Camp ground laundries

wannavolunteerFT wrote:
I have been in a couple of state park campgrounds laundry and seen people putting dirty things in the dryer to just dry them. Especially after a rain storm. throwing sandy, wet stuff in to dry out a bit and don't worry about cleaning the mess left. I have seen some pretty nasty stuff in washer (fish scale, gut and blood coated) and the washer wasn't cleaned afterwards.

I have also seen some dirty things at laundry near my house and had the heat from the dryer melt the backing on a bedspread. (granted it was a cheap one) First dry it was still wet... second was melting nylon. A half a day blown to wash and dry clothes and over $10 to wash bedspreads, blankets and rugs from RV. I went to laundry because the comforter wouldn't fit in mine and I swore off going again. I will wash either one item at a time or wait until I am visiting DD and can use her large family size front loader.

Certainly seen campers (even those w/ on board dryers)flock to local laundromats after a deluge. Sometimes items are only dried (mostly the young),sometimes washed and dried. When stuff was only dried even the teenagers wiped out the dryers' interiors; bet it would have made their parents proud to know something stuck in their heads, LOL.

As for your bedspread you prolly needed to lower the temperature on the dryer to keep the backing from melting. This would be true for any dryer and the proper drying instructions were probably written on the tag that few bother to read;). .