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Verbenaplant t1_iwx4y8i wrote

I regularly Chuck my backpacks in the washer, every few months or so. I feel suprised more people don’t do this? They touch floors and all sorts and are used daily

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howfastyouweregoing t1_iwxjsaq wrote

i’d have to sort through the mystery of what’s actually in there, and i’m just not psychologically prepared for that

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mazurzapt t1_iwya064 wrote

I just cleaned mine out, it wasn’t too scary, but the amount of small notebooks, pens and protein bars in the just knocks me out. No wonder it’s so heavy.

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Verbenaplant t1_iwykv8q wrote

I just shake it into a plastic bag and then it goes back in once washed hahah

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Verbenaplant t1_iwykx7n wrote

Mines just usually coins, inhalers, pens, one of those sticky balls to collect the small crumbs that get in your bag.

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cs_k_ t1_iwyqhvb wrote

Nothing better, than finding your sandwich from the last day of school in the end of august, when mom asks for my backpack to wash it.

Oh, the memories...

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Fyregoddess420 t1_ix4dcst wrote

This just brought up a memory. I had left half of my sandwich in my lunchbox and my stepmother found it about a week and a half into summer break of my 6th grade year and she grounded me for the entire summer for wasting food and for leaving it in the lunchbox. I got to watch the neighborhood kids play thru my bedroom window all summer 🤦‍♀️🥺 lesson learned, I threw everything away at school after that. 🤣

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highfriends t1_iwxj5df wrote

Same! I have a regular backpack that I use for work and a dog mom bag that gets washed more frequently but washing your backpack is definitely a thing.

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GornButNotForgotten t1_iwyvobs wrote

I've always been worried they wouldn't survive the washing machine. I normally spray and wipe them down every now and again at least.

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semicolon-advocate t1_ix07go6 wrote

right? every time I go to the bathroom on campus I have to set my backpack on the floor of the stall, as does everyone else I see

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