Pillow Fluff

This is in case you ever wash one of your children’s pillows. If you notice a seam has unraveled at some point during the wash cycle, sew it up before you put in the dryer. BUT if in your naivety  and wishful thinking you throw it in the dryer anyway because you think it couldn’t do too much harm and you really want to make sure it’s back on his bed before bedtime and don’t have time to sew it up, be forewarned. Your husband will go to get your child’s sheets and then come to you and say, “The pillow exploded in the dryer.” And he won’t be kidding. And you think he is exaggerating so you put off tackling that mess for a couple of days. When you do, you realize he wasn’t kidding and hope that there weren’t too many other things in that load. Don’t waste your time trying to shake out the pillow fluff from everything because the pillow industry has stuffed these pillows with some crazy material that sticks to EVERYTHING on the planet except flannel. Don’t even waste your time using a lint roller or packing tape to lift off the fluff because the pillow really DID explode and this could be a whole day project and you wouldn’t have enough tape/lint roller stuff to take it off anyway. INSTEAD, get a comb and comb off the fluff. It’ll come off in no time.