I woke up this morning to an interesting development in my dryer. Along with a full load of my twin’ clothes, a BROWN CRAYON jumped into the laundry. Of course I didn’t notice this until it effectively tarnished the whole load of laundry with very questionable looking brown smears. (Insert very horrified face!)
If this was a red crayon or a happy yellow crayon, I might be able to look past the melted on marks that are all over all of the clothes. It might even be considered art! 
In light of it being a brown crayon, unfortunately, it can’t be looked past. People would definitely not see these brown smears all over their clothing as crayon marks, and I would get a reputation around town as having the kids who wear clothes covered in…well something far yuckier than innocent crayon marks!
So does anyone have any ideas on how I can get all of this crayon out of the laundry? The whole load has crayon smears all over it, with nothing being spared. White socks are now covered in brown smears. Jackets, jeans, shirts, everything.
Can anyone help me save this laundry?
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March 25, 2012 at 11:27 am
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Kari
March 25, 2012 at 11:35 am
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janae
March 25, 2012 at 12:56 pm
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Kari
March 25, 2012 at 1:06 pm
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JENNIFER HART
November 3, 2012 at 2:59 pm
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Dawn Justice
November 7, 2012 at 3:49 pm
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Thank you for the reply!
That sounds like a great idea! Hmm. Now where is that iron? I have the clothes in washing again. Do you think I should air dry them before I try to iron them?
use a credit card or something to get all the crayon out of dryer. Run dryer for a few min with nothign it it and it will soften to get it out. the crayon clothes i rewashed and dried after I cleaned dryer and it came out may take 2 washes…just had this happen 2 months ago with green and then again with a blue
Thanks Janae!
I couldn’t believe it when I saw the mess! Yikes! I have rewashed them once, and I am re-drying them now. I am hoping for the best! It would be nice if I can get out of this without it being an all-day adventure! But anything is better than ruining all of those clothes, so I am going to try it all until something works! Great idea on the credit card BTW! I hadn’t thought of that. I was thinking a toothpick to scrape it off, but THAT would take a really long time! LOL
I am glad I am not the only one with crayon issues.
I WAS CHECKING OUT YOUR HOUSEHOLD TIPS AND I RAN ACROSS THIS POST SAYING CAN ANYONE HELP… WELL I MUST ADMIT WHEN I READ WHAT YOU NEEDED HELP WITH I HAD TO JUST COME IN HERE AND CHECK OUT WHAT PEOPLE SUGGESTED-I HAVE NOT HAD A CRAYON PROBLEM YET, I WAS JUST BEING NOSY. I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE CRIED ALL OVER THE STAINED CLOTHES THEN THREW THEM OUT… I AM SUCH A COWARD.
I have yet to have a crayon incident, although I’m sure it will happen someday. I hope you were able to remove the crayon, could you post an update to let us know what worked best?