I dutifully used the last three dryer sheets and finally was able to use this nifty product on Sunday. It worked like a charm. My clothes came out static-free, smelling outdoor fresh. The best thing was that I didn't have to worry about forgetting and throwing a dryer sheet into the garbage in my bathroom where invariably Shadow would pull it out, gum it and then leave it lying somewhere around the house. I don't know what it is that attracts her to dryer sheets. Maybe it's her doggy way of trying to soften her fur. Or maybe she's got some kind of doggy disease, like those people who like to eat dirt, but whatever the reason, she loves them. And I know it's not my cat because if it was Lily she would leave the garbage can tipped over. She's nimble but she prefers crawling into a small garbage can, tipping it over and just lying there. (so there, Dean). Shadow
Since the temperatures dipped to single and minus single digits over the weekend, I figured I'd better switch out the two blankets and summer bedspread on our bed for the comforter before Dean started whining (more). As it was, he'd been adding increasing numbers of blankets, bathrobes, and whatever article of clothing he found nearby onto his side of the bed until our bed had begun listing to the west. So our bed is now winter-ready but since Shadow likes to use the sides of the bed to scratch her snout, rub her body up and down, scratch her snout again, more rubbing, (you get the picture), the summer bedspread had a nice layer of greasy brown mixed with black fur. It needed to be washed.
Never fear. I have the new Dryer Bar. I can wash that bedspread, throw it in the dryer and forget it! No muss, no fuss. That's what I did last night. I should mention that my mom taught me that bedspreads are never to be used as blankets. They are decorative. I use this bedspread in the summer but it's made of pretty heavy fabric. It weighs alot. Actually Dean probably would have been more toasty pulling it up over his cold body than all the articles of clothing he's been using. If I would have let him. But I didn't. I tell you this because last night was the first time I washed it in my new high efficiency washer using the extended spin option. Apparently extended spin option isn't a good choice with a heavy bedspread. There was a moment when it sounded like somebody had picked up the washing machine and was throwing it against the dryer..... boom!. boom!... boom!... boom!... boom! I ran downstairs only to see the washing machine walking into the dryer over and over and over.
A quick switch to regular spin, the washing machine quit walking and then it was time to put my heavy bedspread into my new high efficiency dryer with my new green(ish), Forget It! Dryer Bar. So far so good. For whatever reason, I thought I should add a tennis ball. I'm not sure why. Tennis balls are great for fluffing pillows but apparently not for bedspreads. Don't ask me why I thought I needed a tennis ball to fluff my bedspread. I don't know. It just seemed like a good idea at the time. It's not. Not if you're using the Forget It! Dryer Bar.
It's back to dryer sheets for me. Forget green. Shadow's snout's been looking dry and I didn't like the smell of the Forget It! Dryer Bar anyway.◦
