wizz
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Bra eating Washing machine moanMy fairly new (well just under 2 years old) washing machine has absorbed the wire from two of my bras in one single cycle!  Not sure why they both disintegrated at once! Luckily I was able to extract one of said bits of wire from the drum, however the other bit appears to have gone through the drum and is making a right racket when it's spinning. Also I suspect that somehow it might be responsible for the rusty coloured streaks that have appeared on the white sheets. I was prepared to turn a blind eye to the noise and hope that it wasn't making too much damage - but perhaps in view of the rust stained output - guess that's not really an option... 
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BethinPA
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I wish I had advice, but can only offer sympathy. My clothes dryer eats my bras (as well as son's pajamas and daughter's favorite blouse). It's old, and the drum is cracked, and it's going to be replaced within the month.
How is it eating the bras? Do they need a mend before going into the machine? Is the wire poking out to begin with?
Wah. Disheartening to have malfunctioning machines!
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Chez
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Sympathies . I don't put mine through the machine any more - especially not since I spent a couple of weeks experiencing breast pain on and off and started to think I was developing cancer ... and it turned out that one of my bras had the underwire wiggled out and it was poking in to my cleavage  .
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Penny
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Ouch
I cut them out as soon as I buy them, but then I don't have much to support
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sean
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Why don't they make the wires removable for laundering? Like collar stiffeners.
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RichardW
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| sean wrote: | | Why don't they make the wires removable for laundering? Like collar stiffeners. |
Shhh
Dont apply male logic to a female problem
Richard
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gil
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I once put an ordinary shetland jumper into a washing machine, and got a pile of unravelled wool out
I'd washed said jumper before with no problems
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Chez
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They are sewn in quite a thin seam under the cup - I think it would be quite difficult to make something that goes in and out.
Although having said that, old fashioned corsets used to have stiffener bits that came out, didn't they?
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Helen M
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| Chez wrote: | They are sewn in quite a thin seam under the cup - I think it would be quite difficult to make something that goes in and out.
Although having said that, old fashioned corsets used to have stiffener bits that came out, didn't they? |
yes they did!
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Nick
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| gil wrote: | I once put an ordinary shetland jumper into a washing machine, and got a pile of unravelled wool out
I'd washed said jumper before with no problems |
Bah, a halfway decent downsizer would see that as a project, not a problem.
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Drewsephine
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This would be my solution 
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Penny
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gil
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I think you'd have to consider very carefully which cycle of the washing machine you used for that item
 Handwash, of course
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Helen M
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| gil wrote: | I think you'd have to consider very carefully which cycle of the washing machine you used for that item
Handwash, of course |
heh, brilliant
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Chez
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It looks *most* uncomfortable
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Drewsephine
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| Chez wrote: | | It looks *most* uncomfortable |
Not for the bloke whose hands they were moulded on
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BethinPA
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| Drewsephine wrote: | | Chez wrote: | | It looks *most* uncomfortable |
Not for the bloke whose hands they were moulded on
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And not if the hands are nice and warm!
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welsh lamb
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I had not noticed the missing wire when I called in the repair man to our machine.
Was a tad embarressed when he produced the cause of the broken machine 
He waived the call out charge though
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