I'm an unbelievable idiot - been using laundry pods for dishwasher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor asked what kind of dishwasher detergent we use. I took a pick and sent it to her. I looked at the pic. I realized that it's actually laundry detergent. 7th generation free and clear laundry pods. And I've been using it for a long time.

I can't make this stuff up. OMG.

What was your neighbor’s response?

[Anonymous]

Inquiring minds want to know if it did a good job on the dishes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor asked what kind of dishwasher detergent we use. I took a pick and sent it to her. I looked at the pic. I realized that it's actually laundry detergent. 7th generation free and clear laundry pods. And I've been using it for a long time.

I can't make this stuff up. OMG.

Why start a thread on this?

Ignore the above comment, OP. Your thread has made my day..I have not laughed this much in months. Thank you, OP!

[Anonymous]

My friend’s husband used a Magic Eraser on their kid’s face!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor asked what kind of dishwasher detergent we use. I took a pick and sent it to her. I looked at the pic. I realized that it's actually laundry detergent. 7th generation free and clear laundry pods. And I've been using it for a long time.

I can't make this stuff up. OMG.

What was your neighbor’s response?

OP here. She didn’t notice. It was a neighborhood group chat and they were also talking about some small batch expensive laundry detergent and so everyone assumed I was referring to laundry. We’re some high flying party ladies here, aren’t we.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Inquiring minds want to know if it did a good job on the dishes.

OP here. It does an excellent job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor asked what kind of dishwasher detergent we use. I took a pick and sent it to her. I looked at the pic. I realized that it's actually laundry detergent. 7th generation free and clear laundry pods. And I've been using it for a long time.

I can't make this stuff up. OMG.

Yep you’re definitely on the right forum.

[Anonymous]

Haha to make you feel better, my husband does laundry but i stock the products in the laundry room. There’s a bag of oxygen whitener and a bag of detergent (both powder). We realized other day that he’s been just using oxygen whitener on the clothes and not using the detergent because he thought both bags were the same thing. FOR WEEKS. And yes I realized this because my clothes did not seem clean!,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:English cucumber and earthquake raves, are my favorites so far. Very funny thread.

Yeah, the earthquake. I'm just picturing the newscast that they play on repeat later:
"...and at the airport, quite a few shaken up but the latest events, but one dissenting opinion:"
OP with her wheelie, walking through in a mad rush. Caption says "a-holes are everywhere-- woman thinks earthquakes are great"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Haha to make you feel better, my husband does laundry but i stock the products in the laundry room. There’s a bag of oxygen whitener and a bag of detergent (both powder). We realized other day that he’s been just using oxygen whitener on the clothes and not using the detergent because he thought both bags were the same thing. FOR WEEKS. And yes I realized this because my clothes did not seem clean!,

I did this same exact thing for maybe six months until my friend’s washer broke and she came over to use mine. She pointed it out.

[Anonymous]

I realized today that I've been using a moisturizing body wash as hand moisturizer. I always hated it...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:English cucumber and earthquake raves, are my favorites so far. Very funny thread.

Yeah, the earthquake. I'm just picturing the newscast that they play on repeat later:
"...and at the airport, quite a few shaken up but the latest events, but one dissenting opinion:"
OP with her wheelie, walking through in a mad rush. Caption says "a-holes are everywhere-- woman thinks earthquakes are great"

YES exactly.... my family watched the news to see if they saw me but thank god they didn't use my inane soundbite.

We saw someone once, ordering at the drive-through into a garbage can (flies flying around it and all) and they finally had to send someone out to get her order as she was getting upset that they couldn't hear her order. A couple employees were filming her at the actual drive through window. We still die laughing at that. Any day I'm not doing that is a good day.

[Anonymous]

My laundry machine has a setting to self dispose soap into the load so you don’t have to add it each time. After washing linens, towels, and clothes for months (sweaty hot yoga work out clothes included), I realized that someone had turned the setting off and I had been “washing” everything without soap for a long, long time.

It still makes me blush with embarrassment to think of this!!

[Anonymous]

Funny, I was doing laundry yesterday with some pods that resemble dishwasher pods and I thought "that would be hilarious if I bought the wrong pods." But they're laundry pods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could be worse OP, in college I put dish soap in the dishwasher and then texted my landlord that his dishwasher was broken when it flooded the kitchen.

In good news there was no permanent damage and the floors were really clean. 😂

In all seriousness though I’m glad to hear there are other people in this world who do dumb stuff like this too.

My college roommate put dish soap in the dishwasher of our first apartment! Huge mess. We had bought both, but ran out of the dishwasher detergent (didn't have pods back then) so she assumed "the other dish liquid" would work just as well.

The other day I moved a load of laundry from the washer to the dryer, and put a second load in the washer. Then popped a dryer sheet in the washer, a laundry pod in the dryer, and started both. Oops.