Laundry Mishap

As of lately, I noticed our dryer was taking an

abnormally long time 

to dry our clothes. 

When I say abnormally, 

I mean 2 cycles for a small load of clothes 

and 3-4 cycles to dry a small load of towels. 

I just assumed that being in an apartment they bought us appliances from a crap hole place and I should just deal with high electric bills and setting aside 

entire days 

for just one load of laundry. 

Well, this past week I spent some time over at my friend's apartment since her husband recently left for basic training with the 
Coast Guard. 

I noticed we had the same washer dryer combo and decided to ask how many times she has to dry her clothes before they're actually dry.    

She looked at me like I was crazy and that's when I knew  

we had a problem. 

Our dryer was broken and I was going to have to call stupid maintenance and cause all sorts of raucous.

dangit!

As I was mentally preparing the things I would say

to the office girls about our  

dryer problem 

my friend asked how often I clean out the lint screen. 

"ummmm..everytime I dry clothes..duh..

what kind of suzy homemaker do you think I am?" 

 So fast forward a day and it's time for me to do laundry. 

I set aside a good portion of my day for the task at hand. 

The washer finishes washing and I decided to pull out 

Mr Lint Collector 

and clean it out just to be sure.

(never mind that my wrist doesn't fully exist here..I do however have one)

 so I clean up all the ick and grossness around the lint screen and in the hole where the lint screen goes. 
Then I felt something furry where my thumb was sitting.

"why is there lint inside the lint collector?" 

was my exact thought, and as it came out in my mind I knew how dumb that very statement was. 

 turns out, it opens up.

And this very yummy surprise was all bundled up and cozy inside.

holy freaking disgustingness. 

I felt like such a dirt ball. 

We have only lived here for 2 months!

There's no way we could have acquired this much lint in that amount of time, right?

Which lead me to the conclusion that whoever lived here before us did not know about the secret door

mr lint collector had either.

so there you have it. 

our dryer does indeed work, and quite well actually.

I put a medium size load in today for just 

40 minutes! 

This is such an exciting thing for me because now I will no longer have 
laundry days, 

just laundry hours here and there. 

Good thing I didn't make a fool of myself

down at the front office

:)