My dryer has a sock catcher (that's something like a Dream Catcher) I guess. I never lose socks but it will occasionally turn them inside out.  I have decided that the little being in there that turns everything inside out must be from Canada .  I found a Canadian quarter in the dryer last week.

Here's a handy guide to getting out those pesky fabric stains:

Blood - Spill more blood around area of stain so it won't stand out as much.

Ink - Fall to knees and plead, "Why, God, why? Why dost thou test me so?"

Grass - Write the name of your liquid detergent on stain. Wash. Hold up to camera, and show off the unbelievable results.

Mud - Place large iron-on NASCAR patch over stain. Apply heat for 60 seconds.

Tomato Sauce - Take out the mook responsible for your tomato-sauce stain by executing him gangland-style in the back of the head. Capeche?

Coffee - Rub cream and sugar into stain. Apply oral suction. Enjoy rich, robust coffee-stain flavor.

Wine - Apply mixture of 1/2 rum and 1/2 Coke to self until you no longer care about some little freaking stain.

Chewing Gum - Using permanent marker, draw dotted line around stain. Cut carefully on dotted line.

Nail Polish - Nail-polish stains are actually quite lovely. Why not leave them in for a pleasing "homecrafted" look?

Nancy, you're WAAAYY more organized than me.  NOW, I know my problem.....I only have three drawers in my dresser   : )

RF..good policy.  I'd like that if my dryer was closer than 100 feet away down the driveway, through the shrubs and then through the locked side garage door.

All my laundry is divided into a dark load and a light load, whatever that may be.   Anything else doesn't get washed and ends up at the bottom of the hamper until I'm forced to wash it by hand.  (new red stuff for instance or something requiring hand washing which was a total spaceout purchase that got by me)

Rose..like I said, I'm only half ..uh...anal.  Two neat drawers, two messy ones.  I want my glasses in the cupboard in a certain way but I haven't seen the top of my desk since I moved in here last November.  My living room is neat, Dining room is iffy and kitchen counter is so tiny I don't know if it's cluttered or not.  Bathroom is neat but spare bedroom (with no bed) is a total disaster of unpacked and probably unneeded boxes from the same move in Nov.

I like to think of myself as eclectic and a bit eccentric.  That sounds better than half as*ed.

Gee Nancy, you sound like me!!  But with me it's a matter of space; I can't afford for my drawers and cupboards to be messy.  There's not enough room!  But my bar and dining room table are covered with "stuff". 

Roselady, you should never, never put bras in the washer/dryer.  The heat ruins the elastic.  And I was told once that you should never use Woolite when you hand wash bras (or anything else that contains spandex), because it rots the stuff.

Erma Bombeck said it best......the socks that disappear go through some sort of sock black hole, and eventually, they re-enter the universe through a hole in your closet floor.

See..I knew there was a reason for keeping the ones that didn't disappear with their mate.

I wash all my stuff in the washer and 99.9% of it goes in the dryer too.  Including all lingerie.  So far the elastic has held up fine over the years.

My granddaughter, who is a certified fitter and who, as a teen walked on more bras than she ever wore, tells me the same thing now.  Only wear them once and wash gently by hand.  Bah humbug I tell her.  :-)

ROY..is this non political enuff?  Heh

Steve. I hate doing the laundry but when living alone you have to once in a while or look like you live by the river.

Nancy.  Sort by color? Everything I buy is color fast and non-wrinkle.  I just dump it all in and hope for the best.  I do fold my socks and shorts and put my shirts on hangers.  I have three drawers for items such as an old tube slingshot, cuff links I haven't worn in 50 years, A fanny pack I have NEVER used and other such valuable stuff.

Ladies__

Elastic has a shelf life.

you can leave it alone for a length of time and it either dries up, hardens and breaks the first time you touch it

or

it totally loses its ability to stay together and stretches way out.

Personally, the way I see it  is if you can't throw them in the washer and dryer why wear them?

Roy...noooooo I don't sort by color when doing laundry.  It's either light or dark.  My reason for doing that is I generally do two loads a week and that's how it works out.  I went almost 3 weeks without doing laundry this time and I wore clothes and underwear I forgot I had.  When I got down to my last dirty shirt I had to cave in or do it Toms way..  Sears-a-mat.  (living alone has it's benefits since I have no one to dress except myself.)  (AND I can eat ice cream out of the carton)

I am VERY cautious about reds though and rinse them first to see if they "bleed."  Then they go in with jeans, navy's, and blacks.  I'm only cautious there because I don't fancy everything I own being pink.

That is exactly why I never let a man touch my laundry because I end up with all my whites turning pink.

Matt...I'm impressed with your study and didn't realize til now that I have the same problem.  Thank you for sharing and please keep me informed of your grant progress.

I am in awe when I see the progress we make by reading the blogs.  File that under "things we didn't know."

Pink like white is hard to keep clean. Give me blue jeans anyday. They at least hide the smudges better and can be worn more than one day - - -usually.

WOW..put me in for one of those attachments when they become available.

Tom..I don't dress up much either.  For the job I do, VERY casual pants are in order..in fact, the dreaded WM sells them for about 10-12 bucks a pop.  I wear jeans to work on Fri and Sat and the tops are interchangeable with anything I wear.  The weddings lateley about sunk me as I felt the need to dress up a bit.  With dresses no less.  Errkkk.  I don't go many places that require a tie thank goodness.

Nancy, I don't even OWN a dress and haven't for years. My version of dress-up is a pants-suit and jacket.  Other clothes have the newness factor.  New and mostly new (pants, shorts, and tops) are for casual dress-up.  As the items get stained or older, they go to the schlep around the house and grocery store pile.  Really, really not so nice T-shirts become sleepwear paired with jammy bottoms or, in the case of summer, drawstring shorts.  Anything that becomes a 'butt cover" in case I have to get out of bed in a hurry.  Never could adapt to the "sleep naked" concept!

Grandson got married last year in a veddddy formal wedding so I found a skirt/jacket dress for that occasion.  When my oldest granddaughter got married last month I wore the same outfit to her Vegas wedding and immediatly went to a casino bathroom and shed that in favor of grubbies.  When my second granddaughter got married a couple of weeks ago I dug a dress out of the closet that I bought about 4 years ago that I'd never worn...(it came with a jacket that I wear with pants) and that was my attire.

Ditto on the sleep stuff..never could do the au natural either.

My kids remember that when they were little I never went to town in pants..always a dress and heels.  My how times have changed. 

They breed.  Check your desk drawer.  The larval form of clothes hangers looks like this:

I'm sure that I too have a blanket made of dryer lint.  I had company last week and dug out an old pink blaket  left over from my 47 happy years with my bride.  After using it  I found pink granuals in my bed.  The blanket now resides in my brown waste bin.  My clothes hanger number remains constant.  I do have an old wire hanger I do not use hanging in the closet just in case I need a strong piece of wire. incidentally, great for cleaning oit behind the lint trap