That dreaded sound

[calebj06]

When you walk in the house after being at work and hear the dryer going THUMP THUMP THUMP!!!! And you know that you carried your beautiful chaparral last night and your wife is doing laundry........


:eek: :eek: :mad: :mad:

[paladin]

grounds for DEE-VORCE!

[demoncase]

Now, let's be fair: I'll bet she's told you numerous times to check your pockets BEFORE putting them in the hamper.

That'd be a wild guess on my part and not based on real events at Casa Demoncase

[DutchBlades]

That's gotta hurt... Ti or CF one?

[murphjd25]

Thank God the only time I did that was with my h1 dragonfly, she made it our just fine. Hope she made it out ok!

[calebj06]

Cf chaparral. Actually looks like she came out ok. Luckily it was actually clipped to the pocket and stayed put so she had some cushioning and there were plenty of other clothes in there.


As far as me checking the pockets, yes your right, but the rule here is that we BOTH check, that way someone catches it, and anyway, they weren't even in the hampper they were next to the bed as they got ditched rather quickly last night.

[Evil D]

You need an EDC bowl dude. I have a big ceramic bowl on my desk where I dump my pockets everyday. Everything I carry minus my Glock goes into that bowl, and when I leave the house everything goes back into my pockets. Or, when laundry is done, I don't have to worry about what's getting banged up in the dryer because I know I dumped my pockets into the bowl.

[toomzz]

Now, let's be fair: I'll bet she's told you numerous times to check your pockets BEFORE putting them in the hamper.

That'd be a wild guess on my part and not based on real events at Casa Demoncase

lol.....that sounds familiar.... :rolleyes:

[SG89]

...they weren't even in the hampper they were next to the bed as they got ditched rather quickly last night.

[Bugs]

This is why I carry a Pac Salt. I sometimes suffer from CRS. My Pac Salt has taken a couple of trips through the washer and dryer. Other than the pocket clip getting a little scratched up it still functions perfectly fine. Plus the fish blood and guts got cleaned out of it.

[spyder_happy]

I have washed my Tasman many, many times. heck just the other day I put on a pair jeans and bam, my Tasman was already there clipped in it's pocket :D

[Cogito]

I have washed my Tasman many, many times. heck just the other day I put on a pair jeans and bam, my Tasman was already there clipped in it's pocket :D

LOL Awesome

[Water Bug]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Hate it when that happens. I recently did something like that with my Imperial Boy Scouts Pocket Knife. There was no, "THUMP, THUMP, THUMP," in the dryer as my jeans (in which my knife was in the LFP) gets hung and air dried, but as I was taking my jeans out of the washer and opening up the pockets so they'd dry better, I felt something thin and kind of long... and, I thought, "NO...! SERIOUSLY...?!?!?!" Yep, I'd forgotten to take my pocket knife out of my pocket! :eek: :mad: :eek: :mad: :eek: :mad:

And, no, my pocket knife didn't do well... the scales (which were already starting to come apart) pretty much were trashed to include completely coming off from one side of the handle. Oh well.

[Doc Dan]

Sometimes a good washing is just what a knife needs. :) I have accidentally washed several of my knives over the years, a couple more than once. They had no ill effects. I just needed to re-oil them.

What is really exciting is when you wash a big, heavy Buck 110 and it makes it to the drier. It sounds like the house is coming apart! Haha!

[VashHash]

I once left a kershaw leek in a pocket. It made it through the washing machine and then into the dryer. The assisted opening helped it to open up where it took a good size U shaped Chunk out of the edge. Since then i thoroughly check my pockets before washing clothes. The last knife to almost ride the washer and dryer was the bug. I pulled it out right before I threw the jeans in. Unfortunately i usually put clothes in the dryer and walk away so i don't hear the sound of my knives being thrashed about. Washer and dryer are not in the house.

[Knutty]

This is one reason I do my own laundry.

That, and my wife won't let me touch anyone else's.

[bearfacedkiller]

I have washed a few but never dried one. The wash actually cleans them up nicely. The heat and all the banging around in the dryer would be a concern for me so thankfully that hasn't happened.

[farnorthdan]

I have the dreaded laundry duty in our house,(I'm so sick of doing laundry ) with 2 teenage boys and a wife + myself, you can imagine the volume that gets done every Sunday. I learned long ago(the hard way) to go through everyone's pockets prior to washing, I've found knives, phones, earbuds, candy+wrappers, pens, homework, power bars, chap stick, jewelry, packets of unopened taco bell hot sauce, well thats all I can think of right now :rolleyes: :D

[zenheretic]

I've laundered a few Spydercos over the years. The great thing about these knives is you usually have to worry more about the blade opening and slicing everything up then the knife getting damaged. Luckily the usually they function as designed and don't open up.

[Bloke]

I've been lucky and never had that happen, yet!

The main reason being, I hate things in my pockets and consequently I don't carry a wallet and tend to leave money in my pants. Beloved wife and I have an agreement, that anything in the pockets of clothes I leave on the floor or in the laundry basket becomes her property. So it’s in her interest to check my pockets before she puts my clothes into the washing machine and overall she does quite well. Particularly after a night out drinking. :eek:

Luckily she has no interest in knives and she promptly returns them to the sideboard in the kitchen. :)