No matter how tired you are. No matter how filthy you are. No matter how big a hurry you may be in. NEVER.....EVER.....NEVER.....EVER just drop your dirty britches on the floor near the laundry basket without first REMOVING ALL ITEMS OF VALUE. ESPECIALLY THINGS LIKE WALLETS AND CHECK BOOKS!!!
You guessed it. Today did not start out the least bit rosy. Had done a variety of things around the office and was finally ready to head out for the day about 10:30 a.m. Remembered I needed to pay a bill first. Slapped my left rear pants pocket and found nothing. Slapped the right rear pants pocket searching for my wallet. Nope. Nothing to be found. Headed to the standard location where they spend their nights. Nothing. Went to alternate locations A & B. Nothing. Kick the memory into gear and attempt to remember where they were last noticed. Decided they must be in the filthy blue jeans I had finished the day in yesterday after burning some really rotten hay bales. Remembered where I had dropped them on the way to the shower. THEY WEREN'T THERE! Oh, oh. Only one place they could be and the mere thought was a kick in the gut. Raised the lid on the clothes washing machine. Found a load of laundry Mrs. Cow had apparently started while doing her morning routine before leaving for school. There were odd little bits of something all over everything. Further investigation located the check book cover and a couple little clumps of paper resembling the stapled remnants left after the checks are torn out. The half dozen or so blank checks and every check register entry since January 1 were gone......all tiny bits of junk pasted to the wet clothes. The wallet did much better. The money was fine, but wet. All plastic was perfectly clean. The Social Security card, insurance card, survey license, engineering license and such were intact but very very wet and ready to tear. They spent all day drying on the lid to the clothes dryer. A few unimportant paper items that had ended up in the wallet were much like the checks.....little bits of junk.
Consider yourselves warned.
Must Be Your Wife
My wife can sniff out checkbooks and cash in wallets.
Paul in PA
Now you get to get bytched at for leaving all that paper product in your trousers, thus making a bigger mess in the dryer filter that Mrs Cow will have to swab clean.
Not good.
Us single folks like to launder our money in other ways...lol
One thing I did recently was scan all of my cards (except bank & credit). I keep a copy of the images on my phone and on the server at work and the original cards stay in the drawer at home.
If people want to see my induction card for any site, I can show them the image and email it to them for their paperwork.
The main benefit to me though is that my wallet is considerably thinner!
Don't have to be warned because swmbo does not go near my laundry.
She is not going to deal with Louisiana mud and swamp stained sweat soaked work wear.
I do my laundry. I even have my own hamper.
Also she makes our 11 yr. old load and start his own clothes now also.
If you do online banking, you should have access to all your checking transactions.
If not, I guess that you have to go to the bank and have them print out the same info available to paperless customers.
Been there ... done that.:-D
you forgot the nails (What's that noise!)
and the crayons (These colors don't run!)
but now that my wife educated me on that matter
we now have the kids to teach to empty their pockets.
Chr.
and don't forget to take your cell phone out of your pocket either......
Had a cellphone go through one time...but it dried out and worked afterward. Now the black permanent marker for writing on stakes is a different story. Ruined the pants at the pocket it was in, and some other random clothes in the wash. Those pants now are reserved for swamp service...
What???!!!
“ESPECIALLY THINGS LIKE WALLETS AND CHECK BOOKS!!!”
SWMBO actually allows you access to the CHECKBOOK????? Hell, I consider myself a regular financial tycoon just to be allowed to make a deposit. (of course with stringent logistical and paper trail controls)
I do my own laundry, in fact I do all the laundry except SWMBO’s. How that came to being is another episode in itself. Has to do with learning to keep mouth shut at certain times. After you wash a few wallets, phones, plumb bobs, a tribrach, and a large pack of Bazooka Joe bubble gum you will learn to automatically check your pockets. Just sayin.
Have a great weekend!** B-)
** for clairification, Most Holy One, and to avoid undue chastising, my weekend begins at noon on Thursdays.;-)
jump drives
Jump drives can make it through the washer unscathed as long as you stand them up and let them dry for a day or two.
If you are unfortunate enough not to catch them until they've made it through the dryer, you are probably out of luck.
PS - Thanks for NOT posting a pic of yourself disrobing by the laundry basket....
After getting cover in poison ivy form handling my work clothes my wife won't even come near them. I works out for the best and after being single for alot of years I got used to knowing if something should be clean or not. It saves alot of fights over why wasn't something washed.
Been there, done that! I have washed my wallet several times and my old samsung rugby phone a few times, too. It ain't as waterproof as it is touted to be. I use my old razer until the rugby dries out. I have some very clean and dry mag nails, strips of flagging, pencils, pens, and other assorted survey items. My wife knows to check my pockets, but when I wash, I am more concerned about quickly getting in the shower than patting down my pockets. Oh, the lessons I have to learn and re-learn many times......:'(
Ever throw a disposable diaper in the washer by accident? The baby was screaming, the toddler was squirming, and I was already exhausted. Somehow the toddler's clothes ended up in the washer with the disposable diaper wrapped up in them. That made for an awful mess. The diaper essentially exploded releasing the absorbent gel all over the inside of the washer and all the other clothes.....only way it would have been worse is if the diaper was fully loaded 🙂 fortunately is was just a wet one
What's a checkbook? 😐
Been there, done that, have the dalmation style clothes to show for it.:-D
It represents real money. Unlike those plastic thingies too many people carry around. I'm slow on the draw to spend when I do so by writing a check. Those plastic thingies are just way too expensive for an old country boy like me.
Green folding cash and checks. If you don't want to accept one or the other then you really don't want my business and I definitely will be happy to take my money elsewhere. The rare exception to that rule is when traveling overnight. Hard to find lodging and guarantee it without one of those plastic thingies being involved. Fortunately, Mrs. Cow has one of them for emergencies. But, you won't find my name on anything like that. Call me a Luddite, it doesn't bother me one bit.