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Thread ID: 116634 2011-03-13 07:18:00 Why is there hair all over my shirts after using the washing machine? Question (15792) PC World Chat
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1185801 2011-03-13 07:18:00 This just happened to me today. Threw some clothes, socks and a bath towel into the washing machine, and most of the shirts ended up with hair and bits of white stuff that looks like lint stuck onto the shirts. Pretty much unwearable without looking like a furball.

Any idea why? Are you not supposed to wash socks together with shirts or ?
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1185802 2011-03-13 07:21:00 Towel. Or a tissue. Or undissolved washing powder. 8ftmetalhaed (14526)
1185803 2011-03-13 07:37:00 Won't it be the fact you put a towel in with clothes?

After many years of washing and learning from my mistakes... my wash loads go as follows:
Whites and colours (bright colours inside out so they don't fade on the clothes line)
Darks (turned inside to prevent fading) with jeans, dark fluffy socks etc
Towels, tea towels, hand towels, face clothes, cleaning cloths (you get the picture)
Sheets - if they are Summer cottons, all in the same wash. If they are thick Winter sheets I wash them separate from other sets so you don't transfer coloured fluff haha

Anyway, probably not the answer you were looking for but there really is a knack to washing! You can't just throw everything that needs washing in the machine and hope for the best.
Tasha (16262)
1185804 2011-03-13 07:38:00 Also, the $2 shops or similar shops have those roll on lint removers that are basically big sticky rollers that will roll all that fluff and hair right back off that shirt. Much better to spend the 2 bucks than throw out a good shirt. Tasha (16262)
1185805 2011-03-13 07:54:00 This just happened to me today. Threw some clothes, socks and a bath towel into the washing machine, and most of the shirts ended up with hair and bits of white stuff that looks like lint stuck onto the shirts.

Yep, same thing happened the other day to me, quite annoying really
Maybe it is something with the way the machine filters the water?
forrest44 (754)
1185806 2011-03-13 07:57:00 Uh, so why cant you throw a towel in with clothes?

Would throwing those shirts into the washing machine again remove the hair, etc? Can you name any of the $2 or similar shops?(Have yet to see any in Auckland...)
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1185807 2011-03-13 08:04:00 Blocked filter? PJ Poppa John (284)
1185808 2011-03-13 08:14:00 I'm guessing but figure the hair and lint came from the towel. Tricky little devils.

The original '$2 shop' would sell them as I think that's where I got mine from for... you guessed it, $2. Also, I am sure I have seen them in two packs at The Warehouse. Let me know if you want me to track one down for you and post it.
Tasha (16262)
1185809 2011-03-13 08:19:00 Hmm, theres a warehouse near me so i will check it out. Thanks! Question (15792)
1185810 2011-03-13 08:19:00 TradeMe has a few, 'lint roller'. Tasha (16262)
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