• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    WASH THE BEDDING SEPARATELY, DIANE!

    Jesus fuck, you wonder why everything smells like mildew, it’s because they ball up in the wash and don’t rinse properly, and then they stay balled up and damp in the dryer.

    • TheSambassador@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Do you wash only a single fitted sheet or duvet cover at a time? Because the problem still happens when I wash my fitted sheet and normal sheets in the same load.

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        1 year ago

        That can happen, but I find that if you separate the sheets as they are going in, and kind of scrunch up the fitted sheets and duvet covers so they don’t start wrapped around the flat sheets or blankets, then they are far less likely to ball up in the wash.

        I had a roommate in college that would wrap his sheets in the fitted sheet (along with other laundry) and throw it all in like a package. His laundry always smelled like mildew.

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      1 year ago

      Or just get some laundry bags. Its honestly so much easier to just shove the offending item in a bag, throw it all in the wash, then I don’t have to care about it until I take it out of the dryer. Come in handy for other items that love to ball up and evade washing.

  • M137@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just another thing that’s only exists as a problem for idiots. As said already: you wash bedding separately and at 60°C, which you don’t wash other clothes at. And few washing machines are big enough to effectively wash duvets with anything else.>!!<