"Fluff question": Where does the lint come from in the clothes dryer and how does the lint trap know how to catch it?

Real answer? The lint itself is simply attrition from the fabric itself, as it breaks down with washing and drying. The lint trap is the last line of defense, after a series of holes, decreasing in circumference, set up to catch it.

It is essentially clothes poop that is captured before it can get out into the wild and poison us all.

Ew.

ETA and Ijust now got the “fluff question” th8ng. :-D

Lint is a collection of dust particles and tiny, loose bits of the materials your clothes are made of (throw in so human and pet hair for good measure).

Dryers tumble your clothes while blowing hot air into the tumbler drum. This dries your clothes but also loosens the dust and lint from your clothes, floating into the air.

Meanwhile, the dryer is extracting that same sir out through a vent. It passes through the tight mesh lint filter before heading outside. Through your vent. Most of the lint particles are larger than the holes in the filter so they become trapped, until you clean it.

Where does it come from?
My belly button.

@rebbel It travels a long way to get into my dryer then!!

^^^ That exchange sounds vaguely naughty.

@canidmajor Innuendously?

It travels no further to enter your dryer than the clothes it comes from. Lint is the equivalent to that dead skin in the ring around your bathtub.

^^ My remark about traveling was an answer to @rebbel‘s post about its origin.

It comes from a washing machine of the same make and model—but an alt time line. That’s where all of the socks go.

@raum I thought all the socks run away with the tupperware tops – or bottoms if that’s their preference!

I do sometimes find lids that I have no idea what they go to. Tupperware lid lokis.

@raum You’re welcome. Let me know if you want the containers, too.

@canidmajor Ha!
Yes, please.
And thank you.

”...And the only ring he gave her was the one around her bathtub!~~”