You walk through our laundry room to get to the garage/outside so we go in and out that door a million times a day. It’s really just a hall with the washer, dryer and laundry room sink on the left side as you’re walking out. In fact, I lock the door leading out to the garage because if I have the dryer door open, and Vince opens the door, it’s going to bang into the dryer door. Of course, most of the time I forget to unlock it when I close the dryer door and that makes for an unhappy husband.
There’s no room for a trash can for dumping the lint so I stuck a hook onto the side of the washer and keep a grocery sack there for the lint. The other day I threw out that bag and had not put a new one in there yet. I washed a couple of loads of laundry and after I cleaned the lint screen, I stuck the little ball of lint on top of the dryer til I got done with the laundry, went to go get a grocery sack, got sidetracked and forgot about it.
That night Vince was going to take Rita out and I heard him kinda gasp and then say a bad word. When he opened the door to take her out, that created a breeze, the lint fell onto the floor and was blowing and he thought it was a mouse.
I can see exactly how it would look like a mouse. It was night and dark in that room, he flipped light on and the mouse . . I mean . . lint scurried. I laughed because I could see that happening to me and I would have screamed and probably scared Vince more than the lint did.
Speaking of lint . . when I first got married many years ago, I had never done laundry. I had no idea you had to clean a lint filter. Who would have known?? 🙂
After probably a year, the dryer stopped drying. We called the repairman. He messed around with it, couldn’t even get the lint screen out it was so impacted. He said “When was the last time you cleaned the lint filter?” Lint filter? What’s that? He had to take the dryer apart to even get the packed lint out. I’ve come a long way, wouldn’t you say? 🙂
Linda B says
My mom used to always save the lint and put it outside for birds to line their nest. They loved it.
Mayme says
I grew up with the clothes line being the dryer. I didn’t know about lint filters either until the clothes stopped drying.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
That makes me feel so much better. I was sure I was the only one who had done that. All these years I’ve suffered through knowing the repairman had never seen anyone do that but if you did it and I did it, I’m betting it happened more than I though.
Sherry Bobak says
You’re very lucky. My sister-in-law caught her dryer on fire from not cleaning hers out. Thank goodness they caught it in time.
Joyce says
Your “almost” mouse reminded me of the time I “killed” a giant roach that turned out to be a leaf…the room was dim, and we had been moving boxes from my Grandmother’s house and we had found some roaches. It wasn’t entirely unreasonable…LOL I was just happy that the “roach” didn’t run away from me! 😉