I washed and tumble dried my daughter's iPod. It still works. Nice sunny day today - stick it outside and hope.

washed AND dried it -well done - but its the kids fault -thats what I tell mine - I may be the general washer - but I do not check pockets etc!!

I hear ya - I don't check pockets either, and then they get mad when you wash their wallet and money for the millionth time, whats that all about

Blimey they go mad when you go through their pockets, and go mad when you don't - we can't win sometimes

I resolved that issue; anything interesting found in pockets becomes my property. Any money washed and/or dried becomes my property. Amazing turnaround on the laundry front.

What a great way to get a new credit card and ipod - I like it

My Ipod is possessed. It stops and starts all the time for no apparent reason. It didn't work for 3 months and I dropped and hey presto it started again.

We have one, but it doesn't exactly "air" anything as it doesn't have a hot water tank like they typically do in the UK - most pointless space in the house...

Nice one DIngbat - I may adopt that stance!

oink - if it wasnt working why did you have it to drop it?? or did you throw it in temper?

We don't have airing cupboards here in the Colonies ! I have never heard that term used here except on this board. Have any other "Old Lags" heard it used here ? We have linen closets. Airing cupboards were useful in the UK because a lot of the houses were so damp and draughty it was the only way to keep linens warm and dry. Here the houses are built differently and the hot water tank is generally in the basement, close to the furnace and other utilities. Most houses in the UK do not have basements so the hot water tank is placed wherever there is space and the plumbing is practical. The ambient warmth generated by the tank is put to good use to "air" items that might otherwise be damp and cold to use. Hardly the "most pointless space in the house". Our linen closets here, two of them, are very useful and the linens are always dry and usable.

I'd say if its a iPod that uses flash memory you have a much better chance of it working again than one that uses a hard drive.

This one is quite the opposite - damp and musty, anything that goes in there comes out smelling...

That's a bugger. Sounds like a lack of ventilation or on an outside wall with lousy insulation. Both of them here are on inside walls. No problems.

Actually when I thought about it we dont have an airing cupboard - just a linen cupboard!!

Very impressive!

Probably, but as it's a rented house I have no desire to investigate...