This is a quick reminder to not forget to do your laundry today. This is also another quick reminder that not everything is washing-machine-and-dryer friendly.
To save you the trouble of finding that out for yourself, the lovely folks at Bored Panda have compiled this listicle to showcase all the nightmarish things that can happen if you don’t watch what you’re throwing into the wash. Or just nightmarish things that can happen, period. Washing machines do be evil like that sometimes.
#1 Shrunk My Favorite Top But There Was A Silver Lining
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#2 Our Dryer Was Making A Strange Noise. My Mom Took It Apart And Collected The Contents
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#3 My Mom Has This Hanging Above The Dryer In Her Laundry Room
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#4 Freaking Cat Shut Off The Washing Machine Mid-Cycle
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#5 This Is What Happens When You Don’t Separate Your Colors And Whites
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#6 My Daughter Used Markers To Put “Makeup” On Her Dolls. I Tried To Wash Them. Cinderella Had An Especially Rough Night
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#7 David Bowie Cushion And Dog Blanket In Washing Machine
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#8 I’ve Accidentally Shrunk My Husband’s Jacket. Husband For Scale
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#9 My Cat Knocked Over 2 Gallons Of Laundry Detergent Onto The Floor While I Was At Work (My Floor Is Not Blue, It’s White)
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#10 My Wife Opened A Washing Machine Full Of Towels And Found It Just Like This After The Cycle
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#11 My Mom Washed My Favorite Sweater
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#12 Putting Towels Covered In Dish Washing Liquid Into A Washing Machine Was A Bad Idea
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#13 Washing Machine Decided To Eat Itself
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#14 My Grandmother Accidentally Put One Of Her Leather Gloves In The Washing Machine
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#15 Over Two Months Of Laundry Has Generated Thirty Two Unmatched Socks. How?
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#16 I Don’t Think I Had To Wash That
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#17 My Wife Left A Pen In Her Pants’ Pocket
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#18 There Were 12 Minutes Left In The Washing Cycle When I Saw This
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#19 My New Roommate Was Complaining About Her Dryer Not Working Very Well, So I Checked The Lint Trap. Coin For Size Reference
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#20 Received On March 13th. Washed And Dried On March 17th. Fastest $205 I’ve Ever Lost
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#21 I Can’t Do My Laundry At My Apartment Because The Internet Is Down
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#22 My Wife Said She Had Something Crazy To Show Me After We Ate Lunch
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#23 Washing Machine Moved A Few Inches While Washing And Now The Door Won’t Open. Help
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#24 This Is Why I Can’t Have Nice Things. Two-Week-Old Oversized Jumper Now Fits My Two-Year-Old Because I Accidentally Washed It In The Machine
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#25 My Amazing Boyfriend Tried To Help Out By Putting The Wet Blackout Curtains In The Dryer On High. I Love Him
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#26 Don’t Wash A Blanket With A Fitted Sheet. Still Suffering From PTSD From The Sound
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#27 Our Washer Decided To Become A Smoke Machine
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#28 Putting These Shoes In The Dryer Was A Bad Idea
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#29 6 Pieces Of Clothing Knotting In The Dryer
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#30 Half Of These Pants Shrunk In The Wash
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#31 Anyone Else Have To Remove Their Washer Agitator Because They Washed A New Box Of Staples, Or Is It Just Me?
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#32 Let’s Just Say That We Ended Up With Very Clean Laundry Room Floor. And Yes, I’m An Idiot
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#33 Put Our Clothes In The Communal Dryer. They Came Out With Someone’s Dog Hair On Everything
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#34 Missed My Pocket Knife In The Laundry
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#35 Doing Laundry Is Exhausting
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#36 The Soap Jug Fell To The Floor In The Laundry Room
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#37 Forgetting To Remove Paper From Your Pocket Before Doing The Laundry
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#38 Tried To Wash My Pillows. They Exploded And Filled My Washing Machine With Sticky Blue And Green Pillow Fluff
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#39 Accidentally Forgot My Fiancée’s Favorite Stuffed Animal In The Clothes While Doing Laundry, I’m In For A Rough Night
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#40 Somehow Chucked A Dirty Nappy In The Washing Machine This Morning
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#41 My Neighbor Is Doing Some Laundry
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#42 A Brand New Full-Size Spiral Notebook In A Load Of Darks (Pic Taken After 2nd Wash)
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#43 Guess Who Forgot Car Keys In The Jeans’ Pocket… On A Laundry Day
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#44 My Clothes Were Ripped To Shreds Because The Laundry Machine Shattered
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#45 My Girlfriend Washed My Wool Sweater
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#46 Guess I Didn’t Need To Watch TV Tonight
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#47 Boyfriend Tried To Wash A Pillow
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#48 Did The Laundry Today. Dryer Caught On Fire 30 Minutes Later
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#49 My Pillow Exploded In The Dryer
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#50 Found This In The Washing Machine In My Building
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