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Having the right tools in place can help make your life a little easier, for any unavoidable task.
Let’s take your laundry for example. Ever wish you could redesign your laundry room? Or maybe not a complete redesign, but maybe just move things around a bit or add something to the room to make your space more functional?
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Did you know the average family does 400 loads of laundry a year? “I believe it…” I can hear you mumble! With Tide and Maytag in your laundry room, and a functional, well-designed space, you can get clothes clean in one wash and have more time to spend with your family and friends.
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To help kick off the Brilliant Clean promotion, P&G has provided us with a $50 Home Depot Gift Card and Tide Samples to give away to one lucky Kansas City Mamas reader!
Here’s How To Enter The Giveaway
(Remember, each comment is considered a entry – so leave a separate comment each time.)
Leave me a comment and tell me your worst laundry experience.
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Contest will be open till end of day on July 31, 2013. Winner will be notified by email and has 48-hours to respond before another winner is chosen. Winner must reside in the lower 48-states of the continental USA. Good Luck.
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I don’t really have bad laundry experiences. I have had the wash break down right in the middle of a load. I had to unload all of it, put it all in the tub to finish washing them by hand, then ring it all dry. What a pain.
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The worst experience I had was when the water line broke going into the washer. Hot water was spraying straight at the ceiling and I had to wait for it to cool down before I could shut if off. It flooded the laundry room and took me forever to clean up.
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I haven’t had a bad experience!
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Once our drainage line from the washing machine froze and when we tried to run a load, it overflowed due to the icy blockage.
My worst laundry experience was when I washed a down comforter that broke open at the seam and lost half the feathers in the wash, which clogged the machine and caused the water to run out. At least we had a drainage pan and pipe hooked up.
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Mixed color and white, totally ruined my silk dress was the worst laundry experience of mine.
I think my worst laundry experience just happened yesterday. I washed a set of curtain panels, per instructions, and had 7 gromments come off the fabric. I spent over an hour last night with needle nose pliers, widening the gromments, threading the fabric back thru and squeezing the gromments back closed. Ugh!
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The worst experience was cleaning my son’s jeans covered in dirt
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When I was a teenager, I was helping my mom’s best friend out after a surgery, i believe, and went over to help her clean a bit and do some laundry. Well, her son was still living at home with her at the time, and I accidentally washed something dark/red with the whites and his underwear and socks came out pick. Embarrassing.
oops! Should have been PINK!
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Shrinking a couple of sweaters.
Back when we first moved to Pennsylvania we didn’t have a washer, so we bought a used wringer washer as a temporary solution. I’d never used one before, so it took awhile to get the hang of it. Unfortunately, I’m not very tall, so when I used the electric wringer, I had to stand very close to the machine. One day, as I was wringing the clothes, I leaned in to make sure the item was flat and the wringer caught the edge of my breast and started squeezing. I couldn’t get it stopped, but I wedged another item in so at least it didn’t get any more squished. I had to yell for my husband to come unplug the thing so I could get out. Highly embarrassing and painful, too!! I’m an email subscriber to KCM. Love love it.
My worst was when I was a teenager. I washed and dried a sweater and pants that shouldn’t have. They came out small enough to fit my toddler niece.
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My worst laundry experience was trying to wash out poop and throw up. Yuck!
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My worst experience also was when I washed my queen size down comforter and the inlet ripped – there were feathers everywhere – for weeks.
Far more worse was that I couldn’t save the comforter that I hand-carried on a plane from Europe… Grrrr!
Worst laundry experience: turning white things pink with a random red piece … especially a few little vintage pieces I thrifted for my Etsy shop! Hate it when that happens …
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My worst laundry experience was when I was newly married (during the daysof polyster) and I ruined several pairs of my new husbands pants by drying them on too high a setting! Very expensive lesson!
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put a favorite silk shirt in the dryer, completely ruined it!
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I had a dryer that squeaked so bad you couldn’t hear anything over it.
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We had just had the washer repaired so had been without for several days. I sent the first load off so pleased and thankful to have the washer back. When I checked back after half an hour, I discovered the laundry room had flooded (and dripped through the basement into a huge storage room. Uggh! What a nightmare! Lots of wet towels followed but I didn’t have to call the repairman back as originally assumed. The outflow tube had been dislodged and I just had to shove it back down!
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I have had so many bad laundry experiences it is hard to pick only one so I will start with the first one. I was in high school and I can’t remember if it was mine or my sisters, but I believe it was a wool sweater. I washed it and the body of the sweater turned tiny while the sleeves remained long. It looked crazy.
I’ve turned my white clothes to pink.
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I shrunk all of my gym clothes.
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only bad laundry experience I’ve had was shrinking someone else’s clothes.
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It actually just happened a couple of weeks ago — I put a red shirt in with some light colored clothes. Luckily most of them were gym socks and stuff but there was a light blue pair of capris that I don’t think I’ll ever be able to wear again!
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I ruined my favorite (and most expensive sweater) accidently washing it with the whites and I totally missed it in the pile b/c I was in a big hurry and I had used clorox bleach on my whites. yikes. That sucked!
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My husband washed and dried an ink pen. Not only were the clothes ruined, but the inside of the dryer was covered in ink splotches. Quite a mess!
Worst is hard- Most recent worst was 3 loads of puke laundry including a car seat cover. Uck.
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My worst laundry experience is forgetting the towels in the wash. You can never get that smell out.
Not so much the worst but the first time doing laundry by myself I was on the phone with my mom asking for instructions.
Nothing like a nice fresh load of whites just out of the wash. Unless the washer blew out during that load and every single item ends up with black greasy spots all over them. I had to run to the dreaded laundromat and wash the load several times only to save about half of the items. It was by far the worst laundry experience I have ever had.
Ran out of clean underwear in Hawaii. No soap to be had anywhere so I put the underwear in the dishwasher to help get them all clean. Stupid idea. Didn’t really work.
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My worst laundry experience was a raisin left in someones pocket that stained everything after it went through the dryer!
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I have had 2 bad laundry experiences. One when my daughter had crayons in her pockets and I didn’t know it. The crayons went through the wash and then melted in the dryer and all over the clothes. The second was when my daughter decided to “hide” the last very large brownie that she extracted from the pan in the dryer. I had just started it. She opened it up and threw it in. It stopped. I heard it stop but didn’t know a large iced brownie was in my light load. I went in and restarted it- brownie all over pastel clothing. Fail.
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Lived in some apartments and a laundry mat was behind us and to get there I had to carry all my laundry down a flight of stairs and across a grass patch. I was very pregnant which makes it hard to carry baskets of laundry anyway. I had my six year old in toe… It’s raining and I get to the laundry mat and wipe off my shoes on the carpet they have there and tell my kid to take his off before stepping onto the freshly mopped floor. I walked across and found me a washing machine, got it all in there when the owner started yelling at me that I got his floor and carpet dirty. (It wasn’t that bad) he told me I was stupid and fat and to never come back. I left crying my eyes out as I apologized to the man but he screamed at me till I left. Needless to say when my iron worker husband got home and I told him, he went over there and before going in got his work boots real good and muddy. Slopped it all over, yelled at the little mean man I was his wife and picked up our laundry because I was scared to go back.
Never went there again.
When I was new to laundry I washed a beautiful wool sweater and it came out doll sized!
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I washed and dried a load of denim without realizing I had left a tube of red lipstick in a pocket.
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Things left in pockets like ink pens, kleenex and gum…all make big messes.
My worst laundry experience is trying to clean clothes with drilling fluids and grease on them.
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My worst laundry experience was washing 3 crayons i was able to save some of the clothes but most of them where far too damaged
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Worst experience: washed my (then) boyfriend’s (now husband!) iPod! Oops…
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My worst laundry experience was when I was home for winter break at college. My parents had a fancy front load washer from Sweden and I shrunk my favorite Gap sweater. Didn’t realize the water temperature wasn’t correct!
400 loads in a year…feels like 800 with 3 growing boys. Losing the string from a pair of athletic shorts in the washer or dryer and having your child walk in ready for school with them drooping down, one of those memorable laundry experiences.
my worst laundry experience was when I accidentally washed a pen with my husband’s Coast Guard uniform, of course it exploded everywhere! I tried rubbing alcohol, hair spray and every other possible remedy but nothing helped, I ended up hiding it for over a year thank goodness he had others!
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Worst experience- washing a red swim suit that has yet to stop “bleeding” after countless washes….the white stripes in his red athletic shorts are now permanently pink.
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I washed and dried my son’s winter coat with crayons in the pocket. After a little research, I tried WD-40, washed it again and the stains came out.
My worst laundry experience was when my really old washer twisted and wripped two of my shirts during the spin cycle!
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Worst laundry expereince was drying my favorite wool sweater on accident. It came out small enough to fit on my daughter’s baby doll.
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My worst laundry experience? Being the awesome wife that I am, I let my husband– a bar owner– wash his gross bar towels in our washing machine. Ugh.
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My worst experience was when my home washer was broke and I had to go to the laundry mat. Well, this was years ago, during the Barney show hay days. I had two full sets of towels and washcloths, that were folded, with everything else. I had definate stacks too. Whomever it was, took one towel and one facecloth, when I unloaded another machine. I never noticed until I got home. I felt so bad, my kids didn’t each have a towel. That is still a sad moment for me.
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My worst laundry experience was adding too many clothes to an apartment communal washer in college. It backed up and overflowed with water. I was taking out my soaking wet (and still dirty!) clothes when I realized that the one dryer available had an “Out of Order” sign….I promptly called Mommy for advice on that one. Live and learn!
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forgetting to take the clothes out after washing them and then they smell sour
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Worst experience was when washer started smelling hot went to investigate discovered it was also smoking and had hopped in front of the door so after giving it a little shove I was able to get in and yanked the cord to stop it. Of course it was half full of water so I had to wring clothes out which wasn’t easy because they were towels and I was very pregnant. To top it all off my husband had just left town, something always happens when he is gone.
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Worst laundry experience: forgetting something red of my daughter’s in the wash and dying some white towels pink!
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Worst experiences: not checking pockets for things like crayons, markers and kleenex.
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My worst laundry experience was when I was trying to hurry and pack for a week long vacation and decided to do laundry. I was short on detergent and didn’t have time to run to the store so I just added a gob of Dawn dish washing liquid. Lo and behold, I had a heck of a mess as bubbles began oozing out the mouth of the machine!
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My worst laundry experience has to be the day the drum on my washing machine went out and dumped the entire FULL load of water on the floor…two days after my husband left my two-week old baby and I for a 15-month Iraq deployment. Needless to say, I didn’t handle that stressful situation all that well!
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Worst laundry experience….we had a multivitamin pill in a pocket and washed it with light colored clothes. Lovely Brown splotches on everything. The stains wouldn’t even bleach out.
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I had a hose break. Water was coming out so forceful I could not turn it off and I didn’t know where the water cut off was outside! I ran across the street and got my neighbor to turn it off he was soaked and not happy with me!! The water had gone from the laundry room in back of house all the way to my front door! Insurance company sent a company that night to get water up and put fans to dry it out. It caused the subfloor to bulk up so it turned out I got new subfloors new kitchen and laundry room floors and new carpet. It was a hassle we had to stay in a hotel for a week but getting new floors was great! Change your hose every five years and know where shut off is!
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Hmm, my worst laundry experience escapes me at the moment…but lots of little disasters from forgetting to check pockets.
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Worst laundry experience….splashing bleach on my favorite black shirt.
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My worst laundry experience was washing about 15 Velcro closure baby bibs with a Superman costume made out of nylon. The Velcro stuck to the costume and ripped the material something horrible!
Accidentally washing a brand new white sundress with brand new beach towels, I had no idea the dress was in there, it came out pink!
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My worst experience was getting a bunch of poop out of my baby’s clothes!
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I’d say my worst laundry experience was probably around the time I started washing my own laundry. I used to leave wet towels on the floor after showering, and once when I was gathering them up to wash, I found a dead spider in them! Horrified me! To this day, I still check every towel for foul creatures before putting it in the wash!
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My worst laundry experience was my wife getting her period all over the sheets the first night we spent together. She was so humiliated and angry with herself, but it didn’t bother me at all! I tried telling her it was normal, natural, and not her fault, and I was actually kind of glad it happened because it gave me a chance to show her how much I love her and that nothing about her could ever gross me out. But she wasn’t hearing it, she was just too embarrassed 🙁
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My worst laundry experience is trying a new fabric softener that completely gunked up the rim of my machine. Ugh!
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Red wine on a white sweater – never came out 🙁
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I have a horrible time getting out oil and grease stains.
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White baseball uniform – playing on a red clay field – the worst laundry nightmare of my life!
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My worst experience was the time some crayons got mixed in with the white clothes. What a disaster!
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my worst laundry experience is always cleaning poop
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My worst laundry experiences involving leaking ball point pens and shredded kleenex.
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I have lots of ucky laundry experiences… I forget about the clothes in the wash all the time. Then they are smelly and have to do it all over again.
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My washer currently leaks out the front every time I do a load of laundry. 🙁 We keep a towel out in front.
I’m not sure what my worst laundry experience would be. I have managed to change many things different colors. I recently keep managing to overfill my washer or something because it regularly will have tons of water on the floor around it when it is through washing clothes!
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My worst laundry experience was trying to wash out poop after my little one was sick
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Worst laundry experience has been finding a disposable diaper in the wash (this has happened many times)
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my worse laundry experience had to have been an ongoing one we currently deal with to this day. well see my washer wants to do what IT wants to do. Sometimes I load it with laundry, soap etc. and half way through the wash it stops. OR maybe it’s during the spin cycle. maybe it wants to shake rattle and roll across the floor. it’s a guessing game I hate to guess. But to add to that to get it to “work” you have to reset the outlet and start the load again. (time) and with 6 kids and 2 adults the 400 loads a year is funny. -my dryer is a hand me down and take over an hour or 2 to dry a load.
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Luckily I don’t have to do the laundry much because I have an awesome hubby who does it. But my worst laundry experience was when I threw in a load of towels but didn’t realize that there was an entire bag of opened sunflower seeds under one of the towels. I went to put them in the dryer and there were seeds all over everything. I spent an hour just trying to pick off the seeds and found remnants for days in the laundry. My hubby banned me from doing laundry again!
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Worst laundry experience: baby poop everywhere and an overflowing drain. Ugh, it makes me sick just thinking about it!
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Our worst laundry experience was when our washer broke right in the middle of the stomach flu in our house….with a baby and a toddler….which means they never made it to the bathroom in time:(!
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This summer someone (ahem…SOMEONE WHO WON’T BE NAMED) left a black sharpie in his pants and then threw them in to the washer with clothes from the whole family. It was a nightmare. We ended up having to throw most of the clothes away.
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My worst laundry experience was starting a load in the wash the first day into my new apartment running to grab good before work and coming home to a flooded floor.
My worst laundry experience was starting a load in the wash the first day into my new apartment before work and coming home to a flooded apartment
Worst experience was when the door handle broke off my front loader. Luckily hubby was home and was able to remove the entire door to remove the laundry.
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Worst experience: anytime I’ve accidentally washed/dried expensive dry clean only clothes. Happens way too often. I am an email subscriber and in like on Facebook. 🙂
I washed a fuzzy blanket with a load of laundry and everything had fuzzies on it!
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i am an email subscriber and a fb liker. my horrible laundry stories are mostly just kids stuff… but there was the horrible night where my son threw up on me and my bed at least 3 times. that was a fun laundry day.
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My worst laundry nightmare . . . anything that my daughter has worn! It doesn’t matter what it is she always has it all over her! My favorite is when she leaves things in her pockets from school and I get in a hurry and forget to check . . . nothing like crayons and rocks all over everything!
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Hi! My worst laundry experience was when my family got into a huge mess of ticks and naturally we stripped off our clothes as fast as possible and threw them in the wash. I washed everything on hot to kill the ticks, but when I opened the washer once it was finished, the ticks were crawling up the machine and all around inside. It was awful!! I kept washing and couldn’t kill the little buggers (and they are so gross!!!). I had to take the clothes out and put them in a bag in the freezer to kill off the ticks. A lot of bleach killed the ticks left behind in the washer!
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Our worse laundry experience was when we lived in Boston right around the corner from the laundry mat. We decided to make our Halloween costumes and we needed to dye some fabric. We decided to just do it in barrel of the washer. This is when we were very young and not too bright. The owner realized what we had done and was less than happy with us. I think he wanted to ban us from his establishment. We promised never to do something so stupid again. We never felt comfortable there after.
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My worst laundry experience was when we lived in Alabama and we had a well system. Something went wrong with the well, and started pumping up all this dirt and black stuff along with the water, which was being used at the time for a load of wash and that nasty water was used to wash and rinse the clothes. I never did get that load clean.
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My worst laundry experience is always when I have too much.
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My worst laundry experience was finding a frog in the dryer.
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Worst laundry experience- between bleach spots on favorite pants or shrinking a favorite sweater…
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My husband washed a FORMAL GOWN. SILK. In our washing machine.