Miscellaneous: Deep clean

Deep clean

By Anonymous - 22/08/2009 19:48 - United States

Today, my husband decided to drain his motorcycle oil into an empty bottle of laundry detergent. Also today, I decided to lift a stain out of my white comforter with some detergent I found in the garage. FML

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By Anonymous - 17/02/2010 18:52 - United States

Today, my husband decided to be helpful and do all the laundry, including pre-treating all the stains. He felt that Clorox Clean-Up with Bleach would be the most effective. FML

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By Peach - 05/12/2017 15:00

Today, my husband finally decided to help with the laundry. He washed a pen and it exploded in the dryer. FML

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Laundry day

By Anonymous - This FML is from back in 2011 but it's good stuff - United States

Today, it was laundry day. After my fifth and final load, I noticed I never added any laundry detergent. FML

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By Stef - 05/12/2018 05:00

Today, as I was about to go to bed, the lid came off a brand new bottle of laundry detergent and it toppled down my carpeted basement steps. 3 hours, 2 dozen microfiber cloths, and a bucket of water later and my steps are still full of suds. I went to bed at 3 am and my 10 week old was up at 4 am. FML

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By 081013 - 02/03/2013 07:23 - United States - Columbus

Today, I came home to find my fiancé trying to do laundry. His version was "rubbing the smelly spots with baby powder". Looks like I'll be the only one doing laundry for the rest of our lives. FML

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By Synonymous_Rex - 05/01/2015 21:26 - United States - Thousand Oaks

Today, I went to gather the laundry out of the dryer. My daughter had seen my wife put bleach in the washer, so she decided that honey in the dryer would make the clothes smell sweet. She wasn't wrong, but now I have a giant ball of sticky socks and underwear. FML

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By carpetoops - 21/06/2009 16:20 - United Kingdom

Today, I spilt purple washing detergent all over my white carpet. Desperate to get it up I grabbed a blue towel and started mopping it up. The detergent hasn't stained the carpet at all, the blue dye from the towel has. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/03/2015 01:34 - United States - Ridge

Today, my wife complained that the coffee grounds I swept into the sink grossed her out. Yesterday, I removed several panty-liners from her soiled underwear before doing the laundry. FML

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Laundry Day

By daqueen009 - 18/12/2020 17:04 - United States

Today, I had to do my laundry. Being too lazy to separate them into different colors, or even check the pockets of my jeans, I threw everything I own into one load. Turns out I had left a tin of lip balm in one of my pockets. My whole wardrobe is now covered in spots that won't come out. FML

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Zeitgeist

By Ariel - 05/10/2020 10:02

Today, my dishes smelled so perfume-y after going through the dishwasher and a clean glass of water tasted soapy. I checked the pods my husband bought and loaded into the dishwasher to make sure we never got that brand again. They were laundry detergent pods. I was essentially a millennial eating a Tide Pod. FML

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Obwaban 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 2:18

who looks in the garage for laundry detergent?

andyn 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 2:20

Hmm whats the difference between oil and detergent? Oh yes, one is jet black and smells. The other is a mushy blue colour. ******* idiot.

Comments

Struedelmuffin 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 2:53

Wow. You must be a complete idiot if you like using black and putrid crap as laundry detergent. How could you not tell the difference?!?!

ChrisWasHere 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 2:57

I hate the way you wrote this. I really do, OP.

km92_fml 1

Sunday 23 August 2009 2:58

the bottle obviously wasn't see-through, or the OP wouldn't have used it

Poke_my_mon 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 2:59

You think you would... or rather wouldn't, notice the bad ass smell of detergent and go, "Oh wait, this isn't detergent. This is a black muck that I don't want in my washer". That's just me though....

chili_is_good 0

Thursday 11 August 2011 3:28

nice wig

MattGil 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 3:02

its just a comforter and whatever shit happens.

letitbe56 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 5:21

Comforters are expensive. Hopefully, she'll be able to buy a nice cover that fits it.

AndelleRae 9

Sunday 23 August 2009 3:33

Yeah, I'm agreeing with a lot of other posters here. Even if you didn't see what it looked like, oil, especially used oil, has a VERY distinct smell to it. You should have realized it wasn't detergent the minutes you took off the cap. Unless of course you have no sense of smell, in which case you have my deepest apologies.

Nacirema20 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 3:33

well for the people saying how can u know the difference: well maybe she didnt look in (like most ppl dont) and poured it in and DID realize but it was too late bc even a little bit of it is gonna leave a HUGE stain. Anyways. FYL indeed. that totslly sux...

paks7 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 4:00

i understand the looking in the garage part...we keep lots of extra stuff there too and the accidentally using it part but youre supposed to put the detergent in before the clothes(or whatever else youre washing like your comforter) so you really should have seen it as you were pouring. or if you have a better washer, you should have seen it when you put it into the little separate container area.

xlauren___ 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 4:11

why would you pour oil into a detergent bottle? haha your husband is a dick.

Xinabeth 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 4:16

Holy mother of ****. To everyone who is saying YDI...what the ****? I keep my washer and dryer in the GARAGE. TIDE and any every freaking other laundry detergent in the world DOES NOT come in a clear container. I for one do not pick up a bottle of Tide and look to see what I'm pouring out. I am expecting it to be Tide, not motor oil. I don't even measure it, I just take off the lid and pour. I can easily see how this happened.

kc8nlr 1

Wednesday 31 August 2011 14:38

"Well there's your problem..." Don't take everything for granted. Stumbling through everyday tasks is a good way to "get your shit ****** up," wether it's just the wrong laundry detergent, or putting diesel in an unleaded only vehicle, or mixing bleach and ammonia and getting a lungful of deadly chlorine gas... I like to think of it as natural selection.