30 families in this building and I'm the only one whoever cleans the dryer lint traps

I don’t suppose I can blame you immigrants. I must be the only American living here amongst all you Mexicans, East Indians, Somalis and Hmongs. But see, here’s what we do. We clean the dryer lint traps before we put our clothes into a machine. They say it prevents fires and whatnot. It’s obvious you’re not familiar with this because I’m constantly pulling a thick mat of your dryer lint and pubic hair out of the trap. Frankly, I’m a little sick of it.

You’ve educated yourselves enough to receive food stamps on my dime. Now educate yourselves on this social matter, please.

Also, dear neighbors, I love it when you bring the shopping carts from the grocery store a block away into our parking lot and don’t return them. Because when I pay $745 for a one-bedroom apartment I want to feel like I’m living in a fuckin shantytown.

You know, this OP makes you sound like a bit of a racist dick TBH. I know nothing about your neighbors, but if they’re anything like most of the immigrant (somali, Etheopian, Vietnamese it seems to be round here) families I know, I bet on average they work harder for less money than most of your other neighbors, so why the sideswipe about food stamps?

And it’s entirely possible that they actually DON’T know what a lint trap is, or that it needs to be cleaned. Have you tried … telling them? You know, actually talking to your neighbors rather than feeling superior to them? Maybe that stuff seems obvious to you, but it actually isn’t if you’ve not had occasion to use a dryer before. A little neighborly interaction would go a long way to reducing your blood pressure.

Have you tried leaving the lint trap fuzz outdoors for the birdies?

Spring is past, but some might still need nest-building material.

Our dryer has a lint trap and then the exit point also has one. It fills up every couple weeks and Mr. K empties it in the yard for that express purpose. It’s kinda cool to see bits of my socks and underwear interlaced with grass and twigs in a nest!

Heh, I was wondering what happened to all the bristles on my push broom which I usually just left in the corner of the house on the back patio. It’s gotten awfully thin over the last year or two. Wondering, that is, until I found a birds nest in one of the evergreens made entirely of broom bristle. :dubious:

Oh,I am so doing this…there’s all kinds of little birdies in our complex.

You can even leave colored/sparkly threads in the grass. Those little dudes will interweave nearly anything into a nest.

How do you know they’re not cleaning the lint before they put their clothes in? All you know is that they’re not cleaning the lint trap before YOU put YOUR clothes in.

Where I come from, we also clean the lint before (not after) doing a load; therefore we don’t expect the trap to be empty when we come in with our laundry.

Am I missing something?

If there was some way we could train them to weave those nests out of dryer lint and cancelled food stamps in those shopping carts, we’d have this problem solved.

That would make sense for a single family/household, but in a situation where lots of unrelated people are sharing a communal drier, it seems like common courtesy to leave it clean for the next person. YMMV.

You’re a real fucking asshole, Johnny Dildo.

Hmmm…shopping carts as nest frames! I think you’re on to something here!

Why is it that some people treat cleaning the lint trap as some kind of dealy, unclean, horrific chore?

“OH MY GOD! THE LAST PEOPLE DIDN"T CLEAN THE TRAP!!! NOW I SHALL BE FORCED TO REMOVE THE TRAP AND TOUCH THE LINT TO REMOVE IT!!! THERE’S FOUR SECONDS OUT OF MY LIFE!! I’D RATHER CLEAN THE SEPTIC TANK WITH A SPOON!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HEEEELLLLLL!!!”

If these are really poor immigrants, my guess is that they may not have seen a dryer before moving here, let alone know that they have lint traps that needs cleaning- hell there was a time when I didn’t know to do that.

If you run for President, I will vote for you. These are the kind of problem-solving skills we need!

I assumed, from the OP’s description, that the thick mat he was pulling from the lint trap was far more than would be generated in a single dryer load.

I used to give them my cross stitch thread ends and we’d have these sweet little colorful nests.

Oh well, that’s where OP went wrong. Immigrant clothing has a lot of lint. And pubic hair. Oh my, do they have pubic hair. Not a Britney Spears among them.

Shhhh! You’ll ruin the hijack.