30 People Shared Hilarious Laundry Accidents They Encountered With

Not everyone can do their own laundry and no matter how ridiculous this sounds like… you know it’s true. Doing the laundry has to come with the knowledge of knowing what to add and what not to. But it’s also the last place at home where you’d expect you to get the best laughter out of.

Seriously, these laundry mishaps are just way too hilarious to not laugh at. Did you not when you shrunk your sweater after putting it in the laundry and getting your dog a new sweater at the same time?

My wool hat is ‘hand wash cold’ only, but accidentally put it in the washing machine.

This was GF’s favorite sweater, accidentally shrunk it, so it’s now Oak’s.

When you hate damp clothes.

Accidentally washed this $10 bill and it shrunk to almost a quarter of its original size.

I came back to check my laundry.

That definitely did not go well, but what the hell did you do?

Who doesn’t love a warm pillow fresh from the dryer before going to bed?

Pillow reads, “Washing machine and dryer safe.” Inside my dryer:

I thought I raised these kids right, but this proved me wrong.

Time to do the laundry…

Gave the ‘anti-stress’ pillow a wash.

Looks like my washing machine enjoyed its short walk.

New mom lesson: check the pockets always before laundry.

My sweater shrunk after laundry, so looks like doggo got a new sweater.

Sweaters change, too.

Accidentally washed my leather gloves with the washing machine.

Never thought rubber gloves would look so hellish in my laundry.

Didn’t mean to wash my wallet, but now I have a dog on it.

Favorite jumper washed.

It is a pink day.

Washed six socks, one came out shrunk.

That’s why you call it… a French sweater.

When clothes say ‘dry clean only’, you better listen to that.

Washing machine did not just eat the sock – we found $7 in the water pump and a credit card in the heap of socks.

My first load of laundry of the decade + 2 rolls of tissues I didn’t know had fallen into the machine from the top of the fridge.

You’d think these things were made waterproof.

Sorry, Meredith, looks like your shrunk favorite sweater is Ella’s now.

I murdered my turtleneck.

My dog got a new sweater because I suck at doing the laundry.

Husband washed his jeans together with a few red car rags.