Laundry Tip of the Day

So I decide to wash a pair of socks by hand to wear the next day. Two major reasons- first, they are extra special socks (which means I paid full price and they have a neat pattern) and second, I coulnd't find any others in the house that were simultaneously clean and also had a mate. This is a tall order in my home.

So, I get up in the morning, tired as heck, and the socks aren't quite dry. However, due to my very inventive nature, I know all I have to do is to stick them on the end of the hair dryer and turn the thing on. Hot air works every time. And, it worked fine for sock number one. For sock number two, I looked at the sock as it inflated and begin to wonder if there was any way possible to just shoot the thing off the hair dryer by pressing a bunch of buttons on the dryer.

Now, I can't figure out any reason why I would ever need to shoot socks, nor why it sounded like a good idea to invent a sock shooter at 6:30 a.m. but my conjecture is that since I had not yet had any caffeine it was a reasonable thought. Or, I should have been an engineer. So, I tried it for a while. The turbo button just didn't do the trick nor did turning it off and on which I'm sure my still sleeping family appreciated. It did, however, melt my sock onto the hair dryer as well as put a hole in the side.

Of course, I peeled it off to see if I could still wear it to work which would save me the effort of having to go on a household sock hunt to find a pair of socks that matched and were clean. Unfortuantely it was too crispy at the top and the hole just got bigger and bigger. Cost me about 15 minutes total.