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Impossible. Easier to read 50 books or lose 100lbs.
God I hate it so much when I check all my pockets really carefully but I missed one tissue
It was a pack of gum for me. It made it into the dryer. After much effort, the residue remained, fortunately made less sticky by being saturated with lint. Thank goodness it was a lease. It dried clothes fine afterward, and didn’t affect the clothes. Still, I knew it was there, and what’s worse, it knew I knew, it was there. It would stare back at me, as if looking into my soul, mocking the solemnity of my laundry rituals.
This is not a problem I have. What happens when chapstick goes through the wash? Is it just the chapstick that gets ruined or does it mess up the clothes too?
Chapstick is basically a cylinder full of wax, so it melts if it gets hot. The hot dryer tumbles that cylinder around the whole load of clothes. Melted wax is hard to get out of fabric, and you’re likely going to be dealing with little spots of it over a bunch of items.
I don’t think I’ve ever done this either, but I have to imagine (based on having left chapstick in a hot car) that it will melt and get all over your clothes in the dryer. If it melts and solidifies on your clothes it would be hard to get out without using a very hot wash cycle and it would probably leave grease-like stains even if you did get it out.
Someone told me that clothes last longer if you turn them inside out before washing.
I do notice that the colors don’t fade as quickly, and inverting things means you empty out the pockets.
