What is the strangest thing you ever found in the laundry pile?

[MaryE]

OK, today tops them all. My son and friend had built a fort -several weeks ago- from a huge box in our garage. They used a couple of old fleece blankets inside. Said blankets have been waiting to be washed for a few weeks now. And what did I find inside one of them? Wait for it.......

 

A mummified lizard! EEEK. This is not the sort of thing that routinely shows up in my wash. I'm yelling down the hall for son to *please* come and dispose of it outside, since dad's at work and he's the de facto man of the house.

 

What's the weirdest thing you've ever found in the laundry?

[Down_the_Rabbit_Hole]

Shot gun shells and crayfish parts.

[Mom-ninja.]

:lol::lol:

 

I've found mummified animals in the laundry piles before. Once it was a frog, a few lizards, and beetles.

 

The worst was the times I found *live* animals. Once it was a live grub in my son's pocket, and the other time it was about 5 or so maggots crawling out of the pocket. Shudder.

 

My boys are now forbidden to stick any live creatures into their pockets.

[Cinder]

A whole pack of gum. Thankfully it didn't make it into the dryer, but it was still plenty of work to get it out of the washer.

 

Other than that . . . poop. :glare:

[Unicorn.]

Shot gun shells, .22 shells, mummified gheckos, nail polish, and most recently, the remains of a book.

ETA: Just remembered, one time it was a live round of ammo, not just a shell. I've also had lighters go through the washer and dryer. I should really check pockets better after a Boy Scout campout.

Edited April 26, 2012 by Unicorn

[nertsmommy]

Not that strange, but a huge mess. Dried leaves and rocks for DD's collection.

[*********]

Well, dh get one of these :glare: from me recently, because I found a 9 volt battery in the wash. It made it to the dryer, but thankfully I decided to investigate the VERY LOUD banging noise it made when I turned on the dryer. I don't want to know what *could* have happened if it had stayed in there.

 

Dh puts things in his pockets all the time that make it into the wash. In fact, it's almost always HIM, not the kids.

[TraciWA]

Bird house.

[Punks in Ontario]

A freshly dead mouse. I must have put in in the washing machine with the laundry. It was the last thing in the bottom that I was fishing out. It just about went flying.

[MaryE]

Wow, guys! At least my found item wasn't alive. I believe that would have just about done me in...

[SKL]

LOL, I think that's one category of stuff I force my brain to purge as soon as possible.

 

I did find my kids' full-size soccer ball in the laudry hamper, among many other things. :001_smile:

[West Coast Mom]

My most disastrous find was handfuls of baby clams. Unfortunately, I didn't discover them until after a cycle through the wash. It took forever to clean those out and get rid of the smell.

[nukeswife]

Well it wasn't actually in my pile of stuff to be washed but when we were living in WI and had our washer/dryer in the basement I was doing wash in my new machines and happened to see something crawl out from under the old set (which was on the opposite wall waiting for my brother to pick them up) and thought, "That's a really slow moving mouse," I figured it was probably injured and would be dead soon so I'd have to clean it up (dh was deployed) so I kept doing my wash and keeping an eye on it. Well after 30 minutes of putzing around in my basement the thing was still not dead so I went in for a closer look only to find it wasn't a mouse, it was mudpuppy salamander that was covered in lint from crawling around under the old dryer.

[beaners]

OK, today tops them all. My son and friend had built a fort -several weeks ago- from a huge box in our garage. They used a couple of old fleece blankets inside. Said blankets have been waiting to be washed for a few weeks now. And what did I find inside one of them? Wait for it.......

 

A mummified lizard! EEEK. This is not the sort of thing that routinely shows up in my wash. I'm yelling down the hall for son to *please* come and dispose of it outside, since dad's at work and he's the de facto man of the house.

 

What's the weirdest thing you've ever found in the laundry?

 

This is not what I want to read about it. We just moved into our new house and I called my husband to tell him that I thought I heard a mouse in the walls. It was a lizard. We apparently have them around here, especially on the porches. My laundry area is right next to the door leading to our side porch. I am doing mountains of laundry since the children are tearing boxes open and playing with them before I can get them put away. Now I'm certain I am going to encounter a lizard while I'm doing laundry. Ugh.

[happypamama]

A toddler!

 

When DS1 was 2, we couldn't find him one day. We'd only lived in this house for a few months at that point, and it's pretty big and convoluted, with a large yard as well. We looked all over for him and were starting to panic, because hiding is not like him. Finally, I looked in the laundry room (which is through a bathroom), behind the door, and there he was, flopped aross a basket of laundry, sound asleep. I have no idea why he thought that was a good place for a nap!

 

(Another day, I found him asleep, flopped across his little ride-on toy. Boy needed his sleep, I guess. He still napped until about age 5.)

[Whereneverever]

A live black widow. Eeeeesh.

[mom2scouts]

Hundreds of LIVE earthworms stuffed into a bag.

[Scuff]

Dd's missing math book. Actually, I often find her things in her hamper. No idea why she would put them there- it'd probably take less effort to actually put them away!

[happi duck]

Oh my! My family thanks you all because I will never be cross about a few stray hair ties or gum wrappers again!

[Kathleen in VA]

A nest of baby snakes. I often toss my used dishtowels out in front of my washer which is in our garage. As I was picking up the towels to toss them into the washer several small black snakes with yellow rings around their necks fell to the floor. I knew they weren't poisonous but I still had to change my underwear. :D

[SkateLeft]

Pockets *full* of slugs. Live, slimy slugs. My brother brought them home from camp. It was so very, deeply disgusting.

[blondeviolin]

We've had frogs, both dead and alive.

 

When I was in 7th grade, my sister actually started the dryer with our cat in there. :( He died, and it was a big mess. We ended up with a new dryer. She has yet to live that down.

[KristinaBreece]

This is not what I want to read about it. We just moved into our new house and I called my husband to tell him that I thought I heard a mouse in the walls. It was a lizard. We apparently have them around here, especially on the porches. My laundry area is right next to the door leading to our side porch. I am doing mountains of laundry since the children are tearing boxes open and playing with them before I can get them put away. Now I'm certain I am going to encounter a lizard while I'm doing laundry. Ugh.

 

I've never encountered a random lizard in OH. Now I'm going to be paranoid about this!

 

A toddler!

 

When DS1 was 2, we couldn't find him one day. We'd only lived in this house for a few months at that point, and it's pretty big and convoluted, with a large yard as well. We looked all over for him and were starting to panic, because hiding is not like him. Finally, I looked in the laundry room (which is through a bathroom), behind the door, and there he was, flopped aross a basket of laundry, sound asleep. I have no idea why he thought that was a good place for a nap!

 

(Another day, I found him asleep, flopped across his little ride-on toy. Boy needed his sleep, I guess. He still napped until about age 5.)

 

DD did this to me-- but she was in the basement. Scared me out of my wits! I had called the police by the time I found her.

 

A nest of baby snakes. I often toss my used dishtowels out in front of my washer which is in our garage. As I was picking up the towels to toss them into the washer several small black snakes with yellow rings around their necks fell to the floor. I knew they weren't poisonous but I still had to change my underwear. :D

 

I'm a snake owner, and that would freak me out.

[Guest]

OK, today tops them all. My son and friend had built a fort -several weeks ago- from a huge box in our garage. They used a couple of old fleece blankets inside. Said blankets have been waiting to be washed for a few weeks now. And what did I find inside one of them? Wait for it.......

 

A mummified lizard! EEEK. This is not the sort of thing that routinely shows up in my wash. I'm yelling down the hall for son to *please* come and dispose of it outside, since dad's at work and he's the de facto man of the house.

 

What's the weirdest thing you've ever found in the laundry?

 

Actually, I was going to answer a snake. And it wasn't dead, either. But I'm not sure if it counts, because it was when I was a kid and my mother was doing the laundry. ;)

[Word Nerd]

Last week I pulled a turkey feather out of the washer (after the cycle). No one claims to know how it got there.

[Peaceful Isle]

I found a paper plate with dried pasta on it. I figure one of the kids threw it in the laundry instead of the trash...:confused:

I've put milk in the pantry instead of the fridge one time. :D I just chalked mine up to mom brain.

[ktgrok]

A dead possum. There were laundry sorting bins in the garage,a nd he must have come in at some point when the door was left open to find a soft place to die. Took years off my life.