@haydesigner@sammydog01 Ha whoops. Entertaining story hmm…The truth, how could I pass up the chance at a possible nuts and balls write up?! Also truth, couldn’t go another day seeing we sell the SAME stuff allllllll the time, gotta give the people what they want, CHANGE!
@mandirose I should have known- you get the most awesome stuff. I have two sets of Adventure Time glasses I don’t know what to do with but can’t quite give away.
@squishybrain@support Data is made of whatever medium on which it is stored. Ideas are made of chemicals in our brains, which can also be the medium in which data is stored.
@awk, while I can’t disagree with the grim reaper having a clear message… You are quite mistaken about that “scary logo” that you show.
When all of the colored diamonds have zeroes in them, it means that the substance has no health hazards associated with it, it is stable, and it will not burn.
On the other hand, if you had a bottle with a label that had the number 4 in each of these diamonds, that stuff would be a deadly poison with a flash point below room temperature, that might detonate if you dropped it…
.
@support Sorry. I just get bugged when folks use the word chemicals to imply ‘dangerious chemicals’ when all things are made of chemicals. Also, I hoped that by mis-spelling pedantic on purpose would have indicated that I wasn’t being too serious. Humor fail for squishybrain.
@awk, what exactly are you drinking?
The W with the line through it means
“use NO WATER”…
Most of my non-aqueous liquid refreshments are not consumed from ceramic mugs…
@awk@ELJAY I believe the symbol must be referring to the -user- before consuming the delicious contents. (And where would someone acquire such a container- must obtain!)
@squishybrain the cleanuts are not made from “synthetic” man made chemicals. I’ve heard alot of good things about them, and they don’t harm the environment.
@squishybrain best part is the way these things work is by releasing a surfactant that is indeed a chemical. So actually the “no chemicals” thing is conplete B.S.
@growyoungagain There’s no difference between synthetic and “natural” chemicals. They’re just chemicals. I understand that when someone says that something has no chemicals, they’re implying synthetic chemicals but that also makes the mistaken assumption that somehow synthetic chemicals = bad and ‘natural’ chemicals are somehow inherently good. In this case, yes, these nuts release soap-like surfactants but as far as we know, it might be less harmful to use a biodegradable laundry soap. For example it’s quite possible that the harvesting of these nuts might caus environmental harm to the forests.
It’s not so simple as saying natural is good and synthetic is bad.
@squishybrain I coud’nt disagree with you more on the synthetic vs “natural” chemicals. Just taking into consideration standard laundry. It is filled with “bad” petro chemicals, endrocrine disruptors, and known cancer causing ingredients. Then there are the 300+ chemicals that make up fragrances. The industry does not have to disclose their “proprietary” formulas. Many of the fragrances are heavily used to cover up the smell of the other chemicals in the products. In 2009 the CDC banned the use of all fragrances on their sites, this includes perfumes/ colognes, hairsprays, soaps, shampoos,laundry products( dryer sheets are a major pollutant)etc. Just because a product has the word “natural” on it that does’nt mean it is safe-it may contain a slew of harmful chems. I speak from a lifetime of experience as I have had allergic reactions or non allergic reactions to more things than not.
Buckle Up boys n girls, this is a long comment.
(The following views, information, and whatever else you get out of this comment is not from Meh/diocre. This is from my person experience or knowledge and should not be taken as anything more than, “Oh TC just said a lot of stuff about soap and cloth diapers.”)
TLDR: don’t use the soap nuts knockoff on your diapers. It’s gross.
Soap and detergent are different things. They work differently and do different, if similar, jobs.
For the cloth diaper example: that’s gross. You need detergent to clean poop. It’s that simple.
“There are even detergents that dissolve in solvents other than water, such as gasoline. These often include nitrogen in their formulation. The nitrogen compound frequently includes a ring as part of its structure. Such compounds are not only detergents, but dispersants.”
It’s the dispersants that are especially important for helping rid cloth diapers of, well, the stuff that goes in diapers. If you hit cloth diapers with soap, you’re not getting all of the poop out. Which is awful and will lead to the cloth diaperers worst nightmares, namely: “Barn Stink” and “Chemical Burns.” Both of which can occur when urine and/or isn’t washed out completely. We all know that urine turns to ammonia if left sitting long enough and not using detergent doesn’t get it all out.
BTW - that DIY laundy soap everyone’s making? Sucks. Doesn’t really get your clothes clean… because there’s no detergent. The Fels Naptha or equivalent can also mess up your machine pretty bad, from all the wax in it.
So maybe replace the shitty DIY laundry soap w/soap nuts. But don’t use either on cloth diapers.
@rtjhnstn@Thumperchick Buy this meh, keep the balls, give the laundry nuts to someone you don’t like/as a gift in a stupid holiday gift swap where everyone goes home with a shitty gift.
Cleanuts - for people that don’t actually get dirty!
Seriously - this quakery is for people whose entire load of “dirty laundry” could be cleaned by tossing a rag with 3 drops of Dawn dish detergent on it into the washer…
@support Yah, me too, but my OCD was washed away by missing the meh-click yesterday even tho I visited and commented. I’d like to blame mediocre.com for dropping a click but don’t have the memory-confidence to do so…
@RedOak you know, extending the meh click ability for the previous day during vmp last chance would probably be a hell of a vmp benefit for those who care about their streak.
Me, I’m keeping my streak at zero as much as possible.
@djslack Yah, that’s a thought. But perhaps it is healthier for clickers to miss a click periodically.
Out of 1334 clicks, my longest streak is only 183. And even that streak is likely due to simple curiosity of looking at the deal every day more than feeling the pull to click.
After I started paying more attention to this place near the end of 2014, I think there might have been one or two deals I didn’t see until after the next deal lit up.
Also - wool dryer balls are great for beating out wrinkles, refluffing your shredded foam pillows from meh that showed up as pancakes, and do help reduce drying time/heat. It takes about 8-12 to make a major difference in drying time, or let you reduce the heat cycle, but 3-4 will help your clothes come out soft and wrinkle-free.
You can definitely use wool dryer balls with your cloth diapers. They help them dry, without messing with the absorbency like fabric softerners/sheets would.
Don’t use dryer balls for removing pet hair. They won’t get that job done at all.
@Thumperchick Do the wool balls shed at all? I’ve been eyeing them for years but never bit because I live with my mother and she has severe wool allergies. I don’t want to accidentally give her a full-body rash and swollen eyes.
@mossygreen I’ve used other wool dryer balls and they stay intact; however, if your mother has such a severe wool allergy, I wouldn’t chance it, but that’s just me.
@Thumperchick When we had about 15-20 large banquet-sized tablecloths to de-wrinkle, after washing, we put 3-4 hand (or kitchen) towels tightly rolled up in 2-3 strong rubber bands (resulting cylinder about 3-4 inches long by 1-1/2 inches in diameter) in the dryer, with 2-3 tablecloths at a time.
Carefully immediately removed the tablecloths when the cycle finished and quickly folded them lengthwise repeatedly, down to about 1-foot wide but leaving them long, but not folding perpendicular. We laid them out that way on a bed to cool. No ironing required! (Vs. hours of ironing if it hadn’t worked.) #MagicDeWrinkle
Wool dryer balls are nice because they help things dry more quickly and evenly, but you really need more like 6 for a normal America sized dryer. I never noticed them make clothes feel softer but Internet people swear by them.
I’m pretty sure the soap nuts are Stupid Bullshit when it comes to actually cleaning clothes. Overall, please cheese it on the useless hippie products, Meh. There’s probably some goodish hippie products you can find at a discount somewhere if you really want to flog them.
I use wool dryer balls instead of bounce a lot… they do help dry but they don’t reduce static at all… still better than walking around in wax caked clothing.
How do these compare to tennis balls and bags of pebbles? I should mention, I have never considered putting those things in my wife’s red LG(/Ferraris)… Maybe she sees this at some point…
I have half a dozen of the wool balls. They may or may not help with wrinkles and drying time - I’ve not done any scientific experiments to prove this. They do nothing at all for static.
@RiotDemon I’m actually really surprised about the Popular Mechanics article. I’ve used dryer balls for years now and I don’t have an issue with static (which I actually did have with simple dryer sheets). I know that’s anecdotal (and I like to lean towards real data), but that is my experience.
@KristiLis@RiotDemon Mine too. I use white vinegar in the fabric softener container in the washer, then dry (almost) everything on the lowest possible heat setting in the dryer, with about 6 wool dryer balls. I use a dry sensor rather than a timed dry, and set it to “mostly dry” and not “completely dry” like most people do. Most fabrics will come out completely dry with no static. Sheets - especially fitted sheets, sometimes like to roll themselves up in a ball and stay damp inside, but I try to remember to stop the dryer half-way and straighten them out.
My biggest problem with the wool balls is that they are escape artists. I keep count as I take them out, and track down the escapees who have either rolled away or hidden themselves in a fold of sheet or inside a pillowcase.
If you disdain static like me, then move along. The dryer balls aren’t for you. They will leave your clothes super-static-icky. If all garments are 100% cotton you are probably good. But, if you wash and dry synthetic fabrics with your cottons, even just one synthetic object, then be prepared for a good dose of static.
We’ve tried safety pins attached to the balls and it did nothing.
Regarding dryer sheets… there are a bunch of nasty chemichals in them that are introduced into your clothes when you dry them in a damp hot environment. You then place them onto your skin for 23.5 hours a day. Not good IMO.
/giphy super-static
@jimmyd103 Do you use oil on the balls (god, did I just ask that?) - I put five or six drops of tea tree and lavender oil on each one before I use them and I have no static problems.
@LinnE We haven’t tried oils yet. At least not on the dryer balls… I read somewhere that getting them really wet reduces static. I also read something about a cachet bag filled with salt. The bag-o-salt sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. I’ll mention the oil on the balls to my wife. I’ll try anything to rid the static cling. It’s terrible. (The undertones of this whole post is just-plain-wrong!)
/giphy it-puts-the-oil-in-the-basket
“Prove it’s you. Where did we meet?”
The amplifier hummed to life again.
“In the laundry room. You had those ridiculous Clean Nuts. Where do you even find this stuff, Carla? Wait, prove it’s you - what happened next? After all, you can hear my voice, all I can hear is Joshua’s whale song.”
“I was so frustrated. Those things don’t work at all, the stains were all still there after I washed them. I just started throwing it all against the wall - clothes, nuts, balls - all of it. So mad.”
“I thought you looked adorable. I came over to give you a hug and cheer you up. I’m so glad you’re here, Carla - are you working with Joshua now?”
So far nothing much to report. The laundry washed with four Cleanuts does seem to be clean, that’s just one round with them, though. The dryer balls are kind of Meh - there’s still some static electricity after using them, the laundry is maybe slightly fluffier than without but I’m only using two balls - I may try more.
I did it, I pulled the trigger: Unassuming –glossy-puck. I’ve got two sets of nuts coming one for me and mom, what a good son I am… I’ve already got a 4 ball set of wool dryer balls and they seem to work pretty well, I’ll give mom all four of the wool balls because like an earlier poster said you need at least that many in the average load (Takes me back to Beavis and Butthead I said average load,haha ) Now that I’m thinking of it I should’ve just got her 4 wool balls for 12 bucks, the good ones off Amazon and just left the nuts alone, MEH you should be lucky I’m an idiot and sometimes love you guys and at least I’m consistent with bad decisions…
I have no interest in the nut things, but I’ve used balls like these (or the spiky rubber ones) and they do seem to help drying because clothes don’t get as bunched up.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Box of nuts
2x Canvas sacks for nuts
2x Dryer balls
Price Comparison
Soap Nuts: $8.95 at Amazon
Dryer Balls: $18.24 at Amazon
Warranty
90 day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
/giphy nuts
No juevos?
Clean nuts and balls-just what I have always wanted.
Why don’t you have them already, @Felton10?
300 loads, nuts, balls, ಠ_ಠ
@TheGreatNico the jokes just write themselves tonight…
@TheGreatNico technically you’ll get a 1000 loads from that pair of balls. The nut sack will only squeeze out 300.
@TheGreatNico we have nuts and balls, but no poll.
@support @TheGreatNico It’s probably for the best… do you want to really vote on nuts, balls, sacks, and paraphernalia?
For a second I thought this was something to clean your nuts and I almost hit “Buy It”
Which buyer is responsible for these, and is there an entertaining story involved?
@sammydog01 guilty.
Best. Story. Ever. @mandirose
@haydesigner @sammydog01 Ha whoops. Entertaining story hmm…The truth, how could I pass up the chance at a possible nuts and balls write up?! Also truth, couldn’t go another day seeing we sell the SAME stuff allllllll the time, gotta give the people what they want, CHANGE!
@mandirose You’re my hero!
@mehcuda67 Meh Buyers: Proving not all hero’s wear capes one ballsy deal at a time…
@mandirose @mehcuda67 some of our buyers are nuts for balls.
@mandirose I should have known- you get the most awesome stuff. I have two sets of Adventure Time glasses I don’t know what to do with but can’t quite give away.
@sammydog01
Who is on them?
I’m assuming not Ice King, because otherwise you’d have (presumably) given it/them to @mfladd.
@mfladd @PlacidPenguin I dunno, I don’t watch the show.
@sammydog01
@sammydog01 Ha I appreciate that but let me assure you, you have likely hated on many of the things I’ve bought, I just don’t always claim them
/giphy hippies
That’s a lot of nuts!
@kennethlong Thank you, ‘Betty.’
@kennethlong I need gopher-chucks!
@kennethlong That’ll be four bucks, baby! You want fries with that??
“and since they don’t have chemicals, they’re good for sensitive skin.”
“but, like the Cleanuts, are reusable and don’t have any chemicals.”
I hate to be pendantic, but these items are MADE from chemicals. If they weren’t, they would either not exist, or be non-baryonic dark matter.
@squishybrain what chemicals are photons made out of? What chemicals are sounds made of? What about data? Ideas?
@squishybrain @support Data is made of whatever medium on which it is stored. Ideas are made of chemicals in our brains, which can also be the medium in which data is stored.
@squishybrain They mean chemicals that come in white plastic bottles and have scary logos on them, like this one:
/giphy scary
@squishybrain Photons mostly come from hydrogen. Did you not learn anything in physics?
@awk, while I can’t disagree with the grim reaper having a clear message… You are quite mistaken about that “scary logo” that you show.
When all of the colored diamonds have zeroes in them, it means that the substance has no health hazards associated with it, it is stable, and it will not burn.
On the other hand, if you had a bottle with a label that had the number 4 in each of these diamonds, that stuff would be a deadly poison with a flash point below room temperature, that might detonate if you dropped it…
.
@support Sorry. I just get bugged when folks use the word chemicals to imply ‘dangerious chemicals’ when all things are made of chemicals. Also, I hoped that by mis-spelling pedantic on purpose would have indicated that I wasn’t being too serious. Humor fail for squishybrain.
@ELJAY
Okay if 4’s are so dangerous how you explain THIS container of known harmless material? I rest my case!
clearly,
0 = instant death
4 = delicious nutrients
@awk, what exactly are you drinking?
The W with the line through it means
“use NO WATER”…
Most of my non-aqueous liquid refreshments are not consumed from ceramic mugs…
@awk @ELJAY I believe the symbol must be referring to the -user- before consuming the delicious contents. (And where would someone acquire such a container- must obtain!)
@awk @ELJAY Uh, what kinds of non-aqueous liquid refreshments do you drink?
@ELJAY @mehcuda67 Probably non-denatured anhydrous ethanol, a.k.a., the good shit.
@squishybrain the cleanuts are not made from “synthetic” man made chemicals. I’ve heard alot of good things about them, and they don’t harm the environment.
@squishybrain @support I feel that way about food labelled “organic”.
@moondrake @support Don’t get me going on the whole organic fallacy
@moondrake @squishybrain @support My favorite is “Organic” salt
@squishybrain best part is the way these things work is by releasing a surfactant that is indeed a chemical. So actually the “no chemicals” thing is conplete B.S.
@awk @ELJAY @mehcuda67 Here you go:
Shit, that stuff sounds nasty. Keep it away from me.
@growyoungagain There’s no difference between synthetic and “natural” chemicals. They’re just chemicals. I understand that when someone says that something has no chemicals, they’re implying synthetic chemicals but that also makes the mistaken assumption that somehow synthetic chemicals = bad and ‘natural’ chemicals are somehow inherently good. In this case, yes, these nuts release soap-like surfactants but as far as we know, it might be less harmful to use a biodegradable laundry soap. For example it’s quite possible that the harvesting of these nuts might caus environmental harm to the forests.
It’s not so simple as saying natural is good and synthetic is bad.
@squishybrain I coud’nt disagree with you more on the synthetic vs “natural” chemicals. Just taking into consideration standard laundry. It is filled with “bad” petro chemicals, endrocrine disruptors, and known cancer causing ingredients. Then there are the 300+ chemicals that make up fragrances. The industry does not have to disclose their “proprietary” formulas. Many of the fragrances are heavily used to cover up the smell of the other chemicals in the products. In 2009 the CDC banned the use of all fragrances on their sites, this includes perfumes/ colognes, hairsprays, soaps, shampoos,laundry products( dryer sheets are a major pollutant)etc. Just because a product has the word “natural” on it that does’nt mean it is safe-it may contain a slew of harmful chems. I speak from a lifetime of experience as I have had allergic reactions or non allergic reactions to more things than not.
@squishybrain
Less Dryer Balls. More Dragon Balls.
no poll tonight?
@clonetek Came here looking for the poll, too.
@clonetek @lljk
https://meh.com/forum/topics/how-many-times-can-you-wear-something-before-you-wash-it
/giphy dirty-joke
I’m kinda amazed someone took the time to make that…
@choral_music Guess he was going commando?
Reusable laundry detergent? Hard pass.
Buckle Up boys n girls, this is a long comment.
(The following views, information, and whatever else you get out of this comment is not from Meh/diocre. This is from my person experience or knowledge and should not be taken as anything more than, “Oh TC just said a lot of stuff about soap and cloth diapers.”)
TLDR: don’t use the soap nuts knockoff on your diapers. It’s gross.
Soap and detergent are different things. They work differently and do different, if similar, jobs.
isn’t washed out completely. We all know that urine turns to ammonia if left sitting long enough and not using detergent doesn’t get it all out.
For the cloth diaper example: that’s gross. You need detergent to clean poop. It’s that simple.
“There are even detergents that dissolve in solvents other than water, such as gasoline. These often include nitrogen in their formulation. The nitrogen compound frequently includes a ring as part of its structure. Such compounds are not only detergents, but dispersants.”
It’s the dispersants that are especially important for helping rid cloth diapers of, well, the stuff that goes in diapers. If you hit cloth diapers with soap, you’re not getting all of the poop out. Which is awful and will lead to the cloth diaperers worst nightmares, namely: “Barn Stink” and “Chemical Burns.” Both of which can occur when urine and/or
BTW - that DIY laundy soap everyone’s making? Sucks. Doesn’t really get your clothes clean… because there’s no detergent. The Fels Naptha or equivalent can also mess up your machine pretty bad, from all the wax in it.
So maybe replace the shitty DIY laundry soap w/soap nuts. But don’t use either on cloth diapers.
Is my crunchy showing?
@Thumperchick Similar comments I’ve read elsewhere about soap nuts:
http://chickadeehomestead.com/2014/09/why-i-stopped-using-soap-nuts.html
I miss quality comments like this one, @Thumperchick. I kinda wish we had a separate star ⭐️ for quality comments.
@Thumperchick Excellent comment… but when can I take this buckle off?
@Thumperchick Makes me wish I could buy just the wool dryer balls.
@Thumperchick Thumbs up TC!!!
/image thumbs up
@rtjhnstn @Thumperchick Buy this meh, keep the balls, give the laundry nuts to someone you don’t like/as a gift in a stupid holiday gift swap where everyone goes home with a shitty gift.
Cleanuts - for people that don’t actually get dirty!
Seriously - this quakery is for people whose entire load of “dirty laundry” could be cleaned by tossing a rag with 3 drops of Dawn dish detergent on it into the washer…
Save the quakery for oatmeal!
@matthew my spelling ran afoul.
@Pufferfishy
/giphy quakery oats
No survey today? My OCD will kill me if I don’t answer a survey tonight.
@support do you prefer cracking nuts or hitting balls?
@support I was hoping it would be “favorite testicle slang”. I was gonna go with “nards”.
@support Yah, me too, but my OCD was washed away by missing the meh-click yesterday even tho I visited and commented. I’d like to blame mediocre.com for dropping a click but don’t have the memory-confidence to do so…
@RedOak you know, extending the meh click ability for the previous day during vmp last chance would probably be a hell of a vmp benefit for those who care about their streak.
Me, I’m keeping my streak at zero as much as possible.
@djslack Yah, that’s a thought. But perhaps it is healthier for clickers to miss a click periodically.
Out of 1334 clicks, my longest streak is only 183. And even that streak is likely due to simple curiosity of looking at the deal every day more than feeling the pull to click.
After I started paying more attention to this place near the end of 2014, I think there might have been one or two deals I didn’t see until after the next deal lit up.
Also - wool dryer balls are great for beating out wrinkles, refluffing your shredded foam pillows from meh that showed up as pancakes, and do help reduce drying time/heat. It takes about 8-12 to make a major difference in drying time, or let you reduce the heat cycle, but 3-4 will help your clothes come out soft and wrinkle-free.
You can definitely use wool dryer balls with your cloth diapers. They help them dry, without messing with the absorbency like fabric softerners/sheets would.
Don’t use dryer balls for removing pet hair. They won’t get that job done at all.
@Thumperchick Do the wool balls shed at all? I’ve been eyeing them for years but never bit because I live with my mother and she has severe wool allergies. I don’t want to accidentally give her a full-body rash and swollen eyes.
@mossygreen no clue about these for sale here, but the ones I got a year ago are still intact.
@mossygreen I’ve used other wool dryer balls and they stay intact; however, if your mother has such a severe wool allergy, I wouldn’t chance it, but that’s just me.
@mossygreen I’ve never had a roving style ball (like the ones here tonight) shed. The yarn balls will eventually fall apart.
I wouldn’t risk the allergy, though.
@Thumperchick When we had about 15-20 large banquet-sized tablecloths to de-wrinkle, after washing, we put 3-4 hand (or kitchen) towels tightly rolled up in 2-3 strong rubber bands (resulting cylinder about 3-4 inches long by 1-1/2 inches in diameter) in the dryer, with 2-3 tablecloths at a time.
Carefully immediately removed the tablecloths when the cycle finished and quickly folded them lengthwise repeatedly, down to about 1-foot wide but leaving them long, but not folding perpendicular. We laid them out that way on a bed to cool. No ironing required! (Vs. hours of ironing if it hadn’t worked.) #MagicDeWrinkle
Another Quality Star ⭐️ for you, @Thumperchick!
Oh, I love dumb stuff like this so much.
Te dryer balls make great cat toys.
@elparx My dogs run off with ours as well. Fuzzy, wooly, and tennis ball sized.
@elparx Lint balls are free (courtesy of your dryer) but don’t put your cat in dryers ok?
@AttyVette Then why is it made of warm?
Wool dryer balls are nice because they help things dry more quickly and evenly, but you really need more like 6 for a normal America sized dryer. I never noticed them make clothes feel softer but Internet people swear by them.
I’m pretty sure the soap nuts are Stupid Bullshit when it comes to actually cleaning clothes. Overall, please cheese it on the useless hippie products, Meh. There’s probably some goodish hippie products you can find at a discount somewhere if you really want to flog them.
I use wool dryer balls instead of bounce a lot… they do help dry but they don’t reduce static at all… still better than walking around in wax caked clothing.
I can’t wait to use these to make my well hung clothes wrinkle free. Add a little starch for stiffies
@hchavers
I thought these were candy at first. I wouldn’t mind some malted milk balls.
@awk forbidden chocolates and forbidden jawbreakers
@awk … Looked like dried prunes to me… And the balls? What can you say, their round.
@thismyusername I guess I’ll stick with my usual snack.
Squirrelly Meh sale tonight - squirrels are NUTS about them and have a BALL with them too. Only $8 “bucks” and that’s no deer dear
OK, we’ve got nuts…
We’ve got balls.
What we need is a good stiff
drinkpole!Did danielle use the nuts on the diapers and then to wash her hair? If so, I don’t think I trust her idea of clean.
How do these compare to tennis balls and bags of pebbles? I should mention, I have never considered putting those things in my wife’s red LG(/Ferraris)… Maybe she sees this at some point…
@jmkiii So you bought the little lady the red LG huh?
I have half a dozen of the wool balls. They may or may not help with wrinkles and drying time - I’ve not done any scientific experiments to prove this. They do nothing at all for static.
I get all my cleanuts from Dee
@matthew Dee’s nutz FTW
You’ll need a cup to put your nuts in.
Just ask Yadi.
No Balls Sack, No Buy. Unfortunately, the deal only comes with Nuts Sacks.
Please someone help me to buy or not buy, I’m too tired to figure it out myself.
@Bigbearballs
Concentrate and ask again
/8ball To buy or not to buy …
@narfcake shake again please
@Bigbearballs
My reply is no
/8ball Shake shake shake
/buy
@haydesigner It worked! Your order number is: calm-vivacious-wine
/image calm vivacious wine
I hope that helped, @Bigbearballs
So then why buy these to sell to us?
@Kidsandliz Evidence based marketing - 'Cause we’ll buy pretty much anything.
I was just looking at the wool dryer balls in a store on Monday. I didn’t bite. I’m slightly tempted… But after reading this thread, less so.
@RiotDemon I’m actually really surprised about the Popular Mechanics article. I’ve used dryer balls for years now and I don’t have an issue with static (which I actually did have with simple dryer sheets). I know that’s anecdotal (and I like to lean towards real data), but that is my experience.
@KristiLis @RiotDemon Mine too. I use white vinegar in the fabric softener container in the washer, then dry (almost) everything on the lowest possible heat setting in the dryer, with about 6 wool dryer balls. I use a dry sensor rather than a timed dry, and set it to “mostly dry” and not “completely dry” like most people do. Most fabrics will come out completely dry with no static. Sheets - especially fitted sheets, sometimes like to roll themselves up in a ball and stay damp inside, but I try to remember to stop the dryer half-way and straighten them out.
My biggest problem with the wool balls is that they are escape artists. I keep count as I take them out, and track down the escapees who have either rolled away or hidden themselves in a fold of sheet or inside a pillowcase.
@rockblossom They’re like socks.
/image lost socks
If you disdain static like me, then move along. The dryer balls aren’t for you. They will leave your clothes super-static-icky. If all garments are 100% cotton you are probably good. But, if you wash and dry synthetic fabrics with your cottons, even just one synthetic object, then be prepared for a good dose of static.
We’ve tried safety pins attached to the balls and it did nothing.
Regarding dryer sheets… there are a bunch of nasty chemichals in them that are introduced into your clothes when you dry them in a damp hot environment. You then place them onto your skin for 23.5 hours a day. Not good IMO.
/giphy super-static
@jimmyd103 Do you use oil on the balls (god, did I just ask that?) - I put five or six drops of tea tree and lavender oil on each one before I use them and I have no static problems.
@LinnE We haven’t tried oils yet. At least not on the dryer balls… I read somewhere that getting them really wet reduces static. I also read something about a cachet bag filled with salt. The bag-o-salt sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. I’ll mention the oil on the balls to my wife. I’ll try anything to rid the static cling. It’s terrible. (The undertones of this whole post is just-plain-wrong!)
/giphy it-puts-the-oil-in-the-basket
Looks like actual Dookie…
Oh my lord, I had to come put this one in:
/giphy enormous-carbonated-fog
@rprussell
/image enormous-carbonated-fog
@rprussell
/giphy enormous-carbonated-fog
@jimmyd103 Thanks. I was annoyed that mine didn’t pop up
@rprussell You had an extra space between the command and the search term.
@Thumperchick Oh, ah? That seems arbitrarily restrictive… Good to know, though!
Also, I’m slightly saddened that it said “fog” instead of “frog”
@rprussell
/giphy enormous-carbonated-frog
I laughed.
I cried.
I almost bought these.
The problem I have is the wool balls get stuck inside clothing, so rarely are all of them in the dryer at one time.
“an herbalist”. Thank you.
“Prove it’s you. Where did we meet?”
The amplifier hummed to life again.
“In the laundry room. You had those ridiculous Clean Nuts. Where do you even find this stuff, Carla? Wait, prove it’s you - what happened next? After all, you can hear my voice, all I can hear is Joshua’s whale song.”
“I was so frustrated. Those things don’t work at all, the stains were all still there after I washed them. I just started throwing it all against the wall - clothes, nuts, balls - all of it. So mad.”
“I thought you looked adorable. I came over to give you a hug and cheer you up. I’m so glad you’re here, Carla - are you working with Joshua now?”
smokey-metric-rain
I will provide updates on my nuts and balls after using them a while!
@aetris Trash panda.
@aetris and what would you be using your nuts and balls for? (snarky grin).
@Kidsandliz - They’ll be getting into some pants, of course! (Nudge nudge wink wink.)
So far nothing much to report. The laundry washed with four Cleanuts does seem to be clean, that’s just one round with them, though. The dryer balls are kind of Meh - there’s still some static electricity after using them, the laundry is maybe slightly fluffier than without but I’m only using two balls - I may try more.
/buy
@lisameh It worked! Your order number is: mirrored-noisy-learning
/image mirrored noisy learning
pristine-painful-beggar
@deemkooo Considering the sale… that’s an oddly appropriate image?
I did it, I pulled the trigger: Unassuming –glossy-puck. I’ve got two sets of nuts coming one for me and mom, what a good son I am… I’ve already got a 4 ball set of wool dryer balls and they seem to work pretty well, I’ll give mom all four of the wool balls because like an earlier poster said you need at least that many in the average load (Takes me back to Beavis and Butthead I said average load,haha ) Now that I’m thinking of it I should’ve just got her 4 wool balls for 12 bucks, the good ones off Amazon and just left the nuts alone, MEH you should be lucky I’m an idiot and sometimes love you guys and at least I’m consistent with bad decisions…
checkmate meh
Between ThumperChick’s diatribe on soap vs detergent above and these wool balls alone are 6 for $10 on Amazon.
It’s a hard meh today!
Even though I don’t plan on buying this stuff, I do plan on adding “cleanuts” to my vocabulary somehow.
I have no interest in the nut things, but I’ve used balls like these (or the spiky rubber ones) and they do seem to help drying because clothes don’t get as bunched up.
@arielleslie
TWSS
/what?
@therealjrn Those nut things are about as entertaining, useful, and desirable as these nut things.
Wait, I remember playing with those as a kid!