Dryer Sheets: Some Lame, and Not-so-Lame Uses

Dryer Sheets. I hate dryer sheets! Not only do I find them unnecessary, but they always call to mind my apartment-living days when it never failed that I'd walk into the laundry room and find a dozen or so of them strewn all over the room. Not only that, but it's annoying how they stick to the freshly dried pile of laundry and make it difficult to get rid of them when the time comes. Many times, much later after the laundry has been folded and put a way. I've gone to step into a pair of underwear only to find an errant dryer sheet that refused to let go and went unnoticed as the clothes were folded and put away!

I accidentally ordered dryer sheets in my monthly Melaleuca order last month rather than the intended liquid softener, but I thought I'd keep them and give them another shot.

My daughter normally takes the lead in doing our laundry, so I wasn't totally surprised when I went down stairs to check on something and found several of the sheets scattered on the floor and on top of the machines, obviously overlooked when they fell away from the laundry as it was pulled from the dryer.

I began picking up the sheets, and as I did so I recalled an era long ago when I did buy dryer sheets regularly. I recalled that there were a few good practical uses you could make out of the used sheets.

I started wiping down the machines with the sheets I picked up and recalled that they were pretty good to dust with and was supposed to reduce static on the television. Other than that I couldn't think of anything else.

I decided to do a search online to see what other uses there might be for dryer sheets.

Over and over again I saw the same list of uses, sometimes listed in the same order even!
I wondered how many of these people thought they were being really clever or original in establishing their list.