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Bought 5 skeins of 100% wool today to make felted dryer balls. Researched the plastic ones and decided instead to make softball-sized wool ones to keep sheets from balling up. May be a waste of money, but I'm weary of going back to the dryer several times to untangle sheets.

I have used tennis balls, they seemed to work okay.

Gail wrote: "I have used tennis balls, they seemed to work okay."

I can't use tennis balls. The dogs think I've stolen their toys and lie and listen to them thump in the machine. It is sad and funny to see.

Well thankfully my cat doesn't chase tennis balls.

I can picture that and it made me LOL. Thanks! I don't use dryer balls but I am not pleased that my new washer requires a special "washer cleaning" once a month.

Is that a setting on the washing machine? I have had my current one for 17 years, it is still going as strongly as the day I got it.

It's a high efficiency washer. You're supposed to buy special washer cleaning pellets. There is probably a setting? I think the brand name of washer cleaner (Affresh) is right on the front.

Our last washer we got used in 1998, so it definitely did it's job. Unfortunately, it could no longer reliably tell when it had filled. I was lured into thinking it was working only to flood the basement again. This was long after the agitator stopped spinning and just sort of jerked around.

I can't read the thread title without thinking of Phil, and what he, in his usual elegant style, would have to say about it. :D

Four big balls tumbling in the dyer reduce drying time.

Your Woollen balls Scout?

Carol wrote: "It's a high efficiency washer. You're supposed to buy special washer cleaning pellets. There is probably a setting? I think the brand name of washer cleaner (Affresh) is right on the front.

Our l..."

Yes the old Maytag washer we had died an inglorious death after 20+ years. The new washer has the same 'cleaning cycle' instructions. Then you read the fine print, it is to keep the machine from smelling bad. What are these people washing and don't they know about soap!!!

The alternative to the expensive cleaning tabs is bleach. The tabs are nothing but overpriced powdered bleach. Liquid or the same stuff you put in your swimming pool work just fine. Now if you've got high mineral content water like I do, then you also have to use chemicals to get that once a month or so.

Mhhhmmmm, whatever happened to the woman with the rock down by the creek . . .

CD wrote: "Mhhhmmmm, whatever happened to the woman with the rock down by the creek . . ."

That woman is now busy running her own business, changing nappies, vacuuming the floors while having Botox.

I returned the wool because I figured out a less expensive dryer ball solution. Take unused wound balls of yarn about softball size and stuff them down sections of panty hose cut to size. Tie them off and put them in the dryer to keep clothes separated as they dry.

Well done. How effective have you found them?

They're very effective. Sheets no longer wrap around themselves as they dry, which makes for less drying time.

I'm still using the yarn balls wrapped in nylon hose. They work to keep laundry from bundling.