argh...holes!

[crafty_packrat]

Either I've got fabric eating bugs in my linen closet, or my jersey bedsheets just aren't lasting (maybe the washing machine is too tough on them?).

I'm going to have to replace at least one set, and probably all of them. Phooey. It's not easy to find twin extra-long sheets to start with, and four sets at once? :p

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sheets

[texasgrandma]

Do you need 4 sets? Did the bamboo ones wear out also? What color do you want? I have a new set with UT logo but you probably don't want those. Have you found holes in your towels also? Maybe you need to take everything out of that closet and wipe down the shelves with ammonia water.

Re: sheets

[crafty_packrat]

Well, I need at least two sets of sheets -- and I never had bamboo, just modal.

My towels are fine, even though they're on the shelf below. It might just be the washing machines one gets in apartment living are too harsh for the sheets over the long term.

Re: sheets

[crafty_packrat]

I should mention that the jersey flannel sheets have held up really well, and those are the ones the old washing machine at the Germantown house stained with oil or something.

So maybe more of that sort?

[laughingrat]

Rats. Ratties, blissfully nibbling at your sheets in the night. Proper ventilation while sleeping is really important. If you leave some yogurt drops out, they'll probably do your dishes, too.

[dpfesh]

~snerk~
I did once have a hamster (caged) that i kept in my closet.. he nibbled cage-corner-shaped... corners out of all the clothes he could reach (bastid!)

[laughingrat]

Fierce little monkeys, aren't they?

The Composers are dangerous around anything fibery and/or anything that pokes into their cage. Well, all rats are, but back when the Composers slept in my room, I was awakened one night by loud, incessant rustling. I finally got up to see what the hell they were doing, and they'd dragged a drumcarded Merino batt (placed on tissue paper) through the bars of the cage as far as possible and were playing with it. The tissue paper was the rustling noise, of course. I pulled the batt out and when I inspected it in the morning, I found that they'd not harmed it in the slightest: no chewing, no tearing, but they did try to fluff it up and spread it out. Ya know, for sleepin' on. :-D