We've all been there: You open the dryer door only to find that someone forgot to empty their pockets. Lip balm or crayons melted all over everything, paper pulp smashed into the fibers of clothing, ...

My wife just did a load of laundry without realizing that a pair of jeans had a pen in them. Unfortunately the tip broke off the pen, and now everything in the dryer has ink spots all over it. We aren ...