While I Was Gone...

I learned that if you notice your towels still smell kind of funky after being washed and your clothes aren't quite as clean as they maybe should be, and you have an HE washer, you should pull out the detergent drawer and clean both it and its slot in the washer.


Because chances are, everything's all gooped up with clumps of nasty old detergent. And when you finally go to run the washer and it's all gooped up, you'll end up with two inches of water in your basement and towels that are still nasty, and it'll take the better part of the afternoon to clean up the water, dry everything out, clean out the washer, and start all over again.


That's what I learned.