone - didn't survive
Multilink cubes and counters that I pick up in school, stick on pocket and forget about
Dh 's work pass

I have also washed a cat.not in a washing machine. Most stressful time ever.

anothermansmother I really really hope you mean babybel. That’s the most logical answer I can find after wondering how one gets wax from a baby elk (I guess you can make candles from animal fat...)

DDs Sanity pad - still stuck to her knickers

at the frog!

I washed a trampoline through the dishwasher (on purpose), we were packing it up to send to Australia and had to make sure it was soil and germ-free for quarantine... metal pieces and springs fitted into the dishwasher nicely and came out all sparkling clean!