Worst thing you've accidentally put in the washing machine

In My Humble Opinion
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-Husband’s wallet
-Cell phone - I think it happened twice. His phone one week, the next week mine!
-Car keys - The kind with the automatic door opener/alarm/trunk thing? At least $125 to get a new one. On the upside, we still have 1 set of electronic keys that still work.
-White shirt with a pink beach towel

:smack:

Oh, and this wasn’t me but it happened to me. We got a new washer about a year ago and the delivery people will test the washer for you. Well I noticed the manual was in the washer and figured they’d take it out and give it to me or at least leave it on top of the washer before leaving. They said goodbye and told me that the washer was on its test cycle. I close up the garage and what not, then realize the manual was in the wash - all 1 million pieces of it. Hooray for the interwebs and I found the manual online. That was a mess to clean up.

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This. There’s just no getting that greasy stuff out of some fabrics.:smack:

63

That could only improve a Zip drive. :smiley:

In the past couple of years, we’ve washed two cell phones. After some careful drying, they both survived. The LG phone’s camera was unusable afterward (not like we ever used it anyway) and the Razr came through almost completely unharmed except for a blotch of something between the layers of the main display. Three years later, it’s still working.

Washing new BART tickets is heartbreaking at $45 each, and as a used-up ticket looks just like a new ticket after it’s been washed, they won’t exchange your blob of white paper with blue flecks for a replacement.

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When I was in college, I accidentally broke a necklace that I loved, one of the only pieces of jewelry I ever wore in my entire life on an everyday basis. I put it in the pocket of my jeans, intending to put it back in the jewelry box, then forgot about it and washed the jeans.

I’ve never found another necklace like it, and probably never will.

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A bat. We had a family of bats that lived in our siding for a few months when I was growing up, and occasionally one would make its way into the house. I didn’t notice it when I was loading the washer (it may have been hanging out in there for all I know). I just about had a heart attack when I pulled a wet, dead bat out of the washer.

Now I’m sitting here at work feeling vaguely creeped out. Yuck.

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Meh, it probably woulda broken that week anyway.