Sunday, April 7, 2013

One Of The Mysteries Of The Universe

Yesterday was a spring cleaning day at Casa Kathy.  I took the blinds down from the bedroom windows, washed them in the bathtub, and re-hung them.  I removed the flannel sheets from the beds and replaced them with cotton ones.  After lunch, I changed the duvet cover (along with its shams and bed skirt) in the master bedroom and switched out the artwork and accessories.

All the bulky winter-weight fabric led to lots of extra laundry.  The washer and dryer were going for hours.  Every time a load would finish in the dryer a clean one was waiting to replace it. The last load I did before I sat down for a well-earned rest was the duvet cover and shams.  When I moved the load from the washer to the dryer I made sure the cover was completely right side out and not tangled up. I used the dryer's automatic setting, and when the load was finished I didn't bother to take the things out.

This morning before breakfast I washed a load of clothes. When they were done I opened the dryer and was momentarily surprised there was something in there, but quickly remembered what it was. As usually happens with large items, the load was tangled up into a wad (which meant it probably wasn't completely dry in the middle). As I unwound it to check I realized the duvet cover had completely turned itself inside out!

I've seen short-sleeved shirts reverse themselves in the laundry, but this duvet cover and shams aren't lightweight.  They're made out of heavyweight decorator cotton material and together weigh about 8 pounds; the cover is more than 7 feet long on each side. I have no idea how the inversion came to pass, but I wish my dryer had a video camera so I could observe the process.

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8 comments:

  1. oh, that's funny! It is a mystery. Sometimes I have socks that reverse themselves. Crazy.

    You know...if you take off the flannel sheets it will snow! haha. At least I know that if I wash the boys winter coats it will.

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    1. I don't think it will snow again, but I know cold weather isn't finished. I have a reminder on my calendar to wash the winter coats around the middle of May when I KNOW I won't need them any more :-)

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  2. I really need you at my house...I hate cleaning.

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    1. I abhor the daily stuff, but can tackle a special project with the best of them!

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  3. Wow! You sure are industrious! I'd have loved to see a video of that too.

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    1. It was a lot of work, but I'm enjoying the results.

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  4. Well I guess it didn't get any knicks in it or you would have said so. That's some serious cleaning when you talk about taking blinds down. I don't think I know how to do that. Now I am looking at the layer of dust on them. Yuck.

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    1. I can't remember the last time I cleaned the blinds, so they were VERY dirty--especially the ones in the bathroom, where the dust mixed with the humidity from the shower and turned into a layer of crud.

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