Melissa Pateras

So lots of times people are like, oh, it's so frustrating.

I have to keep turning my dryer on every 10 minutes.

It keeps shutting off.

I don't know what the problem is.

You know, I've had all the venting cleaned out and it just keeps shutting off or I have to put it on a timer.

And so, yeah, I would never use a dryer sheet ever and I wouldn't use Fabric Softener.

Yeah, so the main thing for dryer sheets is the top three reasons.

Our scent is actually the number two after static and then it's softness.

But I use dryer balls and I don't over dry.

I think what people don't realize is that

Static is caused by the dryness, obviously, right?

So if you're over-drying, there's a lot of people who keep re-fluffing the clothes.

The drier they get, the more static.

But if you just use a wool dryer ball or, you know, there's rubber dryer balls as well.

They keep the clothes separated and they actually dry the clothes faster, especially the wool balls.

So, yeah, I just don't over-dry everything.

And people are getting onto the dryer balls.

It is switching.

A lot of people are using homemade dryer balls just with aluminum foil, just rolling them up into a tight ball and putting those into the dryer.

So there's lots of money-saving things, but I actually think that the dryer sheets are detrimental to your machine.