I picked out this… thing. The duvet cover had eaten everything in the machine and turned itself into a postmodern textile art piece.
Wait, there are laundry machines that stop when something’s wrong?
Ya I always have to ball up big things I pout into the washer so it doesnt suck up all the other smaller things I put in.
Something sad Ive also found is that when this phenomena occurs sometimes the big articles suck up all the detergent juices and water and prevent the smaller , trapped inside it clothing from getting sufficiently cleaned
The big eat the small and hog resources meant to be shared by all. The sad parallels of society in the laundry.
That’s exactly why I always tie a knot in the middle of large things like this lol
Oh nice, it doesn’t pull the knot too tight?
You have you keep it somewhat loose, just make it so it can’t easily catch other things
I’ve never had that happen personally.
I never had duvet covers do this. Fitted sheets however 💀. Now, I put them into a big laundry bag I’ve bought at a large coffee roastery.
You know. I didn’t think about doing that for the dryer. The fitted sheets always eat the rest and then I have a jelly-roll style sheet conglomeration.
Ugh fuck duvet covers they’ll eat themselves even if they’re closed and the only thing in there
How is that even possible! Why is it a topological torus??
It took me time to find the opening and then to accept that it isn’t ripped anywhere. My only explanation is that it took a tumble into the fourth dimension.
Did it come out with unmatched socks inside of it?
Now that you mentioned it, I think I threw the other one away in 2007.
when you put predator and pray in the same fish tank
Wash separately
I recently got a used washer that doesn’t have the center column and instead of doing this, blankets now form a bubble or mushroom shape across the whole drum
Happens to my sheets all the time. I am just used to it now and prepared to unravel and run again with the stuff that got trapped and is a big ball of damp mess.
You can also use a laundry mesh bag, put either the duvet or the rest in the bag and it will not happen. Laundry bags are also useful to protect clothes with elastics from being stretched and damaged.
you pulled out the washing machine’s intestines
I got some silicone rubber bands from Amazon a few years ago and I use them to tie the four corners of sheets and blankets together before washing and drying. Does a great job keeping them from entangling other items in the machine.
Or it made a perfect rotisserie chicken holder.
This just happened to me.
Damn, me too!
