Yeah I had a bad experience with a Belux (?) blanket last year when I found a garbage bag in the attic of bedding that the movers tossed up there. I decided to wash it and that was right after I spent 5K on the top of the line Kenmore frontloaders they had. You know the ones with the 5 way motion and all......
Anyway I tossed it in and washed it like I knew what I was doing and my wife screamed when she opened the washer to unload it to the drier. After the high pitched shrill in the laundry room I saw that someone had put a fishing net and a ton of spanish moss in my washer! That blanket fell all to pieces in there and it took me a good two hours to clean it all out. Rule #1 a mans place is not in front of a washer especially when you just bought the thing and your wife has yet to use it!
Billy