Sometimes I think I just move too fast and don’t double check. Ok, probably more than just sometimes. Well… the grossest possible flub-up when multi-tasking occurred this weekend.
I was doing laundry as usual. The girls were helping. Soon enough, we made our way downstairs and I dumped the load into the washing machine. A few hours later, when I went to move it from washing machine to dryer, I noticed a very odd smell. And, as I was moving it into the dryer, *stuff* kept falling off the clothes. I could NOT figure out what was going on… for a minute.
Well, it turns out that a diaper that had been thrown into the dirty clothes bin (and was heading for the trash, not the washing machine!) had not made it to the trash… but had made it to the washing machine. So… the diaper spent an hour in the washing machine and completely broke apart. The worst part is that it was a dirty, stinky diaper! Ewwwwww!!!!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁
No, that wasn’t actually the worst part. The cleanup was worse! All those little gel balls that are in the diaper and make it so absorbent had come out of the diaper and were E V E R Y W H E R E! I had to dig them out of the washer, the dryer, the floor, shake them out of the clothes and of course rewash that load.
Seems cleanup worked as all the clothes were spared, but man! what a nightmare!