billege

is this going to turn out badly?

Okey dokey...

My wife, Melissa, has boobies (larger ones). Since she does, her bras require underwire. I'm sure you ladies know that if padded, underwired, bras go through the washing machine they get destoyed.

Usually she hand washes them.

While she is at work tonight I decided to do some cleaning and stuff, and I got the idea I'd wash her bras for her. I know it's not one of her favorite things to do.

I don't think cleaning them in the sink really gets them clean. They just seem like they're sitting in soapy water. I swished them around and squeezed 'em and stuff. But I just don't think I'm getting anything done.

Hence, my idea. Put them in the dishwasher!

I am not using a dirty dishwasher, and I took care to make sure there is no food debris left in it.

I wash hats in the dishwasher because it doesn't kill them like the washing machine. Ergo, this will work.

Hopefully the high pressure jets of water will power out the dirty stuff. I am using laundry detergent. I don't regret that, yet. No foam so far...

Has anybody done this before? I'd really like to hear if you did. She gets home in 3 hours, and I don't know how they'll turn out.

Washer should be done in half hour or so.

Maybe I should have asked this BEFORE I did it.

lafemmefatale

WOW! that's acutally pretty clever, I've enver done it before but I'm dyign to find out what happens.

Btw, if it doesn'twork, you can put the bras in a pillow case or specialty bags for delicate stuff like bras, and then throw it in the washing machine. It works pretty well, my bras havent warped so far.

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Silvy

That's the way Marie washes them. Works like a charm.

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billege

It worked beautifully! She had, in fact, thought about it but hadn't tried it.

I will tell you that laundry detergent foams a lot, so I used about a table spoon only in the wash cycle. No soap in the prewash.

Granted, I found this out the hard way, I got some foam.

I've used the garment bag, but the padding still breaks down fast in the washing machine, and the spin cycle is hell on underwire.

Too many people are afraid of thinking outside the box. Your dishwasher is a sealed environment, that sprays things with high pressure jets of soapy water. It cleans whatever you want it to.

I did put all of them in the top rack, I thought the straps might get caught in the spinny thing on the bottom. I couldn't get the straps to completely not fall through, so up they went.

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Herogien

Never really thought about, maybe I'll try it for my better half....

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Minx

I wash my kids' stuffed animals in the dishwasher!
It doesn't "warp" them the way the clothes washer will....dishwashers are wonderful things!

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GakFace

damn, that is pretty sweet. The same thing for hats? How exactly do you do Hats? I need to clean mine.

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tritium

Gakface, I use a special form that insert inside the hat to keep it from getting smaller.

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meembo

I've got a delicates bag from Target that has two round wire frames and a small space between them that washes well in the machine yet protects the wires from bending. Only air-drying will do!

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