Today, my husband decided to drain his motorcycle oil into an empty bottle of laundry detergent. Also today, I decided to lift a stain out of my white comforter with some detergent I found in the garage. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my husband decided to be helpful and do all the laundry, including pre-treating all the stains. He felt that Clorox Clean-Up with Bleach would be the most effective. FML
Today, my husband finally decided to help with the laundry. He washed a pen and it exploded in the dryer. FML
Today, it was laundry day. After my fifth and final load, I noticed I never added any laundry detergent. FML
Today, as I was about to go to bed, the lid came off a brand new bottle of laundry detergent and it toppled down my carpeted basement steps. 3 hours, 2 dozen microfiber cloths, and a bucket of water later and my steps are still full of suds. I went to bed at 3 am and my 10 week old was up at 4 am. FML
Today, I came home to find my fiancé trying to do laundry. His version was "rubbing the smelly spots with baby powder". Looks like I'll be the only one doing laundry for the rest of our lives. FML
Today, I went to gather the laundry out of the dryer. My daughter had seen my wife put bleach in the washer, so she decided that honey in the dryer would make the clothes smell sweet. She wasn't wrong, but now I have a giant ball of sticky socks and underwear. FML
Today, I spilt purple washing detergent all over my white carpet. Desperate to get it up I grabbed a blue towel and started mopping it up. The detergent hasn't stained the carpet at all, the blue dye from the towel has. FML
Today, my wife complained that the coffee grounds I swept into the sink grossed her out. Yesterday, I removed several panty-liners from her soiled underwear before doing the laundry. FML
Today, I had to do my laundry. Being too lazy to separate them into different colors, or even check the pockets of my jeans, I threw everything I own into one load. Turns out I had left a tin of lip balm in one of my pockets. My whole wardrobe is now covered in spots that won't come out. FML
Today, I did laundry for the first time in weeks. Feeling productive, I dumped everything in, including what I thought was my pile of towels. Turns out, I washed (and shrunk) my roommate’s $200 wool sweater. She found out when I proudly showed her how “clean” everything looked. FML
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Obwaban 0
who looks in the garage for laundry detergent?
andyn 0
Hmm whats the difference between oil and detergent? Oh yes, one is jet black and smells. The other is a mushy blue colour. ******* idiot.
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Comments (114)
Struedelmuffin 0
Wow. You must be a complete idiot if you like using black and putrid crap as laundry detergent. How could you not tell the difference?!?!
ChrisWasHere 0
I hate the way you wrote this. I really do, OP.
km92_fml 1
the bottle obviously wasn't see-through, or the OP wouldn't have used it
Poke_my_mon 0
You think you would... or rather wouldn't, notice the bad ass smell of detergent and go, "Oh wait, this isn't detergent. This is a black muck that I don't want in my washer". That's just me though....
chili_is_good 0
nice wig
MattGil 0
its just a comforter and whatever shit happens.
letitbe56 0
Comforters are expensive. Hopefully, she'll be able to buy a nice cover that fits it.
AndelleRae 9
Yeah, I'm agreeing with a lot of other posters here. Even if you didn't see what it looked like, oil, especially used oil, has a VERY distinct smell to it. You should have realized it wasn't detergent the minutes you took off the cap. Unless of course you have no sense of smell, in which case you have my deepest apologies.
Nacirema20 0
well for the people saying how can u know the difference: well maybe she didnt look in (like most ppl dont) and poured it in and DID realize but it was too late bc even a little bit of it is gonna leave a HUGE stain. Anyways. FYL indeed. that totslly sux...
paks7 0
i understand the looking in the garage part...we keep lots of extra stuff there too and the accidentally using it part but youre supposed to put the detergent in before the clothes(or whatever else youre washing like your comforter) so you really should have seen it as you were pouring. or if you have a better washer, you should have seen it when you put it into the little separate container area.
xlauren___ 0
why would you pour oil into a detergent bottle? haha your husband is a dick.
Xinabeth 0
Holy mother of ****. To everyone who is saying YDI...what the ****? I keep my washer and dryer in the GARAGE. TIDE and any every freaking other laundry detergent in the world DOES NOT come in a clear container. I for one do not pick up a bottle of Tide and look to see what I'm pouring out. I am expecting it to be Tide, not motor oil. I don't even measure it, I just take off the lid and pour. I can easily see how this happened.
kc8nlr 1
"Well there's your problem..." Don't take everything for granted. Stumbling through everyday tasks is a good way to "get your shit ****** up," wether it's just the wrong laundry detergent, or putting diesel in an unleaded only vehicle, or mixing bleach and ammonia and getting a lungful of deadly chlorine gas... I like to think of it as natural selection.