HELP! My clothes smell like doo-doo!

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Being the lucky guy that I am: the massive load of clothes I placed in the washing machine I use was left soaking in doo-doo water all night(a sewage pipe must have somehow emptied itself into the washing machine).

I grudgingly removed my clothes and squeezed them out and have washed them about three times in a different machine to try to get the smell out, but its still kinda there.

Does anyone have any tips on how to salvage my stinky wardrobe, or should I just keep washing them over and over until hopefully the smell goes away?

I'm not happy.

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Colin_C., Sunday, 3 June 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

Let them soak in warm water with a box of baking soda added for at least 20 minutes. Add 1/2 a cup of vinegar to the water when you run them through the wash afterward.

Jaq, Sunday, 3 June 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

it's never a bad time to redo your wardrobe

lfam, Sunday, 3 June 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Bleach is a sure-fire odor-killer. It happens to have a few other effects as well.

You might try hydrogen peroxide. It's generally nicer to colors than bleach. Probably a cup: Add it to a full bin of water, then add clothes, etc.

libcrypt, Sunday, 3 June 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

lfam otm

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Sunday, 3 June 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

bwahaheahefhahahahahahahHAAHAHHahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHhahahaha

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 20 December 2007 03:39 (seventeen years ago)

How the feck does sewage water end up in a washing machine ewww :|

Trayce, Thursday, 20 December 2007 04:23 (seventeen years ago)

it was a metaphor for someone's intense dislike of toploader

electricsound, Thursday, 20 December 2007 04:25 (seventeen years ago)

Have You Ever Shit Your Pants?

moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 20 December 2007 07:27 (seventeen years ago)

I just watched a Doc Martin thing about this, but it was a dishwasher, what a horrible tv show.

svend, Thursday, 20 December 2007 07:56 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

BEEP BEEP

Mr. Que, Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:05 (fifteen years ago)

who got the keys to the bathroom at starbucks

butt pirates of the caribbean (m bison), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:06 (fifteen years ago)

nine months pass...

doo-doo water

when the president talks to based god (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:18 (fourteen years ago)

Colin C Stinkwater

buzza, Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

My rubber (or whatever that material is) sandals smell!

How do I make them stank-free?

― Colin_C., Friday, August 3, 2007

buzza, Thursday, 27 January 2011 16:56 (fourteen years ago)

Colin C Stinkwater

― buzza, Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:54 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lols

mustache ride like the wind (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

I love the term 'doo doo water', it's delightfully goofy.

I remember one time the toilet overflowed badly in the local convenience store and there was a pool of water over 1/2 the store and this idiot customer was still wading through it to go get himself a drink. and the big hulking graveyard shift employee yelled at him and said "EY mang don't even go near dat, dat's fuckin DOO DOO WATER man!"

mustache ride like the wind (San Te), Saturday, 29 January 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

This reminds me of one time when I saw a hilariously pimped out econoline van drive past me as this guy adjacent to me, with an unimpressed look, turned to his friend and said "look at that doo-doo ass van."

EDB, Sunday, 30 January 2011 02:27 (fourteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

how your clothes

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:50 (one year ago)

smell like doo-doo

Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 October 2023 03:44 (one year ago)

fuck washing a clothes

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 27 October 2023 04:34 (one year ago)

I have questions about the original premise.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 12:57 (one year ago)

I remember a Febreze commercial many years ago that showed a young female office worker who obviously had not been home the night before... he makeup was smeared, her hair a mess, walk of shame looking. Her coworker said "Oooohhhh girl, look-at-you! you need Febreze" or something like that

I thought it was funny, but I think they immediately pulled it from the air

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 October 2023 17:37 (one year ago)

xp yeah the post suggests that he just leaves his wet clothes in the machine all night, we need some clarification

JoeStork, Friday, 27 October 2023 19:03 (one year ago)

I am not sure how raw sewage gets into the laundry line.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 19:03 (one year ago)

Well, washing machines usually empty into a drain line, and if that drain backed up I guess the poo water could enter the machine?

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 October 2023 19:16 (one year ago)

Hmmmm, yes, maybe. We did have a line like that, but the water went the other way--laundry water and poo water sprayed into the basement.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 19:26 (one year ago)

Anyway, Gain Flings should get the smell out, but the problem may be in the machine or, for that matter, there may be more poo water coming in. If not, a tub clean cycle should do it.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 20:11 (one year ago)

I do hope he's not still waiting for a solution

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 October 2023 20:20 (one year ago)

LOL I know, it feels like an ongoing problem

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 20:21 (one year ago)

It engages my problem solving mode

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 20:25 (one year ago)

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ghost in the machine

fetter, Friday, 27 October 2023 20:55 (one year ago)

He had a rap career, maybe he wrote a song about it

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 October 2023 21:06 (one year ago)

Clothes always smell like boo boo

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 27 October 2023 21:11 (one year ago)

the cat peed on my jeans once (I can't blame him, he was accidentally locked in all day) and I just washed them with a jar of white vinegar added, no pee smell after that

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 27 October 2023 21:18 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

Colin C Stinkwater

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a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 November 2023 19:57 (one year ago)

(a sewage pipe must have somehow emptied itself into the washing machine)

ꙮ (map), Monday, 13 November 2023 20:31 (one year ago)

was helping my dad empty his gastric bag and had a brief moment of sheer terror as I temporarily lost a grip and almost sent everything flying

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I dropped the container the first time I ever drained a Foley.

Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 13 November 2023 21:28 (one year ago)


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