Comments on: This means you!!!

By: LaughterRX

LaughterRX — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:10:02 +0000

First of all, I would like to thank my fellow commenters for sharing their life stories of the struggle of doing laundry and growing up as a child. It’s so sad you should sell it to Lifetime.

Second, is it really that hard to check the dryer filter yourself? That way if the house DOES catch on fire, it’s not your fault!

People cease to amaze me.

By: bobby

bobby — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:02:39 +0000

But who is this directed to?

By: tchotchotch

tchotchotch — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:48:09 +0000

Takes like 5 seconds to clean a lint dryer. You gotta hate your roommate already to get mad about something like that.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:26:29 +0000

huh, I never knew any of that.
wish my mum had taught me that sort of stuff.

By: Caclark4

Caclark4 — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:49:09 +0000

My brother-in-law used to remind me EVERY time I used the dryer to remove the lint from the lint trap (even though I’m pretty good about that). He stopped doing that after I started leaving the lint on his pillow so he would know I remembered…and began charging him to babysit instead.

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:47:59 +0000

My father was always the one to keep reminding us to clean the lint filter before laundry, EVERY time we would do laundry, for as long as I can remember even though we didn’t need his constant reminders. The thing is, while us stupid, grown kids were doing the smart thing and throwing lint away IN THE GARBAGE, he threw the lint BEHIND THE DRYER. And *shock* fire. The fire never got out of control and was put out quickly, so no harm done. I was quite amused.

By: cutnstyl4u

cutnstyl4u — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 14:44:00 +0000

The FIRE will happen if you do not clean the lint filter after/before each use. It is VERY real, as it happened at my house when I was a child. My Mom was busy trying to do laundry and raise 4 girls while my Dad worked 16-18 hrs. 7 days a week. The one time that she forgot to clean the lint filter the dryer caught fire and destroyed our laundry room and did smoke damage to the entire house. The house was too damaged for us to live in for over a month but thank goodness it did not completely burn to the ground. LESSON LEARNED for me at a very young age!!! Always check the lint filter before use to make sure that it has been cleaned!!

By: teamcinnamon

teamcinnamon — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:39:16 +0000

The word “FIRE” with a circle around it and an X through it is perfect.

By: joebec

joebec — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:04:08 +0000

i can just picture how angry she was when she threw this bad boy together!

By: Parker

Parker — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:13:43 +0000

Isn’t it bad to be the note leaver? Why would people incriminate themselves on this site? I want to laugh at the notes but feel guilty that I’m apparently supposed to agree with them. Sure it’s dumb to not clean the lint filter, but leaving this note just makes *you* the moron.

By: matineeidyll

matineeidyll — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:25:23 +0000

I have the exact same frickin’ problem with my current flatmate. When he does remember to clean the lint out, he leaves it on the floor. Thankfully, he’s moving in a month. [Insert happy dance here]

By: Alicia

Alicia — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:59:26 +0000

Uh, I thought you cleaned the lint out after you did a load of clothes? That way it’s all nice and clean for the next person…how I’ve done since I’ve been doing laundry since I was 10 and how we all do it here with a house of too many roommates.

By: silverneurotic

silverneurotic — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:50:28 +0000

I have the same problem with the people I work with. I don’t dare put up notes though, the last person that did that ended up getting in trouble.

By: Z

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:24:48 +0000

Before she lived with me, my current roommate called a dryer repairman complaining that her clothes “never seemed dry” even after multiple dry cycles.

Turns out she’d never emptied the lint trap in THREE YEARS. She apparently had never done laundry in her life, and when she moved away from her nanny/housekeeper in the Hamptons and got to college way on the West Coast, she was a bit challenged domestically.