I have had a serious issue with laundry since going back to July--it has really consumed my life horribly and I'm not sure what to do about it. I won't go into all of the specifics, but I have a new worry over the past few weeks and I just wanted to see if anyone has dealt with this or what you think of this! The other day I saw a piece of plastic tape with white stuck to it at the bottom of the washing machine basin after I had pulled the just laundered clothes out. I don't like when I don't know what something is--I didn't think it had come off my daughter or my clothes, so I was concerned it came from my husbands clothes (which were washed previously). I have a huge problem with my husband, he does a lot of dirty jobs and his clothes are filthy, he also works on things like tractors and uses a lot of equipment, so I wasn't sure if he had a piece of packing in his pocket that somehow got left behind, and then ended up in our load. I was so worried I threw everything in our load out. It was almost all of my daughter and my pajamas and pajama tops. I went out the next morning and replaced everything and washed them--spent about $150 on new stuff, bought inexpensive stuff on purpose because I throw so many clothes away anymore for things like this. So we had only been through these new clothes for a week, and then something happened again last night. When I was hanging up my clothes to dry with clothespins (I won't use our dryer because I feel it is contamined after my husband clothes go through them)--I noticed there was already a plastic clothespin attached to one of the pairs of pants. Its possible that I started to put it on and got distracted by something, but usually I am very aware of what I am doing. My concern is that this clothespin was somehow on it already and went through the wash and then I am worried with the chemicals on the clothespin and how that might have contaminated the whole load of laundry. It is very possible that the clothespin was on there--because I had that pair of pants hung up in the last couple of days, then it fell down on the floor, so I had to put it in the hamper to wash. It's possible the clothespin stayed attached. Now I am freaking out and want to go repurchase all of the pajamas again, now I am looking at another $150 to spend. That is $300 on new pajamas and tops in the last week. That is crazy to me! I rewashed the clothes after I noticed what happened, but I can not bring myself to wear them. Does anyone understand? I am not trying to be funny. This is really bothering me. I would say my anxiety was at a 10 after it happened, and I kind of let them sit overnight thinking maybe I wouldn't be as worried today, but I am still at 10 and do not feel comfortable at all wearing the clothes. I want to replace them so badly. My husband would freak out if he knew how much money I spent on rebuying things. I feel like if I wore the clothes then that would be a huge exposure for me and probably help me out in the long run, but I just don't want to take the chance. I have a huge problem with things going through the laundry--I once threw out a load of clothes too because an iPod charger went through with it. Someone help! Thanks in advance!