I have a long history of putting my credit cards through the wash when I have young children.
When I have a too-young-to-walk-by-him/herself child, I really don't like taking my handbag wherever I go. I hate the way that with a baby in one arm, the handbag falls off the shoulder of the other arm and clunks around, dangling from my elbow, potentially spilling contents everywhere. And no way am I going into all the fuss and bother of a pram (which my babies just cry in) just to keep my handbag in, and only taking my handbag in the first place because I need to get my card out to pay for groceries.
Much easier to keep the card in my back right pocket and whip it out when it's needed.
Unfortunately, I am not in the habit of whipping it out when I get home, nor of whipping it out when I toss that pair of pants into the wash.
I have blogged about this before. I have left my card in the wash countless times, and it has survived. It even survived one trip through the dryer. (My remote car key died in its second wash - obviously not a stayer.)
But whether it was the new post-bedbugs washing machine or the fact that my current card was cracked in two places already, in today's wash it met its Waterloo. (Waterloo - ha! Nearly a pun! But not quite.)
They charge so much for replacements that I would certainly be going to a different institution if the card didn't expire in a month, and a new free one wasn't coming to me soon.
7 comments:
That is certainly impressive.
Excellent job! Do you think you'll remember to take it out now? (I probably still wouldn't!)
You need a back pack purse ;o)
Haha, If your're anything like me you would still forget after that... A bit of stealing Mr dE's card for a bit eh! hehe
I'd most probably put Mr de E's card through the wash, and then I'd be in trouble.
I had a back purse, but I stopped using it because I was worried that someone would "pick my pocket" without me knowing.
Harder for them to fiddle around in my back pocket without me knowing!
I think taping that card next to your washing machine start dial (or button) would be a good way to ensure that you stop LAUNDERING your MONEY!
ha ha ha ha ha
But are you seriously going to go for a month without one?
I do this all the time too!
I handed one of my workmates my brand spanking new one week old ID and he wanted to know why it was bent already. A good long hot wash will do that! Amazingly, when I washed it the second time it went straight again. Cool =)
I have washed the Jeep keys, they still work just fine, thankfully. I would have been in some serious hot water when Mr got home if they didn't.
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