What in the world are dryer balls right? Well if you’re asking this question to yourself, I’m pretty sure that others are also right now saying the same thing.
Dryer balls are usually made out of wool and they go into your dryer instead of using a fabric softener. It’s kind of a Tree Hugger thing. OK, it is a Tree Hugger thing. But seriously it’s also pretty interesting!
‘They’ claim that if you use them they should take at least 25% off your drying time and at the same time you won’t have to use any fabric softener on your clothes. Now honestly I do have these other plastic dryer balls that I’ve tried and all they are good for is to make it sound like you put a brick or maybe a family member in your dryer. It sounds horrible! So it’s time to try out something new.
Now you can get them two ways. You can make them. There is a YouTube video on how you buy this special wool yarn and how to wrap them and then to kind of cure them in your washing machine and how to set them up in your dryer. OR you can buy them for around $20. Yea, that’s a no brainer if you ask me! I got out my debit card and in no time I had them delivered and sitting on my kitchen table 
So to continue this Eco Friendly adventure, I put some of my Essential Oils on the wool balls so make the laundry smell good once it was dried, and tossed them into the dryer with some blankets. It was my first test to see if I like them. The noise was about half of the other ones that I have so that wasn’t so bad. And when the load was dried, it seemed like they did a good job. But I still wasn’t convinced if they did a great job so I put them to the test. And what better test is there but bathroom towels right? I gathered up the towels that needed to be washed (and some that I just grabbed to make a large load) and into the washing machine and then the dryer they went. Once they were done, I went and gave them the old ‘smash them in your face’ trial to see if they were soft enough and didn’t have static cling. And guess what? They passed the test!
And what does Daryl think of all of this? Well he came into the house and was wondering what in the world I had in the dryer that was making all that noise 🙂