Wool Dryer Balls

 

My daughter bought me six 100% wool dryer balls a few years ago, and I begrudgingly use them.  They eliminate the need for fabric dryer sheets or fabric softener in the washer to keep me “chemical free”.  But like everything in life, they kind of work.  If I use the wool balls and don’t use fabric softener, the clothes come out staticky.  When we first tried to use the wool balls, I got my nylon basketball shorts out of the dryer, but they stuck to my legs.  When I sat down on the bed, I felt like I was sitting on something.  But when I stood up and looked on the bed, and nothing was there … but I did have a sock stuck to my fanny by static electricity.  I always find a dryer ball in one of my jean legs when I’m folding them.  When I pull out a towel from the dryer, those dryer balls tumble all over the basement floor.  When I empty the dryer, I count the wool balls.  If I don’t count six, I go looking for the one that escaped.  I bring the basket of dried clothes upstairs to fold and always find a wool ball at the bottom of the basket.  If the dryer balls sound like trouble, they are.  But they do eliminate one big problem: added chemicals on my clothes (that are close to my body).  But Why don’t I just get rid of them?!  I suppose I also keep them for the same reason that I used to put childish coloring pictures up on the refrigerator: they are both from my daughter.  So, I’ll just continue to use them, thank you very much.  Psalm 127:3-5, “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD … As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.”  My quiver holds four arrows (children) but there is room for five grandchildren and one great-grandchild, if you know what I mean.  :<)