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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few months after I moved into my first apartment with a roommate, we couldn’t understand why the dryer was no longer working very well. We called the landlord to look at it. We didn’t know about the lint trap! We had both done our own laundry for years at home, but neither of us knew this. At home, it would just get cleaned by someone else soon enough that it was never noticed. [/quote]

In the last town we lived in, the college-aged kids set the house on fire because the lint traps were so full (and so were the vents, apparently). They had huge loads in the dryer, smelled something burning, turned the dryer off....then shrugged and turned it back on. The house was a total between the holes cut into the roof and the zillions of gallons of water that all the fire departments from miles around contributed. We had a river running down our street and firetrucks/ambulances lined up around the block. Thankfully no one was hurt. But the house stood vacant and destroyed until eventually it was torn down.

tl;dr -- teach your kids to clean out the lint filters each and every time!!

My 16 y/o son who has his smartphone surgically attached to his hand doesn't use a virtual calendar. Because Snapchat &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;knowing what appointments and events you have coming up. I'm throwing down with him this summer and sending him calendar invites because he HAS to step up and not ask me where he's going and what he's doing in a particular day or week.[/quote]

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