# Is there a way to stop my sheets from balling up into a bowling ball in the clothes dryer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 17, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-my-sheets-from-balling-up-into-a-bowling-ball-in-the-clothes-dryer/961252 "2022-03-17T16:27:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-my-sheets-from-balling-up-into-a-bowling-ball-in-the-clothes-dryer/961252/41 "2022-03-19T00:13:06Z")
As small as my washer is (stacking apartment “Thin Twin” unit), two bath towels are a load unto themselves. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-my-sheets-from-balling-up-into-a-bowling-ball-in-the-clothes-dryer/961252/42 "2022-03-19T01:44:32Z")
Maybe these are instructions if you have to use a laundromat? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-my-sheets-from-balling-up-into-a-bowling-ball-in-the-clothes-dryer/961252/43 "2022-03-19T01:48:50Z")
Mine does too, although they really don’t have issues with people doing things like drying blue jeans by draping them over the balcony, or hanging a heavy terry cloth bathrobe on a hook like I have done. Their issue is more with people who hang things, and then leave them there (I used to have a neighbor - never found out who - who would do this with the washer and/or dryer: put a load in, and then leave it there for several days). There was one neighbor who would hang clothes on a rolling rack, which they would place on the balcony for a few hours and roll it back in, and somebody else draped all of their clothes over their balcony. Another tenant turned them in, but I felt it was NOMB, on top of the not-unlikelihood that perhaps this household had to choose between machine-drying their clothing, or eating. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-my-sheets-from-balling-up-into-a-bowling-ball-in-the-clothes-dryer/961252/44 "2022-03-19T01:54:37Z")
Maybe…I cannot find where I read that so I withdraw it. I would swear I read it somewhere but since I cannot find it I will not defend it. I’m probably misremembering. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-my-sheets-from-balling-up-into-a-bowling-ball-in-the-clothes-dryer/961252/45 "2022-03-19T01:55:42Z")
That’s OK. Commercial washers and dryers really don’t work the same way that home units do. ---
**Author:** ![darazusa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@darazusa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darazusa)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-my-sheets-from-balling-up-into-a-bowling-ball-in-the-clothes-dryer/961252/46 "2022-03-19T03:12:50Z")
i’m out of ideas, then. i’m just repeating what my daddy said. come to think of it, that was 35 years ago. maybe i better just shut up. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-my-sheets-from-balling-up-into-a-bowling-ball-in-the-clothes-dryer/961252/47 "2022-03-19T19:44:39Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I found these plastic positive-action clips (made for socks) called Sockodiles. I use 7 of them to clip the bottom sheet closed Wait, seven? With four pockets on a fitted sheet, at two clips per pocket, that would seem like eight is the way to go. How do you use the seven? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-my-sheets-from-balling-up-into-a-bowling-ball-in-the-clothes-dryer/961252.md?page=2)