How And Why?

[poliphilo]

You put a lot of washing in the washing machine and one of the items is a duvet case. You take it out again after running the programme and find that all the smaller things have managed to get themselves inside the case. How does that happen?

It's not as if it were a fluke. It happens time and time again. There must be some scientific principle at work. 

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

I'd guess it's like a lobster pot - random motion means it's easy for the thing to get inside, but once in, it's difficult to get out.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I suppose that must be it...

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

They're carnivorous.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Scary.

[faunhaert.livejournal.com]

the incredible hungry duvet

its that nature abhors a vacuum thing..
it just sucks things in

happy solstice !

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Hm, yes...

And a happy solstice to you too.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

if there is a zipper on the duvet case, perhaps you could zip it when you wash it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

What a good idea.

It has poppers, but the principle is the same.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

I always apply all the press-studs on mine for that very same reason.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I had this very discussion about sleeves the other day! :o)

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[ooxc.livejournal.com]

But why is it a problem? I often do that deliberately, to protect the smaller things, and make it easier to get everything out of the machine