Tucson 2007 FAQ

[roto204]

Hi everyone,

I've gotten some really good questions via e-mail that apply to everyone, so I'm going to start posting the questions and answers on this thread, to give everyone time to incorporate them as we plan.

Q: Is it okay to bring detergents to play with? Softeners?

A: Sure! Just remember two things: 1.) People will snag them and use them up, so bring only what you can afford to lose, and 2.) the TSA is way grouchy about transporting chemicals (especially pastes and gels) in your luggage. Since we love you all, and friends don't let friends mail things back in the security line (or get unnecessarily frisked), just be careful to follow the rules. We'll have lots of detergents and such here.

Q: Is it okay to bring clothes to wash?

A: Again, sure! Just remember that there will be a lot of play clothing and such being washed constantly in many different machines, so if you're washing items that need to stay together and be washed according to instructions, please keep a tight grip on the "chain of custody" from washer to dryer. Let people know you're washing your clothes, and that they need to stay together (and not have the temperature controls on the machine dorked with, or the load washed fifty-two times), and make sure they make it to the dryer in one load. Also, let people know that what's in the dryer is not play clothing, so that it doesn't get dumped back into the fray by accident.

It sounds like a pain, but it's really not. It's just the extra few steps you have to take when there's a laundry-fest happening all around you

Keep 'em coming! It's great to preliminarily "meet" you all! :-D

Thanks very much,

Nate

 

[westytoploader]

Also, a security check might be in order if softener is brought to Roger's ;-)

 

[toggleswitch]

yes that is a a gun and if you keep that up it just may go o

.....or get unnecessarily frisked.

Unless it is a fugly, dirty, weight-challenged friend of Sappho that has not bathed in a fortnight. BRING IT ON!

 

[westyslantfront]

And I am hoping that Dr. Manny and his wife will attend wash in at my house. He said no "bobloads" in my machines. I guess they are not as young as they once were.
All kidding aside we will all have a great time. Bring anything you like....laundry, fabric softener, ironing, etc.
Nate has graciously agreed to give ironing lessons at my house.
I will have two irons and ironing boards set up.

Ross

 

[exploder321]

Curious about play laundry...
Does that include crap that you no longer like/wear? If so have a few things to donate (shirts that need to dissapere so no hard feelings are felt)

 

[exploder321]

I just go a phone call from one of you..Sorry i didn't grab my cell it was in the kitchen, wich reminds me dinner might be burning i semll it..

My brain is bbq'd.... LoL...
Try me again tommorw night... Shouldn't be so fried

 

[chestermikeuk]

What Roger....No, He's Had A Conversion!!!!

In Gregs Basement , At the 11th Hour a miracle took place, "I was finally able to confront my fears and hold the bottle" said Roger, and heres the proof!!!!

 

[gansky1]

Maybe a little instruction is in order, I think he recently added a whole bottle to one load?

;-)

 

[appnut]

Nate glad ya included suggestions about when one has real laundry that's to be washed. We learn from the past (and we both did last spring). Quite honestly, I'd never had an issue b4 at any wash-in/convention with my "real" laundry.

 

[westytoploader]

I'm speechless! LOL

 

[toggleswitch]

*HANDS ON HIPS* with pronounced lisp

Well, if its around 100*F (37 to 38 *c +/-)and anyone tries to use a condenser dryer where the heat comes back into the room... I am going to personally unplug it

You can then spank me later.

LOL

 

[roto204]

LOL

You guys...

:-D

The only reason I suggest keeping an eye on the laundry is because there'll be play laundry running around too. If we didn't have to use play laundry, then we'd all have to strip naked, and--

*

Wait, I need to think this through some more.

Anyhow, yes, you can bring stuff to wash that is stuff you don't wear. But of course!

And yes, Roger has perfected a Gain "Downy-ball" design in which the whole bottle dispenses automatically into the rinse. I hear it works with the spin part of the cycle to dispense right on cue.

The sheets it produces are perfect for bed-wetters--deeply fragrant, and completely water-repellent! :-D

In terms of using softeners, it's okay; the amount we use for one day at each site won't do anything to the machines. (That, and we secretly tear them down and toothbrush all the "Mango-Tango Gain" out of every last pore of the machine after y'all leave.)

;-)

Yes, I'm looking forward to ironing lessons at Ross'. Of course, I did learn from the best, so I'm a student, not the master :-D

--Nate