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Laundry is my nemesis. When you’re a family of six (or more), the laundry pile can creep up and scare you faster than the walking dead in a horror movie (thus resulting in more laundry, since you soiled your underclothes). Fortunately, the kids now help with folding and putting away clean laundry, but it’s the dryer sheets that, until recently, made me hide in bed under the covers.

I can always tell when the kids have folded and put away laundry because they leave a trail of dryer sheets everywhere! Imagine sitting down on the couch for a nice evening of cuddling and television with the hubby when a wayward dryer sheet pops out at you from between the cushions. Or one (or three) is left behind in an empty laundry basket.

It’s not just leaving them behind after they are done folding that gets to me. From time to time, my oldest child will change over clothes from the washer to the dryer or he will choose to do his own laundry when I refuse to wash his favorite pants AT. THE. LAST. MINUTE. Unfortunately, when he does change over laundry, he usually forgets to throw a dryer sheet in with the wet clothes, resulting in clothes that are full of static.

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, then you know that I recently got to see a Bounce Dryer Bar up close at BlogHer and even cited it as one of my fabulous finds from BlogHer, but at the time, I wasn’t able to try it out. I went home, a fragile, frail woman - afraid of the laundry catastrophe at home (and in my luggage), as well as curious about whether the dryer sheets had eaten my family.

Thankfully though, everyone survived and I was recently sent some Bounce Dryer Bars to test out and share what I think with all of you. While my post is sponsored by the people at Bounce, this is an item that I would have bought for my house regardless of receiving product or sponsoring.

I haven’t had any problems with the bar slipping out of the cradle, the cradle becoming unattached (it’s “stuck” with an adhesive that doesn’t harm the dryer), and there’s nothing to forget when throwing the clothes in the dryer. (My oldest appreciates this the most.)

My thoughts on it should stop there but last week something happened that made me worry about the dryer bar for about a nanosecond… What if I can’t get the bar out of cradle? What if I need to remove it and I can’t take it out? I know that’s not supposed to happen because the bars are replaceable but my husband hunts and his clothes need to be specially washed and then dried without any kind of “scented” fabric softener. We even have special laundry soap just for his hunting clothes.  

When I washed his first load of hunting laundry last week, I panicked, remembering that the dryer bar was in the dryer! It took me all of five seconds to press down on the tab in the cradle and slide the bar and base out, leaving the cradle intact. Hubby’s clothes were dried and the bar went right back into the cradle in the dryer, and there it’s stayed ever since!

My kids think the dryer bar is really cool and I don’t walk around my house picking up dryer sheets from every hiding place possible (and there are none left behind in a pant leg).  Having the Bounce Dryer Bar already in my dryer when the clothes go in is one less thing I have to remember to do when I change over laundry, and that makes it convenient as well as necessary in my laundry room.

*Special Thanks to the people at Bounce who provided the dryer bars and for sponsoring this post.

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