Yech, I've got a q-tip licker at my house too! Grosses me out!

OK, lobotomy-related stuff - I just dished out a big pile of money to my appliance repair guy cause our dryer kept turning itself off midcycle. Turns out that DH had left a weedwacker string (the heavy duty kind that looks like a plastic Twizzler licorice) in his yard duty pants and the string ended up wrapping around one of the drum cables for the dryer. Dryer would get jammed up, stop working, cool off, cable would be ok, and I could turn dryer back on. AUGH!!!! Now I have to do "pants pat down" for every item that ends up in the clothes basket ! I don't mind the well-washed dollar bills that I find in the dryer, but the pens, combs, lighters, screw heads for his power screwdriver, the lag bolts (really bunged up the washer drum), and assorted other crap drive me crazy!

Kim