Yes, those dryer sheets have chemicals. I used to know someone who owned a appliance repair business. He said that dryer sheets leave a film on the lint trap and if someone uses them all the time they should take the trap out and wash it every so often. For those two reasons I stopped using them.

Don’t use dryer sheets! They coat your clothes and the inside of your dryer. Invest in some wool dryer balls and you will never have to purchase any kind of softener again!!!

The top wasn’t spinning… :)

Outside? In TV … yikes! Next to my neighbor’s lanai?

Just hang’em off bird cage :eclipsee_gold_cup:

Ok, old washer gone to washer heaven new one installed. I’m washen again.. and yes I do the Landry sometimes, I also vacuum, and do windows:beer3:

Good Lord! Where did this come from?

I used fabric softener for a short time bc I liked the smell. I noticed it had clumped up & wasn’t rinsing out of the tube, regardless of putting warm water only in tube each wash. I bought Lysol nonbleach laundry sanitizer & pour that into the rinse tube & it has cleaned that tube out completely.

I don’t want those toxic chemicals on my clothes to be absorbed into my skin daily. I just use a washing detergent and wool laundry balls in the dryer.

If you love microfiber clothing (like UnderArmour) & microfiber cleaning wipes, using either liquid or dryer sheets will “kill” the microfibers. It can take many washes to remove it too. Microfiber cloths will not clean using just water any more if they have softener residue on them. Towels are not nearly as absorbent with chemical softeners on them. If you like scented laundry, there are some Sport detergents that add scent in the washer—not my cup of tea though.

Gosh that sounds like WORK! yikes! I’d have to try a lot of very hot water & baking soda & vinegar since my “Josephine The Plumber” skills are subpar. Or maybe a load of old rags with some hot water & diluted Simple Green cleaner? I’d just have to cross my fingers & hope that the cleaner would reach all of the same places that the gunky softener did.

That must be why most detergents are scented.
Just sayin.

Hope that was not your choice for light reading material on this long holiday weekend! That’s the stuff nightmares are made of.

Do you do house calls?

Amazon sell washing machine cleaning tablets. They do a great job cleaning to get rid of everything mentioned in this thread.