Mesh Laundry Bags

Mesh laundry bags are great for protecting small items, delicates and fine hosieries from getting held up with other laundry items while in the washing machine.

Some of its advantages include:

• A mesh laundry bag is very helpful in laundering babies' laundry items. Small clothing like baby socks, baby scarves and baby inners tend to get entangled with other large laundry items, or jam the pump causing irregular draining of detergent water. Hence, if the items are put inside the bag and then loaded in the machine, it keeps the cloths from drifting away.
• The bags also save the money that would otherwise be needed in paying washer repair bills.
• The clothes get cleaned effectively, in spite of staying inside the bag.
• Apart from babies' clothes, you can also put sweaters and silky, lacy garments like underwear and bras to prevent them from getting strangles with other larger cloths items.
• These bags are lightweight, heavy duty and are quite reasonably priced.
• They are available in different sizes to meet your laundry requirements.
• You can choose a rust free zipper or draw string closure as per your convenience.
• The mesh bags are available in materials of cotton (nonwoven), nylon and polyester.

What Can a Mesh Laundry Bag be Used for?

1. A mesh bag can be used for its basic purpose of keeping delicate wash items from getting stretched during the spin cycles of the washer.
2. You can use the same for tossing kids' socks inside the washer without getting them lost in the machine.
3. You can also use the mesh bag to put all the mini tops, corks, bottle caps and other small plastic items and place the bag on the top rack of the dishwasher. This will prevent the small items from falling through the shelves and causing problems.

Recycling Mesh Laundry Bags

• When a mesh bag gets worn out or stretched, you can recycle it by using it in the garden for finding flower bulbs. It is easier to scan the dirt with the mesh bag to find the bulb than to use your bare hands for it.
• You can also use it to collect sea shells at the beach that will filter out the sand.
• You can cut out the sides of the bag, color it with dyes and hang it up along a wall. Attach the shells and colorful decorations on the bag with glue and it will appear like a nice piece of art.
• You can use the bags to dry pool toys by hanging it up by the drawstring.

Final advice:

Do not put anything sharp in the bag while washing, as it can snap the mesh. The Mesh laundry bags are made of fragile strings that cannot put up with too heavy weights. So, do not load it with something heavy, especially when you are hanging it up. Lastly, do not forget to zip the bag close before putting it in the washer.

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Updated February, 2011